The Sunken Graveyard Of Lost Atomic Bombs | Dive Detectives

The Northern Mariana Islands form a remote archipelago 2,500 kilometers southeast of Tokyo, perched on the precipice of the deepest point in the world, the Mariana Trench.
Tinian, one tiny island in this spectacularly beautiful region, played a critical role during World War II. The site of a program known as Project Alberta, Tinian was the top-secret assembly and launch point for the atomic bombs readied for use against the Japanese, two of which, Little Boy and Fat Man, made history when deployed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The trail leads to a massive off-shore dumpsite, a veritable World War II museum beneath the crystal blue waters. The seafloor is scattered with unexploded ordnance and bomb parts that contain phosphorous, forcing the Dive Detectives to take special precautions. Unsuspecting local divers have pulled the coral-like material to the surface, where it can ignite in the air, burning at up to 800 degrees Celsius and causing serious injuries.
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[@billyhead1625]

There is a better chance of the guys on oak Island finding a boat load of gold

[@JewCap]

I don’t think anyone asked lil bro🫵😂

[@Chuck8541]

Haha Yeah, I doubt they’ll ever find a ‘mother load’ of solid gold etc; but they do find very interesting bits of authentic history going back many, many, centuries. Watching is a fun ride.

[@JewCap]

@@Chuck8541 no one asked

[@clashfacebook3033]

Fast forward and these idiots! Found nothing

[@brianwynne6835]

Please me being a 21 yr vet in the army. Any and all atomic weapons were taken to San Diego followed to Area 51 for storage. Then moved to Texas for permeant storage for security reasons.

[@cnilecnile6748]

Yes, Carswell, then what is now Pantex, I believe. At least the cores were. They may have ditched some of the casings, but those went into the Trench, to keep them from being recovered and reverse engineered.

[@brianwynne6835]

Look in the old Fort Worth bunkers, now covered in cement, from the 40's.

[@Dinkledorpher]

Area 51 (Dreamland/Groom Lake) has never stored nuclear weapons, Nellis AFB (Lake Mead Base/Area 2) has two weapons storage areas. Weapons going to Pantex in Texas are for stockpile stewardship (maintenance) or dismantling. They do store the plutonium pits removed, roughly 14,000 of them at last count.

[@marcusrussell8660]

Click bait, the Navy would do this and you would never hear of it.

[@charitywattenburger4550]

Thank you for sharing this information, I find this info very interesting, especially after watching something about the super extreme secrecy about Area 51 and some of its former employees from around the 50s and 60s.

[@meme4one]

TLDR they found a few military amphenol connectors which are used in 1001 applications and claim to found a bit of one of the bombs. Absolute junk history.

[@paulk9634]

@42:30 that is a socket for what is called a Cannon Plug. Nothing military specific, it's just a very common multi-pin electrical connector with a metal housing that screws together. They are everywhere, used for everything, even today. I bet if they turned around and looked at the camera gear filming themselves, they would have found 1 or 2 in use. Totally mundane dime-a-dozen connector and not evidence of an A-bomb housing.

[@NappyRB]

I mean the dude that built the bombs literally said what it was so it most likely was what he said it was so yeah in this instance that is what they were for

[@desubtilizer]

The only weapon of mass destruction they found down there was that Crown of thorns Starfish at 7:21 those things are horrible!

[@motonut007]

Title of this video is absolutely misleading. It should be........ Waste 45 minutes to see a rusty wire connector.

[@Jake-vh6jp]

Glad I read your comment first. Saved me 45 minutes.

[@jim4865]

I might be dating myself but this reminds me of “Al Capone’s Vault”

[@artcflowers]

You nailed it. Going to need popcorn. Jiffypop!

[@qaiserhaider]

At the end, we just found a connector.

[@d.b.2812]

Long gone. Got all of them in the 60s

[@massmike11]

Give me a break, all B-29’s had constant speed propellers, that proves nothing.

