Miners Unknowingly Enter a Death Trap
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- On May 10th, 1897, 35 miners started down the 1000-foot ladder to the depths of the Snaefell Mine. Many of these men would never see the light of day again. This is their horrifying story. As always, viewer discretion is advised.
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The one thing that strikes me about the mining stories is that the survivors never hesitate in going back to save others.
My Great Grandfather was a miner. It was an unwritten rule that you try to rescue other miners.
They had a strong sense of discipline and bravery, something that is lacking in today's world.
@@PlusOnBlock00 If we still had it, most of 1% would decorate the nearest street lamp after their workers presented them with hemp neck tie as a reward...
@@PlusOnBlock00 Ok edgelord
Yes sir you sre right but they dont @KuK137
I knew it was potassium chlorate. I definitely did not think that he purchased medical-grade cocaine to give everyone enough energy to climb out.
Yeah me neither, definitely didn’t think bro got that good old Coca Cola formula from the pharmacy 😂
Did you?
That was exactly what I thought. I was thinking "Is this man buying coke while his employees are suffocating??"
I definitely did not as well. Quite obvious it burns oxygen. 😶
Same. I said potassium chlorate out loud as soon it came up.
"Neither the parent company nor the management seemed to care" truer words...
Corporate greed is truly timeless.
@@Yoshikarter1sorry, can’t hear you over profit.
Not caring was a requirement in any mining company's articles of incorporation.
It's crazy though - bad air (even if not deadly) means that people work less efficiently, so the company should have an interest in improving working conditions for higher yield, no?
@@zorfmorf2414 well, good equipment is expensive to set and operate. Plus if your workers die they are always more poors to take there places.
God am I glad that modern mines have easy access to electric lighting, especislly now in recent decades that LEDs took the lighting market by storm. Firelight is NOT your friend when air flow is so restricted.
true
I feel like candles would actually be safer, if multiple go out you know something is up.
Modern mines where?
Don't forget that most mines are in 3rd world locations completely void of safety culture.
@charliehedrick6414 no.
The safest way is no flames, no sparks.
And air quality equipment. Specifically dedicated to this purpose.
If a flame goes out it is quite likely you are too late.
I DID NOT ASK + MY CONTENT IS BETTER.
I'm a 30+ year old media creator with aspergers syndrome who is a jack of all trades with a passion for fighting against cyberbullying. I've been doing these kinds of things for over 10 years and I've picked up a whole set of different skills along the way.
Never go diving, never go caving, never go cave diving, never be a miner
Just don't go under the surface anywhere haha.
And remember dont dig in a straight line downwards. 😅
Oh good, I am planning on trying to find the Northwest Passage, I'm glad that isn't on your list
This is a story from 1897. This happened long before MSHA (OSHA for mines) was created. I urge you to visit a real mine and you will see that we do things a lot differently today than is seen here or in pop culture. (At least in the western world.)
B-but how to not to be min..minor..?(miner)
I’ve dealt with CO Poisoning at my job before. Went into a room, ventilation system wasn’t working properly. Next thing I know I was laying on the ground on my back, very weak. I had a full face respirator on but it’s not designed for CO. Only reason I woke up was because I left the door open and fresh air got it.
At the ER my COHb was 40%, which was 30 mins after I was removed from the room.
So glad you left the door cracked ❤❤
Damn, bro, glad you're alive 😳
In the Air Force, we were trained to always use a buddy system whenever there was a need to go into any enclosed space, or any pit. The person watching is NEVER to go in, but to go get help if the person inside passes out. It can happen very fast, like paint fumes in the bathroom. I was lightheaded after a few minutes of painting my bathroom, so I knew the sign. Took a break, let it aired out.
@@DecrepitBiden Good call! 👍
(And yeah, he's on the decrepit side...)
I had a similar experience as well. Someone had put 4 diesel heaters in the large bay to keep the pipes from freezing. The vent system circulated the exhaust everywhere and got very sick from it.
I was nearly killed by CO when I was 17, I'm still paying that price at 45. The brain damage never really recovers.
Were you a miner, or was this in a home?
@@TheRealCatof Not a miner, just a teen not understanding just how dangerous CO is. I was in a car stuck in a snow storm.
@@tysoncutler3630 That's really scary, I'm glad you made it out of that.
What symptoms does it leave
@@ukkomies100 In the moment it was extreme fatigue, confusion, and weakness, and where my exposure was from car exhaust it left burns in my lungs. The hypoxia caused brain damage that has had a profound effect on my memory and coordination. Dr's think it caused such problems as my brain and heart not communicating right and it keeps shutting my heart off. They think me having to run 2k ft up a mountainside to get to a phone saved my life, forcing me to breath hard and fast.
4:00 John is a beast. Ten round trips at 65? Gat damn!
Absolute beast!
While dealing with CO no less
Please refrain from blaspheming.
@@ArnoBachJesus christ who cares.
Bravery knows no age. Neither does cowardice.
