What happened to the SS Waratah?

Join us on a journey to uncover the mystery of the SS Waratah, a luxury liner that vanished without a trace in 1909, leaving behind no answers, only questions.
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[@michaelimbesi2314]

Hi! I’m a naval architect. In my opinion, the most likely explanation is that Waratah sank in a storm. It happens to even well built modern ships with a surprising regularity. Something designed in the early 1900s without the aid of computers would be even more likely to founder.

[@DeliveryMcGee]

99.9% of mysterious disappearances of ships outside World Wars are either "it was kind of a crap ship" or "the weather in that place is just that bad" or some combination of the two. During the wars, it was "a u-boat sunk it but nobody saw the torpedoes/the u-boat made its last dive and the Allies didn't get confirmation of the kill."

[@DeliveryMcGee]

Yeah, Clive Cussler put most of the money from his books into finding "unfindable" shipwrecks and collecting classic cars -- he found and raised CSS Hunley, the first submarine to sink another ship (Simon should do a video on that boat, it's hilarious, in a tragic way) and every classic car he mentioned in his novels is one he owned -- the hardcover editions had a photo of him with the featured car on the back cover of the dustjacket. Spoiler alert for Hunley: It was really good at doing half of what a submarine is supposed to do.

[@joelb8653]

100% mortality for every crew was probably the other half. 😀

[@PhoenyxAshe]

Good and diving, not so good at surfacing afterward?

[@2sexyfomyshirt]

Im almost certain he actually did do one on the hunley on today i found out but it was a few years back

[@adrianwarner8686]

Clive Cussler was an absolute legend, it was so cool that he used the money to actually create NUMA. He is missed, but he left one hell of a legacy.

[@ZAV1944]

Clive Cussler is a bit of a Legend

[@kendellstewart2090]

Me: Sees Simon boarding my plane. Also Me: Turns around and goes home.

[@jayehum5019]

😆I'd be right behind you.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Simon is much too quick to scoff at true warnings.

[@AndrewGivens]

It's crazy - I was going to take a flight, but I had a recurring nightmare about a bald, bearded, bespectacled man with a script in one hand and a ton of cynicism pouring from his mouth. Yeah, I stayed home. Plane was fine.

[@hypocriticalcritic6915]

I actually did enjoy this one. Lack of a mystery or not, I really like how the writer went through each and every angle, witness, etc. Like. I hear stories like this all the time and think "So it sank in a storm" but most channels or podcasts won't bother with this level of detail and investigation and THAT is what makes this episode very interesting and entertaining. I get to hear a lot of things and perspectives that I wouldn't have even thought of before. Lovely work, as always.

[@StrongDreamsWaitHere]

Ilse writes great pieces for this show.

[@semaj_5022]

Ilse is my favorite writer for this channel because of that. The way she navigates these stories is so captivating and interesting. And she always sets it up so that Simon can ramble but he doesn't lose track of where he is as much as with other writers lol

[@lindsyfish6704]

I spent many happy summers as a child at the family cottage on Lake Huron. On the way into town to get groceries there's a beach called Boiler Beach. There's an actual boiler on this beach: it's from the Erie Belle. She was dispatched during a storm to aid another vessel in distress and exploded during the attempt. The wreck was salvaged, but the boiler remains with the storms and ice pushing it minutely closer to shore every year. Even in spring and summer the lake must be respected. I've been pulled in and under by undertow before and it wasn't even stormy, just a little windy and choppy. The Great Lakes, of which Huron is one, are nicknamed "Inland Seas", and rightfully so. There's sufficient wreck diving to be had here for anyone's tastes. Up in Lake Superior you can easily kayak to wrecks observable from the surface with minimal kayaking experience as they're a handful of metres from shore. I still live on the Great Lakes system and I have family who captains a Great Lakes fishing vessel. I'm glad to be living on a river linking Huron to Erie because I rather prefer the quiet but I still have the beauty and benefits of the water. The storms aren't nearly as bad! All this to say: yeah. Storms. *Very* dangerous! Well built and competently crewed vessels still founder here and we've got lots of support from both sides of the Border! Based on my experiences with the Inland Seas, my best guess is the S.S. Waratah foundered in a storm.

