Hunting for Shipwrecks in the City with my Submarine

[@Candelaresearchcenter]

For scale underwater use two lasers 4 inches apart and line them up.. the two dots on object will be four inches and help with scale

[@YosuaNangin]

That's actually pretty smart

[@Candelaresearchcenter]

@@YosuaNangin most research uav's use this method.. not my idea but thought it might help

[@Kasejeb]

Yes, EVnautilus uses this method for the research submarine you can see in their videos.

[@hallio111]

damn that is a great idea! he needs to build an own submarine with all the tweaks:) If anyone can do it, it is him... but I guess that needs pretty expensive manufacturing, cause pressure, watertightness, etc..

[@rosonowski]

Why four inches? Would four centimeters, or ten, or a mile make any difference? Or is it just that the first people to do it had theirs four inches apart, and now everybody else has theirs four inches apart?

[@aquastar7315]

The bow of the first wreck you lost interested me, it looked old. After a bit of research, it seems you found the JE Boyden, built in 1888 as a tugboat and sank in 1935. A very genuine wreck!

[@ninjahunterx7497]

This comment is pretty underrated. Thanks for the info.

[@ChrisRoddick]

I agree, your comment is very underrated! Nice work doing the research on the JE Boyden.

[@Letdown27]

Thank you. Very interesting history

[@kens97sto171]

At 23:42 you can see another name... cant make out the first part.. but ends in MA?

[@aquastar7315]

@@kens97sto171 That's FOSS 54, a wooden barge. The "MA" is from its home port registration of Taco(ma), Washington. It sank sometime between 1969 and 1975.

[@mosermarcel1970]

When you operate a submarine rover please mount a red-white ball on the boat on the surface. This ball signals underwater operations undergoing. The driving ships make let you more space to operate with the rover.

[@Stuwy2]

Also if you have an anchor down. Have a ball up. So other water users know you are not moving

[@mosermarcel1970]

@@Stuwy2 In Daytime no. In nighttimes you have an Anchorlight on the top of the Mast. The white- red Ball is a Signal of undergoing underwater operations. If it's necessary you can marking the diving area with white- red buoys. So you have a defined space for your rover or the Team of Divers.

[@theoriginaldylangreene]

@@mosermarcel1970 It's not a red and white ball, it is a red and white bouy, and should be placed in the water directly over the people / vehicle that are diving. Stuwy is also correct, a black anchor ball can be shown at the front of the vessel to warn other craft that you are stationary and at anchor. Please study your regs again. If your craft is over 7 metres and doesn't show a black anchor ball when anchoring your boat insurance can be nulled in the event of a collision. It has happened to many people.

[@calisonic]

Nerd

[@lemonator8813]

This is why california makes you take boaters safety course. Most people have no idea all that goes into operating even a relatively small vessel.

[@DirtyPlumbus]

Running the line through a carabiner on a float might alleviate alot of the tangling issues and help you keep track of where you are.

[@slightlyokvideos]

That wouldn't help much though, the carabiner-float would just shift and end up sitting next to the boat

[@BJOlson]

22:55 That's an old Foss barge. Foss is a tugboat company.

[@steejans]

Last reports have it listed as a “float” in Seattle. The FOSS 54 was last used on Lake Union, and still is there today 20 feet offshore from Gasworks park in 10-25 feet of water.

[@trixxyvkitsune4347]

Damn, that Barge has some history.

[@airborne0x0]

23:42 part of the name visible?

[@SuperAdnan117]

@@kruleworld i'm more disappointed he completely passed the phone on a stabilizer back there. Imagine the secrets it holds!

[@conorstewart2214]

@@SuperAdnan117 if somehow the phone still worked it would be immoral to go through it.

[@_Piers_]

The big shipwreck "Foss 54" really is big - 110ft. There's quite a bit of information about it if you google the name. Sadly there doesn't seem to be any photos of it while it was in good shape, only after it was abandoned. It seems to have sunk in 1969.

