I work with grain and flour and can tell you it's like a sponge when it comes to moisture. It will drain the moisture from the air. If any moisture got into the product it wouldn't take much for the already overweighted ship to go completely over it's weight limit. Combine that with massive waves buffeting the ship and ice starting to possibly weigh it down and it's no real mystery that it sunk like rock.
@PhoebusApollo3604 жыл бұрын
*sank
@benmac9403 жыл бұрын
Spot on, but the type of cargo wouldn't affect it. It would have shipped a large amount of water that would have no doubt found a way into the hull , and ice accretion from the extreme temperatures would have made it so heavy it would have in effect sailed all the way down, from weight alone.
@unitedwestand51003 жыл бұрын
And it swells. A lot...... You might not notice gaps in the hull planking from the outside. Especially, lower on the bottom side of the hull. Not with it sitting on the bottom of the lake. Maybe the deck boards didnt pop loose is because the cargo was already waterlogged and lost all buoyancy. Instead of trying to rise to the surface like a bobber, the heavy, waterlogged cargo drug the ship down with it.
@rickhouston21443 жыл бұрын
At -20 moisture doesn’t stand a chance
@unitedwestand51003 жыл бұрын
@@rickhouston2144 ,. The water flowing over the deck, into the cargo hatch wasn't frozen. The ship wasn't iced in.
@baffledmouse5 жыл бұрын
"It's so pristine!" Then proceeds to hit it with a grapple. :-(
@AGuyWithTheFace3 жыл бұрын
If that steering wheel breaks there will be riots I tell you.
@ronosga50723 жыл бұрын
The fact that the lifeboat is so close to her and her cabins were not blow off from air pressure, says she was encased in ice till she simply lost buoyancy and slowly slipped below the waves.
@MelvinLosHobo5 жыл бұрын
Something not mentioned, which i think adds to the idea that she sank due to weight. The grain absorbs water. So you got all the water coming in over the sides, being absorbed by the grain. You cant get it out with any pump, no matter how hard you try.
@IreneWY4 жыл бұрын
The Vasa sunk on her maiden voyage off the coast of Stockholm in 1645 or so, was underwater and forgotten for 300 years and when rediscovered in 1950 and later salvaged, was in amazing shape. When you see it in the museum you don't believe that it was actually underwater for so long. water, under the right conditions, can preserve things very well!
@Jontae42883 жыл бұрын
Cold deep water preserves all
@sorrenblitz805 Жыл бұрын
Isn't there 3000 year old Greek trade vessel that was found more or less completely intact? Yes actually though it's actually closer to 2500 years old, it was found a mile down in the black sea of the coast of Bulgaria.
@TimRHillard2 жыл бұрын
I learned today how dangerous working on the great lakes was. May all the sailors lost, rest in peace. We live so well on top if the country they helped to build, hard, cold, dangerously, with their lives. Wow, I am in awe and great full. Thanks!
@marievaleur78772 жыл бұрын
This has been fascinating for me. My great-great-great grandfather was a Captain of steam vessels on the Great Lakes during this same period. It is sad to think that the sailors' names were never recorded and so families were left to wonder. Thanks for this video it helped me to imagine a little of what life must have been for Cap't Perkins back then.
@patraic52413 жыл бұрын
Calling the Great Lakes just "lakes" really does them an injustice. Especially Lake Superior. The Great Lakes really are inland freshwater seas in all but name. The weather pattern described in this video is very similar to the weather conditions November 10th, 1975 when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down a century later.
@horsepanther2 жыл бұрын
Very true, it's difficult to envision the Great Lakes if you've never been there; when I moved from Michigan to the SF Bay Area, I was trying to describe the lakes to some friends here and they found it hard to believe there could be lakes so large that in many areas you can't see the shore on the other side. And even more mind-blowing to them was that the Mackinac Bridge, which spans the narrowest spot between the Upper and Lower peninsulas, is quite a bit longer than the Golden Gate.
