Submarine Graveyard part 2

Part 2
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[@trob1173]

When I was in the Navy, that Akula class sub was something to be feared. Seeing one rotting away like that doesn't seem like a fitting end.

[@lmlmd2714]

This looks like a well organised and responsible decommissioning process, in which no hazardous chemicals or radioactive substances were released into the environment.

[@HuntForWaffles]

Seeing these old crumbling ships docked partially in the water like that gives me the creeps for some reason...

[@PitchlockPete]

As a P-3 Orion Flight Engineer who spent 15,000+- hours flying over the Soviet Submarine fleet in all the worlds oceans. even though they were our nemesis, our enemy it is still sad to se an old war horse like those die such an ignominious death. I salute the men who rodethem to sea.

[@shane8109]

Great music and photos!

[@TheMeridian808]

classical music always brings that necessary drama to the clips like these!

[@mlembrant]

awww... they all look so cute... I want to cuddle them

[@gorflunk]

Having lived and served during the cold war (US Navy) I can't help but smile and even chuckle out loud when I see these pictures.

[@captaintrizer]

It always fills me with sadness seeing once great vessels that made people tremour with fear dying and dead. Tragic fate for such majestic ladies. RIP

[@dogstar7]

I was once aboard the Marshal Krilov in the 90's and the crew told me about this place. I looked it up on Google Earth and have seen the overhead views. It's incredible to see it from the ground! Highly radioactive, too. Wow!

[@bearhaulin120]

This has something quite erie about it. Makes me think of war secrets never to be known,lol.

[@TheDirtflyer]

Sad to see these Hulls just sit there and slowly rust away. Must be Painful for the crews who manned these huge machines in there time of service. I'm sure many died in some of these Hulls in the worlds Oceans in they're time in service. They should be Honorably cut-up and the metal re-cycled . (My Opinion). They did they're job of maintaining a balance of power.

[@DarthT15]

I agree with ya there. Poor girls, will be heart-breaking to see them go.

[@jamasmashia]

i should try to restore them just to honor the men that have served our country's and died

[@jamasmashia]

and it will be pretty cool to see them running again

[@user-ke4ly2xp1m]

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[@2889Adam]

Nicely done, thanks for making this available.

[@Alex462047]

01:20 I see an old Project 705 in there! That sub is still cutting edge technology. And just look at the lines on her... It's sad to see her just sitting there rusting away for lack of funds.

[@xlrj8]

thanks for posting these pictures online! :)

[@myfeeling4you]

Very sad, pride to sail aboard them and sadness to see them rot, good or bad it's the human spirit which is all that remains with memories

[@jetwind72]

Where did you get these pictures? I spent 20 years in submarines chasing these same boats seen here. It is very sad to see these boats like this. I hope some of these boats can be saved as a memorial or museum. They represent a very critical time in USA and Soviet era history.

[@DesertWolfpup]

The music made a type off horror I love, and then something fell in my room and scared me

[@MrROTD]

wow this gives me the creeps and reminds me of a story I read in Heavy Metal Magazine way back in the 80s :D

[@ExoAndrew]

Hah, i can recognise some of wrecks :D I lived near in childhood. Most of these photos made on the Kola peninsula, not far from Gadzhiyevo city , the bay "Nezametnaya". This place is in border zone, so its really hard to visit it.

[@judypaxman261]

Hi Andrew, I am doing some research into this area and the naval shipwrecks. If you were interested it would be really useful if I could ask you a few questions, please feel free to send me a private message. Thanks, Judy

[@preludebb]

thanks for interesting video!

[@seanparker4746]

And these people handle nuclear waste?

[@CROATIANNAZIFORCE]

amazing video dude !

[@daviddickey9832]

Man, these might make really good autonomous drones if refitted properly.

[@freeagent8225]

Would love to visit , such potential for tours, beats visiting churches.

[@ShaneM-id2ml]

cool music

[@LincTexPilot]

Fascinating!!!

[@michaelscott9423]

U-505 is still on exhibit in Chicago. She's the only Type-IX U-boat left.

[@rickster348]

man, I would LOVE to go through some of these-!!

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

Be sure to bring a Geiger-counter - pretty sure it will scream out loud

[@PhillyRacer121]

there really is something sad about seeing these once proud ships rusting away. i mean think about the heritage of the Russian navy and how much pride those sailors had in their ships.

[@urbanfox53]

@MsSMOTOR Хорошо сделанный шерлок!

[@Venturi01]

I love old ships...be cool if one of them suddenly sprang back to life

[@ClipontheEar]

Music is well-chosen. Contemporary - with a dash of Debussy. Whose? Just the right note of chilly melancholy.

[@SMVvids]

I would open one up, and explore!

[@ACZxGalm2]

They look so sad yet menacing at the same time.

