You should do a collaboration with ocean liner designs

I wish you could show how tall these waves are, in comparison, like a line drawing of a tower or tall hotel beside them. 16:18 I am female, and there aren't many women who have the space-speed perspective that men have. That's why there are few lady race car drivers. And why your girlfriend, wife, mother, sister continually stomp the floorboard on their side of the car when you are driving...

My dad has been a wheelsman on the wilfred sykes for 35 years. An ore ship. After all the stories iv heard from him and his crew, there are numerous things that could have taken lives. Not to mention iv lived on the lake my whole life just lacking open water experince. Its extremely dangerous at most anytime. The sketchy part is that you can have glass water and 10 footers appear in minutes. No time to escape. Im pretty sure the sykes still has videos on youtube as the captain was a storn chaser, showing 20 and 30 foot waves washing over the deck of the massive ship.

My great uncle went down with the Spence.

Irwin allens model ship (ss poseidon) looks MORE REAL than actual boats in the old film footage- Irwin allen- visionary Lost in space The time tunnel Land of the giants Towering inferno The Poseidon adventure

3:28 SS POSEIDON

back then sailing was in its infancy. They only were just learning how to navigate by stars and steam engines were just invented around this time.

The anniversary of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland is near, May 29th. Remembering all the souls that died. And thinking what it meant to their families, losses echoing for over a century.

Like omg jeeezussss chrisssst lol nope

I was lucky to sail the Raffaello in April of 1969 New York to Naples and it was splendid and gorgeous.

Man-i-tow-wick 😂

This whole story is fishy i dont believe the original story of the titanic i still believe it was missles from a sub

Plus the Germans in ww2 made their own movie called Titanic they would put Jews on board as Americans fly in with their war planes ✈️ and pretty much has Americans killing innocent civilians called the Jews with Germans did experiments on everything and everyone in ww2

A German U-boat 😂 sunk it, no ice berg 1912 was practice for ww2 Germans was getting ready for the war to come and Titanic was a German target 🎯 😊

The part of Sweden where I grew up is a very very old fisherman settlement, with recorded history back to at least the 1300’s. As part of the culture, one known phrase/legend is Den Sjunde Vågen: The Seventh Wave. It is depicted as a series of seven waves, with the last one thrice the height of the others. It was said that you would meet six identical waves, and the seventh was a Monster- wisdom was to know when to start counting. It’s one of those things i didn’t question growing up- I figured it was a combination of true stories and the way the ocean creates legends. My parents, both marine scientists, would refer to it as folk tales. At 25, I learned of the term “Rogue wave”. It gave me chills. I’m working to become a marine scientist myself. I need to be close to the ocean.

I’m a Michigander (yay!)

X1.5 speed sounds waaay more natural lol

Fascinating documentary! Thank you for posting.

Topdalsfjord is a funny name for a ship, as the top of a valley fjord is a peculiar concept tbh ("dal" means valley in both Danish and Norwegian. Idk about Swedish tho.)

Better help

3:49 CQD actually meant CQ (general call for all stations) D (distress).

Refit after only ten voyages? Great Depression hurting business? Fires popping up in multiple locations? Arguing for a total loss? Does anybody else guess arson/insurance fraud?

So much coverage of the titanic disaster....yet, the wilhelm gustloff with 9000, crickets.......

After the Titanic was found, they realized the Californian was much further away than initially suspected.