@kenzielarsen17712 жыл бұрын
Do you live in Thunder Bay, Ontario, too????🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
@patraic52412 жыл бұрын
@@kenzielarsen1771 Sorry Kenzie. I don't. I live in NE Ohio not far from Lake Erie
@patraic52412 жыл бұрын
@@horsepanther Yeah. It's hard for them to visualize. In fact the smallest of the Great Lakes is many times larger than the entirety of San Francisco Bay.
@reactivereactiontobeatsbar78162 жыл бұрын
Thunderbay is lake superior, they have there location messed up, thunderbay so far from lake Huron
@josephgiri23984 жыл бұрын
Such a well researched and well documented film, thank you..it was a pleasure..
@zbol92 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning report including very complex filming, testing and thorough research. Congrats @Monty Halls and the whole crew!!!
@JohnDavies-cn3ro Жыл бұрын
My late father was an AB on Royal Navy patrol ships up in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean during the late war. He told me of how they had to go round at regular intervals with high pressure steam hoses, blasting the ice off the gunboat's superstructure otherwise it's weight would overturn them. Grim stories - and your historic photos give only an idea of what it would have been like 'further out'. Thanks - a fascinating film.
@Sturb1005 жыл бұрын
Loved this one (especially as I worked out it would be ice about half way through ha ha). I can imagine the crew just hung on climbing higher and higher until there was nothing left above water. Horrible way to go.
@IreneWY4 жыл бұрын
yeah... it was obvious after they showed the frozen up ship on a photo. poor crew
@anthonyabretski59564 жыл бұрын
I clicked on your videos and your very thorough and informative Really like your topics and the science behind it your videos rock I will be watching more 🤙 great job
@drowningnixis5 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice the skull like design in the sand at 9:42? Creepy.
@Finthefish-hr8ky5 жыл бұрын
Wow perfect simulacrum
@Resident_Kriegsman5 жыл бұрын
I saw it once you mentioned it
@FastNCurious884 жыл бұрын
drowningnixis yeah that’s weird AF
@whynottalklikeapirat4 жыл бұрын
I was about to make that comment. Pretty neat.
@YourCoffeeBreath4 жыл бұрын
Yhea i saw it to scary
@dimatadore5 жыл бұрын
When host explains something under water: "HAHE HAFAEL SHUUAP... * BREATH* HEHUPEHTHS HTEHEHPPHOAH.."
@Baigle15 жыл бұрын
@Old Guy's Place wow m8, well put
@MrGator2165 жыл бұрын
@Old Guy's Place Clearly these knuckle draggers ought to be pounding sand, there's no sense in men like you and I trying to talk sense to buffoons like these. Like you said, they ought to get out of their mommy's basement and get a job. Helping their mommy pay for the groceries they eat would be nice... get off your blow up doll.. millennial turds...!
@johntomasik15555 жыл бұрын
@Old Guy's Place Get off my lawn!
@whynottalklikeapirat4 жыл бұрын
@Old Guys Place It's an observational joke as far as I can see, not a complaint. And moderately entertaining for that matter.
@whynottalklikeapirat4 жыл бұрын
@Old Guys Place The internet is timeless. And look - here you are, right back again, proving my point =.O
@clairewyndham19712 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. I have lived the first half of my life on Lake Superior, and have logged in more than a few hours at the lighthouse on Big Bay. . You did a great job on this. Special " Thank you" for pronouncing " Presque Isle" correctly. Things like that mean alot.
@karenwilson95282 жыл бұрын
She was low in the water to begin with. Every time a wave crashed over her in the storm ice began to build up on and around every serfice. Encasing the whole ship and adding weight. Until she was pushed down below the water line, held together in a cage of ice. That's why she sank so suddenly, like a hand pushing her vertically down under the serfice, and landed without breaking up. Protected from the impact and held together by her ice cage.
@igorborisov45794 жыл бұрын
Cannot wait for the next season. Thank you, team, for interesting series!
