Arrests, ice wall and abandoned Russian town

[@westcountry_sailing]

I was 400m from a glacier in Chile in a kayak when the wall collapsed. It's been a recurring nightmare since. Glad you came away safe Sam; to anyone watching, this isn't best practice so please don't copy.

[@lighttness]

And yet here you are

[@Mike-bs5pi]

Ohhh, so that's where the@@lighttnesswere. 🤔

[@Mike-bs5pi]

@@lighttness was your supper still hot when you got home?

[@lighttness]

@@Mike-bs5pi Here's a little pro tip: leave the oven on while you're at work to save time reheating your tv dinner.

[@westcountry_sailing]

@@lighttness it was more luck than judgement on my behalf, I've had 25 years to consider the folly of it.

[@sunshine_water5139]

Thanks for taking us along with you Sam. It's not much but I sure hope this helps🤙

[@paulobrehm]

Obrigado!

[@robertpoels6053]

Thanks!

[@branuHD]

Came across your channel a couple of days ago. The moment I saw you drill a hole in a boat in the middle of the ocean alone I knew this would be a great channel!🤣 loving the vids keep it up

[@Chebab-Chebab]

He always drills holes in his boat.

[@kularace7351]

Lived here for 11 years. Never even considered going that close to a glacier front. Darwin have cleaned up a few times on people doing that already and a few more escaped on sheer luck. It's the same ice on the icebergs, safer to chop some chunks from them.

[@Cognitive.Dissident]

Getting close to that ice is terrifying!

[@comentatoralemane8103]

Yes, stupidly so..

[@Jurflip2]

Risky, me thinks. Irresponsible?

[@helmrichharms2225]

Risky!

[@richardboyden5553]

extremely foolish!

[@toddecksel7557]

Irresponsible? Lol. Wtf?! Keep up the great work. By saying what you did is irresponsible, makes them irresponsible. Us responsible people appreciate your work. Be safe!!

[@justanotherdude32]

You're easily my new favorite content creator Sam. I've been wanting to be out on open water so badly these past few months. Sailing just seems so peaceful. Living in the Middle of the US it's difficult but watching you really helps with the itch and desire! Also motivates me to do it someday. Thanks for such good content! Wish you safe and enjoyable travels!

[@wyrdo1501]

what state you living in just curious?

[@justanotherdude32]

@@wyrdo1501 I'm in Illinois haha I would like to get out on Lake Michigan or Superior for a start.

[@wyrdo1501]

@@justanotherdude32 ah ok, try being in Arkansas and into sailing lol the great lakes would be pretty cool. you heard of the great loop? i live on the Arkansas river and thats my first goal.

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[@oscarwestman3994]

Have been guiding and leading expeditions in Svalbard for 17 years. Sailing up to a glacier like that is playing Russian Roulette with the lives of everybody onboard. Please do not do it again. Stay safe.

[@63snampook]

...when I saw that part of the footage, my thoughts exactly !!

[@peppersanches412]

They can do what they want, how arrogant to tell them what to do. If they die it is none of your business.

[@TheRealBalloonHead]

@@peppersanches412 , ok Pepper, go for it, don’t worry about the ice moving, you’ll be fine.

[@ROFO79]

@@peppersanches412 generally rescuers have to then risk their lives to try to save people that do foolish things.

[@banksuvladimir]

Cry about it coward

[@stefflus08]

Oof that was a silly move. He could've gone in the dinghy, only risking himself for his G&T. We get this sort of thing all over Norway and sometimes we have to mop up what's left of the tourists and wring them into a bucket.

[@pancakelens75]

Yeah, that was pretty bad!

[@pancakelens75]

Yeah, that was pretty bad!

[@pancakelens75]

Yeah, that was pretty bad!

[@nateb9326]

I use that exact same heater core "heat exchanger" in my work truck for Wisconsin winters. Works great to heat a 10ft uninsulated box even when the temps are below 0 F

[@donanderson9872]

What heat exchanger was that?

[@ksm1985]

I've always wanted to drive while choking on carbon monoxide fumes

[@LiaSailing]

It's been great, kept us nice and cosy with the motoring we had to do!

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[@gagegames5029]

You my inspiration sam! I can’t wait to buy my first sailboat, but must wait if I want a bigger one with a bathroom.

[@nicholaseugenebaker9253]

Sam dude crazy inspiring stuff! Makes me want to explore!

[@jjm9902]

Drillin' holes in a pricey boat. Sweet!

[@lolathedog3108]

Thanks for going and saving me the trip!

[@cheapcigs9772]

Cute pup ✌️😍

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[@kennethryan9788]

What an awesome adventure. Thanks for sharing.

[@greggromack8319]

Fabulous videos. Thank you for sharing.

