You don't need to explain why there aren't more videos...I love your videos and their worth the wait. I hope they will continue to be full length too because I'm enthralled by them. Beats the trash on TV!!!! I oftentimes watch the video twice because I am not a marine person. I have recognized that as many "computer tools " used for safety, it does come down to human error. I held my breath to see if everyone would be saved...I'm glad everyone was rescued.

The SeaWolf??? Pretty sure I was on that ship in Galveston i believe

Brick Immortar > Dark Records

OK. Finally going for it. I was on the sister ship Warrior in 93, it was the same ship design. We almost rolled the first week i was on it. Not in the best shape then. Cant imagine another 15 years.

I love how everything is well explained for a newbie with a personal stories included.

I spy the Galveston to bolivar ferries 11:40

Seeing the parents crying for the loss of their kid is heartbreaking.

The production quality and delivery of your videos is superb. Thanks!

A bridge should NEVER be art. It’s not a piece of artwork, a showpiece or a status symbol- it is a BRIDGE to carry people and/or vehicles across an obstacle. These people were idiocy and arrogance personified. I hope every single engineer involved in the design- and ignorance of issues- enjoys living with the knowledge that they KILLED people.

54:08 that yellow salvage scaffolding looks like a woman with golden hair. What a beauty.

Hi Brick, I just wanted to let you know that I just bought a duck boat company and I want you to know you are the reason I purchased it and take safety so seriously and we are putting a lot of work into making sure we are a safe operation. Thank you again for your advice and insight.

Captain should be charged with murder for each of the souls lost in this tragedy.

Holy…just…wow. I’m pretty sure this “Captain” would’ve been hung 150 years ago for dereliction of duty!

3 things to never say if you want to keep living: it's unsinkable, just one more time, just a little further.!!!!!

Thanks!

This guy sounds like the same voice who does barely social no?

Im a First Nation person myself and i feel bad for the Kahnawake people for losing many of their people just for one man to try to make a bridge that goes from Levis and Quebec City

I used to be a salvage diver based out of Dutch Harbor and I can tell you from my experience, drugs and alcohol are a small factor in ship wrecks. Complacent engineering, poor seamanship, and reckless operation are the primary causes at play. Most of the crews I interacted with had no concept of things like watertight integrity or regular in depth casualty drills. Even the vessels at the company I worked for were outdated and poorly maintained. A couple of them even sank at the dock. Honestly the completely cavalier attitude towards general safety in hazardous conditions is pretty shocking.

As far as I'm concerned, the duck boats should be considered a Apportioned vehicle. And that would mean they would probably be off the road. As a former motor couch driver, the side of them are very thin. There is a metal skin, a thin sheet of plywood and the interior cover. As for the coach not having seat belts, it was not a requirement for that year. New coaches do have seat belts but from the description of this accident, seat belts would not have helped and might contributed to more injuries. I would never get into any duck, not even if my life depended on it.

not surprised by quebec nothing is built right like cant even drive properly

I would like to see one about the i5 bridge colapse in washington state from about 5 years ago, among many others in the area, as a former resident the local news always made it seem like we had an inordinate amount of infrastructure drama

*_"This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."_* - 2OO1: A SPACE ODYSSEY [1968]

At about 10:28 in this video... That started out as ONE SPAN. I remember driving over the single-span _Sunshine Skyway Bridge_ with my parents. The second span was added years later.

R.I.P., _Crew_ of the _USCGC BLACKTHORN._ 🙏

R.I.P., _Crew of the Thresher._ On _Eternal Patrol._ 🙏

So what happened to Cooper?

I'm still upset at the idiot who flew past the sight seeing boat. You don't pilot a craft close to others at high speed. That's day 1.

5:26 Is it me or did all the vessels here sink?

Every single aspect of this tragedy is a slap in the face to the victims: - the negligence, bribery, safety concerns, corruption, etc - the light prison sentences - the fact that the city declined requests to turn the site into a memorial

Pretty remarkable the bravery and response time of the US Coast Guard. Swimmers going into that death water and even being left behind, flying like that on critically low fuel, rescuing that many people. Pretty damn remarkable. Mistakes that happened aside, there's no one else in the world you rather have coming to save you than the US Coast Guard.