@danielflanard82744 жыл бұрын
Is there one planned?
@igorborisov45794 жыл бұрын
@@danielflanard8274 Since, it is written S1, I hope S2 will come :)
@fuquasewing2653 жыл бұрын
It should be lifted and restored and put in a museum awesome find
@shannonbloom41333 жыл бұрын
Anyone who cooks and has seen what happens when flour gets damp would know that water flowing over the deck and down into the hold would significantly increase the weight of the cargo, enough to sink it in rough water since it was already riding 4 to 6 feet lower.
@HopelessSinner6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this documentary. It's fascinating how they were able to uncover what most likely happened to The Windiate, using historic weather maps and modern day reconstructions and experiments. R.I.P the Captain and crew of The Cornelia B Windiate
@arthurtelf5 жыл бұрын
Uh, the description is not correct...Windiate sank in 1875....not 1975.
@akiratakahashi895 жыл бұрын
Speaking of 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald also fell victim to the stormy waters of Lake Superior.
@meridien52681 Жыл бұрын
How tragic for the families of the lost sailors, they died unknown and anonymous.
@rovertn75214 жыл бұрын
I expected them to find a mysterious locked coffin on board with “DIO” embroidered on the front...
@Arda-wq8pd3 жыл бұрын
lol
@sr.chinta-louisetorpey55664 жыл бұрын
The great lakes, amazingly beautiful, amazingly cold (even in summer), and amazingly huge! Pure Michigan.
@hectorkeezy14995 жыл бұрын
"This is the steeringwheel." Really ? I would never have guessed.
@HBOIchip5 жыл бұрын
That's a Ship's wheel anyway, right? insulting to call it a steering wheel anyway, in addition to the captain obvious exclamation!
@jonatanogiewa11885 жыл бұрын
Your a gay twat
@niyabellaqua5 жыл бұрын
Hector Keezy Well his point was, how intact it was even after 140 years.
@rooroo87675 жыл бұрын
jonatan ogiewa*you’re
@MrGator2165 жыл бұрын
@@niyabellaqua Clearly these dolts ought to be pounding sand and then we wouldn't have to see their BUFFOON like, knuckle dragging comments. I can appreciate your trying to talk sense into these knitwits... I pity the tools.
@david-lonewolf89244 жыл бұрын
Don’t know why.. but this documentary series certainly carries that “Man vs Wild” vibe-just a diving version of it.
@garydoyle71555 жыл бұрын
I saw some comments about the lack of a crew list and just so you know in November 1898 the side paddle steamer Portland out of Boston headed for Maine was lost in a huge storm no one knew exactly how many people died or who was actually on the ship because the passenger manifest was carried on board ship - - it was only after this loss they started keeping accurate manifests in port. What you know or don't know about the practices of the times this ships went down can be extremely limited - - sketchy practices as Monty noted about outfitting a ship back then - - would you board a vessel knowing the odds were 60% against you making your destination alive ??
@hlowrylong2 жыл бұрын
Yes, versus 100% chance you would starve if you didn’t work … what tough times back then….
@LukesYuGiOhChannel4 жыл бұрын
Now this is a great documentary.
@RICDirector Жыл бұрын
He does goodones.
@down2film Жыл бұрын
Wow amazing video and photos! I’m assuming you did the video with the x100v as well?
@marcogori79754 жыл бұрын
how incredible is the preservation in fresh cold waters. nothing can remain at this level of preservation for longer than few years
@highlysuggestible8615 жыл бұрын
How much air was trapped in the grain, tens of thousands of cubic feet most likely, and how quickly did it dissipate when she sank? Could the grain have released its companion air slowly enough to create a buoyancy suitable to take the ship gently to the bottom?
@panioloprep81262 жыл бұрын
As a recreational diver I would like to hear more about the gear they are using, the depths they descend to and what if any decompression stops and for how long.