[@brianmcguire5189]

Best channel on KZbin! Awesome video Sam, you are very privileged to get that opportunity! Should have thrown rocks at the Lenin Statue🤣🤣🤣

[@markgamble7699]

Dan and Kika on Uma boat were just there few months back… Should be a long red ribbon hanging around outside… Stay safe

[@edm9704]

Dan and Kika were there in the preious summer..

[@davidfrost4145]

Check Sailing Uma Step 284 for her routine with the red silks on the old scaffolding.

[@billwilliams9527]

Loved the old abandon Russian coal mine, and the city, very cool.

[@caspernag686]

The bad seamanship and risk evaluation shown when you went right under the glacier is really disapointing. Collapses isn't as rare as folks might think. It even came on national news (NRK).

[@hellodenise9612]

That is so scary when you pulled right up to the wall!

[@motor-head]

That is one hell of an adventure. Sailing right up to that glacial wall was risky and amazing and did I mention risky. :) Next, going to sail above 80 degrees north.........wow!

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[@kasm10]

Great content Sam

[@galactikbutterfly]

Beautiful brogue!

[@bm-kb8kh]

B You ALL the WAYS. Take care Skipper, fair winds and all the best Sam.

[@Smokesteve]

Epic Sam absolutely epic!

[@TheWeibell]

People freaking out about the risk of going up to an ice wall don't seem to realize they are talking to the man who climbs into a homemade block of swiss cheese and solo sails it across the ocean and jumps off cliffs with a condor man get up.

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

Svalbard once had an airship hanger built for the Italian semi rigid airship Norge's polar attempts.

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[@AdventureNow]

Great video Sam. It felt like we were there 😄

[@DanielStillie28]

Sam, What's beyond the ice supposedly there's more land beyond miles of ice somewhere that we haven't been before

[@mytreasurechess]

The music room looked terrific. Was there music playing somewhere in a building, thought maybe the bus had something habbening? Well, you mariners definitely showed us an amazing adventure! Yummy. 😋

[@atlestoraker4812]

Great video. Svalbard is great for adventures, but going that close to the glacier is just stupid. Like trying to pet polar bears stupid. Stay safe and keep up making great content!

[@SpicyTrifongo]

Polar bears love to be pet you just have to show the proper confidence when dealing with them.

[@sailinggreenpearl2571]

Yolo, doing anything is stupid. Sit in a safe chair beside a heater. Thats sensible.

[@velotill]

yep, turned me right off (bit like that dangerous Bahamas passage). Funny also, that all of us vicarious Covid shutdown sailors have been to Svalbard at least twice (1st Uma, but actually preferred Alluring Arctic).

[@Mike-bs5pi]

100% would pet a polar bear

[@Mike-bs5pi]

@@SpicyTrifongo the best way is with camouflage. You can't exactly hide from them, as their eyesight is insanely good..so you go incognito, preferably in a baby seal costume, as seals are not uncommon where there are polar bears.

[@billgorman5040]

Very cool journey

[@lisarivera2229]

I wish I could get over fear because, I hold myself back.

Wow! I learned a lot because of you video. Thank you so much (!!!) and keep them coming, because we are all very ignorant about other countries!

[@TheJoshGalt]

Death wish near that ice wall. They were falling like crazy last week at Jökulsárlón.

[@paulholmes489]

Very good video!

[@PatriciaJeanNC]

Wow! That's just beautiful I tell you~ 👀I was holding my breath for you guys for about... probably '30 seconds🙊👉👈. I love the water and respect it enough to say "maybe one day" this will become my reality but, until then* God bless you guys. Muchlove❤*

[@CharlieMetcalf]

Awesome video!

[@richardkelly1124]

great video thanks Sam - i feel like you the boat was made an example of on the mishap over the bird sanctuary. I'm not that experienced a sailor but i wonder if somehow it could not get added to chart so others don't go the same way?

[@sailawayteam]

It was marked on the chart - even on the screen capture shown here - and the chart says restricted area, more information from the government of svalbard. That should give a hint. Svalbard is very fragile environment and there are quite a lot of restrictions for tourist activities.

[@Keasbeysknight]

It's great how much stuff still remains in that abandoned town. If everyone who visited took something, it would not be the unique time capsule it is.

[@windjunky]

24,000 croner to USD is $2200. Saved you the conversion

[@Brad.whatthe]

That’s $3260.78 in Aus dollars

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[@triskaidekathirteen724]

interesting that there was so much green land in the development area........raises many questions

[@patrickjames1080]

Brillllliant Sam - thanks for sharing!!

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[@davewoods8539]

Wow, thanks .

[@allenbuck5589]

Thanks again great videos. From my hill top in. Sc

[@GPOWER3]

Oh my the abandoned town was baffling all those Instruments and things left behind ... the Machinery the boats, everything... why...???