[@LVWKMP]

The music is lovely

[@Chubachus]

what beautiful beasts

[@Mercmad]

I've been there too. If you look close ,some of the hulks date back to WW2 and are in fact Liberty ships. After making the trip to deliver goods,they couldn't return so they were left there. A lot were used used as donors for their Steam engines to power a lot of the Soviet fishing fleets . I dont think any Typhoons were there. They have special facility to cut them up because of the steel in the hull and the reactor units. The steel is very quality and worth millions.

[@SOMAxxTHExxBAND]

well 3/6 typhoons were scrapped, 1 or 2 are active and 1 is being referbished to reenter service. So it's very possible that it was a typhoon tower. But I doubt that there are reactors on them. When USSR collapsed US payed us a bunch of money to properly dispose of that kind of stuff. Plus in Russia, when a part doesn't fit we don't throw it away. :)

[@maddog4u31757]

It's a good thing I don't have any of those near me. I'd get lost in them, get killed/crushed or get cancer from exploring them so much.

[@lpuig73]

True. They had the largest submarine fleet of its day.

[@candisbrendel7396]

where did they find it? that sounds cool as hell. i saw a movie once were two divers found a old u-boat refoated it and got it running well enough to rob th queen mary liner, very cool movie!! thanks for your reply most you tubers don;t even bother.

[@KuDastardly]

If you think you're gonna find it in one of those Russian submarine graveyards guess again! :P It's hidden in the Penobscot river in the state of Maine.

[@greyfever]

And can you elaborate on where you're from? scandinavian? swiss?

[@sleestalk]

2:27 Wow Russians cant parallel park to save their lives!!

[@VengefulBatz]

Its like leaving toys in the bathtub when your done bathing...

[@sestrelbethesda9450]

If I recall those Akula hunter killers were cooled by liquid boron. If it the temperature got too low, then it would solidify in the system, and then the reactor wold go critical. I assume these still have their nuclear cores on board - contaminating the seas.

[@cumminsfan]

the sleek one at 1:26 is an Akula class nuclear attack sub (SSN). I believe its similar to an early American Los Angeles class.

[@LanceCampeau]

Is this near Saint Petersburg?

[@elroy4455]

I love those Russian subs with windows in them

where are this subs placed? ; o so gonna travel and take a look at them!

[@AtomicHamburger1]

The U.S. has done this with a few of it's old WW2 aircraft carriers. Hollow them out and leave a few things inside and dump it. You can make artificial coral reefs with the wreaks which allow fish to thrive

[@23takemeaway]

Great vid. only I think all that metal should be re-cycled. to be used for better things rather than just slowly crumble away.

[@GAM3FR34K1977]

I for one would look in one maybe you would find a nuke warhead :P > : D

[@Doughillman]

@mschiffel1 Where do you propose they get the money to pay for the clean up?

[@DASWEDE420]

What's the one at 1:18 with no conning tower, and the sleek one at 1:26?

[@generationll]

Is this in Murmansk>The sub @ 1:25 looks like a Delta Class.Is the sub @ 3:14 a Akula class?

[@alexit7]

where is it this place ?

[@NazarovVv]

Epic spelling and grammar mate, well done!

[@mattaddison1910]

I'd love to go diving inside one of those!

[@pepecohetes492]

+mattaddison19 The water around and inside is so toxic you probably would be sick afterwards!

[@lammmpo]

+pepe cohetes Que le ocurre al agua a su alrededor?

[@The1saturn]

+mattaddison19 there to hot from the reactors

[@Nalinc33]

is reactors are still there?

[@victorhuincho]

i also see some small warboats and maybe even a ww2 era destroyer, i wish these were for sale. :(

[@daveeyes]

I hate to ask a legitimate question in the middle of people throwing pies at each other, however: Where was this filmed? Is this at Polyarny?

[@LSnoob]

they need to put them in a museum

[@NetCerpher]

These images do not seem too old. Where were they taken?

[@blobby273]

About a minute in I found I was increddibly depressed don't know if it was the subs or the bloody music .

[@dwynnell]

There is a confusion of Akula class submarine. The NATO designation for Akula is actually the Russian designation for the Shchuka (Pike) class. The Akula (Shark) is designated by NATO as Typhoon. I'd say this was neither of these boats. Maybe as someone suggested Lira class.

[@ffsForgerFortySeven.9154]

Spare no sadness for these Hulks many lives were spent in construction " Instead Think of their families " And the hardships of that era.

[@pepecohetes492]

Looks like some Kilo , Alpha and Akula subs so it must be Soviet/Russian shipyards.

[@Alex462047]

The saddest place for me is just around the corner from Gadzheivo, near Murmansk. You have a couple of photos of their "scrapyard" here. Very simply, most of the subs were left at the pier and many have simply sunk on their mooring lines. Too many of those subs are newer Victors and a couple of other types I don't recognise, but newer. It seems a waste of good technology.