@michaeljonker4785 Жыл бұрын
Semi closed circuit, side mount, I’d assume they would be diving with some blend of nitrox in one tank and the other one just normal air for past 40m (if diving with nx25 at a push for pp) or they diving with tri mix and oxygen to reduce deco
@michaeljonker4785 Жыл бұрын
Some times it’s a full closed circuit rebreather too
@tgfabthunderbird14 жыл бұрын
About what I expected in terms of the sinking. Overloaded, little freeboard, she was overwhelmed by the water and ice and just went down. I'd read about this vessel, but not that she'd been found. An amazing wreck site.
@reshmajose62405 жыл бұрын
There can be one explanation why the ship is well preserved . Point no 1 : the ship is overloaded with grains with minus 30 and on top of it the hull would be coated with ice , adding to the weight of the ship, at this point the ship would have been flooded due to the storm. Now the goods which are only grains will be soaked that could double the weight , if the ship is well built then it most likely would have sunk vertically and the cold would have preserved the deck and hull
@danielflanard82744 жыл бұрын
The saw that clip everyone's talking about. There's no way they could've know where the drop spot was on relation to the wreck. The contact itself didn't do anything. There is over a century of organic buildup on the ship. The most it did was knock some silt and barnacles off.
@actiaint3 жыл бұрын
You can still see paint in many places so no I think she deserves more respect with anchoring.
@TheKSPNoob5 жыл бұрын
It's Called the Helm not Steering Wheel
@rodneyrochester30122 жыл бұрын
Brilliant documentary
@scanhan50254 жыл бұрын
Watching these during coronavirus break
@iqno31855 жыл бұрын
Maybe they went under deck to check what’s going on with the ship/they were cold, then waves crashed and they got buried by the grain? Their bones could be covered by all those grains 🤯
@sensegfx27834 жыл бұрын
Alen Zejnic I suspect it is way to high pressure for bodies to be preserved or even bones
@shable14364 жыл бұрын
@@sensegfx2783 high pressure does nothing, its the oxygen in the water mo matter what pressure that breaks down bodies, bones last a few years but you rarely see any bones on sea floor except whale bones which take decades to break down
@las10plagas4 жыл бұрын
I thought the same. maybe they all ended up in the grain hehe
@jordanhicks51313 жыл бұрын
Nope, would never happen. Maybe one guy but not the whole crew. Sorry to disappoint.
@sazziestar2023 жыл бұрын
Check out this video about another wreck that has been preserved in the same way.. it's on a KZbin channel called ask a mortician and the video is titled the lake that never gives up her dead.this is about another wreck that has been preserved as a grave site and it's forbidden to dive this wreck so as to respect the bodies that remain entombed in the wreck it's really interesting but adds to the mystery as to what happened to the crew of this wreck
@qwerto155 жыл бұрын
Well thats one way to ruin a wreck... anchor off it. "Has put us straight on top of the wreck"... smh
@harryshutler5 жыл бұрын
It’s not an anchor. i’s a diving shot line, shot line, or diving shot, a type of downline or descending line. It's an item of diving equipment consisting of a ballast weight (the shot), a line and a buoy. The weight is dropped on the dive site. The line connects the weight and the buoy and is used by divers to as a visual and tactile reference to move between the surface and the dive site more safely and more easily, and as a controlled position for in-water staged decompression stops.
@Sumo-san5 жыл бұрын
Subi takahashi it’s also just a figure of speech. I’m guessing you’re not a native English speaker. Or if you are, that’s quite concerning
@paulle31345 жыл бұрын
@@harryshutler This does not mean, given the images, that this line does not damage the wreck or the seabed
@harryshutler5 жыл бұрын
@Paul LE It didn't damage the wreck, it only knocked silt off the side, and as for damaging the sea bed, please explain how they have 'damaged' the sea bed? it's sand and silt
@paulle31345 жыл бұрын
@@harryshutler At 6:25 he didn't talk about shot line but kind of grapnel and can be seen just after. At 6:49 you can see how it hit the side of the boat. Regarding the sea bed there is nothing, but as a multiple situation diver, even If I know the sea bed, I avoid to launch something from the boat. I'm installing the line and the weight myself - Safety and preservative procedure
@SPWoz7 ай бұрын
I like the presentation of the story - with the exception of the use of the voice of the diver... I can not understand a word.