John Kewley is the definition of a selfless hero. He was the captain of the mine, meaning he was in charge of everyone. And he did not even think about his own safety one time. He just went down and kept going to get as many of his men, dead or alive, out of there. He was being poisoned and didn't care. He cared about his miners and literally kept risking his life to save them. That's heroism. And he did that at 65 years old.
In the 1800s. Was a guaranteed death sentence.
10,000ppm is literally 1%. Mad how such a relatively small amount of something can be that dangerous, it's classed as saturated.
I'm a mechanic, but your body craves carbon monoxide more than oxygen, and once you breathe in so much, there's no return, it stays in you. This is why we have to be careful when working on equipment with catalytic converters while they're running
@@alphaai8888why does it crave CO more?
@@abyudhmukkavilli6133 This is speculation, not knowledge but i think it might be because our lung cysts get more saturated from CO or pulling it out of the air more because of the molecular structure. It has oxygen in it and sticks in our lungs, our body trying to filter enough CO out to make bloodcells carry Oxygen, it filters all it can take. And because CO as a base stays together and is not really good at giving muscles oxygen, therefore weakening the body, as you breathe more.
Once again, not knowlegde, it's just what i think to be the case.
@@jasonwolf5012 I did some quick research, and I found that CO binds to hemoglobin much quicker than O2. I guess it also has a much stronger bind with hemoglobin too. Thank you for your insight
@@abyudhmukkavilli6133 so, my guess was not entirely incorrect. But a lot of yapping. Thanks for clarifying mate.
Dude who has potassium chloride coming up clutch
legit. i knew as soon as he started describing the symptoms that it was carbon monoxide, but i wouldnt have known that potassium chloride fires produce oxygen. bro literally saved lives
Minor nitpick, it’s potassiun chlorate, not chloride, so KClO3 (instead of KCl). Those sweet oxygen atoms get released upon burning. KCl, potassium chloride itself doesn’t burn (it’s similar to salt).
@@vizzzyy190It's probably the way oxygen is created in submarines
I say probably because we don't know what the military uses in the massive white candles they burn to generate oxygen but I think it's pretty obvious
@@19Szabolcs91it burns
Just not in a way that creates anything but mess
@@NickTaylorRickPowers At high enough temperatures I think the ions dissociate.
Dude knew his chemistry 👍👍👍
I don't even know how'd they'd tell it was oxygen from that reaction back then. Chemists back then were pretty amazing.
@@piratekit3941What? This was only 130 years ago. They knew people needed oxygen to live, and they knew what lack of oxygen looked like.
@@Mouthwsh sure, but how did they know burning a certain chemical produced oxygen? You can't taste/smell oxygen, so I less they knew chemical composition and breakdown (which I know many today who don't), this should have been just setting chemicals on fire to produce smoke.
@@piratekit3941 The periodic table was developed in the 1860’s. I think you have a view on what people knew back in the 19th century that isn't accurate. Sure, they didn't have computers, but there were very sophisticated scientists/chemists/astronomers etc.
Potassium was discovered as an element in 1807, through separation by electrolysis. I'm not sure there's a “report” on how they figured out burning it put off oxygen, but they were well versed in chemical reactions. When you burn or destroy something, it breaks down into other elements..
@@piratekit3941
Mining was an _incredibly_ important part of the British economy, especially back then, so air quality was something that was taken pretty seriously. Scientific investigations and research into the kinds of problems miners faced regarding air and ventilation got a lot of support, especially the possible causes of bad air, the different _types_ of bad air (firedamp (methane), white damp (carbon monoxide) and black damp (carbon dioxide)), and methods for dealing with them.
Keep in mind this event took place almost seventy years after the death of Sir Humphry Davy, who invented the safety lamp. He and a lot of other incredibly clever people had already been working on these problems for a long time.
The Pneumatic Institution, where Davy and others researched "factitious airs" (as they called them) was opened all the way back in 1799.
There were some really huge scientific intellects at work in Britain, even before that. If you look up the history of The Royal Society and The Royal Institution, you'll be pretty impressed at the work being done back then, as well as by the list of names that passed through them.
I had CO poisoning when my family was in a fire as we slept. Thank God that I learned as a little girl what to do if my home was ever in a fire. I stayed low and touched the doorknobs before opening a door. That CO poisoning was terrible. It feels so difficult to get O2 in your system when CO is in there too. I can’t imagine this happening with no way out. Dear God those poor souls. 😢
Amen! Praise the Lord and thank you for sharing your testimony!
I'm glad you're ok.
What a dumb story
So I'm actually from the Isle of Man. It was quite strange to hear the name Snaefell and realise that my great grandmother had already told me all about this disaster when I was a child.
Although there was a lot of detail here that I don't remember hearing, so props to you on the fact finding here!
