Lost Giants: Epic Shipwrecks of the Century (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans

[@danijelujcic8644]

Britannic: skipped the fact that the bow is broken because she hit the sea botom while her stern was still above the sea surface (she listed heavily to starboard and capsized). Kudos, though, for showing real (and the only known) film of Titanic and real film of Britannic's launch. Vast majority of films out there usually shown are of Olympic.

[@MiniMC546]

Do note that this documentary was released in 2010, so any animation of HMHS Britannic impacting the sea floor was a recent study.

[@Brock_Landers]

That is a very well educated and respectful response, and you are absolutely correct. The sea floor in the Kea Channel is only around 250-350 feet, and with Britannic being 882.5 feet long her bow hit the sea floor, flexed, and her stern came down. The flexing of the hull pivoting on the tip of the prow forced the hull plating to flex, which is what caused the hole in the starboard side (EXACTLY what happened to Titanic when the bow section impacted the sea floor).

[@Mree17]

⁠​⁠@@MiniMC546This Documentary is after 2015 as noted by the sinking of EL Faro in 2015.

[@KingTriton1837]

Also that fact isn't important to how she sank. She was doomed well before her bow cracked.

[@tieradlerch.217]

​@@Mree17 and notice the version of Windows 10 on their laptop

[@doublevideos5424]

DUDE! They did such an outstanding job with especially Britannic's story! She's my top favorite ship second only to her legendary older sister Titanic.

[@SeaTravelr123]

this was a great video. I remember the Amoco Cadiz and the El Faro. There was quite a bit of missing information about Britannic however. The biggest part of her undoing was the location of the mine, water tight doors being damaged AND the fact that the port holes on several decks were opened to air out the wards.. THAT is the reason she went down so fast.. She filled with water too quickly.. had the port Holes not been open, she may have been able to beach herself and changed her out come..;-(

[@Cin74]

Great watch for Sunday night

[@yasserbanse]

First time hearing about such a gigantic ship 🚢 ⚓

[@nicktynan1355]

El Faro loss tragic. Could have been avoided(steer a course away from the increasing storm, even if it meant a longer voyage), but the captain felt he had something to prove.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

The ship was also a poorly maintained rust bucket that was probably more unseaworthy that the Fitzgerald, Bradley, and Morrell (3 ships lost in the great lakes that were set to go to dry dock for repairs, but were ordered to make "just one last run")

[@Westsideaviation23]

Brickimortar has a great video about it

[@Spike-sk7ql]

@@Westsideaviation23 yes he does. I must have said that in another comment. I thought I put that here too.

[@bethanyhait6880]

Didn’t they also have outdated info on the hurricane as well? And the crew was so intimidated that when the new info about the storm shifting course came in after the captain went to bed, no one wanted to go and wake him about changing course.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

@@bethanyhait6880 I do know that they were working with outdated storm info, but I don't think the not waking the captain up thing happened. Have to rewatch the Brick Immortar video on it to find out for sure.

[@labanrono8416]

Fantastic documentary 😊

[@buttermangaming7456]

El Faro was literally put into harms way by her skipper because of his negligence, he sailed her directly into a hurricane

[@Spike-sk7ql]

The El Faro was NOT one of the latest ships. It was a rust bucket, maintained probably worse than the old lake freighters. The dumb captain also sailed that rust bucket into a hurricane, chasing a promotion. Brick Immortar has a great video on this tragedy. Lost with all hands. RIP to the crew. Captain willingly killed them all.

[@bahn2452]

I too recommend Brick Immortar's video on El Faro. The incident could have been avoided or at least not as tragic if different, better choices were made.

[@Ethanbar4]

I am insulted. My grandfather served as chief engineer on many of the so-called horribly maintained lake freighters.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

@Ethanbar4 don't be insulted. I'm sure that your grandfather, my grandfather, my uncle, my dad at one point, and every other crew, on every other boat, did their best with what they were ALLOWED to do. The problem wasn't ever the crews. It was the owners. Those ships costs thousands of dollars to keep afloat every day. The owners want them to make them as much money as humanly possible. Deferred maintenance be damned. I'm not talking regular, day to day maintenance. I mean the off-season repairs made to them. Or not made to them because it costs too much, and that part will make just one more season. The sad thing is, that's how so many of them are at the bottom of the lakes today. How many of them broke apart on the surface in a late November gale? Most of the time taking the whole crew with them. If the owners treated those boats like their own families were riding on them all the time, maybe things would have been different.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

@@Ethanbar4 also, that shouldn't be news to you. Your grandad had to have stories about how the boats were run. Put off maintenance is hardly some new, unfounded information.