@billybelmonte3 жыл бұрын
Excellent show, Brilliantly done!
@mickedwards66935 жыл бұрын
When he says "It is beautiful "he sounds like vivian off the young ones..haha
@dennisbarrett96045 жыл бұрын
LOL🤣🤣🤣
@shawnrparker3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't stand to listen to him anymore
@samvoulalis2053 жыл бұрын
Talks about “preservation of wreck” Nek minute: Drops anchor on wreck
@gjones13165 жыл бұрын
“Relatively warm...4,5 to 6 degrees Celsius” are you kidding me? That’s freaking cold 🥶
@catlucy14555 жыл бұрын
John Doe as I see, that is a southerner. that is warm my friend
@gjones13165 жыл бұрын
catlucyyyy Heck no sir ! 😆
@JohnSmith-ii8pp5 жыл бұрын
What did you weight the model with? Because it's not just about weight in the water, mass is important. If you matched the weight with sand, that's very different than corn when it hits the water.
@DrewWithington2 жыл бұрын
Why is it different? Are you talking about different densities?
@skyislands88872 жыл бұрын
In 1974 living in outback Australia as a 3 or 4 year old I heard The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the lakes have fascinated me since. Another comment also highlighted what was thinking while watching.... grain becomes wet it's weight increases, providing a more even ballast displacement below the waterline, steadying the ship. As ice formed adding more weight, wave movements were counteracted by the grain, keeping the ship stable slowly sinking untill neutral buoyancy occurred. Ice gradually melts in the water, allowing the saturated grain to provide negitive balast, counteracted by the slow ice melt, gradually and gently lowering the boat to the lake bed. Additionally, the wet grain may have provided additional internal pressure and reduced allowance for air or water pressurisation, providing additional internal support for the structure. A poor theory, and I'm no absolutly no expert at all, but have worked on sand mines with pumps and water where altering saturation levels gives some control characteristics.
@crystalm43245 жыл бұрын
I live in Canada and sometimes I forget just how massive the Great Lakes actually are. I’ve seen Lake Superior, we couldn’t swim because where we were there was still unexploded water mines near shore. I imagine those have to be gone now, that was ‘78.
@dakotajourdan25262 жыл бұрын
Mines? That's wild
@woodyssnake85622 жыл бұрын
Why were the mines there?
@myrenkohlhorst44228 ай бұрын
There's a wreck in Tobermory ,Ontario in Lake Huron just as pristine as this wreck. The Arabia ( a 3 masted schooner I believe) in 130 foot of water. She had a load of corn in her hull and word is she floundered in hi waves. Fantastic wreck to dive which I dove in the late 80s. Completely intact. She would be a great wreck to do a video on. At the time there was no zebra mussels in the great lakes, and she was just as she went down.
@SelfLoadingRifle2 жыл бұрын
This ship was an example of what that great Victorian gentleman Samuel Plimsoll defined as a coffin ship. She was overladen which guaranteed a handsome profit should she reach port. She was also over insured, which meant that if she foundered, her owners would still make a killing. With regard to the latter, the human part of the equation meant that a fifth of all mariners (probably more in the treacherous Great Lakes) perished with the ships that they sailed. Plimsoll fought like a lion to ensure that a simple line be marked on the hull of every ship to indicate the safe level to which she could be loaded. Today, all ships - including those in the Great Lakes - bear the Plimsoll line which has saved countless lives and continues to do so today. In my book, this surely makes Samuel Plimsoll the Patron Saint of Mariners.
