The Unfortunate Fate of the RMS Rhone

#history #disaster
No matter how far technology advances, man is still at the whims of the sea. Even in an age of iron hulls and steam power, a single error can render a very capable ship into a wreck on the sea floor. The RMS Rhone, state of the art at the time learned this all too well. Learn her story.
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The captain saw that big rock and said "Rhut Rhone, Rhaggy." I'm calling it right now, you'll see.

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No we won't, he's dead by now 😅

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Go stand in the fucking corner and think about what you've done.

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Raggy… I ruv you… *crash*

[@grmpEqweer]

33:33 "...Men and women, in Victorian England, didn't know how to swim." In a hurricane, and without any flotation devices, swimming ability really wouldn't keep you alive for much longer.

[@EShirako]

Yes but if they HAD known, they could have at least tried. Still died, likely, but MAYBE they could have stayed afloat. Without knowing how to swim, they could hope for one of the seven life rings, or die. 😕 Awful for them all no matter which way things went. At least a few survived!

[@davecrupel2817]

​​@@EShirako Dude. Stop. 😂 If you are 100+ miles offshore, *Your. Ability. To. Swim. Is. Irrelevant.* It's straight up does not matter how hard you try. If your ship sinks out at deep Sea, you are not making it back to shore on swimming power. _You're just not._ They might as well have tried swimming back from the Moon. The result would have been the same. "They could have at least still try" is a completely pointless argument.

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The not knowing how to swim is a nonsensical myth. Beach culture was prominent and so were swimming competitions.

[@davecrupel2817]

@@user-io6pj8bz8h Beaches and swimming competitions dont exist 500 miles out at sea.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

@@davecrupel2817 I would agree, I wasn't commenting on the survivability, just some of the myths we're feed about what life was like in history.

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Miasma is such an interesting theory because it almost always leads you to the correct conclusion, but only through correlation.

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In a world without microscopes and knowledge of germs... It is almost there, so so almost there Like when the Roman Empire drained swamps around Rome to combat the miasma of malaria. They had no idea it were the mosquitoes causing it, but it worked. For every time there was someone running in fear of bird poop or whatever, there were 1000 cases of "won't drink smelly water" that saved lives

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That’s how medicine worked before microscopy and the scientific method. It’s kind of crazy. People knew things like “We cut the unopened buds of this flower and they ooze this stuff that makes pain go away.” or “Routinely consuming bark from this specific tree keeps you from getting this deadly disease that seems to arise out of nowhere,” before they knew how opioids worked, or that quinine helps with malaria, or that malaria is caused by mosquitoes.

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A hurricane is terrifying on land as is. At SEA? Impressively, even worse.

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Oh boy. Skipper sure did an aweful lot of research for this brilliant video. I really, really liked this a lot.

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It's always great to hear the Skipper talk about a new video and ship

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I have very little knowledge in regards to barometers (mostly from when it's mentioned in passing in tge weather forecast and videos like this) and I still audibly said "oh shit" when he mentioned that!

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Well if you watch at work, that's a fun 10% of your day (and you get paid for it too!)

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@mvlevitch1745 exactly! Plus I always save the Mr Ballen upload from Sundays that I'm listening to now.

[@CertainlyCaro]

I dove the Rhone in 2016. Ever since I found this channel, I've waited for this upload

[@joeyvanostrand3655]

Very cool! Do you have a video of a story about how the dive went and what you saw? I would be fascinating!

[@CertainlyCaro]

@@joeyvanostrand3655 I'm afraid I don't have any videos. GoPro's still needed waterproof cases at the time, and mine broke two days earlier. We dove the stern section since I needed PADI advanced to go to the deeper bow. BVI in general had some great diving. I'd love to go back again in the future.

[@connorspaulding171]

Also quick news from the Great Lakes, the mitchpicoten is safely back in port at Thunder Bay Ontario after striking bottom 35 miles southwest of Isle Royale

[@allenwebster1991]

She didn't touch bottom. It was a stress crack.

[@connorspaulding171]

@@allenwebster1991 thank you for letting me know, I didn’t know it was stress fracture until a few days ago

[@ellenbryn]

Deadly yellow fever outbreak, major hurricane out of season, 7+ major earthquake after months or foreshocks, significant tsunami. I don't believe in supernatural bad luck, but that has got to be the worst rolls of the dice that part of the planet has seen since the Yucatan had a very bad day with a very large rock.