The key to all of this are the distress rockets. Was it reasonable for the officers and captain of the SS California to assume that having witnessed multiple distress rockets being fired by the Titanic according to known distress protocols that these rockets were in fact for the purpose of inter company communication. I think not. From Wikipedia " By 1875, the Board of Trade (UK) had issued regulations for Captains in regards to night signals. Rockets containing at least 16oz of composition were only to be used as a sign for a ship in distress. Passenger ships at the time were required to carry 12 of these rockets.[9] The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 further stated that these rockets were to be fired one at a time in short intervals of approximately one minute apart". Given that I further note the following; 1 Distress rockets unlike wireless radio were not a new technology. They were well understood and so was the protocol around them as you can see from above. 2 Every ship carried them and thus the SS California would also have distress rockets. That means they too must have been familiar with distress rockets and their purpose/protocol. If they were not familiar that alone makes them negligent. 3 Firing rockets at short intervals as seen and reported by the officer on the deck of the SS California to Captain Lord are thus very hard to misunderstand for something else other than distress. And yet the Captain claims not to have understood their purpose. 4 Then instructing the officer to attempt to contact the SS Titanic by Morse lamp is a dead giveaway. It shows that Captain Lord suspected something might be up. And contradicts his stated opinion that these were inter company communication rocket launches. I strongly argue that the fact that the SS California attempted to contact the SS Titanic by Morse lamp is proof that they clearly suspected something might be wrong. This is also confirmed by conversations between those on deck which showed that they were uneasy about the Titanic's situation. And makes the testimony given by the California's officers and captain to the contrary rather suspect. Luckily for them given that it was an inquiry and not a court case they were not subject to cross examination. Which might have exposed the inconsistencies between their words and their actions. They took the most minimal of steps to address the situation and never tried to escalate communication via wireless radio. All of this suggests poor command and control. Sadly Captain Lord did exactly the right thing by his own ship in stopping for the night. In sharp contrast with Captain Smith who was 20 or so miles away in the same icefield; speeding away impervious to all ice warnings. And also apparently unable to look out his cabin window and realise he was in an ice field. And then of course we have Radio Officer Philips who didn't deliver a very specific ice warning message from the SS California because it did not have the correct masthead. Given that he wrote down the message he know exactly what it contained. He also knew that the SS California was right on top of him and thus should have assumed that an ice warning with precise coordinates from a nearby ship carried more significance than one from a ship far away. He might not be able to understand coordinates but he had all the other information he needed to know the message was important. So there is plenty of blame to go around. A catalogue of apparently minor missteps and poor decisions that cumulatively caused disaster

I hid from a storm on the northwest shore of Augustine in Alaska in 97, it blew a steady 80 knots with gust up to 150 for 11 days. We had to do wheel watches round the clock and steer into our anchor so we wouldn’t drag. It was a very unpleasant 11 days.

I just noticed that she looks alot like rms queen Elizabeth

Thomas woodgrave was such a massive Chad of a man, it's 100 years later and people are still like "that dude was strong as hell'

feelings are best left unexplored...

When that modelling career takes off, please don't stop making these videos! 😄😉

Omg, German doesn't have silent E's!😃 Words like Grosse and Elbe are pronounced basically like "grosa" and "Elba".😁

History should have told him that typhoons usually work well in the Japanese favor

I treated Lake Michigan like an inland Ocean. I went no further than thigh deep. One year I made the mistake of getting in the water early June. I had to be carried out because the cold was like a million needles in my legs. While others were not phased by the cold temperature of the water .

My father had the luck of seeing both the Cristoforo Colombo (in her original black livery) and the Michelangelo moored at Genoa harbour in 1965-1966. Never sailed on either of them, but still a great memory. Too bad Italian Line was horribly managed by the equally incompetent Italian First Republic. Imagine complaining about selling your superliners to another line, but being totally fine with reducing to floating rat houses in a failed country....

Captains also know their career is over and they are blamed for the loss of life and ship.

It's Venus!... It's always Venus!.

How can you present a documentary on the great lakes and mispronounce potash??😢😢😢

thank you for your outstanding work filling in the historical background that is hard to find.

And the corporate worship of 'profits over people' adored by Marquette & Bessemer can still be found today in another segment of the transportation business; Boeing (I shortened it to Boing).

20 mins in... and I realised this is NOT a disaster video 😂

Anyone ever questions whether corporates care about your health and safety over profit: Remember that rules and laws exist which force them to do so for a reason.

If it can float it can sink, regardless of how well its made or the quality on the materials it was made with.

Pesky rivets

22:23 Does anyone know this song

Its pronounced Sophia.

At 2:25 a four stack steamer is briefly shown, I'm curious as to what ship that was and if there were many ships that large on the lakes then?

I'm visiting Queen Mary today 😍🫣

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I like your channel very interesting stories along with real life happenings. Good job sir 👍