[@braxtonnelson7422]

Clive Cussler was one of my favorite authors, and he was the real deal when it came to finding sunken vessels. He died February 4, 2020, RIP.

[@RichardWatt]

Same here.

[@TidalShadow]

I met Clive Cussler about a decade ago at a marine archaeology conference. He's absolutely the real deal when it comes to putting up money (and occasionally his own person) for the type of shipwreck hunting that he's written about.

[@zisaletter4602]

i think the sawyer guy may not have even consciously noted that the ship didn't look right. it mightve been so subtle that he just _unconsciously_ registered it as "this is wrong, this isn't safe" and then had a nightmare about it and decided... yeah, nope. a LOT of the time people just 'having a feeling' is legitimately picking up on tiny clues that we don't consciously understand. EDIT: There's no h in ta-ta??? i guess they spelled it differently back then

[@bboops23]

This is definitely true. Some people are really good at absorbing seen information without knowing what they've seen that's wrong. They just know it is wrong.

[@11lynchy]

Mariner here, from the sounds of the listing this ship was experiencing an angle of loll; this is when a boat starts to capsize but instead of turtling she stays listed severely to one side. Needless to say this is a very volatile state to be in and any change made to this would cause the ship to capsize. I agree that the vessel was unstable and that the distance between the meta centre and the centre of gravity was very low.

[@AndrewGivens]

Sounds like reaching the point of unstable equilibrium to me - a thoroughly bad place to be.

[@jmgerraughty]

American who lived in Australia for 2+ years, here. I described it as “living in the US, had the US lost the Revolutionary War.”

[@flucky_1]

I'm Australian, I don't have slaves or have sex with my cousin, so this statement is false, but if I lived in Tasmania, it would be half right

[@iantaylor3359]

Australian who lives in the US now. I wish the US lost because I live in the healthcare system run by the people that won, and it's bad.

[@jmgerraughty]

@@iantaylor3359 you’ll get absolutely no argument from me!

[@Rich-fr2yv]

​@@flucky_1 HEY. We don't talk about the south

[@taylorslade961]

​@The_Wrenn Only the nobles engaged in incest in the effort to keep wealth and power within one family. Regular jackoffs knew better.

[@JoeySchmidt74]

Simon worried about people picking up on his lack of skeptical thinking regarding precognitive dream, but not a word about the mispronunciation of July as Juay-lay! Love it.

[@pirateadam3686]

Always makes me smile when things are described as "Uneventful", as in the ship had an "uneventful" journey. Sounds like a bad thing, but it's exactly what you want! "Hey, would you like to come on this grand adventure?" "No! I want to spend the next few weeks bored, and safe and just kicking my heels until we get there. No pirates, storms, reefs, etc. Lets just get there safe, and then we can deal with spiders the size of your face."

[@emmarichardson965]

My dad always tells me to "have a boring trip home" for that very reason.

[@emmeownelan2076]

As an Australian, I can confirm our police do in fact carry guns. In fact, police officers are one of the few people who can legally carry a handgun

[@ryanroberts1104]

How can you confirm Australia actually exists? Those people would fall off if they were upside down, it doesn't make sense!

[@Bethgael]

They also rarely need to pull them.

[@Bethgael]

@@ryanroberts1104 We have special boots.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

@@Bethgael Australia is sensible enough not to saturate the population with firearms of their own. Then to train the police force that the Citizenry is out there to get them....

[@mikehawke2374]

@@Bethgael Yet they do anyway.

[@--enyo--]

Waratahs are quite nice flowers. They’re the state flower for NSW. Side note I really enjoy Australian Decoding or Casual Criminalist episodes. 🙂 So little is ever set in Australia it’s nice from time to time hearing a story I know the places and cultural context etc.