I did also get a chuckle out of the "capital city of Douglas" line. Douglas was certainly the capital at the time, but it's only been an actual city for about a month
All in all, great video! It's always nice to see the island pop up around the internet
Wait wait, it wasn't a city? My cousin on the isle always told me it was a city. I think now looking back on it she's been pulling my leg for 30 years and it finally is true now. Now she's going to have to make up something about the pony and trap she has to confuse me once again
fake, there’s no way you have internet there
@@jacekatalakis8316Douglas became a city last year officially after the Queen pronounced it after visiting the island. A couple months before her death. Technically Peel used to be a city as well despite its small size due to it having two cathedrals at one point (one is a ruin inside a castle and the other is still around.)
@@b.jr.7816Oh we do, it just sucks as the terrain blocks the signal.
@@b.jr.7816Bruh you think in 2024 there would be no wifi? It’s not the 1800s still. Besides OP could very well be somewhere else in the world typing their comment.
Reminds me of Little House on the Prairie when Laura’s father was digging a well and wound send a candle down every morning to make sure it was safe to keep digging. A neighbor that was helping didn’t do it and passed out and almost died
LHOTP gave many life lessons! Just listen to Pa! 😂
i haven't thought of that episode in years, thank you for reminding me, it brings back nice memories of me and my grandparents watching it 👍
I DID NOT ASK + MY CONTENT IS BETTER.
I'm a 30+ year old media creator with aspergers syndrome who is a jack of all trades with a passion for fighting against cyberbullying. I've been doing these kinds of things for over 10 years and I've picked up a whole set of different skills along the way.
@@ville__ its always nice to see somebody fighting against cyberbullying instead of engaging in it
@@ville__ Sorry, I don't understand your comment. 🤔 ❓️
This is the type of tragedy where you'll hear loud wailing throughout the town in random times of the day/night, for the whole week. Being there in the aftermath must absolutely break you.
1) This story infuriating! This accident only occurred because they ran this mine like it was 1699!
All standard by 1899: Electric lightning, fresh air compression/ventilation via steam machines, telephone lines to the surface, electric elevators/hoists, escape rooms, sealing doors (to snuff fires,) canaries to test for bad air (if not real meters by then.) I'm just astonished.
2) Wow, great quality with your visuals, audio...everything. You did a fantastic job with this tragedy. Makes us realize how lucky we are, to have basic worker rights / safety regulations today. The Gilded Age: For most, was a hell!
For one, it was not 1899, its 1897. Secondly, electric is still a relatively new thing at that time and the Isle of Mann is quite quite far from the economic centers of Britain with its main industries at the time being fishing and mining. Add to this the mine was quite old when the incident happen so unlike newer mines of the era, its quite outdated compared to the mines on the mainland (by that I mean in England, Scotland and Wales).
Though electric miners lamp were already invented, safety lamp with candle is still in widespread use even in Wales and its not until the early 1900s that electric lamps were used with the introduction of cap lamp in Scotland. Technically, the carbon monoxide was not directly caused by the candles in their lamp but by improper snuffing of it, indicating the problem was not of equipment but of safety training, with prior minor incidents regarding it had been recorded in the neighbouring Laxey mines.
@@13gan No. If you watch until the end, it's clear they _had_ a ventilation system...the company just didn't care it only half-worked, half the time. Steam engines/steam-powered ventilation, had been around 150 years. Carbon monoxide, C02...none of that had any business accumulating in a well-ventilated space. It's just common sense - you know there's problems sometimes (like they did,) you send birds down, before people.
You're blaming the victims.
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking I'm not blaming the victim, it's simply the way things are in that era. Also the ventilation system has been inspected by the mines inspector, the same person who join the rescue effort and brought potassium chloride, as satisfactory. This was even validated in the subsequent investigation.
Also, just because the technology exist doesn't mean everyone would adopt it. Your thinking is affected by the modern IT/Silicon Revolution but they're still within of the Industrial Revolution. Even now fax machine and pagers are still being used in Japan despite them being the technological powerhouse and leader in the IT Revolution. Isle of Mann is basically a backwater region of the UK so technology spread and adoption are slower than the main island. Even the adoption of electric lamps for miners is slow until the 1900s and even that doesn't mean full adoption which only happen after WW2 (since during WW1, military sappers still uses oil lamps).
You're also ignoring the age of the mines itself, which is over 50 years by the time of the incident. In fact, the original company that run the mines went bankrupt few years before the incident due to lack of profit. In this context, do you really think they have resources to update their mining operations?
Proper training of workers are the responsibility of the employer and employees carelessness are partially the fault of the employer too. I simply don't get where in my comment did I "blame the victim".
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking If you paid attention to the description of the mine at the start, you'd have learned that the ventilation was passive gravity fed system. The only compressed air system was for the tools, which wouldn't provide enough air to ventilate the mine.
Reply section war with paragraphs i will never read
Holy shit, that chemistry the guy did. I'm gonna remember that potassium chlorate trick in case of any low oxygen emergencies.
You can remember, but will you have it in your pocket?
@@kolarz2128 well, if I ever hear about an emergency rescue operation for miners who suddenly passed out...