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She almost pulled a 'Fitz? That had to be scary!

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XD so true

[@E_Sunbro]

Ugh.

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@@E_Sunbroliked your own comment- rough.

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2 p's in dropped.

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I found out about this channel like 5 days ago so this is a pleasant little surprise

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See you in 3 months

[@yesterdaysrifleman]

Oh boy, a wreck I have dived many times. Thanks for the upload!

[@UguysRnuts]

So have I. Not much left to see.

[@legitbeans9078]

You think thats bad. My grandfather was the ship

[@DragonSpirit469]

Awesome video, well researched (as always) and super interesting! I don't think there's any videos on the history of the Rhone, just wreck diving. So this was really fascinating! You really dug for some good information.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

I was waiting for a major channel to do a video on Rhone! Such a horrific tragedy that as been forgotten all except for her wreck being a tourist attraction

[@masongiles8443]

Thank you for never using music always telling a good story and being a calm voice

[@fabianzimmermann5495]

Always love it to learn something new about a sinking I never heard of before.

[@CJM-rg5rt]

Is it just me or does it seem like these steam driven oceanliners crashed or were otherwise lost in action more often than they died of old age (scrapped) it's insane. I didn't know this but Oceanic Whitetips are the sharks (by far) most responsible for eating people in the middle of the ocean, it's still sad that they've gone from incredibly common in the 50's (possibly the most abundant big animal) to very endangered now.

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Great video as always! Thank you for putting these together.

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[@chrisjohnson3227]

Been waiting for a new video! So glad to see a new one! Thanks so much!

[@theproceedings4050]

My Dad has dove on the Rhone lol, I never knew the history or how the storm and earthquake related to the sale of St. Thomas. What a great video!

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This was a pleasant surprise to see in my feed. Immediately moved it up my watchlist for the day.

[@laurencestill1216]

"The mizzen mast snapped" - it went mizzen you might say.

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Thanks for another episode bro, I’ve enjoyed all your episodes, especially the October/Halloween bits from a few years ago. I’ve been though more than my share of hurricanes living on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Hurricanes are hell, it’s hard to make out anything let alone direction in one, especially on the water. Mad respect to all Mariners

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Kinda baffling my mustang makes more horsepower than one of her engines.. It’s amazing how far we’ve come

[@Bttfmc]

i am so happy to see you cover this. i’ve wanted to dive her since i was a kid

[@theorcosaurus]

Fantastic stuff, as always!

[@mikepowell2776]

Regardless of my previous comment, that was a good story, well illustrated and excellently told.

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Thanks so much for the hard work. Thanks man, fair winds.

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You tell a good story thanks again.

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Great video,,keep em coming!!!

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Perfect ending for a lovely day: a new video of yours to watch! ❤

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Love your videos, been here since your famous Franklin Expedition video. Would love to hear the old background soundtrack though. Was an even more chilling experience with it.

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My favorite shipwreck channel

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So many tragedies at sea.

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I don't think that I'd heard your narration before, but I liked it very much. Well done! 👍

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Great story, thank you.

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"hove to due to" is fun to say

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I absolutely love your videos! Would love to see your take on the Sinking of the SS Artic.

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My man's back... thanks M.H!!

[@mochagoat1998]

Oh hey! This is a shipwreck I've actually seen! My family and I went snorkeling around Salt Island many years ago and the water was super clear. We only saw it from the surface, but I remember there were a few divers there checking it out too

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He's back!

[@guyk2260]

Nice one Ian ! Good luck with your new posting

[@mrskywars1237]

i’ve dived the wreck of the rhone in the BVI and it’s so incredibly eerie knowing what happened and seeing how close to shore they really were. it took me three minutes to swim to shore from the wreck, three minutes is all that stood between life and death for those people

[@Cedartreetechnologies]

I dove the famous Rhone. The rock that sliced its boiler still stands, shaped like a black scythe. The wreck itself appears to be an astonishingly modern design. It is true that the wreck is so, so close to the shore that one wonders (in nice weather) how so few could make it to dry land.