[@--enyo--]

And welcome Nadine as new editor. 🙂

[@Bluesit32]

Well, Australia does have the Barrel Murders to cover at some point on Casual Criminalist.

[@Treyonthehunt]

This is my favorite channel of Simon's. His writers, editors, and Simon himself are so relaxed and fun with each of their contributions that it makes these videos more special

[@Screddy_Henks]

The Waratah is the state flower for NSW. Also, maybe a casual criminalist episode on Victorian Police, particularly in the mid-late 90s.

[@Valerie-mz4et]

Also, request, could you include some maps in these types of videos? Thanks!

[@tubensalat1453]

THIS !

[@Matt-vs4zz]

Loved this. Always up for a good lost ship mystery (even if it's pretty obvious she sank in a storm or a rogue wave, etc.). Also Clive Cussler was an absolute chad. Do a Biographics video on him, certified legend.

[@sgcruit4437]

That would be great!

[@jessepippin9698]

I don't know Simon; even though it wasn't or isn't a huge mystery, I really enjoyed this episode of decoding the unknown. I would love to hear about other missing ships.

[@alexlocatelli2876]

Kobenhavn, Melanie Schulte, SS City of Boston, etc.

[@AndrewGivens]

The Unebi would be an interesting one, but equally one which would piss Simon off - because there *would* be aliens involved at some point.

[@gregmeyer9595]

Common myth, the Titanic was never billed as “unsinkable” until it sank. (It was called the safest ship etc, but never unsinkable)

[@wesbeuning1733]

Lol, that's kind of weird for them to do.

[@bo7341]

​@Wes Beuning as I recall, it was along the lines of "how did Titanic sink? It was 'practically unsinkable'."

[@cleverusername9369]

Not quite accurate. She was billed by NEWSPAPERS as "practically unsinkable" before she was even finished, but the builders/architects/owners etc didn't refer to her as unsinkable. Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer, may have called her "practically unsinkable" but not publicly, as far as we know.

[@bunyipdragon9499]

Media at the time described her as "practically unsinkable"

[@gregmeyer9595]

Thanks everyone for backing me up, as I stated and everyone else has stated, the Titanic was never billed as “unsinkable”, it’s confirmed.

[@chrisblake4198]

When you mentioned the life preserver that washed up years later, you sounded thoroughly confused and not thinking things through. Stuff falls off boats all the time, particularly something like a life ring that they have dozens of. There's no reason to conclude that when the ship goes down near the southern tip of Africa, that a life preserver would drift all the way east, around the entirety of Australia, and finally come ashore in New Zealand. The Waratah started its trip in Adelaide on the southern coast of Australia, a life preserver could easily have fallen off or been thrown off at any time when the ship was over there.

[@AndrewGivens]

Thank You! God, it needed to be said.

[@mattg9364]

As someone who grew up in South Africa, the most entertaining part was hearing the mispronounced names

[@PrimetimeD]

Really enjoyed the episode, and greatly appreciate the level of detail provided.

[@joncrow3228]

It should be mentioned that the roll of 45° isn’t as quite dramatic as Simon thinks. Keep in mind that it begins at one side and crosses the center of gravity and then go to the other side. It would have reached approximately 22.5° on each side. Still alarming, but not “standing on the walls” bad.

[@AndrewGivens]

Thank you - I literally just posted the same thing before scrolling down to this comment. Good work!

[@es68951]

The only time Simon believes in psychics is when the psychic is him 🤣

[@ilajoie3]

No he's going to get killed by a horde of ghosts

[@es68951]

@@ilajoie3 He'll be so frustrated by that, his soul won't be able to rest and he'll become one of them 😅

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I’ve been on a modern replica tall ship and one night during particular rough seas, the floor and the wall would often alternate

[@mattwilliams3456]

Rogue waves are scary. Their theoretical opposite rogue holes are positively terrifying.