@@Rondobondohondo in our times I don't think you would need that, besides you probably are not living next to some mine, so that they would need your help 😆
Imagine being trapped in a mine waiting to die and some dude just pulls out a white bag of powder and is like “here smoke this”
A side note. The amount of things on the British Isles with names from old Norse is surprising. As a Norwegian I was able to understand Snaefell comes from old norse for snow fall.
Yes, the Isle of Man has a lot of Norse history, including the parliamentary assembly, Tynwald.
@@garysalisbury8949 Interesting. I had to google it but Tingvoll makes a lot of sense for the etymology.
Look up the history of the Dane Law in England. A sizable portion of North and Eastern England was occupied by Northmen (vikings) for a good portion of the 9th century AD. Their laws, language, and accents stuck around for centuries.
As a matter of fact when I clicked on the video I expected the mine to be located in Iceland
Remember the Norse had control of the north half of the Isles for several centuries, and really didn't lose control once and for all until William conquered the isles in 1066. Heck, the North Sea Empire (a union of England, Denmark, and Norway) was a thing from 1013 until 1042. Point being: Norse culture was *very* established in the isles.
Have you considered doing a battlefield horror video? The things soldiers went through in history is crazy.
A 'Battle of the somme' video would be intense, told more about the horrors people went through than the battle itself. There's plenty of personal accounts to draw from. But imagine being in a ditch that is filling with water. That water is full of rats, poison, blood and your dead comrades. It is up to waist-level and you sink up to knee-deep in the mud beneath, having to wade up to the chest. But if you leave that water and get out, you are suddenly exposed to artillery, machine guns and more. And that's hardly the worst soldiers have been through.
Not sure about Scary Interesting, but Wartime Stories covers that field pretty well.
This is a fantastic idea
Some American Civil War stuff:
Battle of the Wilderness: raging wildfire in the middle of a ferocious battle in the woods
Battle of Spotsylvania: more then twenty-four hours of continuous hand-to-hand fighting in flooded trenches at the "Bloody Angle"
Battle of Franklin: in the aftermath of this horrific battle, a farmer who lived on the field of battle was able to collect an entire bucket full of human brains just from his front yard
Battle of Perryville: the fighting on the north flank leads to 40% casualties on both sides
Battle of the Crater: collosal explosion shatters enemy trenches, resulting assault a disastrous failure with nearly 50% losses
Battle of Fredericksburg: repeated suicidal charges up a steep fortified slope
Battle of Chattanooga: suicidal charge up an incredibly steep fortified slope that's actually totally successful this time
@@ScaryInteresting we would love to see it!
@@ScaryInterestingif your doing wars do the New Guinea campaign in ww2. It’s the worst
I thought this guy was going to save everyone with cocaine 💀
Breathed it in, got super high to get energy back to save themselves🤣. Times were different back then I guess lol
Definitely aint doing it with cocable
@@TylerPeters-kl7kkIt would just have the opposite effect, being high would mean more heartbeats causing even more carbon monoxide to enter the body.
For real tho
im so happy you hit 1mil subscribers!! ive been following you since you were small. your videos are so high quality and i always enjoy watching them, definitely my favorite channel. all love and congrats again, you deserve it ❤🎉
Don't translate...
भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्ग मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु
Thanks so much!
@@ville__Too bad for you, I've seen the immunity dog
@@xavier1964 relatable
@@ville__oh thank god, i was wondering when i would be able to say “i don’t give a shit” lol
Hey man! fellow Canadian here to say you should talk about the frank landslide disaster. In short it was a mountain in an Albertan mining town that collapsed and trapped miners inside of the mountain and took out half of the town and the railway. 110 million tonnes of rock and debris, and 70-90 people lost.
I lived Lethbridge just a hour or so away…
I saw Rocky Mountain Express in imax, they did a great segment on the frank slide
My great great grandfather died in the Roslyn Mine disaster on May 10th 1892. Thank you for covering the heroic deeds of the brave miners who fought to rescue their peers.
Wow cool story no one cares
CO is serious stuff. In the fire and rescue service, gas detectors are carried by the group leads as well as medics. The latter have one strapped to their backpacks. The are slightly larger than a tic-tac container and have a display that shows the ppm value. This value is where things become heavily dependent on the context it us measured in. The figures in this video are accurate as far as I can tell, but any figured you see are based on „regular“ workers and the maximum tolerable concentration and exposure time in a workplace with an 8 hour working day. Firefighters and medics usually spend far less time in areas where the gas is present, so we can usually stay even though regulations might tell employees to evacuate.
First alarm will sound at 35ppm. You can silence it with the push of a button. That gets reported over the radio, but work can proceed. If ventilation can be achieved by opening a window, then this is the next step. The next alarm will come at 90 ppm. Work can usually proceed, but with caution. I have personally measured 150ppm in an underground parking garage during a moderately busy day. But since people usually do not spend entire workdays there and leave within a few minutes of parking their car, it’s fine. So an elevated value - for us!! - does not necessarily mean to drop everything and run. It’s values around 200 and higher that will make us nervous and come back with SCBA gear. There are tragic instances each year when people fire up their gas powered heating system, and some technical glitch (usually the result of poor maintenance or a technical defect) will kill some people in their sleep due to the furnace producing and leaking carbon monoxide at dangerous levels. In some cases at levels that even tell rescue workers without a full breathing apparatus to drop everything and gtfo.
