This Barge Raised Kursk

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[@onebridge7231]

R.I.P. brothers of the Phin. We may have been adversaries in life but as a veteran submariner it always saddens me when a boat and her crew don’t come home.

[@Pewnhound112]

Imagine being the project manager for this operation. Jesus Christ. So many literal and figurative moving parts. I’m getting a headache just thinking about it.

[@charliekezza]

And so many delays, not sure how they got it done

[@the_steamtrain1642]

Both Mammut and SMIT worked on it, SMIT made their own minidocumentary about the project

[@loobielou6965]

Housework? What housework? Time for cuppa and a 20 min break to watch Waterline.

[@waterlinestories]

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[@daniel-leejones8396]

I'm facinated by this incident, most video's are mainly about the incident, as a recreational diver this tells me fascinating information about the salvage, which is never covered, excellent description/ demonstration of the engineering issues and how they were solved, thoroughly interesting and well explained as usual.

[@waterlinestories]

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[@krs3612]

Fine ill take a 20 minute break at work to watch a Waterline story

[@waterlinestories]

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[@c2dag]

Same 😂😭

[@solomongainey838]

Me too, watching during my lunch break.

[@ssdj23513]

Can't wait for your story here!

[@dlfrestoration]

I listen wile I work

[@mehashi]

Imagine the feeling of pulling a craft towards your underbelly that contains live explosives, knowing that the reason the craft sunk was those explosives misbehaving already... You'd need a stiff drink after that day at work.

[@waterlinestories]

For sure. 👌🏻

[@charliekezza]

Imagine being the divers who had to take the explosives out

[@spicywolf6718]

After?

[@HughieMunro]

Yeah I’d of said a stiff drink before

[@colonthree]

@@HughieMunro are you having a stroke?

[@CatsAreTheBestPeople-mm1fo]

Very informative, thank you. 👍 I've heard plenty about the Kursk disaster itself, but very little about the salvage operation.

[@waterlinestories]

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[@karlesmcquade2863]

"What do you do for a living?" "I'm a fabricator." "I don't believe you."

[@donQpublic]

As a fabricator, we don’t require people to believe us. Results always speak louder. 😉

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

I really enjoy watching salvage operations. Thank you very much!

[@gaveintothedarkness]

I would like more of this type of video. As much as I enjoy the other videos, I always feel sad about learning about the last moments of peoples lives before tragedy.

[@waterlinestories]

I do want to make some broader maritime stories.

[@donQpublic]

As an American, any serviceman who dies in peacetime has all of my condolences. May we never meet in anger.🙂

[@Dan_the_afol]

My boss says I work too hard fine I’ll take waterline video break

[@waterlinestories]

As it should be

[@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205]

What a pleasant surprise. Enjoyed seeing a positive story rather then death & destruction. Great job 😉👍😉👍

[@ducttapetech9885]

Great video, I was thoroughly entertained. Take a look at Project Azorian in which the US raised the Russian sub K-129 in 16,000' of water. In 1974. It had it all; a sunken sub, nuclear missiles, a CIA secret mission, a custom built mystery ship with a moon pool, Howard Hughes, a secret burial at sea - everything but the kitchen sink. Another fun one from Smit is the oil recovery from the sunken tanker Prestige from a depth of 13,000 feet. BTW, some 32,000 ships were sunk in WWII and most are still there with fuel still onboard. Something to think about.

[@jordanrussell345]

Would love to see WS cover all of these!

[@giggiddy]

Never heard of it but sounds unbelievable. Thanks for the suggestion. Hope I can find a documentary on it

[@mikesphat]

@@giggiddy there is video on youtube of the burial. the sub broke apart during lifting and the part they pulled up had submariners inside... they tried to replicate the soviet burial at sea ritual as best they could... awesome stuff

[@giggiddy]

@@mikesphat I appreciate the reply. This stuff fascinates me. Cheers!