[@Michelle-xz7pl]

So out of curiosity I looked up how many ships are lost a year. So between 2011 and 2021 around 892 ships were lost. That’s at least 90 (89.2) a year. These statistics include cargo, fishing, passenger, bulk carriers, tugs, tankers…etc I honestly had no idea that many were lost on average year.

[@malonedickridesagain3998]

Fact boy do an episode on Serial Police impersonator, High Risk Funeral Escort, Stolen Valor, and Florida man Jeremy Dewitt...

[@Wolfintery]

Ship mysteries never fail to intrigue

[@droomzy]

imo most plane/car/boat mysteries are intriguing, bc disappearing is a very ominous circumstance, & especially if you're traveling

[@jayehum5019]

I recently read an article on ships which 'disappear' and it's amazing how many big ships are lost each year. On average, over 20 ships never reach their destination, mostly through bad weather or piracy. (I'd never take a cruise around South East Asia.) Only one ship every ten years disappears with no explanation. Looks like flying is still the way to go. 😄

[@hollymartins6913]

It's peculiar that every episode I watch teaches me more about Simon's mental state than the subject of the video.

[@jasonjuneau2948]

Does Simon like X-Files? There's an episode where Mulder goes looking for the S.S Queen Ann. It had disappeared in the Bermuda triangle. Mulder ends up going back in time to 1938 or something. Pre WWII anyway but there are nazis on the ship. Anyway, I forget what Simon said that made me think of this ( something about a ship disappearing) but it's one of my favorite X-Files episodes.

[@mattdouplesx]

Great episode

[@staytuned2L337]

He does. He references the show on the casual criminalist sometimes. The latest one i remember is him screeching that they're supposed to be the Scully and Mulder of the real world xD (I think the fbi were dropping the ball on this case)

[@PeachM0de]

Thank you Ilze and team for putting this together.

[@--enyo--]

Welcome Nadine.

[@choklityum]

Yes! I have completed Uncoding the Deknown (for now)! The past week has seen some very serious binge watching. Kevin, Katy, Ilza, et al. - well done! Simon, you Fact Boi extraordinaire, blaze on! And Jen, you are the Memestress GOAT! I look forward to new episodes, but now I must dash to see which of Simon's other gazillion channels I want to binge watch next. Ta!

[@sonder122]

Interesting fact: upon the news of a ship being reported overdue at port the Lutine Bell is traditionally rung in the the underwriting room of Lloyds insurance company. The famous bell was one of the few objects recovered from the wreckage of a famous treasure ship lost at sea (Lloyds had insured her), the Lutine which sunk in 1799 with the loss of all but one of the 240 souls aboard. To this day people still hunt for the Lutine’s treasure which was rumoured to include the Dutch Crown Jewels.

[@ViciousBabushka]

Hi Simon! I love all your channels. Don't forget the suggestion that I made at the episode of "Spring-Heeled Jack." Please do an episode on "The Golem of Prague" an iconic legend from the city where you live! Don't forget! Do you even realize how many tourists come to Prague because of the "Golem"? ❤💗💓💞💝💗

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

How about an episode on Pérák? I would love to see Simon try to debunk the existence of Pérák.

[@SmartStart24]

Oooh yea!!

[@PhDTony_original]

One failing with this analysis is a fuller discussion of rogue waves. While the massive waves are a menace, a much greater danger are the corresponding depressions which are equal in magnitude to the waves. A ship sailing into one of these will sink almost instantly. The bow ends up pointing more or less straight down and the ship ploughs through the bottom of the depression. This doesn't require any mechanical failure or dislodged freight - fully sound vessels sink in this circumstance just as quickly as damaged ones.

[@SkunkApe407]

Even of they do exit the trough without plowing, they then find themselves with their bow pointing skyward. The potential for catastrophe becomes astronomical, at that point.

[@robertfolkner9253]

The Waratah flower is the Official Flower of New South Wales, Australia.

[@bloozee]

And wattle birds like them.