We even had one case last year where someone wanted to have a BBQ and decided that rain was no reason not to have one. So that bright spark decided it was a great idea to put their coal fired grill into the freaking living room and get cooking together with their family, when suddenly the carbon monoxide warner in their bathroom went completely apeshit. And they all felt a little tipsy and light headed at that point but attributed that to the beverages they had consumed. They all survived. After bringing the grill outside and opening every window it was impressed upon them that bringing a coal fire inside was a spectacularly bad idea and might well have landed them in the morgue that evening. That warner really saved their lives. Medics gave them a once-over and recommended a trip to the hospital for one person, but they politely but firmly declined.
BTW: Those signs in parking garages that tell you not to leave the engine running: take them seriously. Because underground parking garages usually have carbon monoxide detectors installed. And if you happen to park right next to one with the engine idling, you might set off an alarm, and said alarm will also send a bunch of big red trucks rolling.
I love this channel but I pray I never end up in a story scary or tragic enough to be here.
If you hear the theme music playing, stop what you’re doing immediately.
Im happy to see this comment, as there's another person who asked jokingly if they could get on the channel, and I didn't like that at all. It seems like people treat harrowing tales of death with no more respect than the hope their idiotic comment will be upvoted and can sleep knowing they were upvoted, sweet dreams. So disrespectful, and I'm with you. No one should wind up on this channel (no offense to the creator) , I just mean no one deserves the deaths I've heard here.
You won't end up here, according to probability, so I feel okay saying you will not appear here. Positive vibes sent your way.
*Edit: Spelling*
Passing out and never waking up again is a pretty painless way to go. Considering all the other ways to die.
@@Eric.1I37 hmmm
Congratulations on 1M! You built this channel up so fast, because it’s so good.
Quickly became one of my favorites, glad to see it go so fast. :) The quality is over the moon too. Between the graphics and the unique stories no one else has covered. I even caught a new channel basically paraphrasing lists from this one, lol, now it's a trend setter.
I'm not a toxicologist, but this from a symptomatic response doesn't sound like CO, it sounds more like C02. CO is much more aggressive and longer lasting. It even competes for extended amounts of time with oxygen molecules in the same respiration/circulation channels until it leaves the bloodstream entirely which can take days. Meaning, if you're suffering from CO poisoning, a breath of fresh air is a good idea, but if it is still in thick in your blood stream, it won't alleviate the toxicity. However, with CO2, you would instantly feel a burst of relief. Furthermore, with CO because it takes a long time to leave the bloodstream, a sensitivity occurs because these oxygen channels are compromised in the body that any miner who was exposed would quickly suffer symptoms from minimal amounts of repeated toxicity and would not be able to just go back into the tunnel. Just because this happened in more primitive times, it seems odd to find this was CO. If you've ever had CO poisoning before you'd know what I mean. From my own experience, it's not something subtle that you can succumb to especially with repeat exposure, and I'm not an AB- blood type either. The process of discovery sounds a lot more like CO2, With CO poisoning of that magnitude, people could leave the mine and still die at home later that day from toxicity, but there was nothing stated of that either. Granted, if that's what's reported then...I guess it's CO, but that just seems kind of odd.
CO is lighter than air. CO2 is denser. This sounds like CO2.
Probably both
@@AEVMU That's a very good point. If it's a density issue too, since it was the bottom of the cave with a draft that the author noted had a drat that pulled downward. My current car had a loose gasket (fixed now). I took it on the freeway for one exit, pulled over and was floored at the first red light. 2 days later at the gym with plenty of oxygen. I got dizzy and almost fell over. This is an underground cave, not a Toyota. LOL
Super agree, a small fire at the bottom of the shaft wouldnt just perfectly solely produce so much CO without producing even more cO2 by volume.
According to the investigation of the disaster (which was reprinted as the appendix of the book "The investigation of mine air", published in 1905), the air samples were found to contain 4% carbon dioxide (about the same concentration of CO2 in exhaled air) and 1% carbon monoxide, and the chemical test done on the mouse tissue showed the sign of carbon monoxide poisoning. The video also mentioned that some men who were pulled out of the mine alive later died in the hospital due to severe poisoning.
Miners or minors?
1897? Most likely minor miners.
Dream’s ultimate question
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Yes. And their parents.
It is still the case today, children are still mining for hours.....in Minecraft
Okay bud 💀
I’m always impressed by how engaging your videos are despite there being so little surviving media of the events (like photos of the people, video, etc). Somehow you manage to make it visually interesting and easy to understand some of these complex situations with the graphics you create. I’m sure it takes a lot of time to develop enough graphics content to accompany and enhance so many minutes of storytelling. Well done!