@benjaminhartmann45225 жыл бұрын
Brilliant documentation, i just dont like when they try to explain something when they are under water... makes no sense. but ty for upload, hooked me.
@jkorkea5 жыл бұрын
sure does, or at least i could understand just fine
@RICDirector Жыл бұрын
I love the subtitles, helped a lot.
@bukster15 жыл бұрын
The wreck's like something out a movie or comic book. You'd think you could just fill it with ping pong balls and refloat it. It would probably break up if you tried, but it the condition of it is incredible.
@etiennepagex17564 жыл бұрын
Every diver here mad cause the anchor hit the boat🤣🤣🤣
@mattkaustickomments Жыл бұрын
3:07. I saw in a recent discussion about the wreck that mussel damage has since removed all traces of the letters on the name board.
@timgosling61894 жыл бұрын
Great vid. and nice to see O Three's gear doing well. Per Mare Monty!
@chasecharron45462 жыл бұрын
Liking because this is great buty liking more for the audio guy being able to get his voice out of that wind tunnel!
@esterherschkovich64992 жыл бұрын
Facinating 😊
@Iphenity5 жыл бұрын
Nearly broke a rib, over his talking under water like he was playing “Speak out” 😆😆😆😆
@baffledmouse5 жыл бұрын
Dish ish a shhhhteering wheel.
@RICDirector Жыл бұрын
Lol...like to hear you do better with a regulator in your mouth...lolol
@fredbailey3632 жыл бұрын
Living in Michigan, it's always funny when people visit and say "I've see big lakes before". Yes, you have but nothing like the Great Lakes~ considering the US Coast Guard trains on them prior to port deployments, maybe they know what we already do. The lakes can make you rethink the word "lake" all together.
@dakotajourdan25262 жыл бұрын
They're more like freshwater seas honestly
@Beadledom20244 жыл бұрын
So did congress end up passing a bill to require sailor name registration on ships? If so, how soon following the sinking of the Windiate? The video left this really important info out! I'm going to have to research, because now it's bugging me not to know.
@mikewisdom65204 жыл бұрын
Time to raise her and preserve her I'm a UK pensioner I don't have much but I would donate 100 pounds from my pension to help raise funds...
@jonasfowler28595 жыл бұрын
Simple idea, the weight of the grain which was allready way too much, plus the weight of the water from the storm made it too heavy to float.
@omega12314 жыл бұрын
Too much grain could definently be a possibility, but a storm would not add enough water to become too heavy, atleast that would assume that the crew didn't bail water out which is highly unlikely.
@maxvandoorn37993 жыл бұрын
@@omega1231 Ever mixed grain with water it is like a spoon. You wouldn't be able to pump the water out
@truthlogiclove4 жыл бұрын
I think they thought the boat was unsinkable. I think they even bragged about. And low and behold, it hits an iceberg. Everyone tried to flee (except the band- they kept playing until their death) and even though there was "no survivors", there was one woman with a BEAUTIFUL necklace. She didnt tell anyone though.... they should make that into a movie.
@benmac9403 жыл бұрын
The builders of titanic never claimed it as unsinkable that was solely the media.
@stevekirksey92932 жыл бұрын
If you like this one you’ll love the Gunilda in Ross port Albert falco said this ship is finest example he’s ever seen and I agree it’s at a depth of 240 ft in Georgian bay
@harbourdogNL5 жыл бұрын
37:29 Ice forming at 16 tons an hour, he says. That's 533 pounds every minute. I'm not a marine hydrologist and I understand everything has to be dramatised and enlarged for TV, but I did spend a few years going to sea, and much of that time was on an oceanographic research ship in the high Arctic in the fall and early winter. I've chipped a fair bit of ice off of rails and winches and other gear on deck, and I can't see how that much ice would form EVERY MINUTE on a vessel that small. I'd say it's more likely that she was pooped by a large wave, or several, over the stern and with her low freeboard and any spring hatch she would have settled fairly quickly and on an even keel as she sank, not bow first like they did in the test tank or like the other wreck they dived. Interesting video though, all the same.