[@First_Stop_the_Bleed]

A coal fire could have weakened the hull. Then, a rogue wave could have led to a chain of events causing an explosion and leading to the ship sinking and the passengers and crew being abducted by aliens.

[@AndrewGivens]

At least they were safe. That's nice to know.

[@rashkavar]

Regarding the British people taking first class to Australia - for one this is 1909, the penal system was shut down about 41 years prior and by this point Australia is already a federation comprised of all *six* colonies, I think as a semi-independent dominion though I'm not certain of that last. Even early on, though, there were 2 colonies - the normal colony and the penal colony. People going to the normal colony were as much volunteers as people going to any colony were (ie: driven by economic forces rather than court sentencing).

[@Pennysfishkeeping]

I can't wait for some answers. Thank you and your team for making such fantastic videos!

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

​@@tonyhill8300 Who pissed in your cheerios?

[@jordandkfj]

Oh, and Love your stuff. Really enjoyed th history lesson on this one.

[@blessed_mourning]

The editing on this one was *chef's kiss*

[@PhilieBlunt666]

Any time a ship is described as unsinkable the universe is like "hold my beer" 😆

[@SRW_]

Nah its more like the universe saying “no we cant have that…”

[@sirrichiofawesome9617]

One thing about the guy who had the bad dream and decided to get off the ship, while the individual case may look like he had some kind of premonition, you need to take into account all the 1000's and 1000's of times people alter their plans because of a dream and nothing happens. It's just a coincidence that in this one case it happened to coincide with a sinking.

[@loke6664]

I don't think it was a coincidence. The dude was an engineer so I think his subconsciousness made him dream like that, he was clearly nervous about the ship and his brain helped him make the decision in his sleep. There is no need for anything supernatural here, the saying "I have to sleep on it" isn't an empty phrase, the brain can sometimes process information while you sleep. In short: The guy knew the ship wasn't safe, which gave him nightmares about the ship going under, which made him scared enough to leave it in the nearest harbor. Sometimes things like this are indeed just a coincidence, Someone skipping a flight that has an accident is one thing (unless they are a mechanic who worked on said plane), but here the guy had technical knowledge and had spent time on the ship already, he already had the information that leaving the ship might be a good idea.

[@philipkeogan3550]

"Sail ship person" also know as "A Sailor"

[@rrg991981]

Cussler also lead the team that found and raised the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to sink a warship.

[@brucebaxter6923]

Was that in a carpark in Texas.

[@codyfeisel6970]

This is my favorite channel of yours and I've seen every episode so now I'm always waiting for the new ones

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

​@Tony Hill Same to you sunshine.

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Australian Waratahs are a very showy bright red flower, popular as a garden plant, in expensive cut bouquets, and used in decorative designs like accent tiles and such.

[@RealElongatedMuskrat]

I just looked them up, they're beautiful! Very striking, I can see why they're used as statements in bouquets etc. Australia has the best nature, damn. It's not fair you get gorgeous lil creatures like echidnas *and* such beautiful flowers 🥺

[@Pea_Green]

@@HadenBlake We do not have birds that will kill you and in 60+ years I have never had a kangaroo do anything but eat out of my hand. Seriously, people are so stupid about Australia.

[@paige6936]

Hello! Big fan of this channel and the casual criminalist. I’d be interested in seeing your team tackle the subject of whether Tarar, the French showman who could eat anything, was a real person or not. Love the different perspectives you guys bring to stuff.

[@courtneymyburgh7304]

Since watching this, it's living in my mind rent free...this happend supposedly not to far from where I sit right now...Love from S.Africa

[@joseybryant7577]

Simon, you're not alone! A woman on the Titanic stayed up the night of the sinking. She was worried about something bad happening, which she had done since buying her ticket and boarding.