So that's why they say "too big to fathom." I love it when things finally make sense
no, that's not why
Fathom is both the depth measurement unit and the act of measuring the depth. It soon became synonymous with probing or investigating.
Fathoming was a Naval practice of using a Rope with a Plumb on the end that had markers at every Fathom, and a Ship would drop the weight overboardand measure how much line played out; thusby revealing an estimated depth. If the Depth was deeper than the length of the line; it was "Too deep to Fathom".
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what do you mean? why do they say it? you didnt really say why haha
Ever since I started watching Scary Interesting, I have become more and more interested in mining accidents/disasters. So I was happy when I saw this appear in my feed as a fresh upload.
1 million! you deserve it dude, I like your presentations. They are always done well and you clearly put in lots of effort. Also, thanks for presenting this story, the visuals you used to explain the gas and the map of the mine really helped me understand everything so much better. How terrifying to think that for some of the men, once they felt symptoms they were goners, there was no chance. So sad and it really drives home the importance of workplace safety.
I was wondering if you'd do a story about rabies sometime? The one girl who survived rabies n Milwaukee, or the people who survived after that treatment was developed but later succumbed to rabies years later. It's a scary disease and definitely interesting
Fun fact: the Isle of Man does a crazy motorcycle race every year. Totally worth looking up.
(Wow thank you for all the love ❤️! I wish everyone reading this a wonderful week 😀)
Crazy indeed 😂 i dont know who is craziest: the riders or the spectators.
I'm still waiting for the Group B Rally cars to run it!
🤣👍
The race is called the TT. It’s road racing. Popular in Ireland and Northern Ireland also. Watch the documentary “TT3D: Closer To the Edge” Absolutely breathtaking.
I live there and see it every year. Its definitely a special breed of people that participate in those races. Dangerous doesnt even begin to describe it. The event is over 100 years old but there have been fatalities every year since 1982. The bikes average 120mph. On public roads (I mean they close the roads to the public during the races but they're still public roads, not professional tracks)
@@shoutingstone also: not the widest roads i've seen. And the roadside is covered with spectators. Surely there must be many spectators getting hit by motorbikes?
Aside from mining and diving accidents, Made in Abyss reminded me that once you go far enough, the potential of return will ebb closer and closer to zero.
Sean! I love your videos man I watch them every day when I’m at work and it makes my time pass by a lot faster, by far my favourite creepy stories channel for sure. Your great narrating skills combine with the effort you take editing the video makes me always sucked in to each video. Keep it up man!
I'm from the Isle of Man, and I've NEVER heard of this! I didn't even know there was a mine in Snaefell. I thought it was just a big hill the tram goes up.
The only mine anyone ever talks about is the one in Laxey.
Why on earth did we NEVER get taught about this in school???
So have you ever been on the Snaefell portion of the Electric railway before?
(I'm from the IOM as well)
It's the grey coloured portion of the hill with a metal wall at the front.
Great job once again! Congrats on 1 million, it’s been a ride!
I remember my dad talking about his grandfather, who was born in the 1800s, talk about how much better (and then worse) the lives of the miners in his community in rural Pennsylvania got as soon as they didn't have to use open flames anymore. He however was a die-hard fan and user of acetylene torches and lamps, which always struck me as odd. Dad showed me how to use them even though it's rare to actually find them nowadays.
do you want me to scare you?
Wow cool story no one cares
@ScaryInteresting Thank you so much for the thoughtful way you make your videos. You label each person involved with their name. You label each level in the cave. You illustrate (with colors) how the cave filled up. You really put the extra step in to make sure all your viewers (even neurodivergent ones) can all understand what is going on in the story. You don’t confuse the story by telling it out of chronological time, or adding in information that has nothing to do with the main story. You keep on theme with no distractions. I wish every CZcamsr would be as good at storytelling as you are. Thank you, and please don’t change!
I'm always so excited when you post a new video 😁 also so glad to see your channel grow so much. You deserve the new play button.
I am thoroughly enjoying your channel!!! You have created a vast diverse and unique stories all of which are exceptionally intriguing all while producing heart stopping moments as well!!! Many thanks for you unique and mesmerizing stories which are all produced with EVERY significant detail as well!!! Sending appreciation and incredible support for you!!! Grateful viewer from Texas, USA!!
Thank you! Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos!
Congratulations on reaching 1 million subscribers. Highly deserved! Your story telling, attention to detail and the visuals are incredible. I feel like I have learned so much from your channel. Blessings as you continue to educate, stir up mystery and and low key scary people to caution.
At 0:40, it shows a big water wheel. There is still a preserved water wheel at Laxly, IDK if it's actually the one shown here, but The Laxey Wheel as it's called is still a major tourist attraction on the IOM.
The one shown is not the Laxey Wheel, but you're right in that if you go a couple of miles down the valley you'll get to the Laxey Wheel. I walked by the mine about 6 years ago and it's quite an eerie place.
The Laxey Wheel 'The Lady Isabella' is still there.