[@machinesonabudget4040]

Yet they are talking about variable

[@massmike11]

@@machinesonabudget4040 a constant speed propeller is a variable pitch propeller the only difference is in the control of the pitch not in the mechanics of the propeller itself. All B-29 aircraft had constant speed propellers, ALL of them.

[@x619xJOEx]

Since the program is about bombs, how about do an show about the bombee in Lao which American has left it after the war

[@rloperfido3817]

Officers at C.I.A. yo you watch something funny 🤣

[@Last_Chance.]

They dove 50 feet not meters

[@suspicionofdeceit]

Nothing unusual about variable pitch propellers,even back then.

[@Spread4]

Agreed all B-29s would have had variable pitch propellors pretty much standard on most aircraft by that time of the war.

[@suspicionofdeceit]

@@Spread4 This is one of those documentaries where they tried to make everything sound earth shattering.

[@charitywattenburger4550]

The nuclear ☢️ part of both bombs were built right here in WA at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Unfortunately though, I moved about 30 miles South of the reservation 20yr ago this summer. Now I’m a downwinder.

[@killeresk]

One of my favorite shows and a great episode.

[@BabyBeek99]

Maaaine that one dude with da Brown hair loocs like Tom Cruise 😂😂😂

[@man_in_red]

The lost nukes were hydrogen bombs and this was Korea through the coldwars entirety

[@billyhead1625]

Then you do the Hokey Pokey and you join these clowns……those plugs are just mil spec wire connectors used on a ton of stuff back then.

[@capichow]

@@billyhead1625😂❤

[@bravowhiskey4684]

Uh, the lost hydrogen bombs is a completely different story…

[@ristube3319]

14:20 I didn’t know MacGuyver was in this?!

[@captwrecked]

Considering they had to melt down the demon core to potentially build a 3rd bomb and fissile material was beyond rare at the time of the end of WW2, what are you looking for? an empty bomb casing? There would be no nuclear material just dumped at that time. They wanted it all for more bombs.

[@anthonylowder6687]

It’s extremely unlikely that they would toss millions of dollars worth of nuclear equipment in the drink

[@ristube3319]

13:23 Quonset Huts. It’s a tribe from Rhode Island…my home state.

[@jeffreymontgomery4091]

Check out those "pineapple" frag grenades and all that other ordnance @ 10:33- 10:43! I have collected inert ordnance, firearms, cartridges, bayonets, knives, swords, bladed weapons, and other militaria over the past 25 years. If there was someway to de-activate some of those pieces safely and then "restore" them close to how they originally looked, alot of those pieces could be worth some good $$ at gun shows, machine gun shoots, museums, etc.

[@auriptide]

My great grand pappy made these bombs and he told me they were all destroyed many years ago, so I knew this one was BS.

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

I would like to have one. Make a great conversation piece😂

[@Last_Chance.]

Lol the piece de resistance

[@MacAdam-itsme]

amazing 💚

[@GreggsOverEZ]

I thought it was going to be about the Tybee Bomb.

[@sforza209]

7:22 crown of thorns buddy, crown of thorns…

[@AWFishy]

So were not going to talk about the treasure chest they found at 23:40????

[@Donaldperson7]

Where’s your rock hammer?

[@bruceradachowsky9806]

amphenol connector for the bomb Wonder if it was made in Danbury connecticut.

[@Wesguus]

They knew how to make an atomic bomb but never learned how to recycle.

[@isilder]

radar was very important equipment, and there would be so many radar units needing to be serviced .. the existence of radar equipment is not unique to bomb making.

[@factanonverba7547]

Note to diver/interviewer and future interviewers; when the los Alamos interviewee said that he felt relief after atomic bomb flattened Hiroshima, that's a perfect spot for some follow-up questions.

[@cattymajiv]

Even though he may be warped, this isn't about 1 guy's opinion, especially when he is just a nobody.

[@factanonverba7547]

@@cattymajiv no one is a nobody

[@Slake2]

I agree, the saving of life that those bombs did is worth some more attention.