[@Leadvest]

Nice

[@falco5429]

It looks like a plane name

[@theothertonydutch]

I feel a wider angle lens would help way more with situational awareness.

[@MrJdsenior]

Or multiple cameras for 360 coverage.

[@nicgurkweitz389]

Claiming old sunken logs is a thing and are actually really expensive depending on the age and the species of tree and if I remember it's always better if they're caked in sediment as it helps preserve them.

[@PinkFloydFreak55]

Yep- had some family working in the fine woodworking field awhile back and petrified wood from places like Australia is insanely valuable... hundreds of dollars per square foot kind of valuable

[@nicgurkweitz389]

@@PinkFloydFreak55 Yeah, so the bigger the diameter log the more it's worth I saw an old almost 18ft wide by nearly a hundred feet log found in mud that was lost during transport and that log for whatever reason was sold for over I think 30-40K but I think it was really because of it's species. i'm not too sure because I saw that like 8-10 years ago

[@baddestmofoalive]

I have a friend that used to go wench old sunken logs out of the swamp. He could sell the right ones for +$3k. Not bad for a few hours of work (when everything worked out right)

[@HipNerd]

Drum Workshop drums used to sell a line of very custom and expensive drums made from logs from the bottom of (I think) Lake Superior. I believe the cold water also helps preserve them. This is a great video. I wonder if there's a record of shipwrecks that you could use to identify the one that he found.

[@azureprophet]

Came here to say this. The capital outlay for a boat capable of hauling them out of those depths is pretty decent but you might be able to partner with someone who can haul them and take a 20% finders fee for helping get them.

[@_B_K_]

Daniel finds a plastic bag and he's all like "Oh my God! Holy cow! This is insane! Oh wow!" lol It does look like fun exploring under water.

[@Wonderlikechild]

*100 fish later* : "Oh wow, holy shit it's a fish!" 😋

[@samiam619]

“Wow a fish!”. Sorry Bud, the running commentary lift much to be desired…

[@ghoffmann821]

This edges being an underwater version of the double rainbow video.

[@jennifergregory7461]

Might be watchable if he didnt talk.

[@PlatoonGoon]

@@jennifergregory7461 350k views, you can happily watch any of the millions of videos on the site.

[@j.yossarian6852]

You gotta build a retrieval mechanism to grab all of the stuff you see.

[@441rider]

Defo a 3d printer gripper.

[@dafoex]

Things like the phone and gimbal you would need to put effort into finding the owner, otherwise that's theft by finding.

[@frogsshadow4189]

Like he talked about in the video, this ROV has a gripper attachment that it comes with and he has a video using it that's coming out later

[@Ithirahad]

Not just a retrieval mechanism; he needs a submersible of about 10x the size and 20x the power of the one he's using so he can lift some of that large junk out of there and scrap it or get it to a landfill lol. That little drone isn't going to be able to lift an E-bike, unfortunately.

[@frogsshadow4189]

@@Ithirahad no but it can bring a rope with either a magnet or a hook and wrap it around the bike

[@Moonsauc3]

Daniel, you passed up some treasure down there! You seem to be able to navigate it pretty well, I definitely think you'll need to take the claw on the next adventure!

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

A magnet fishing rig to drop on or toss out where you find stuff. The sub would help you with tangles on the heavy stuff. A couple of lift bags with magnets might work. use the small co2 canisters and a regulator connected to a switch on the controller to fill the bags.

[@fvckingtest]

@@Mr.Unacceptable Dude, that's like genius-level problem solving right there. This guy definitely has the skills to create retrieval devices like these.

[@To-mos]

@@fvckingtest This is just your standard lake dredging recovery kit, high powered water resistant magnets, stainless steel grappling hooks, subsurface recovery hooks, Co2 lift bags(typically used for ship recovery), water proof metal detectors, magnet sleds...