[@OverproofMMA]

Another great one 🤙

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26:16 I’m a pilot so I get the barometric pressures, we use the pressure to calibrate our altimeter. To put that into perspective for everyone, you lose about 1inhg of pressure every 1,000 feet of altitude. So at sea level if the pressure is 30.00inhg, at 1,000 feet straight up, it’s 29.00. They had a pressure altitude change of 3,000 feet in less than an hour. I’ve never seen anything like that drop in pressure, that is insanely bad weather.

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He has returned

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Good research on an unknown sea tragedy. Interesting doco'.

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Love the stories. Sailing definitely was not easy in those days.

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Good video thanks.

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Totally want a film about the people forced to live on that reef!

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A ton of marines I served with had yellow fever.

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Me, hearing all the bullshit that poor island had to go through in succession: CAN THEY PLEASE GET A BREAK!?

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I wish you’d sneak in that song “hoist the colors” once a video. Love these sea stories. P.s. can you imagine navigating the huge oceans by the stars and rope to tell how fast you’re going…. No effing lights! Those were some skilled men.

[@WWXspartan058]

This is a quality video

[@TheKazragore]

Humanity would be wise to remember that if Mother Nature wishes to remove a ship from her seas, then she will do so irrespective of our hubris. Or perhaps in spite of it.

[@timothyclark1754]

Jokes on her, ship wasn't removed from the sea.

[@charlesbennett7484]

She was removed from the surface of the seas and out of sight is out of mind.

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HE'S BACK!

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It’s always strange seeing you in an Ignis video now cause I’m like “Huh, he sounds familiar.” Then I see the name.

[@zlm001]

Thanks.

[@Ephraim32]

Beautiful dive site these days. Still has a single intact porthole with the glass in it as well

[@modelcitizenvlad]

Since we're coming up to the 39th anniversary of its sinking would you consider a short video on the Rainbow Warrior? It's a but niche but it's an important story to tell.

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Balam Industries sponsored field trip.

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I’m more a fan of Elcano Foundry

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OMG NEW VID!

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Rip.Poor souls.God have mercy on all men that navigate the seas!

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LFG!!! NEW UPLOAD!!!!!

[@chrisperrien7055]

yea and it is a gravesite for 123 people. Now turned "tourist attraction/trap" as a dive spot and one of the best in the Carib Sea. IDK, The trapped anchor is the best part of the story and it is still there. I'd dive the anchor, over the wreck, less chance of a "ghost" showing up. maybe 😎

[@Thomalini]

I dont even sail, but I love these videos.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

Steamships were actually much safer than sailing ships. It’s actually one of the reasons that they so effectively displaced sailing vessels. At the end of the age of sail, an oceangoing steamship stood about a 1/1000 chance of not surviving a given voyage. For a sailing ship, the equivalent number was more like 1/200. Steam power meant that a ship could reliably maneuver in any direction at any time and didn’t have to worry about being driven onto a lee shore or being dismasted in a gale. The steamship could always keep her bow to the waves and was less susceptible to capsizing in heavy weather. And steamships were more maneuverable and never had to tack.

[@nickjohnson410]

6:53 If you ask a sailor... everything is bad luck. Leave on a Friday... Bad Luck Bananas on a boat... Bad Luck Sun rose in the east... Bad Luck Right handed cleet hitch on a Sampson post in July... Bad Luck

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One of my great grandfather's was The Officer's Mess cook on The Thermopylae.

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Thank goodness it’s one I’ve never heard of haha

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How do you manage to upload every time I’m about to take a final

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Once again, when having bad luck is the only luck…

[@pennytill5183]

When I first saw this I thought it was on H. M S. Rhona. How about doing one on this? But this was great!

[@TKHarris1967]

I’ve dived on the rms Rhone, it was a great experience and it’s one of the only places in the bvi you’ll find sharks

[@ianfortune8288]

seems like i’ll be taking a 41 minute break at work today

[@UguysRnuts]

The wreck of the Rhone was used as a film location for the feature film "The Deep". It's where they find the crates full of ampules of opiates. Not much left of the wreck anymore. You wouldn't be able to see anything recognizable as a ship other than a few pieces of debris. The hull is completely gone. It's a much over-rated dive site.

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Water daddy has uploaded yet again!

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Sus

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