I've been to see it and it's quite a sight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxey_Wheel
I DID NOT ASK + MY CONTENT IS BETTER.
I'm a 30+ year old media creator with aspergers syndrome who is a jack of all trades with a passion for fighting against cyberbullying. I've been doing these kinds of things for over 10 years and I've picked up a whole set of different skills along the way.
I was a teenager in Laxey. We used to jump over the barrier and eat Chinese on the top of the wheel after closing (it’s a small turnstile to jump).
There’s also a song “the Laxey wheel keeping turning turning turning”
And a smaller wheel called the lady Evelyn.
That williams guy was smart af.
Seriously ikr. And this was so long ago it's not like he could call an expert in chemistry or Google it. It was just actual knowledge he already knew. Tbh it kind of scares me how dependant we all are on the Internet for information. Ppl, esp younger ppl (god I'm only 38 but sound old haha) just don't read many books anymore. Let's just hope there is never a worldwide disaster that effects electrical systems. I just don't know if majority of ppl could cope in that situation.
@@jasonjones7461I heard they started breathing in smoke and was just so confused 😂. He deserves a medal/award lmao. Truly a genius imo.
@@jasonjones7461 haha, as an 18 yr old yeah you're right. Idk how my generation would survive. Nowadays kids are born with an iphone in their hand 😂.
Probably had a high school education. But that was at a time when graduation from high school actually meant something
He was educated clearly but his actions directly led to the disaster by approving the inspection of an obviously flawed ventilation system.
Congrats on 1mill, you earned it.
Thanks for making my job at the warehouse a little easier. Listening to these stories really takes me away from this dusty metal jungle. Seriously, thanks a lot.
Always look forward to these Sean. Appreciate it. Keep up the grind ❤️ Reasonably new viewer, so you’re doing something right.
Sean :)
Last sentence: "hopefully i will see YOU in the next one"
Given the phrasing and the usual content, i feel threatend 😅
As soon as he runs out of stories to tell he's gonna make his own stories lmao 😂😂😂
Amazing video! I live in one of the old terrace cottages right next to the Laxey wheel, I see it every day before I go to work, all those minors are still very much remembered to this day.
Thanks for all these videos. A very nice immersion while working on things.
I don't think you've done a video on the Courrières mine disaster in 1906, but it could be very interesting. It remains Europe's worst mining accident, killing 1099 people. Incredibly, 13 survivors were found 20 days after the explosion, when all hope was lost!
It's wild seeing such a well put together video about a tragedy on the small island in which I live.
Thank you so much.
Amazing the compassion and rescue effort that was put together all the way back then, despite there lack of technology to communicate so many people came together knowing they needed to respond.
Congrats on 1 million subs, i wish you the very best
Between you, MrBallen and a few others I'm never in need of something to watch. Congrats on hitting 1mil! That's awesome
I love Ballen!! ^-^
Mrballen is pretty far down on my list.
He has very poor cadence and an overall untrustable demeanor.
@@asbestosfibers1325 good for you? Who cares, I'm not here to shit on another CZcamsr under someone else's video
@@nymphobunny I do too! Been listening for years, don't care if he's not for everyone. No one is for everyone
@aWildHiker6444 good for you who cares.
I'm not here for your opinions either.
I didn't shit on anyone, just said facts.
Get over it buttthurt baby
Stuff about mines has to be my favorite! Thanks for covering them!
I have become obsessed with watching Scary Interesting videos. Thanks for the content, it’s well made, thought provoking, horrifying.
Seeing my local area (20 miles north of liverpool) on a scary interesting video is awesome. I can see Isle of Man on any clear day from my house. Great story as always!
Damn, for a crisis in 1897 the coordination and community effort was incredibly impressive. They really did the most to save everyone, and that's not true for all mining or workplace accidents.
Congratulations on 1million! I subbed about a month ago and been hooked ever since!
dont know what it is about the music track you use as intro and filler but there is something calming and comfortable about the sounds and music you use. I love it.
Holy shid, bro ur channel made it to a mil, i remember this channel with just a few k followers
Big congratz im sure im late to say
Just a suggestion for a possible episode Ramree Island. I’m not sure if this is where I should comment to make the suggestion. Your channel is very fascinating and I am really enjoying it. This is my favorite CZcams channel.
congrats on the MIL! Been following you since you had 2 videos. Keep up the good work homie :)
Also, im never going in a mine ever again. Seems like mines are death traps even without the whole fillup with toxic gas, lava, water, and funions.
The Snaefell Mine Disaster. A local published a book about the tragedy. I've got a copy and have seen the ruins of the old mine.
Living on the Isle of Man, it always puts a smile on my face when someone makes a video about something that occurred on the Island. Good or bad.