[@donwall9632]

Actually the Chinese are doing illegal salvage of these war graves.

[@charlesfinas3826]

The photo of the wreck on dry deck are one of a kind Strangely, I always though the elliptic shape of the Kursk was due to it having a dual tube side by side, lika having Two Submarine in one But no, there is one great sub tube + missile laucher on the side ! Super video, as always !

[@pdog547]

Wow - that's some operation, amazing job by the salvage team.

[@fhwolthuis]

Dutch salvagers are the best 👍

[@stoerenungeheuer543]

The Dutch even salvage land from the sea!

[@Shortie0428]

Hey, I'm in the top 20...yes!!! Love your videos, only a few mins new!! This story is so sad though, haunting almost. These poor sailors, what a horrible way to go.

[@waterlinestories]

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[@chillidogkev]

Not specifically about this video but I stumbled across this channel recently and am absolutely hooked. Fantastic, measured and detailed presentation, the kind of speaking voice you just want to listen and very interesting subject matter. Very impressed. I watched many of the earlier videos and you can see how it's all evolved and improved to where it is now. The black outfit you now wear and the set you work from are top notch and totally professional looking. Excellent right across the board 👍👍👍

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks I appreciate that. 👍🏻

[@Me-zo8yc]

Fascinating and i really like your narration style.

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@aprilsmith3683]

Wonderful... Another fabulously detailed account... Thank you so much... 🇿🇦

[@worldwideflyby]

What a top quality doc, thanks!

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks

[@christhorney]

the front fell off!?

[@mnightfamalam1510]

I'm speechless, this was an amazing example of marine engineering

[@declannocher2049]

That 'raising the Kursk' video is really great, rewatched it again last week. Obviously it's very hard to re-cover something like this but you did a really good job (as usual) in not just restating other content and sources, but adding content and detail from your own expertise. This particular incident also has a very close relation to the events following collapse of the soviet union and Putin's rise to power, politically, in terms of the degradation of the Russian Naval Forces (the late Politkovskaya did a very excellent story about this), as well as the way Putin handled the crisis (surprise sedative injection, anyone??)

[@commandbrawler9348]

we can thank the netherlands for raising the kursk!!!!

[@charlesfinas3826]

By looking at the cross section of the Kursk on the dry Deck, There NO WAY it has been sank by a simple collision. This sub is a beast, it has a sort of antichamber ( where the missile silo are) If this area isn't full a water, there is no way a kinetic colision breach both the outer layer and the inner one.

[@Jim-ok9zi]

Just a suggestion. You may want to do a story of a collision that happened in 1964 of the coast of Australia involving the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer HNAS voyager. From my memory the Destroyer was cut in half with a loss of around 80 lives. The aircraft carrier limped back to shore. Just a thought. 😀

[@dylandettorre6583]

Hi Jim, I’m actually mates with a Vietnam vet that served on the Melbourne for a time. I think she sank the Frankie Evans too

[@Jim-ok9zi]

@@dylandettorre6583 Your right. I should have included that as well. Hopefully he will find out that information when he does his research. 👍

[@dylandettorre6583]

@@Jim-ok9zi if he does it I’ll be very interested to see his take on it

[@alaxn542yyggghbhbbbbbbbnnj]

When I see the crew if kursk I wonder the suffering they felt. Hiw do I feel about ? I think God works in mysterious ways, God wants this so I think it is kool man..

[@alaxn542yyggghbhbbbbbbbnnj]

Russia is so smart, they don't want USA to learn how to make the kursk bow area. USA was desperately trying to make a sub with kursk design, USA wants a sub that blows it self up. That is Russia's sub, no kills on record only record is self kill.....lolol hahaha, mugahaha

[@briantremblay9157]

Thanks for another great video! Wasn't to long of a wait ;)

[@waterlinestories]

Trying to keep them flowing weekly. 👌

[@762Super]

Always great to see a new WS!