[@djosearth3618]

@@To-mos so thats why he didn't find any of those Wink bikes or w/e he was epeting to see trashed just off the shore i imagine its some local ebike rental service) but moe importantly you got some really cool knowledge made cooler by calmly referring to it (while motioning a 'hold my beer':) by 'just standard recovery kit.." I wonder if a car airbag or ten ould raise some these sunken logs, drilli into and the other waste to clean up plus the few legally recoverable treasures. Ntice he didn't refer to the 'filth i mean fish fiounderrrr Finder too much or ever :P

[@liamkelly4684]

As someone who has spent countless hours rowing kayaking and working on lake union, it was fascinating to finally see what is down there.

[@digitalscribbler68]

There's plenty of stuff on the bottom of the lake, but the bottom is covered by 2 to 3 feet of silt that covers everything. If you can add a magnetometer to your bottom crawler you can find some interesting things. Especially around MoHAI, which was a Naval armory in the past. There have been a number of old weapons found there.

[@Chevsilverado]

The small harbour near me has a couple absolutely massive sunken ships. You’ll be snorkelling off of a beach and see the superstructure of a huge ship like 20 feet down. One of them is a sunken navy destroyer or something. Diving these wrecks is a sight to behold, when you sit at the bottom of the ocean looking up at this huge stern of the ship with giant propellers and fish lingering around. The harbour seems completely normal and it’s quite small, so it’s crazy to see what is actually below the surface. The wrecks are almost completely unadvertised aside from at dive shops and no one expects to see them and it’s just really cool to see them in such an inconspicuous place. Also someone keeps tying fake human skeletons to cinder blocks and dropping them in random places so they just float a few feet off the bottom very eerily. They just pop up at random places even if it’s not a known dive site.

[@Clyman974]

Is there any footage of this we can see somewhere? This sounds really cool to see

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Where exactly is this harbour?

[@burtpanzer]

You sure they're fake?

[@burtpanzer]

Also, there's a problem with swimming in the ocean that makes it something you should NEVER, EVER do... Sharks.

[@SuperAdnan117]

The huge barge is FOSS 54, there's an entire web page documenting its ownership and history. That sunken barge is a ship that was built in 1908!

[@abyssaljam441]

If your anchor is dragging that much put like 3m of chain between it and the rope. As the weight of the chain is what stops you from moving, along with making the anchor dig into the bottom more.

[@gabrielassisbezerra]

Agreed. Or, if you don't want to put a chain, just give more line. It is the rope/line that holds the boat, not the iron at its tip. I see texts recommending the deployed anchor line length to be between 3 and 5 times the depth where you are anchored. The heavier the line, the less length needed.

[@abyssaljam441]

@@gabrielassisbezerra yeah I normally go with 3times the depth, but my tiny (24 foot) yacht has 30m of chain and then 50m of rope. I have basicaly never seen it drag the anchor, at the price of taking Popeye levels of strength to weigh anchor.

[@fprintf]

@@gabrielassisbezerra The chain keeps the pull on the anchor more horizontal, it is the weight that does it. So chain would definitely help, as you acknowledge. More line definitely decreases the angle from horizontal but isn't even close to ideal.

[@arcosprey4811]

I'd kill for a whole 3 hours of this. This was so entertaining.

[@SteenSpinal4LIFE]

Thats a bit of an overstatement

[@Meanie010]

I posted some underwater drone videos on my channel if you are interested, lots of critters and shipwrecks

[@SteenSpinal4LIFE]

@@Meanie010 Hey first relevant, calm and to the point selfpromoting comment i see. Well done, ill give you a like on a random video to help the algorithm for you :)

[@arcosprey4811]

@@Meanie010 oh yay thanks

[@ricquebt1543]

lol

[@canyounotcanyounot5909]

The last shipwreck you found is FOSS barge 54. Sank sometime around 1960’s. Originally was used for coal transport around WWI. Built in 1908.