There's also the Ruins of Summerland at Douglas which occurred from a fire, and we had a ship that was lost at sea in a violent storm. It was named after our island's Manx spelling. The Ellan Vannin.
my great grandfather was a coal miner, I remember him telling me when I was younger about how important it was to come out with everybody you went down with. I asked him why and he got very sullen, saying "Because if you don't, you'll have nothing to show their family when you can't pull them back out."
he passed from lung cancer in 2009, but he always had a flare for storytelling. that felt like one of those rare times he wasn't telling story, he was recounting something. we still miss you, papa!
Wow cool story no one cares
@@Folami-Marijani well considering you went into the comments, proceeded to read all of my comment, then comment on this yourself; I'd think you care. A lot.
@@way2dead4u I read up until "my great grandfather" and wrote my reply.
Subbed! Love your content and the way you narrate it! :) Keep it up!
"Minors unknowingly enter Discord"
LOVE THESE MIDWEEK DROPS BROTHER
Great work, as always. Love your stuff
I love all your videos!!! Like I always repeat watch them I was wondering tho would you ever do Scary Interesting: Cryptid Edition? I know there are lots of channels that do that but your attention to detail and voice really draws the viewer in! Keep the videos coming xoxoxo 🤩🤩🤩🤩
I'm writing a sapphic survival novel and your channel has been incredible for research purposes. Thank you for all you do!
What's sapphic?
@@eadweard. Lesbians, bisexual women etc. The plot is that two lesbians end up in a wilderness survival/horror situation. The inclusion of 'sapphic' is unnecessary, but it's a force of habit lol my bad
This one was so cool. What clever quick thinking to stop off for that potassium purchase.
I love the background music, it's so relaxing. I "watched" this when I went to bed last night but I fell asleep peacefully around 10 min in and now watching it again. It's the background music, your clear and calm voice and scary interesting stories that make your channel absolutely perfect for bedtime. Thank you ❤️^^
You hit a million subs. What a feat! Love this channel
Great job! This is one of the reasons canaries were used, then gas detection and confined space entry requirements.
They did the same thing in Centralia Pennsylvania due to the mine fire. They used birds in their houses to see if there was something in the air that could kill people.
Here to help the algorithm ❤
Love ALL your stories!
i love your Videos & content man!! always look forward too em
Wow you hit the 1,05 mill subscribers...thats amazing you deserve it!! Following you from much smaller greetings from holland! You deserve it❤😊
Not sure if you'd be interested in covering it or not, but the Sonman Mine explosion in PA would make a good story in my opinion. The mine disaster series is one of my favorites to watch.
Leave no Dwarf behind!
For rock and stone!
Great getting another upload from you, gonna be an interesting day
Congratulations on hitting 1 mill subscribers!
I couldn't "fathom" doing any of this shit.
Over 12k views in an hour! This is how good this channel is!
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@@ChallengeFate 🎃
@@joycew3086 grab some popcorn and go
Scary Interesting, thanks for putting this video together.
I live on the isle of man and (i hope i speak for the many manx people in the comment section) are thankful that you made this.
We get forgotten a lot in history. So I am happy to see my island get mentioned.
I encourage you to look into the countless shipping disasters of the isle of man including its flagship Ellin Vannin which mysteriously vanished into the Irish sea and never was found and Summerland which was a huge fire that my grandparents were actually in (both made it out fine but a lot of others didn't).
But thanks for the video, and congratulations on a million subs.
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers Scary Interesting!
You should cover the Beaconsfield Mine disaster. 2006, in Tasmania Australia. Amazing story of survival
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At least its one of the most painless ways to go out. You just go to sleep and don't wake up.
That’s insane!! The absolute absence of any safety concerns is peculiar to say the least..
Great stories, thank you for sharing!!!❤
It’s incredibly heartbreaking and infuriating that so many of these companies in centuries sought profit over the lives of they’re employees. But alas, this mindset still plagues workers still more than 100 years ago. RIP to all of the men whose lives were tragically cut short. 💔💔
Industrial revolution was rough
And to think there are still fools to this day who continue to believe that the free market system and corporations are intolerably oppressive, despite all the historical evidence that communism is vastly worse: China, Soviet Russia, Cuba, North Korea: they all are (or were) hellholes. Communism does not work beyond the scale of the nuclear family, and when implemented nationally has always resulted collective misery and the genocide of millions or hundreds of millions of souls. Still, the pie in the sky philosopher types are hell-bent on imposing their Utopian visions. Truly, there is no fool more dangerous than an educated fool.
To be fair, most safety protocols are written in blood. There probably was no standard/procedures in place to ensure this sort of thing never happened.
Something about tons of unstable earth right above me with only one way in and out just makes my anxiety peak
1 Mill subs? You deserve it my friend I will never miss a video! 🎉
Your piece takes me back to Springvale in Mondstat. Just chilling there cooking with friends. So wonderful
That’s the definition of a real person. Never give up until everyone is saved.
do i have any idea why this was on my feed? no. did i watch the whole thing? yes
Shut up poosy
I am from the Isle of Man and was not expecting this!! Thank you for covering this story.
You should do Six Bells Colliery disaster (1960) in South Wales, and probably Lofthouse Colliey disaster (1973) in West Yorkshire.