[@snafu_vfx8662]

Was confused how I missed this one, then saw it was posted while I was in the middle of binging another shipwreck video 😂

[@EndrChe]

Kursk! I mean, First!

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻 good job

[@DaveSCameron]

Another fine piece of work from my brother from down under and best wishes from the City of Liverpool.📚☘️

[@waterlinestories]

😂

[@TrueManShw]

Great content from a great channel. Thanks man

[@waterlinestories]

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[@dabootvv]

great video once again!

[@waterlinestories]

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[@CoinsAZ]

Incredible story and amazing quality video documentary 👏 👏 👏

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@Bill_772]

Simply astonishing how this was done

[@maegenyoungs2591]

The cutting process was actually the first thing the did. It didn’t come loose. They did compensate for it getting loose because it’s the longest going up and over. They didn’t factor a slack adjustment as it cut. So they actually had to pull one of the pylons up to slack it up. It caused the cutting cable to break. There are a few documentaries about the lift process alone. And they were worried it didn’t fully cut. And they were right. It still had a 6” thick by 16 foot long section. But it took divers 4 days to confirm. So they kept cutting until it slacked again. Confirming it was fully cut

[@jordanrussell345]

OH BOY A NEW VIDEO. SO EXCITED

[@waterlinestories]

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[@richardgiles2484]

Yet another really good video 👍👏👏

[@waterlinestories]

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[@ChrisMartin-ry6yj]

Awesome video as usual!! I was interested in the removal of the bodies of the crew. Did they find them all?

[@garrysekelli6776]

I was wondering if some got sawn in half during the cutting process.

[@giggiddy]

It is sad to think that this operation took place with 130 bodies still inside. But I certainly dont have any better ideas.

[@ct1762]

Suggestion: In the ship's statistics/measurements, it would be really great to list the displacement. This is really what matters in relation to its overall length and beam.

[@PessimistPirate]

As an aspiring engineer, I find these videos especially fascinating.

[@waterlinestories]

It is incredible.

[@ljennn]

The strand jacks were all automated to compensate for movement from the waves, instead of just relying on cable flexibility.

[@tiagoangelo3828]

I kinda wonder how they did it. The movement on those rams is so smooth. So guy spent some weeks tuning those PID loops.

[@LegendaryPatMan]

Smit Boskalis have a KZbin channel and while theres not much on rhe channel sadly, theres an amazing documentary, that they made, about raising the Kursk

[@milolouis]

Would've been an amazing museum piece

[@shiftymcgee4183]

Man I love the way you tell these stories, beat by beat, while staying largely impartial. Do you have any interest in covering famous oil spill disasters like Deepwater Horizon or the Exxon Valdez?

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks I appreciate that. I've actually covered both already. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYqqimyMa7OFndEsi=GwZSZgJUOrQCxSgN kzbin.info/www/bejne/goqkfYh5ft52aNEsi=rv0tWW-X1_AufjIO Enjoy

[@luisromero3443]

The is the best channel on KZbin!

[@waterlinestories]

👍Thanks I rally appreciate that

[@Kackspack0815]

The _Giant 4_ weighs 24,000 tons. The _Kursk_ weighed 24,000 also and the custom-made equipment of the _Giant 4_ was 3,000 tons-quite impressive to carry more than your own weight.

[@jasonjavelin]

They cut pieces off of the Kursk during the salvage plus a portion was missing from the explosion and it was around 9000 tons when they raised it. Timestamp 19:02

[@arthurmorgan8966]

I wonder how much those divers would be paid for this job. Scary stuff.

[@bushelfoot]

Thought he said the torpedoes were removed. ! ?

[@Jablicek]

The most minor of points, but your pronunciation of "Kirkenes" is hilarious - like the one time I heard some American trying to say "Stavanger".