[@Pluckaiy]

You need to make something that the submarine can hold onto and attach to things at the bottom so you can rope it up into the boat

[@DingleFlop]

I've always wanted to do this with those toggle magnets and a geared motor! The toggle magnets are really strong, and I believe they're used by welders

[@AtimatikArmy]

Grappling hook with rope maybe?

[@kettch42]

It's literally how he ended it video.

[@haydenc2742]

oh man...figure out a way to rig up a co2 cartridge and float on a rope, then clip with the claw, inflate the float and retrieve whatever you find (well minus the shipwreck of course) That camera gimbal and anchor could be something cool to bring up...any idea on the name/story of that sunken ship?

[@L337f33t]

Could do this with some kind of release pin and let the CO2 go into a bladder.

[@0topon]

The last shipwreck was a barge named Fuss 54.

[@ericzaiz8358]

SUrprise you havent made a Dynamic Position system for that Whaler yet. Basically imagine it with four thrusters that keep the boat in the same position with GPS. Oil Drilling ships use it for prospecting drills. You already half way there with those two thrusters, just need two more on the bow and something to control them.

[@fxzn]

You don't need 4 thrusters. I commented this on the last video, but you can do that exact thing with only 2 outboards but they must have independent steering control. Mercury, Yamaha, Evinrude, they all have systems that can provide 3 axis movement (yaw, fore/back, and lateral) as long as you have 2 or more outboards. You can move laterally by turning both outboards away from eachother, then putting one in forward gear and the other in reverse.

[@msytdc1577]

A simple electric bow mount trolling motor will do GPS position hold just fine for not much money and is a simple bolt on. A lot of tech is made for recreational fishing and readily available.

[@basedaf5580]

as if there was a stabilizer gimble with a phone in it, thats a lucky find, totally do more of this

[@remyllebeau77]

I wonder how hard it would be for it to carry and attach a strong line so you can pull up the things that are too heavy for it to grab with the claw.

[@CapablePimento]

Possibly with a fishing magnet?

[@MrJdsenior]

It would take one knot.

[@unrulysoldier2140]

Nice work. To stabilise your control vessel and minimise any possible tangling of control cords with anchor ropes, drop an anchor off the bow when you sub, then wait a minute for your vessel to settle on the anchor, then drop a second anchor, preferably off the stern. Gently take up excess slack and tie off. Boom. Instant stable sub control table

[@loganjohnson3589]

Those logs you saw are most likely from the days when logging was going on in the area over 100 years ago .Remember Kirkland was started out as a lumber town .and the lake level was lower then .

[@JayReding]

Nice work! Tether management with an ROV is definitely hard - after a while it gets easier. I eventually upgraded to a cable reel system for my Chasing ROVs that makes life easier. If you’ve ever around the North Shore of MN we have a bunch of easily-accessible wrecks that are super fun to explore.

[@iamalittlepepper]

You need to build a side scanning sonar to go with your Boston Whaler. You need to add an IMU logging function to the drone, so that you can make the GPS spot on your boat and then trace where the journey of the drone, so you can repeat the trip to retrieve things.

[@mattallen9406]

I'd love to see a video of you and maybe some friends go down with scuba gear / snorkels and go explore those shipwrecks that were in shallower water! Love the videos!

[@pb6839]

The plane is named 21 tango :,) my dad used to fly it when I was growing up. It belongs to Seattle Seaplanes 🥺 glad it’s still going strong

[@Sirmellowman]

you are one of the channels that no matter what the content is I just click the video, its always good.

[@KrazyKaiser]

I live in Burlington VT on Lake Champlain, this thing would be really interesting to use there too, TONS of shipwrecks, there used to be A LOT of shipping done out of Burlington.

[@KillerSpud]

You should try to put a 360 cam on that. Use a stick on the front so you can poke it into holes in the wrecks.

[@scott3708]

FYI those huge underwater logs have large value, some they found lake Michigan sold for thousands.