Whats so sad is I was one of the last humans on land to see this ship under power still floating thrn a few days later she would get caught in hurricane Joaquin and slnk to the bottom of the ocean in the Caribbean RIP to the crew.

There should be a law that states that at any given time there must be at least one high ranking company officer on board every rig and they rotate them every period of time. They have no authority over daily operations, let alone emergency situations, just be present on board. Maybe then. when the sh!t hits the fan, instead of drilling until the last minute, or putting off necessary repairs or upgrades, the right action is taken before it’s too late. I know that’ll never happen, but, if these big wig’s actually valued their oil rig crews lives as much as they did their salaries I’ll bet they’d have a lot fewer disasters like this!

I can't get enough of these inquiries your reporting is indepth and informative

This video was extremely informative and the quality and narration was top notch. Thank you for such a great video.

Love the content, don't skip the details my dude it's a part of what we're here for :) also, side note. Don't need to justify anything due to being a single parent, of course the family comes first! We are here where ever you upload. Thanks for the great content!

Red Thread Podcast brought me here :P

excellent study case for those studying crash investigation .

A bit of unknown history for you about the Thresher. The USS Haddock (SSN 621) was originally supposed to be christened the Thresher, but caught fire in the yards, delaying her. So the Thresher took her place and name. I rode the Haddock for 4 years. She had stamped USS Thresher valves on her. Look it up.

I once volunteered at a historic house with a very chilling "Never Again" panoramic drawn poster of Andersonville. My job was transcribing Civil War era letters into a database. I got as far as the death of Lincoln before I had to stop for health reasons. A part of me wonders what the writer (later a Pennsylvania Governor)wrote about Andersonville to cause him to buy the poster. He wrote some scathing things about some cowardly pro southerners who put black bunting up despite him knowing full well that they hated Lincoln. He may well have written about the Sultana. I hope someone else got further into the letters between the future Governor and his Uncle. I should check sometime. Still, that poster of some of emaciated survivors doomed to board the Sultana haunts me.

I know this a old video but I just found it. So heartbreaking for those 33 souls. The Captain definitely was a big part of what happened. . Reading the comments and so many lost love ones in this tragedy, RIP to all those lost 😓

The Titanic was also unsinkable...

Excellent doco. Im surprised the roster system and sleeping conditions weren't investigated. Ive done shift work my entire working life and if someone is falling asleep on shift its not necessarily the result of poor work ethics . Could be poor sleeping conditions, noise, temperature, light, diet that increase fatigue

I watched a documentary on this years. (Maybe on Science Channel?) It always stuck with me. I think there was a story of a survivor who was trapped under the wreckage but was almost hit by the rescue workers’ equipment because they didn’t know he was under there and couldn’t hear him over the machinery. Creeps me out.

it was a horrible thing indeed... D:

I'm from Quebec city, I've pass on this bridge so many times since I'm a kid (And I'm 50 today) and this bridge is very shaky and rusty. We all know in Québec city that he will collapse for a third time and the government dont do nothing to prevent this, so everytime we pass, we pray for that moment is not happening now.

And today the bridge is rusting away falling into pieces.... No one can decide who should pay for the repairs (Quebec city, VIA Rail and CN trains, Canadian gov.), because it's used by the city population and VIA Rail and CN, but the bridge belongs to the gouvernement. So the bridge is just rusting away. They only repaint it from time to time but by the time they have done the 2nd half, the rust is back on the other half... It's that bad. An engineer even did an inspection by himself on his own time, that was published in the news. It showed many pieces completely cut off by rust, and he declares that the situation was higly critical. Yet no one did anything.... I have lived most of my life near that bridge, crossing it almost daily at one point, and now i just avoid it. If you ever go to Quebec City don't go on it. It WILL fall a 3rd time at this rate and nobody is giving a sh*t or doing anything to prevent it...

And we still pass that bridge every day

Captain Coward was terrible, but this is so much worse.