[@aegeanphantom]

I enjoy very much your videos even though I have no connection to the cruel world of working above, or under the waves. One minor correction, if I may. The Oscar II fast attack submarines (or SSNs) like the Kursk, were armed with supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, and not ballistic missiles as mentioned in the video (04:36).

[@ianisaacs2340]

W Rizz = Waterline Rizz

[@zaqway]

Are those people standing on top of those moving jacks at 18:55? That's mad...

[@model101t800]

I remember this so well because so many friends were involved in one way or another and it was followed closely in the Netherlands. Then 9/11 happened

[@jleiros]

Kirk-e-nes :)

[@lennycottingham]

Could you do a video on your own story...I'm guessing you were a saturation diver and by your accent South African maybe...I love your channel..its scary and factual....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@andrewpinner3181]

Thank you for such a detailed explanation, l love your work. I know this was a salvage & not a rescue, but it does speak to the campassion of our species as humans, especially where mariners or submariners are concerned - l only wish it could extend further. Of course the latter part of this comment is not directed at your channel.

[@loismiller2830]

I love all these videos you do. Salvage is so fascinating.

[@waterlinestories]

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[@robsin2810]

Good find by the algorithm.👍🙏🇦🇺

[@waterlinestories]

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[@davidorth4906]

Suggestion: Develop an undersea divers, motel. That way you don't have to bring them to the surface immediately. Maybe, people are alive, 800 feet under water. Get them all out,at once. Put them in the "Hotel" and bring them up later. If a hurricane comes, the "Hotel" has 3 weeks of oxygen resource's. Try this idea next time. Why come to the surface. A "Hotel" for 20 people that's good to 1500 feet depth capability.

[@colonthree]

8:59 Currkeens? Sure you don't mean "Cheer-cuh-nuhs"... or how we say it in Norwegian, Kirkenes? ;w;

[@TheColorofQuantum]

Men make some incredible things

[@Kackspack0815]

4:02 _“[…] the largest salvage operation […] up to that date.”_ So, I assume meanwhile there was/were (a) larger operation(s)?

[@waterlinestories]

Yep. Costa Concordia is now larger

[@Kackspack0815]

Thx. 🙂👍🏻

[@FreeFinca]

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[@m.streicher8286]

No hate cause I'm online more than average, but finally a story I haven't heard elsewhere.

[@Philfluffer]

You’ve got to get a small wireless microphone that you can pin to your shirt. The echo when you speak is very abrasive. Great content otherwise though!

[@Infamousfour]

September 2001🧐

[@martinhumble]

Kirkenäs = (Kirr-¿Que-Neeis

[@kingzlighting6420]

Why usa pay for it can we stay out of people business dang

[@kerrygleeson4409]

What a great channel 🦘

[@TheGhostGhillie]

Sort of funny how how you pronounced kirkenes. Would never know you where talking about kirkenes if it was not for the map.

[@mollyrobben7470]

this feels like RT wrote this script and the Kursk video... The Kursk breakdown spent 75% of the time offering RT conspiracy theories alongside the facts... "disappointed" is an understatement

[@kitfisto145]

What?

[@bianco2012]

Is host South African?

[@waterlinestories]

Yep

[@bianco2012]

@@waterlinestories awesome ! Always love coming across a fellow Saffa. Well done on a great channel bru

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks brutha

[@vitaliyjuterbog8912]

Cool psyop in the thumbnail. Hope it works out for you.

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks. Definitely a different style for me. Let's see

[@nilslindstrom8087]

Huh?

[@Infamousfour]

First?

[@abraxsmith01]

Meanwhile at the World Trade Center.......

[@Goofball6386]

Russian plant says what?

[@logz3288]

third

[@waterlinestories]

Top three, way to place😁

[@logz3288]

@@waterlinestories No way i got a reply! keep up the good work man

[@waterlinestories]

@logz3288 🤣 thanks, I'll do my best

[@damienjstepick]

I always wondered why I forgot about this. I lived in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. Kursk was the last thing I was thinking about.🫡