[@skyb2149]

Imagine seeing fish in the water! No wonder you got so excited, That's a pretty rare find 😂

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I love how drone tech is slowly making all types of professional exploration accessible to the masses. This is the kind of drone I'd easily spend several thousand on and easily get it back in content made!

[@gaius_enceladus]

Something like this (or a bigger version) would be *awesome* for exploring the underwater remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria which got toppled into Alexandria Harbour by quakes in 1303 and 1323 (iirc). Those would be awesome to see! I've seen a documentary about the ruins' rediscovery where divers go among the huge columns and stone blocks on the harbour floor.

[@DesertFernweh]

You're Brave AF for doing that in the winter. The last thing you want todo is have to dive after that if it gets really snagged on something.

[@mostlyguesses8385]

... True, diving seems good way to retrieve stuff till you almost die. I was diving to push anchors into mud then my shorts hooked on anchor chain and I though ok 10 seconds of breathe left I just killed myself.. but then my shorts slipped away.. I no longer dive with shorts to push anchor into mud, there is no wiggle room you snag you die.... So I hang my shorts off outboard.... Seattle lakes don't freeze I think so it's not killingly cold, I've swum lake superior and tingled for hours.... Happy new year

[@AmaroqStarwind]

If you coat it in a superhydrophobic material, like teflon or lycopodium powder, you can greatly reduce hydrodynamic drag. You should try this on your boat hull, your hydrofoils, your RC submarine, etc.

[@SlightlyFrozen]

That one barge you found actually has some history on it. Search Foss 54

[@beautifulsmall]

One of my favourite channels of the past few years. Inspiring work. Goals such as, e.g. solar powered aquatic litter picker become more feasible on thertetic papers but demonstrate a working model of something and thats a far more compulsive argument. Fascinating projects. Cost of 1Kg in orbit is coming down but I would suggest all human waste is collected together at the equator and launched in a rotary kenetic launcher , like a huge Earth poo streaming into space, some landing on the moon and elsewhere. Good will and peace for 2023

[@GrumpyIan]

The next Titanic expedition should have a few of these to get footage inside the wreck.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

I'm not sure whether the saying is that this aged well, or poorly.

[@clickbaitpolice1750]

The timing 😂

[@bytesabre]

My idea for something to do this stuff was make a RC surface barge that drops a diving bell (jam jar with a camera and a light in it), that way it doesn’t kick up the sediment, shouldn’t get tangled in stuff and if it does you only lose the bell and not the whole craft. Might also be good to drop a claw with too and play a real life UFO game with flotsam and jetsam

[@dine9093]

For looking into water from above ( to see shipwrecks) you need polarised filters on cameras or polarised glasses for humans.

[@RhynoD2]

I used to work for a company that maintains local lakes and ponds - nothing this big, usually a couple acres at most. We didn't mess with anything too deep to see from the surface, but still...you would not believe what we pulled out of various lakes. You name it, we found it. Nothing in this video surprises me at all. Re: cans getting buried: yeah they get buried pretty quickly by silt that washes in. The bottom of lakes can be full of really thin, fine silt like this one. During heavy rains the rush of water can remove silt and wash up old cans. We found plenty of pull-tab cans that must have been down there since the 70s or 80s.

[@bjrn-oskarrnning2740]

I don't think I'm going to buy an underwater drone, but if I do I know I'm gonna get the claw add on for sure! It would've been so awesome seeing some of that stuff up close!

[@thewingedporpoise]

the reason you're seeing a bunch of fish by the shoreline is not because "fish live near the shoreline" but because the rubble creates cover and complex spaces for the fish to hide in. This is also why you saw so many fish at the first shipwreck, because it was serving as cover for the fish, rather than the flat open lakebed

[@m.i1343]

As a diver I was exhaling pretty hard watching you go up and down so fast.

[@quixorotica7363]

A few meters of chain attaching the anchor to the rope weighs it down and means that when you drift the anchor has to drag through earth instead of water which locks you down. The same could be done by letting out heaps of rope to get the angle, but you run the risk of getting tangled up. Man do I wish I had one of those subs! Great vid!