[@epistte]

How many of these old boats are(were) nuclear powered?

[@secretcrowds17]

umm where are all these at?

[@DanialANoah]

Find the lead suit in that junkyard first. This is art, Industrial Decay.

[@MrZuul25]

Looks like a location in Fallout

[@WhimsicalPete]

@FrancesTexas nuclear how is tht old? isnt tht wat they run off of now?

[@Cyberwwwizard]

What about the massive base at Polyarny?

[@525Lines]

There's supposed to be a German sub from WW1 at the bottom of Lake Michigan, towed there for target practice.

[@bensCRF]

0:28 whats tht used for?

[@Ebbonified]

@pcfd20 My point is this: old ships are full of fuel residues, old cans cleaning materials garbage, other hazardous things besides radioactive cores/core coolants. It takes a local population and properly beached vessels to get a scrapping process going. Now, if you google earth Prypiat, Belarus (fmr Soviet Union) and look for the harbor just southeast, you'll see a merchant ship / barge graveyard that no one will touch. There is a huge amount of mistrust for anything they abandoned.

[@dogstar7]

@ClearEvilCZ thnx

[@themnrnr]

love to buy 1 that would still work ... without weapons of course lol

[@fjordking]

all the radioactive waste that must be present there

[@Dorkus89Malorkus]

This isn't actually that bad. Provided that there are no chemicals in the subs, rusting iron is actually a good environment for marine life.

[@meringandan]

what bout the reactors in the subs?

[@Gromit801]

There wasn't ANY Typhoon class subs in this vid. A few Alpha's, a Charlie, and lots of diesel boats.

[@Thekitty0706fan]

0:07 were was that i am totaly in love with abandoned ships in the arctics please give me som links

[@Cartras]

@Craftsteen117 Looks like a Romeo. Very distinct bulbous sonar dome. Looks like a plain jane romeo without any modifications unlike the one in wiki pic which is a modified one. Can't say it is for certain though.

[@earth2006]

Has any body ever taken photos of our old navy ships being scrapped. Would be interesting to see

[@sleestalk]

I want one !!!!!

[@39KHall]

Bit of a surprise to see an Alfa in there with the rest...maybe titanium is hard to recycle.

[@backwoodsbully]

That is the Russian navy ! Not A grave yard:)

[@CrazyKraut20]

+backwoodsbully just blow the sea water out of the reactors and patch leaks with duct tape and they are "refurbished"

[@aspudkicker]

+CrazyKraut20 I bet the Russians have a more modern and capable fleet and military then we like to admit. If you think the cold war ever ended, look at the way Russia is currently grabbing land, and using its armed forces with the crimea and syria. Which country has the ability will and stomach to keep them in check?

[@aspudkicker]

+CrazyKraut20 I bet the Russians have a more modern and capable fleet and military then we like to admit. If you think the cold war ever ended, look at the way Russia is currently grabbing land, and using its armed forces with the crimea and syria. Which country has the ability will and stomach to keep them in check?

[@CrazyKraut20]

aspudkicker yes of course they own a modern and capable fleet and military/ airforce for that matter. I was being sarcastic

[@aspudkicker]

+CrazyKraut20 The sarcasim was noted. I just feel a lot of people under estimate the Russian miltary force. I'm truly glad you also realise their capabilities, and potential threat. Be well my friend.

[@LargeRthenMosT]

at 1:50 im pretty sure thats a typhoon class tower sticking out of the water? and i saw an akula class amongst others. i mean, it dosent look like they are keeping tabs on the reactors much these days. how is that in any way good? just saying

[@poffy8888]

wheres a smelting refinery, when ya need one?

[@FederationHero]

I would like you to point out the part with the american nuclear subs in it please.

[@TheSteamtramman]

Think of the thousands of matelots who once polished all their brasses, greased and oiled moving parts and maintained the engines in readiness for work. And of the men's fear......it is always there somewhere as we had in aircraft - the famous extra passenger or crewman.

[@rossmum]

Definitely a few nuke boats in there.

[@DrBlacksteel1]

Most of these are early nuclear boats and some fuel oil powered ones as well. as far as I know there are like 2 that are still floating.

[@jasonharding96]

They look scary to go back in even with scuba gear

[@saburusakai]

I was shocked to see at least one, probably two, Alpha class subs (NATO name). Those things were so fast that they could outrun the older model Mk-48 torpedoes US subs carried....during the mid 80s. I guess they are kinda old. Lots of old F-class conventional subs. Interesting.

[@FEAR_Actual]

@ dorkus, most of these subs are Nuclear, which means that they are radioactive, which constantly affects wildlife and plants and people!