[@factanonverba7547]

@@Slake2 it was done to warn off soviets as mush as japanese

[@edwardd3897]

I can’t believe they would have dumped top secret material off some obscure island.

[@cattymajiv]

I seriously doubt they did. They weren't such idiots that they would spend billions to keep it secret, and then just let anyone have large parts of it by throwing it there. It's television sensationalism. Don't tell me you've never seen a fake documentary before!

[@VacationFor]

Someone throw stuffs somewhere 🤣 and someone search again for that trash 😂😂😂 Jokes

[@me-nah3343]

Why don’t you ever cite the makers of these old docs? That’s basic integrity.

[@Lionsraws66]

Something this world is lacking . Nice thought, though 👍

[@Stellaknot]

Because this whole show is a misleading waste of time

[@RustyShackleford19999]

@@Stellaknotoy veyyyyy

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[@amberservold2187]

Dive Detectives

[@rayhume1971]

The premise is utterly ridiculous.

[@Bryan921SS1]

Why is Bill Dauterive leading these two Canadian men looking for A Bombs??? Also this is a really crummy video.

[@judechopper]

World history with kindergarten graduate 😮

[@BabyBeek99]

And that other dude loocs a little bit like arnold zwarschenegger

[@davidwarm6799]

All of the B29’s had a variable pitch propeller. Pulling the propellers through was done to make sure the bottom cylinders were not full of oil before start. Not a method of “kick starting” the engine. If you make a history documentary please get the facts straight.

[@haroldmclean3755]

Project Alberta was a great success, I have always been very interested about the subject 👍

[@user-fs1yw7bo8c]

We have thousands of bombs icbms so yeah its possible an ally of misssin ones

[@Panos125S]

20 minutes For Nothing ...... RECYCLING STORIES X50 😅

[@Chuck8541]

Re: the bomb pits at the beginning of the show, “…[nukes] made wars not worth fighting anymore…”. 😂😂 oops. Humans be human’ing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@bobberdude557]

Total BS. There was only one other core (the demon core). The rest is just metal parts. Dramatic BS

[@goshdarnitman]

Ok Oppencryer

[@farmshoffman8475]

Great video , nothing is easy to find

[@MonkPetite]

@28:00 the propellers where all variable pitch. You can’t fly this planes with fixed pitch. Later models had reversible props as they are similar to a Lockheed constellation system. So no fact that the silver plate models where the only ones that can be reversed So glen can’t see anything about that prop as all where variable. My 2 cents .. this docu is BS. Just an adventure.

[@abigailandino6251]

😳

[@hillbillyfromtheswamp6223]

My great grandfather was also involved with the makings of the Atomic Bomb.

[@Last_Chance.]

Same. Mine two

[@IMeanMachine101]

so they didn't find it 😂

[@machinesonabudget4040]

People on here are just....

[@BIGPINKMAN]

Well the Japanese shouldn't have never messed with Pearl Harbor and it would have never happened from the start Ok if you play stupid games you will win stupid prizes obviously

[@richardmaccotta4341]

The darkest times in human history??? --- No mate, they are just on their way

[@reginaldkaminski5805]

whatever

[@ScootsMcPoot]

What was this. Lmao dude saying nukes stopped war while a few were going on and one is about to start

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a wonderful historical coverage video shared by an amazing (history Hit) network page and nice (Timeline) channel. Documentary clearly shows ultra cruelty of US Pentagon during wartimes and laziness, foolishness of Soviet KGB abroad beyond US Gaint capabilities.

[@Last_Chance.]

My grandfather piloted the plane that dropped little boy.

[@charleskavoukjian3441]

Neat! What did he do after the war ended?

[@moneyflow5766]

Murderer

[@richardmaccotta4341]

No sure anyone can be proud of that. But in the other hand everyone finds himself were destiny tells

[@Maddoktor2]

@@moneyflow5766 How embarrassing, you're stupidly confusing the Pilot with the Bombardier who was the one who took over steering for the final approach and hit the trigger to drop the bomb.