[@kimberlybellard6972]

I saw that episode a few months ago. The emergency radio calls from the crew made it even more chilling

[@MrNcgy]

I realize this is an old story (the A Cadiz), but I am so SICK of hearing about corporate greed being behind another disaster. They COULDN'T help themselves - they just had to take the cheapest way out in constructing that ship.

[@jackthunderbolt4307]

That's why they say "regulations are written in blood"

[@carmelapalmer5555]

soooo heartbreaking 😔RIP to those casualties

[@ResoluteHedgehog09]

That's the widest Titanic/Britannic models I've ever seen!

[@Spike-sk7ql]

43:00 "We know how it ends..... they dont" oh they knew REAL well that they were going down well before they were going down. There was a woman on board who made a phone call before they even left, and told the person that the captain was going to get them all killed. She was exactly right, unfortunately.

[@plhebel1]

Single or double hull in this scenario wouldn't make one bit of difference, once her steering gear was gone and ended up on the rocks she would have torn apart even if she had three hulls. Maybe build the steering gears tougher or not sail into a force 10 storm?

[@Glenn-em3hv]

Or using the anchors to keep her off the rocks???

[@moondeities]

Hi National Geografic, thanks for featuring the stories of Britannic. Please do a documentary of her older sister, the RMS Olympic @The Old Reliable.

[@MiniMC546]

Please note that this documentary was made in 2010. If you want documentaries about RMS Olympic, look for channels like Oceanliner Designs and Part-time Explorer.

[@jaytrain06]

geografic

[@miriamreiss]

Jaques Cousteau dived the Britannia in the 1970's ( if I remember correctly) and came to the same conclusion.....and I vaguely remembered that on his expedition he was accompanied by a surviving Nurse.....

[@wonderful12851]

watching from nepal🇳🇵🇳🇵

[@davesmithson5634]

Nice

[@markvincentbonachita8950]

The least-known giant. Good to see her having to be featured.

[@I...am...becauseIhavetobe]

A shipment moves on wheels and cargo moves on water...and the pilot on the aeroplane says we're cruising...I get it. I'll take the train then ❤

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@kimberlybellard6972]

The footage of the Derbyshire is one of the creepiest of all shipwrecks I’ve ever seen

[@7.3PSDA2]

i agree.

[@Glenn-em3hv]

Yeah I've never seen a ship so totally ripped apart!!!

[@Nicius410]

it's Britannic!

[@Rhence008]

i hope next episode for DRAIN THE OCEANS , The USS Harder (SS-257) in LUZON, PHILIPPINES

[@Great_TOAST]

Musashi and uss johnston too (they are in ph too)

[@Brock_Landers]

The story of the end of the Derbyshire sounds alot like the end of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.

[@joshuablassingame7714]

It does! 😢 I JUST realized that!

[@Glenn-em3hv]

Yes except for the Edmond doesn't look like it exploded into a thousand pieces!!!

[@OscarRivera-n8d]

That was really cool!

[@mdabdullahalnoman7620]

Wanted a documentary on Nuclear energy and Nuclear weapons mechanism. Please 🙏

[@allanlangdale1028]

Yes, I'd like to know more about salt reactors or thorium reactors. Advantages. Disadvantages.

[@mwfcod0932]

While watching this an add of cruise ship played. I’m like *No thanks* lol

[@juliejohnson6472]

That last ship, if they knew Twenty minutes before sinking, why didn't they head to life boats? Maybe I've seen too many movies. Today they have those completely enclosed lifeboats with supplies, medical needs, seats, even motors! So why did they not use them? Seems like they did have time. It's just heartbreaking.

[@AndreWehrle]

_El Faro_ was *not* equipped with modern enclosed lifeboats; surprisingly, due to a "grandfather clause" in the regulations, she still carried the open lifeboats similar to those used way back in the days of liners like _Titanic_ . They would have been useless in the hurricane.

[@juliejohnson6472]

@@AndreWehrle thanks for the info. Never heard of the "grandfather" rule or clause. Interesting. It's so sad they couldn't be saved. Aw, the intrig of the sea.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

They were in the middle of a hurricane. Small lifeboats, no matter if they were enclosed or not, which El Faros were not, would be useless, and most likely capsize. The captain was an idiot for sailing in that storm. He was chasing a promotion that he was never going to even be considered for. He willingly lead his crew to their deaths.