[@ElysetheEevee]

That just sounds like paranoia, though. It'd be slightly more believable, though still difficult to quantify and confirm as anything, if someone has a sudden bad feeling right before anything happened. Especially before any kind of signs or anything were happening. It wouldn't be viable if they were like feeling bumpy waves, etc. Generally though, it's difficult to really believe that kind of thing as any kind of premonition. That's coming from someone who's had some weird scenarios having to do with premonitions or some kind of intuition.

[@Enjoymentboy]

Simon, Simon, Simon...they said RIGHT at the beginning the ship was unsinkable. This means it MUST be a supernatural cause behind its disappearance. It's only logical.

[@scloftin8861]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Where are the Winchester boys when you need them? Dig, salt and burn ... although, maybe not on a ship at sea ...

[@tired1923]

so how much did the ship manufacturers pay you for this pr?

[@farmdog93]

Another great video, thanks for the great content, especially now, just lost my mom last Saturday

[@Zeydarchist]

i hope the Ship Hits Pod, podcast covers this at some point! Simon makes things like this so interesting to listen to... i wind up learning so much.

[@pamelamays4186]

This was a great mystery story.

[@bo7341]

I'm excited to see Decoding the Unknown cover the SS Warantah. My favorite subjects are the "real mysteries" like this. It sort of hurts my heart how dismissive Simon is....yeah it sank, probably, but WHERE and WHY?

[@RaulVaid]

So here is what I think happened here - the why The reason Waratah could sit at ~45 deg was because it was designed to not tumble over & weather storms. However, Waratah was probably tested within its limits in calm seas before simulations were a thing (this point is important later). Every system likes to go back to equilibrium naturally, A ship sitting at 45deg waiting to be straightened by external force seems by design (unknowingly/unintended consequence). the ship being "top-heavy"/ "having a metacentre above the Center of gravity" is disastrous. Metacenter is akin to the fixed point on which a pendulum would oscillate & The centre of gravity is the approximate location of the weight if the object was point sized. A pendulum system wants a fixed point (meta centre) above the centre of gravity. Waratah seems to have it in reverse, which is not good. It was designed to be safe at 45 degrees or To be roll resistant when it is thrown around by storms. "masts parallel to the sea" Owing to 45 deg ability/ tendency it would be easy to be pushed over by a big wave when already at 45 degrees. - Water is deceptively heavy - moving stormy sea waves probably pack a punch.

[@Bluesit32]

The why was pretty obvious. Huge storm. It's "where" that's the big question.

[@brandondeakins564]

Where and why? In the ocean, bc big storm. Very mysterious

[@jaiswole8709]

Good video, though easily explained the detail by the writer keeps it interesting, I’d only make one change which is an editing one to include maps of the locations mentioned because I actually paused the video in a few places to look at a map as it helped me visualise the areas mentioned instead of it just being a list of places. Also the dangers of the cape around Cape Town was one of the reasons behind constructing the Suez Canal

[@RunawayTrain2502]

There is actually a direct flight from London to Australia. Qantas Flight 9 from London-Heathrow to Melbourne via Perth. The Sidney flight goes via Singapore.

[@lostinaustralia-dave7802]

Hi Simon, great vlog I learned a lot. Just so you know there is a direct QANTAS 787 flight to Perth, Australia from London Heathrow taking less than 17 hours. Still a long flight though. Keep up the good work.

[@brucebaxter6923]

He is not in England

[@madmick3794]

He lives in the Czech republic.

[@lostinaustralia-dave7802]

@@brucebaxter6923 Ok I understand that now, but regardless it is still a yardstick.

[@brucebaxter6923]

@@lostinaustralia-dave7802 Yep. Ad two transfers and you are well into a full day. It’s not fun. I’ve done it

[@lostinaustralia-dave7802]

@@brucebaxter6923 For me it is a stop-off in the UAE, Singapore or, Malaysia or Brunei for a changeover if not direct. The flight originates in Melbourne from memory. Australia is a continent, not like my home where a 2-hour flight, you could cover it. So a direct flight to Heathrow is a bonus, as you can fly anywhere from there.