[@zdog90210]

I feel like that submarine needs a fish eye lense........

[@hed420]

You should get a fishing magnet or hook and grab it with the gripper and when you're close to a metal object you just open the gripper to release it and pull the rope attached to the magnet .

[@tjnucnuc]

This is so cool. I love Lake Union. I want to get a little Boston whaler like you have for this summer. Usually I’m always kayaking on it and Ive always wondered what hidden treasure was at the bottom of LU. Also I work near Totem Village in Kirkland so I’m pretty sure we live and work near each other lol. So happy I found your channel it’s very underrated!

[@camtron0]

Your anchor will work better if you put out more line. You should have about 8 ft of line of scope (anchor line out) per ft of depth. The anchor should be laying on its side on the bottom and the line coming up gradually. Also use an anchor that has more surface area. It looks like you're using a grapple anchor. They don't hold great in silt. This will help you stay put and not drag your anchor.

[@newtome-jessegates6310]

Anyone else have Submechaniphobia?

[@xyzabc4574]

Closed captioning for this episode can be boiled down to, "Wow! Whoa! That's so cool."

[@Cimlite]

You could just make videos exactly like this one, and you'd have a dedicated viewer in me! This was super interesting to watch. 👍

[@samkwant4050]

Look up some of the plane recovery vids, somewhat a similar vibe except he's looking for crashed planes using drones/other planes

[@EternalAngler]

Its always good to use your compass if you get lost, but just turning around and following back your tether if it gets wrapped around poles is really the quickest way back to your location. Also stop playing around with blanket and instead get the "hoodman aviator" sun visor for your tablet it works good with my chasing m2 and fifish v6 expert.

[@fortnitewithsillyalex211]

Love your videos

[@JoshuaJoshua0]

Sweet! It would be cool to mount baskets to your anchor line so you can collect stuff and then pull it up with your anchor... or even turn your anchor into a claw, but I bet it would be hard to control unless the drone could help aim the claw. This was a really cool video!

[@sjorsangevare]

Seems like a wider FOV camera would be really helpful here

[@tedspeed3338]

How about an additional 360* camera...

[@o0julek0o]

And some more lamps

[@sjorsangevare]

@@o0julek0o someone else suggested two parralel lasers to judge distance/scale, that would be over helpful as well

[@lookronjon]

The Wooden boat you found on the first day would be worth investigating. Take photos from above and make a mosaic of the site. Check for the sinking of it. That’s the treasure. It could bring you up a few levels. I think a mini sub would be cool there. Cheers from Colorado.

[@kens3dandaquatics]

Haha the excitement in your voice is awesome! Exploring and getting excited to see the lost things from yesteryear!

[@RandomBogey]

18:21 Salvaging one of those would be a cool video. You could use the claw on the sub to carry a treble/grappling hook, attached to a separate line, use the sub to hook the bike, let go with the claw, then pull the bike up with the hook line

[@Notahuman25]

This aged well 💀

[@BigDeWitt88]

The commentary is amazing.

[@baguy30]

While watching you struggling with the cable, an idea came to mind - why not use something like sonar to communicate with the drone instead of radio waves. Under water, sound travels much farther, and in theory it may be possible to transmit data using it

[@redpinelabs]

Not enough bandwidth for video signal, especially the high res he sees on the connected phone screen. Could probably cobble together something for the RC signal though.

[@BuckeyeStormsProductions]

@@redpinelabs SSTV could maybe be transmitted that way. My brother and I messed with slow scan TV audio signals across a pool a decade or so, ago. As the name implies, it was slow...very slow...and very lossy. I've often wondered if it could be improved upon.

[@dronefootage2778]

underwater laser? how far can it go?

[@johndewey7243]

You need your sub to skim 3-5 feet over the bottom while you trawl, map the whole bottom of lake Union. That silt envelops everything!