@RICDirector Жыл бұрын
Sails might build ice faster...? Also, the great lakes are notorious for blown freezing spray in huge volume...could that make a significant difference?
@phil-zz5hk4 жыл бұрын
i never knew there where 2 thunder bays up there . this one is michigan . the other one is ontario
@avasuperstar6903 Жыл бұрын
I dived in turkey and it was one of the most peaceful things I’ve done yet one of my most exciting things too
@MightyRambler5 жыл бұрын
I think this needs to be clarified; this wreck is off of Thunder Bay, Michigan not Thunder Bay, Ontario as I (a Canadian) presumed it was the Canadian town but realized after the first zoom in that it was the American one that was being discussed
@chiphazzard81735 жыл бұрын
Wow people really love whining in the comments, not like any 1 of them know what there talking about. There professionals. Just be happy they recorded it for us to watch n shut up
@ria16364 жыл бұрын
Try improving your grammar it's 'one' and 'they are' or they're!
@chiphazzard81734 жыл бұрын
@@ria1636 wow ok sorry mrs. Ria
@ria16364 жыл бұрын
@@chiphazzard8173 🥰
@boarhog19795 жыл бұрын
He needs to dive Superior. Now that is deep and cold. Thunder Bay is at the top of it
@IamayMizono3 жыл бұрын
Glad to know that the weather of the Great Lakes have always caused people issues.
@Hezyvare3 жыл бұрын
Why does the water sounds like minecraft 😂 6:26
@christianbuczko14814 жыл бұрын
The cargo filled the holds, so they didnt get blown apart by the compression of air in the wreck. Odds are waves were over the deck in -20f would have added more weight, plus water could have entered the hold in conditions like that. I doubt she had any chance of making port.
@granskare5 жыл бұрын
in USA we also have a Monty hall on television so I had skipped this because I thought it was the old USA television guy- how wrong I was . In the great lakes, little deteriorates as in salt water, but it is cold. In the old days , boats were overloaded, the books by Fred Stonehouse who also referred to C. Patrick Labadie in one of his books. Lake Superior has weather that is very bad November to March.
@palletcabin-YR_Author5 жыл бұрын
granskare Monty Hall, from 'Let's Make a Deal' is / was from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. I confess I thought the same. Also, I thought this was Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, until I watch the video.
@Larrythebassman4 жыл бұрын
Hmmm … excellent research mate … makes me want to purchase a deep dive submersible and become a deep sea unwater journalist 🔊✨👏👏👏👏👏😁great video
@Maggerrzz5 жыл бұрын
Haven't finished the episode, but any chance the freezing rain stuck to the ship, formed ice and increased the weight to where it ran below the water line and just sank? The added bouyancy of the ice on the top side of the ship would have allowed it to sink slowly enough in the upwards orientation that it wouldn't damage it, and would have acted as cement holding pieces of the ship together. Edit: aaaand the rest of the episode confirmed it XD
@carlpenney9014 жыл бұрын
Seeing the ship was over her capacity and in freezing weather the ship was taking on ice that made her top heavy and she was locked in ice she then slipped into the deep. The ice under water will keep her up right where she sits today.
@granskare5 жыл бұрын
on the north shore of Lake Superior, there were few places to anchor or find refugee.
@DarylSawatzky5 жыл бұрын
This is Thunder Bay on Lake Huron. Not the Canadian Thunder Bay.
@srippopolandino61743 жыл бұрын
New drinking game: take a shot everytime one of them says "extraordinary"
@seanemma95595 жыл бұрын
Between over hauling and massive ice build up the boat was like a rock history solved lol
@FrayMiigwetch13_4 Жыл бұрын
36:56 IG it's the grain 🌾 which on board that balance the weight of the boat while it's sinking, for it to be not smashed out onto the seabeds.