[@jh2309]

17.6 meter equals 57.83 feet. That is a really big wave and if the ship was having other problems at the time I would say that it could have caused the sinking. The sad thing is the loss of life and the families that didn’t have any answers to what happened to their loved ones

[@triptz]

Though the wreck was found, an DTU episode on the Edmund Fitzgerald would be fun to explore as to why one of, if not the most advanced Great Lakes freighters at the time went down in that storm in November. Being someone who grew up on Lake Superior, i just love the story of The Pride of the American Side and how amazing that freighter was at its time.

[@vickiewallace415]

Ilsa nicely done, the letter was genius! Edit: for some reason I thought Simon said Katie during his high speed cold intro…I was wrong!

[@StrongDreamsWaitHere]

I don’t care if it’s obvious. I love Ilse’s scripts. I want to know why it’s obvious, and to debunk all the stupid rumors and legends.

[@robertfolkner9253]

There is a current in the sea that runs parallel to the South African coast. If the ship’s engineering had failed and they’d lost propulsion, they could have been caught by that current, which turns southward and would have taken them towards Antarctica.

[@melloncoliee]

Come to Australia!! We'd love to have you. Don't just go to the east coast, go to Darwin, the Kimberly's, Tasmania and the Barossa Valley...just...just look out for drop bears...and the Min Min lights

[@yesiamsharon]

I really enjoyed this.

[@Chord_]

*Not* a topic I expected to see covered, at least not so relatively early in the channel's history, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless!

[@Laniba12]

I can totally understand the dreams with everything the man who got off said afterwards. His subconscious must have been screaming at him that there were problems with the ship.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

As an Aussie I can confirm that our police do, in fact, have guns. And a veritable mountain of paperwork to fill out explaining why it was removed from the holster, and probably a second mountain if it’s actually fired

[@richardcowling7381]

Think the Australian police benefited from having British Bobbies in their DNA, rather than Tin Star Sheriffs.

[@thelordofcringe]

@Richard Cowling pulling guns on people for standing on their own porches? Definitely a British trait. You guys love being fascist pigs.

[@bethmetal4544]

This is amazing! More please! Loads more! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@Hillbilly001]

It steamed into the Lizard Overlords lair. Allegedly.

[@SilentRacer911]

Simon, I have had dreams before where I have gotten up and then managed to go back into the same dream multiple times one night (really good dream 😉). A dream that spooks you and you go back to sleep, I’d say it’s not only possible but probable for some people

[@erikklein7618]

Please do a video about the USS Nevada it's a very interesting story and I'd like you to present it and introduce it to other people

[@Yassified3425]

If the ship returned back to a even keel after listing 45 degrees... that means the ship was stable! A unstable ship would have capsized after such a list. Also the ships speed, lifeboats, water tight doors and stability were tested on trial runs and the ship passed with flying colors.

[@AndrewGivens]

People do tend to confuse 'stable' with 'steady' and they are not the same thing by a mile.

[@beethimbles8801]

Oooh a double date with fact boy! ❤

[@jrmckim]

Huh

[@jrmckim]

Has cas crime come out yet? He usually posts on Fridays. Gives me something to do while getting chemo.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

​@@tonyhill8300 truly you are a master of cunning wit.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

Also, I meet kids in my job who have dreamed of things before they (or something very similar)happen. Usually, these kids are like sponges for sucking up details and stimuli that most people miss. They get very uneasy about certain things and it´s not a wonder that , for example, they dream of a neighbor´s dog biting a person and it comes true. The kid has picked up on something being wrong with the dog, or that it has a lot of aggro against a certain person, and dreams of the dog doing what those signals indicate. No psychic powers, just an inability to screen out extra information that other people overlook. Often the kid doesn´thave the sofistication to realize this is what happens.

[@kristinelsenbeck3288]

This!!! I have family members who believe they have some sort of psychic sense, but they are really just good at reading peoples emotions and mannerisms.

[@mattt525]

Happy Friday to us! Lets effin go!