[@captainevenslower4400]

10:00 welcome to the environmental issue of anchoring. Not bad on a muddy lakebed, terrible in a coral reef.

[@pux0rb]

22:56 Just looked up FOSS 54, apparently it was a lake barge built in 1908 that sank in 1969. Its 110 feet long with a 30 foot beam. Largest find for sure!

[@kirilpetrov3848]

I love those videos

[@dspringer3792]

I'll watch all of the content you make with the Fifish Daniel. ALL OF IT.

[@abyssaljam441]

Also aren't you meant to have some form of signal up if your have an underwater drone off your boat? so that other boats can give you a wider berth and not get there propellers jammed.

[@mostlyguesses8385]

... in winter few are on water, and a 100hp motor won't even feel a plastic cable it'll just stretch it apart and keep going ... Its amazing how I have 5hp but a steel boat beast has 500hp just wow it'll tear up boards and rope that would ruin mine.... Motor size really up last decade now every boat can pull water-skier that use to be impossible for most even into 80s....

[@abyssaljam441]

@@mostlyguesses8385 fair, don't know the power of most smaller motor boats. My yacht only has a 10hp engine, but it's a 24foot sailing yacht. But still it still feels best to at least let other boats know what your doing at least that your at anchor.

[@mostlyguesses8385]

@@abyssaljam441 ... I've never considered a little boat being at anchor or not mattered, does having anchor out make it tipier?? I sorta think boat at anchor is less vulnerable, it'll have orientated to waves and has anchor to steady it .. I have a Ericson 25 sailboat with 8hp outboard... I think if the motor is below not an outboard that's the line for yacht, haha, so not me ...

[@ManexFX]

I barely ever comment on videos but I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your videos. It's always a great time watching them. Keep it up

[@caffeinej2691]

My toilet looks cleaner

[@redsquirrelftw]

That was super cool. I like the randomness of some of the stuff, like a microwave lol. Finding an actual shipwreck was pretty cool too.

[@HMSHOOD1920]

The first wreck you found was the J.E Boyden I believe. I say that because the picture I’m looking, the bow in it matches the one you first looked at.

[@JAMaxeRestoration]

This video would be so much more palatable if you cleaned up your commentary. Maybe hesitate when you see an object. Instead of verbalizing every thought, think then speak. I finally had to hit mute and just watch. We all know a plastic cup and an umbrella when we see one. And if you are going to look for "shipwrecks" maybe do a little research on boats so you know what you are finding. This has potential and could be a decent video series going forward.

[@ThatCanadianMinecafter]

He’s always so surprised by a few fish but doesn’t care that a building was burning down near him. 13:12 he sees smoke and says “we might be seeing a apartment building burn down” 13:40 we here sirens that sound like fire truck sirens.

[@TheWasher18]

Hi rctestflight, try attaching a floating device like a small bouey with a metal ring to put the data cable through. So when the sub is far away from your boat, the cable is actually above the boat more than it would be if its far away from you boat. That way you can go into more enclosed spaces or close to the ground with the cable floating directly above rather than at a shallow angle being tugged behind and waiting to be snagged on something.

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

Fascinating! I recommend adding a boom and pulley to mount the tether on so that someone can easily manage the line easier

[@colthenry1594]

I have never had so much anxiety watching you pilot that so close to everything lol

[@dragonslayer-mn6vw]

Happy new year everyone

[@AT4Engineer]

Oh yeah

[@davesendit1348]

What an absolute amazing little price of exploration equipment. Can’t wait to see more with it!!!

[@tjnucnuc]

I’m not positive but the “5” on the big boat you pointed out could have been a 1908 Navy barge named Foss 54 it looks like. Seattle Times has a good article on all the lost and found boats at the bottom of LU.