[@capichow]

😳🫡🏆🎫🎗️🏵️🎖️🏅

[@user-vv1ub8hq6e]

The Soviet’s invasion would probably have been enough. The bombs could not have been.

[@codyking4848]

Spoiler alert - The found nothing

[@palehorse6250]

That man trying to justify what was done at Nagasaki and Hiroshima is revolting. He is not telling the whole story, and does a disservice to the students of history.

[@TrappedinSLC]

The scientist? I mean, he kind of has to tell himself it was worth it so he can live with himself, I would imagine.

[@LoganJohnson-lm2bh]

Your right to judge this man does not exist . the world was an entirely different place with only one goal . Win to survive .not only did japan hit pearl harbor they shelled the Oregon coast .trying to knock out a fuel depo for refueling ships they did shell them but the navy had come refueled and left day's before so the tanks were empty .and do not forget they occupied the Aleutian Islands for some time and fled when they knew the U.S. was coming .

[@adambiehle8739]

Worst suppose documentaries ever seen.

[@pedroazevedo7413]

Was there the menace of radioaCTIve materials... Never liked this false 'history' makers...

[@martinschneider7130]

This "docu" id a Business idea to make money.

[@capichow]

Deep they would have to go deep and maybe Ai 🤖 to know what kind it is ok not Ai but scanners maybe from space Something to detect the amount of what ever it was made of and has Deep definitely and ships and the robots to go down to it and inspect with human control as well Maybe just coat it and not move it 😂 Not sure about moving it 😂

[@r.deeblanche6939]

Sadly drifting toward History Channel nonsense.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Why are most of the measurements done in metric? Everything here is American, produced by Americans. Should be using imperial standard measurements not metric

[@jessemares6111]

☝️

[@Crimson_Hawk_01]

🥱

[@user-ni1ig7un1e]

Propaganda, how can you track down secrets ?

[@hutton2k11]

They find nothing waste of time watching boreing

[@matthewjames1239]

My grandfather was the pilot of the plane that dropped phat man.!

[@pedroazevedo7413]

A joke of wonaby documentary journalists... easy ;)

[@Donaldperson7]

Maybe the Russians already got it?

[@vincevincent6984]

Nah they sold it to the Soviets 😂

[@buzz5969]

Highest bidder is the best bidder…😊

[@ELBOHOS]

BS DRAMA DUMP. If you are reading the comments before watching.... MOVE ON.

[@roberttelarket4934]

Timeline nonsense. The two bombs for Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones. No others would be available if the war continued for a period of time.

[@LordSlag]

Stop lying.

[@maegenyoungs2591]

You are wrong. There very over 40 variations of them.. the housings were made for different altitudes. But you are an expert .

[@olivere5497]

This kinda reminds me of the trash documentaries you see on Discovery Channel now days.

[@Stellaknot]

Even if there were other parts from an Opsec standpoint it makes no sense to just dump them into shallow water. Much of what they have to say does not pass the smell test to begin with after watching I can say this is a waste of time.

[@rosee941]

What are your sources for this info? Or did you juatbdecide it's a fact?

[@ProgNoizesB]

dislike.

[@colinchilds5329]

Not nonsense dude they had several bombs two of which were German 👍🏼

[@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1947]

oh. wow,

[@sveu3pm]

gloryfing the worst war crime in human history ..

[@heatherstewart9300]

Well, next to the Holocaust, imo, but both were incredibly horrific by evil men.

[@Ty-ww9lq]

It’s never a war crime the first time 😂

[@machinesonabudget4040]

War ending action not a crime

[@C77-C77]

lol "war crime". Japan didn't declare war before they bombed PH, they ended 3 thousand US soldiers/sailors and civilians lives in a sneak attack because they felt like it. Was that a "war crime", too? Maybe they shouldn't have done that with all the big plans they had for Singapore, Philippines, etc.? FDR said the US wouldn't have went to war over that. Turned their "co-prosperity sphere" into the "no prosperity sphere". It was 80 years ago, no need to virtue signal over it.