[@skyetoddmakeup]

The part about listing to 45 degrees in the inquiry portion reminds me of the SS Eastland. It did the same thing before sinking. Ask A Mortician did a great video on the SS Eastland.

[@laurynsullins241]

No matter which ship the bodies in the water are from, just remember “you do not recognize the bodies in the water”

[@Rachel_M_]

Well late 😔

[@CinHotlanta]

I don't know if it's deliberate, but when a commercial cuts Simon off mid-tangent I find it rather delightful 😆

[@LuKaZz420]

I love your channel. About Australia, I worked there for six months, I'm Italian btw, I flew Milan to Doha (Qatar) and then Melbourne. Didn't sleep a single minute. Milan-Doha was six hours, then I had six hours at Doha airport and to be honest Doha-Melbourne was so long at some point it was like an acid trip flashback, you know with the time dilation feeling. I think it was around 13 or 14 hours. Love you bro, take care. By the way I didn't like it there, had some issues with aggressive locals, had friends (Indian and other Asian) attacked and myself I was called a "wog" quite a lot.

[@paulconley]

First love your content

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

​@Tony Hill 1. If you hate this channel so much, why are you here? 2. You do realize commenting boosts this channel no matter what you say, right?

[@andrewlonghofer]

5:45 I ALSO have recurring dreams of plane crashes. I’m never hurt, but it’s always more of a big hassle and it’s something I can tell is coming at the start of the dream. I’ve figured out that they always happen when I feel particularly out of control of whatever situation I’m in-waiting for a call after a job interview, between my thesis submission and my defense, when something medical is going on in my family, etc.

[@VosperCDN]

One or two crossings after I sailed on the QE2 from the UK to NYC, the liner hit a 100' (rogue) wave bow on - luckily about 2am, iirc, so no one was on deck to be injured or wash overboard.

[@mikaboshia]

On this episode of decoding the known. A ship sank in bad weather..

[@harrietharlow9929]

Hi. Simon. Yes, there are nonstop fights but from London to Perth.

[@ChristopherStDenis]

Somehow caught up on DTU in like 3 days… well done fact boy

[@rachelpicheo8959]

"Could it have been Flares?" *** Shows Mick Cage from the climax of The Rock*** ICONIC!

[@kushtyozzy889]

5:24 Is that a new way to say July? Or am I missing some running joke 🤣

[@lajoyalobos2009]

The description of the ship listing immediately made me think of loose or unsecured cargo. This would be similar to the National Airlines flight 102 in which a cargo 747 crashed minutes after takeoff because the cargo got loose and quickly accumulated in the rear of the plane, unbalancing it and bringing it down. I can imagine the same concept capsizing a ship in a storm.

[@AdamMansbridge]

We now know how some boats get wrecked in bad storms. Small boats fall off the wave crests like falling off a cliff and shatter against the water in the trough; large ships can end up suspended each end on a crest with the middle unsupported, and break in half

[@thelordofcringe]

That's highly unlikely where Waratah was though. That generally happens in confined seas and straits. The distance between waves would be far greater where Waratah had been.

[@DrDezaro]

I love that initially you went to convicts when the ship is name “SS Waratah” … you don’t know the “SS” prefix is for Steam Ship?

[@popeye807]

As an Australian all I can say is it is worth it for the cities, the scenery and the animals.

[@Joshua-gt7pz]

Your editors are my favorite people.

[@Strider91]

Thing is, alot of these old inquiries weren't so much about finding solutions, or survivors as they were about pinning blame on someone, and saving face for the company. So its not surprising that no records were kept of the evidence, and potential evidence was disregarded. They probably had a narrative, and were looking for a way to push it. Thats simple.

[@michaelkilliany1472]

Every time the city Durban is mentioned it kept throwing me because there is a city of Durbin in Raymond E Feist's Midkemia novels.

[@isaacvogt9220]

I love the month of jailai. Sorry just heckling lol amazing story as always!