[@AndreWehrle]

If you want to learn more about the sinking of _El Faro_ I highly recommend the book "Into The Storm" by Tristram Korten and the KZbinr Brick Immortar's video about it, "Disastrous Indifference."

[@juliejohnson6472]

@@AndreWehrle another great book I need to re-read is "Survive the Savage Sea". It's a true life story of a 40ft scooner attacked by male whales. Wish I had the book right now! Very intense. Thanks for the tips. I will definitely check them out.

[@scofab]

El Faro sank because her captain drove that cobbled up, ill-maintained rust-bucket into a hurricane in a frantic attempt to gain a promotion, despite pleadings by his crew not to. Completely avoidable and RIP to the doomed crew.

[@MrNcgy]

That was the result of corporate greed, not just one man's ambitions.

[@Ethanbar4]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Glenn-em3hv]

Mines are such a despicable way to make war!!! You have no idea who you might kill! They should be totally outlawed! How many are still waiting for someone to run into them??

[@teamtripledent31nextgentls94]

hopefully they make an episode of Midway, then we can see the wrecks of yorktown,Kaga,and Akagi drained.

[@BrandNaz]

Right that would be amazing

[@teamtripledent31nextgentls94]

@@BrandNaz not to mention I don't have to do it myself by making cardboard models of the shipwrecks and having them as drained wrecks, I even did the midway wrecks

[@Glenn-em3hv]

Yes it would be great for a documentary on the Yorktown all by itself and then all the Japanese carriers would be something to see!!!

[@teamtripledent31nextgentls94]

@@Glenn-em3hv like you won't belive the state of Kaga, she has been reduced to 1/3 of her hight from top to keel,

[@Jamil.72]

Please add audio change option 😅

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

drain the swamp please

[@amelfarhatamel]

They should make ships with really tough skin like super thick and they should build a tanker called the crocodile referring to its tough skin as well as a tanker or ship called the tough cookie

[@이동혁-i1g7m]

9:45 22:28 31:53 37:22

[@amelfarhatamel]

You should have talked about the titanic sinking as well as the sea wise giant sinking

[@zoegao2214]

my favrot ship is Britannic but if I can i want to buit britannic2 soon

[@junestanich7888]

They don’t raise ships like the Titanic because it’s a graveyard, there were still over a thousand people on board when it sank. Not to mention people would scramble to buy up parts and artifacts, which is dusgusting.

[@warriorgaming1604]

Your not the brightest are you it wasn’t raised cause the ship is too deep and the fact it will disintegrate and just scatter on the bottom

[@jimholmes2555]

15:40 don't you mean Torrey Canyon?

[@avneeshiyat]

we need a movie on britannic. im sure with some fictional details, it'll be a good hit

[@nursestoyland]

There already is one

[@Abcdef-ci4if]

Sinking hospital ship😢

[@Glenn-em3hv]

I wonder why they didn't anchor out in deep water with the oil tanker? Then they could have brought in some tugs!!!

[@kadenrobinson7067]

2:43 heres part two of drain the titanic Your welcome

[@BellaZuikaku4785]

36:12 *Sees Evergreen* Was she trying to drift like a car?

[@unurbuyanerdenebat7516]

Cool

[@lindamorata1755]

Watching from kuwait

[@StuGhostface]

The reason why it sank is due to the portholes open that morning and the hard list. The water was able to go above the watertight doors.

[@lw428]

I believe that is was a major mine

[@jhon-jhontolentino6261]

Wow

[@ArcaneSeer8337]

And the Lusitania

[@clintshepherd7267]

GIGACHAD

[@coolmasterztv3088]

Titanic 2 is coming out in 2027, I wonder is there would be an Olympic 2 or Britannic 2.

[@mattskustomkreations]

I doubt that, but they could do a tribute and paint her to look like the Brittanic as a hospital ship for a special event.

[@End_Illegal_Apartheid_israhell]

wow

[@Spckuz25]

They can get data scans of the damage here but not titanics hmmm

[@Scp4217ContainTheBismarck]

whats the music name at the end of the ep

[@storm9292.]

Where did they put all the water? Der

[@christinajohnson2105]

Time to steer clear of these life threatening storms. Plus all the enviromental catastrophies they bring.