[@francisarbelo8099]

Ice for the Gin Tonic...Classic!!!

[@am2schmarvelous]

I really hate cold but your videos have ignited a desire to see the artic, more than other videos about svalbard as a seed vault. Which I do val5but doesn't motivate me to do. Tha Thank you for sharing.

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[@PhoenixMoonbeam]

yeh that iceberg you sat on possibly calved off that wall of ice you went right up to, you wouldn't want that to fall on you.

[@imtheboss2047]

That's the type of place bald and bankrupt would be lurking

[@aneverydaybrian2320]

Love your stuff, Great vids

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[@vanessalavalle9972]

thanks for taking us with you :)🧊

[@CaptureLife]

I had just seen yestheory exploring this place in another vid couple weeks ago, must get a few youtubers there.

[@smokeymchaggis73]

This video is like a warning of things not to do while sailing.

[@davidotoole9328]

Sailing and booze seems pretty tight.

[@JuPac420]

Only if you’re a square

[@braithmiller]

Life is, the interesting stuff usually is. The dividing line of course of action is the freedom.

[@smokeymchaggis73]

@@braithmiller The issue comes when, say, he gets up to the iceberg and a piece falls off and takes out 3/4 of the bow. Now a group of people have to come out and try to rescue another group right next to an iceberg. Needlessly having to put their lives at extra risk just to put some ice in a drink. It's selfish. I dont hate Sam or the rest for doing this or anything. He should do better and think about consequences to his actions though. The burden of those consequences dont always lie just on ones self.

[@braithmiller]

@@smokeymchaggis73 not disagreeing, same could be said for all of boating. I would not do it. If a real shear happens nobody to save.

[@bradfordbeidler1093]

That looks like a nice broat!

[@tommyohman7011]

Dont go that close to i ice wall thats insane !!

[@gatesgoza9703]

Awesome!

[@jameshampton8730]

Amazing adventures. Stay safe near those bergs

[@jcBurton2094]

You know what? It's not possible to "stay safe" near those "bergs"

[@bagoistvan3182]

FANTASTIC !!!

[@patricktwohig2074]

Hope you have fun!

[@ianjones1118]

So good!!

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[@signdigger]

Hello , so did you make it up to the land in the far north ?

[@VOLTAGEshowdown]

I would be scared to be near the glacier because of those videos online of them falling off and making huge splashes.

[@Mike-bs5pi]

Ice water is a great way to beat the summer heat!

[@DevonPalmer98]

Here we can see Sam reenact his favorite scene in titanic

[@thorstenwanoth6774]

Howzit Sam, been wondering about sailing with a tiller vs a wheel. Long time ago I spent many days on the tiller of a 34 Lello - fast forward to 2022 and many a sailing KZbin channel boat I see people spinning wheels in search of direction. Good winds to you and friends.

[@joshuaspath6923]

Holy shit. As someone who has spent a bit of time near glaciers in the water. Be it in a vessel or even a kayak. Getting that close is such a stupid idea.

[@skipperhoy]

I knew I would hit the like just because of the title UPDATE: great video

[@markfissinger6310]

Hey , Sam. Bill Tillman wrote about his voyages on Mischief and Sea Breeze. Worth a look if you haven't read them. Carry on.

[@jhollisphoto]

You must have gotten to Svalbard just as I left!

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[@FunsongsMusicByPeterRahill]

18th like posted. Hardly a doubt that the arrest was all about the money. Had he chose to do the time instead - at THEIR COST - he might have been able to 'negotiate' that fine downward quite a way. Just a hunch. Good that he's free, all the same. Great scenery; thanks for sharing the adventure.

[@jamesbennett44]

Wow. American in Russia right now.

[@samholmessailing]

Totally a money grab. If it was really about the puffins they could have easily radio’d us that we were too close and we’d have altered course immediately but instead they just let us sail right through a hit us with a ridiculous fine afterwards.

[@madisondeans5566]

Ooooh,be careful the Russians aren't too happy w/ U.S. these days! Great adventure non the less! Fair Winds,cheers!

[@JimmyBoqvist]

@@madisondeans5566 They are not in Russia! "Pyramiden is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard" 🙏❤️💪

[@comentatoralemane8103]

Your hunch is dead wrong. The option to do time, does not exist.. It's possible to see if the infraction on the bird sanctuary was even gross, or if it was a mistake due to insufficient marking on available charts and documentation, in that case the fine could be reduced or cancelled, on the other hand if upheld, and funds exist i.e. boat or other, arrest in the boat could be made, until the fine is payed, and no one would have to do time.

[@Escapetosea]

Now that was scary!