[@alessiocarlevaro6934]

you need some sort of cable reel so it doesn't dangle in the water and get stuck on everything

[@paulitaplaton]

I❤ your vids . I’ve been following you for years

[@hallio111]

it's a cool submarine.. but I thinkt that a bigger FOV would make a big difference... because down below you see things mostly when youre close... so from far away you basically have no orientation, or perspective of things...and also not when youre close to something cause of small FOV... atleast it looks like a small FOV like that... oh damn and it needs robotic arms to grab stuff... not sure how to do this without having a sub that gets tangled into stuff with such arms.. but damn it would be amazing... I think t would need some kind of pressure suit- arms on it... like the arms of the heavy duty metal diving suits.. also some kind of electro magnet for catching stuff would be amazing... would be damn cool to recover bags, gopros , and all kinds of treasures

[@sheacunning9208]

Something eerie about finding a shoe under a tall bridge on the seabed at 17:12, because of how it probably got there...

[@patrickrose1221]

Great vlog pal . I've worked hundreds of feet beneath the ground coal mining but , thirty feet of water invokes more trepidation and whoa ! Than any amount of solid ground . : )

[@TheWebstaff]

If you get a chain in-between the anchor and rope it should hold the bottom better. Or you can make the rope much longer.

[@Mraclaws]

You should make underwater lifting balloon attachment so you can hook it onto objects and have them float to the surface

[@hyperion8008]

That was brilliant. More of this please, and your commentary is excellent.

[@lukevonbamberger9844]

Thanks for the vid. PS you could do with a longer anchor rode. 3 to 1 is the recomended min angle to properly secure the anchor 5 to 1 is better if there is wind

[@QYSEA-FIFISH]

Fantastic filmming!! Thank you very much for taking us along for the adventure 🌊🌊🌊 Looking forward to your future dives!

[@plethman3669]

Got at least 3 "wow wee's" this episode. Shows It is a good one. How about putting a float on the line every so often to reduce the drag and keep it from fowling. You got to put the grabber on it. Or put a poker device on, it would help with scale too.

[@samphillips4925]

"I'm surprised there are no lime bikes down here"made me laugh and snort the liquid I was drinking, thanks. :)

[@narxic]

I hope you dropped a GPS marker to recover the phone and gimbal. Crazy too, that big shipwreck so close to the park. Awesome.

[@DanPlusWater]

I'm glad to see many more people deciding to explore the world underwater. Technology has come a long way to enable us to do that.... As someone who has been doing search and Recovery work since 2004, a small tidbit of knowledge I would pass on is to get an arm for your drone that has small grabbing capability to enable your drone to help free its own tether. You can also put marks on the arm inch increments and use it to measure objects. Another suggestion someone had already stated in an earlier comment was using laser dots.... In any event good luck to you sir, excellent video, and wishing you best of luck on your next adventure.... From Lansing, Michigan, in the USA.

[@speek8185]

ive been searching for this type of video, and now ive finally found it. it made my day thank you

[@TopShelfBoxWine]

Woh, seeing my house in a youtube video is wild! Hope you enjoyed the new years festivities! The Space Needle was awesome!

[@lukearts2954]

that huge thing near the end of the video didn't look like a normal ship to me, more like a pontoon or a floating dock (hence the big log protruding from the flat top). It could also have been a cargo ferry (they tend to have mooring poles on the flat deck too) edit: someone was kind enough to look up and post the full history of the Foss54 vessel :) Since the last listing was as a "float", I guess my assessment of it being a floating dock was pretty much spot on. :) In "the olden days" such floating docks allowed larger ships to quickly unload a small amount of cargo or people without having to go completely into port. The off-loaded items and people could then be loaded only small ferries to be distributed around the harbor. A simple solution that increases the harbor's port capacity a lot. I'm not aware of such dock being still in use in modern ports, although it would be nice to find out if and where in case they still are around. The only similar thing I have seen lately, would be a cruise ship terminal on the outside of a reef where passengers transfer to small ships that cross the lagoon to the bayside resorts. But those aren't usually floating, just stand-alone.