[@jesterr7133]

The theory about the Derbyshire sinking does not make any sense to me. The rogue wave/underwater im(ex)plosion theory sounds great, but a rogue wave theory is just a catch all that they use when they cannot determine an obvious cause. The issue with the theory is that the wreckage is spread over a half square mile area. If the explosion had occurred 200 feet underwater, it is highly unlikely that debris would travel that far underwater. It would take an astronomical amount of force for that to be possible. I think it is much more likely that the explosion occurred on the surface, though finding a cause for the explosion would be nearly impossible to determine under the circumstances. I think they attributed it to a rogue wave and underwater explosion so that they could tie the investigation up neatly and avoid the company taking liability for the accident.

[@kimberlybellard6972]

The images of the Derbyshire underwater is one of the creepiest of all shipwrecks to me

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

Meglodon sinks more ships than icebergs and mines combined

[@clintshepherd7267]

Britannic = the bow hit the ground hard and that’s why the bow is split good bye

[@davemi3213]

2 minutes? It takes seconds to send an sos

[@muckeyduck3472]

I put little faith in the facts given by sensationalized shows like this. The El Faro was not a modern container ship. It was built in 1975 as cargo ship, and converted into a cargo ship. It underwent two modifications which made the ship very unstable in high seas. It not maintained properly, and the captain made very bad declensions which got everyone killed.

[@KamiSiegle]

4:57

[@jollysharma9389]

20:00

[@brianlittle717]

Why does he need a submersible after they drained the ocean?

[@dalenichols7414]

WoW 11:43 And I'm done

[@Johns_904]

Long "lost ships" *never mentioned about Rms Olympic*

[@andrewhaydo7977]

Giganitic they say fun fact her original name was gigantic

[@ShipVSAnimator]

Harland and wolf never confirmed Britannic real name was Gigantic. Gigantic name just a rumor.

[@clintshepherd7267]

idk why the Derbyshire is just the bow but in a epsode more that is it bye

[@taganilevicky1928]

But where's the soldiers they deid

[@ShipVSAnimator]

There are no soldiers aboard when Britannic sank.

[@clintshepherd7267]

Dude

[@brianlittle717]

They raised the titanic in that movie so why can’t they raise the Britannia?

[@brianlittle717]

They raised the titanic in that movie so why can’t they raise the Britannia? Titanic wasn’t even broke in half yet.

[@Random-b4y]

Because it would just sink again

[@The_Great_Canadian_geographer]

Because it was a movie.......

[@ProfessorTayB]

Tell me you're joking

[@brianlittle717]

@@ProfessorTayBthey really did. That’s a fact. Watch the movie.

[@ShipVSAnimator]

You talking about this 27:56 ? First, that's clearly animation Second, that's not even a Titanic, that's a different ship

[@BradWilliamson-xy4bv]

National Geographic used to be the best source for info. They've changed and completely left out some info about some of these ships, thereby changing the stories and circumstances. Not only that, some of their models are not accurate.

[@kimberlybellard6972]

There’s a show called Disasters at Sea. You’ll find a few of their episodes on KZbin including the Derbyshire

[@jdsstegman]

It's a great watch, but theor so called "evidence " doesn't convince me. Sure, it looks like half a mine, but looks are the only known thing.....

[@lw428]

Bro you are

[@nazgultaIion]

…

[@brendankennedy4758]

Too much background music can’t watch this

[@The_Great_Canadian_geographer]

Then don't. Just don't

[@Glenn-em3hv]

What a terrible design on the El Faro!!! You would think that with our technology and all the other ships that they wouldn't build it where it would flood in high seas? Don't they test models before they go to sea???

[@Camaroman0710]

"war crime" has to be the most common term among losers of war.

[@matthewshahbazi3840]

Shame on you this is full of ad every two minutes one ad

[@pippa3150]

Shame on you for complaining about amazing, free content.

[@MiniMC546]

Blame KZbin

[@cheerful_junior1146]

Idk what you’re talking about I only had one at the beginning 😂

[@The_Great_Canadian_geographer]

​@@cheerful_junior1146same 😂

[@Elsanta666]

Boring

[@leonardosolismunoz3535]

Hey National Geographic, Can you STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP uploading full episodes on Sundays please!?!?!?!?!?!?!?😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Thank you.

[@tomnaughton]

Bot

[@leonardosolismunoz3535]

@@tomnaughton I ain't a bot, I'm human

[@jaredknapp8886]

Then click on all the pictures of stop signs.

[@Keziapurrs]

Why?

[@leonardosolismunoz3535]

@@Keziapurrs cuz I like clips better than full episodes on weekends

[@michelemarcolin2548]

Gigantic? Have you ever seen the new liners? Titanic was a sail boat in comparison.

[@shaheen1990]

Gigantic for its own time and era.

[@OscarRivera-n8d]

That was really cool!