[@joshuapatrick682]

In all seriousness never ever do this, stopping within a mile of a glacier is very dangerous. And walking on an iceberg is damn near suicidal even if you’re tied off (or not Sam!!?!)

[@edwardallen2696]

Just remember driving is the most dangerous part of your day 👍

[@funiguy8779]

Brilliant ,brilliant video Sam ! We take risks getting out of bed in the morning, thats what life is all about ! Fantastic to be able to be there with you, thanks ! P.s. I hope you paid half that 2000 bucks fine !!?? 🤑

[@RockDocNeal]

Wow, that was some ballsy...or foolish...sailing (I haven't decided which). I wouldn't be sailing anywhere close to huge chunks of ice in a fiberglass boat for fear of the portion of it that is underwater (Titanic, anyone?) and certainly not directly up against a huge glacier....all it would take is one chuck to become dislodged and you are sunk in about a minute.

[@RockDocNeal]

One other thing...did you have any fear of encountering Russian officials in that abandoned town? I'd be more fearful of them than bears, especially if this was filmed after the beginning of psychopath Putin's illegal Ukrainian invasion on 02/24/22.

[@takeawalkwithme803]

Wow Sam ! Pyramiden is an |337 h4x !!?!

[@donanderson9872]

What heat exchanger was that? By the way, you guys are freaky with getting so close to that ice!

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[@DeadBaron]

So if they were in a smaller boat with no electronics, he wouldn't have been arrested for getting too close to a rock. What an abuse of a law IMO

[@snarkylive]

Blatant abuse of the safety system for revenue and they aren't even that accurate, if they were, nobody would ever get lost, lol.

[@caycug1]

The police at Svalbard taking advantage of sailors, very unethical.

[@j.aavits]

Its a natural reserve, they got too close to birds nests im sure. There are zones that are forbidden to enter.

[@moonshine3333]

@@j.aavits But there’s no problem if your boat is less than 40 feet. 41 feet you get fined.

[@dagfinnopsvik4180]

@S J , it is probably most important to keep cruise ships and trawlers so far from the bird colonies that they do not scare the parents off their nest during nesting season. Chicks will not survive for long without protection.

[@Mike-bs5pi]

Nice, Is that the howling fjord? How'd you get to the borean tundra?

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[@DS-ju2sq]

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[@Ecurrie84]

Have you ever heard of the Rupiis Nigra? Would you help us in our search for such with your knowledge and experience from places been etc ???

[@blainehigeons8535]

Where/ how did you learn to sail?

[@22patch22]

Efterklang(a Danish band) made an album about piramida

[@Lecram066]

I love it, at 5:32 :D

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[@MrSullyO]

Wait what happened? I couldn’t understand what was being said.

[@Christomare1]

Incredible scenery WoW!

[@Iz0pen]

Little ice bergs are called growlers

[@markthomasson5077]

Or Bergy bits…not quite sure of the difference. But I think the growlers are the small ones floating low in the water.

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[@Resehtbv-sb7sq]

Did they cross it and leavr?

[@mrgiantanthem]

Another great video. Keep up the good work.

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[@audiofreq2699]

Personal pref but you should make your edits longer and show the scene more.. Im just getting into whatever view you show and boom its already on the next scene.

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[@joshuapatrick682]

So the flat-Earthers were right? The world is surrounding by a giant wall of ice on all sides?

[@ErocNelson88]

Something has to contain water whether it be ice wall or not that’s basic physics like a pond bath tub drinking glass etc etc

[@Alex_Alex-Alex]

Checkmate round earthers, that was the great ice wall

[@patrickjames1080]

Yeah, Pizza's are flat too!!! so don't sail across one

[@enmodo]

They'll just say it was a fake decoy wall.

[@Randy.lorenzo]

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[@patrickjames1080]

@@Randy.lorenzo I'll leave that to you

[@Randy.lorenzo]

​@@patrickjames1080I'm not a psychic

[@ivanreese7087]

Can you see Alaska from there ?

[@OurCabinInThewoods]

great video

[@irongoatrocky2343]

Sam.....Vladimir just called......he said he was a little short on cash and was wondering if you wanted to buy some Coal for cheap!

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[@sailinghooponopono2457]

Hi, getting that close up to the glacier, was not only frightening, but down right stupid. These monsters tend to "calve", i.e. loosing big chunks up to hundreds of metric tones of ice. If the ice does not kill you the waves might. PS a bigger glacier in Greenland recently calved a piece of ten billion tonnes, the size of lower Manhattan... Makes for a great amount of Gin Tonic, accompanied by harps playing and angels singing.... For the rest I do enjoy your videos Sam.

[@5150Magic]

So, how was the ice?

[@selfsameday7448]

Coolest beer eh?

[@humdinger7275]

Wow