@MGreen-vz6yb2 жыл бұрын
Monty was great on "Let's Make A Deal"
@daddyrabbit8355 жыл бұрын
OMG , this is so over dramatized. This is in a marine sanctuary off Alpena Michigan. There is a ton of wrecks in this area. I just did the E.B. Allen last summer. Edit: I didn't know the E.B. Allen was in this before I wrote this comment.
@ResidentNotEvil5 Жыл бұрын
It's quite scary just seeing the video and this divers risk their for documentary
@palletcabin-YR_Author5 жыл бұрын
I thought this was Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, until I watch the video. I was hoping the 'Ghost ship' was explained. Not so much.
@ricknaughty10165 жыл бұрын
Yvonne Rediger they did. it was over weight. Which could sink in normal conditions. Ice 16 tons every hour weighing it down even more and the storm 5ft waves pulling the ship down. It just iced over and sunk bcuz of the weight and storm. Sinking down blissfully slow swaying back and forth like a feather falling in the air down to gravity
@sherry732 жыл бұрын
The ships well preserved cuz of the freezing cold water. Lack of oxygen in the icy cold water slows down the decomposition process...just like on everest you can still see bodies of climbers who died years Ago.
@jayhome27155 жыл бұрын
$16,000 in equipment later, around $4000 in training, another $5 to 10,000 in dive experience, 2 years later and you can visit that boat too....or you can watch it here on youtube for free.....
@petermoubarak1537 Жыл бұрын
U can never replicate how a ship would have went down with a scale model . It’s just impossible .
@kakabekadigger28513 жыл бұрын
I live in Thunder Bay and treasure hunter and never heard of this. 🇨🇦
@Back2TheBike4 жыл бұрын
I get it Monty. Its extraordinary ;-)
@MethosFilms5 жыл бұрын
I plan on diving this wreck.
@geyotepilkington28925 жыл бұрын
Show us the where they damaged it with the anchor so we can get angry again
@wksjunior955 жыл бұрын
When I dive there I will check that for sure!! lol
@timdraughon58975 жыл бұрын
That's a 196 ft far past a scuba cart
@wowfreaker5 жыл бұрын
@@timdraughon5897 yup. You're going to need trimix knowledge and gear to dive there.
@manitobalife92132 жыл бұрын
I love how he said Canada 🇨🇦 ....u got to be Canadian to say Canada right lol..
@gopherchucksgamingnstuff22632 жыл бұрын
They call it lake effect snow. Just because the lakes are fresh doesn't mean they are safe. I grew up in Mi. Those lakes make 10-foot snow drifts inland.
@KimonFrousios5 жыл бұрын
Your video description misstates the year of sinking by a whole century...
@shanem.98295 жыл бұрын
Great documentary but the title is somewhat misleading. This wreck in not in the "real" Thunder Bay.
@brigsmith9495 жыл бұрын
Yeah I thought it would be in thunder bay aswell
@mossycave3865 Жыл бұрын
Ok I tracked down this documentary cuz I was craving something to do with shipwrecks after listening to TMA episode 51. And Andy Torbit just sounds exactly like Tim Stoker
@silvertbird1 Жыл бұрын
What a shame, if they had not overloaded the ship perhaps she would not have foundered. I don’t know if it would’ve made any difference to the crew, if they were washed over before she sank due to the storm.
@dimatadore5 жыл бұрын
I'm slightly distraught that the anchor smacked into the side of the boat and scratched down along its side like that. Should such a treasured wreckage be damaged?
@SwilleeBMo5 жыл бұрын
No, they should never be. I was shocked to see they did that. The Great Lakes is my preferred diving. In fact, the dive shop Monty enters is the dive shop I work at.
@wackypacky69175 жыл бұрын
I honestly screamed. The good news is that I couldn't see any serious damage and it scraped off some Mussels
@wackypacky69175 жыл бұрын
Nevermind their just scraping up the ship
@soulpaua20975 жыл бұрын
@@SwilleeBMo Time to find the prick that dropped the anchor then!