Dive the wreck of IJN battleship Nagato, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- The wreck of IJN battleship Nagato is one of the most spectacular dive sites in the lagoon at Bikini Atoll. Due to its depth (about 180 FSW) it is not as well explored as many of the other attractions at Bikini. There is so much history attached to this ship that it is worth a visit just to temporarily connect yourself with its past. The wreck lies upside down, making orientation challenging.
This short video, which was shot in November 1997 on analog equipment, presents brief views of the aft and mid sections as well as the antics of my diving friends who made their descent in formation like a group of parachutists. The shots that follow include the aft port wing where the mooring was tied, the aft 16 inch guns hanging upside down from the overhead, the monolithic rudders and propellers, and the historic bridge and superstructure.
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A better ending than being scrapped.
What if she was preserved
It was even discharged by the crew
I wish they had the foresight to preserve this marvelous old battlewagon instead of destroying her. The Japanese “heavies” were always my favorites, with their impossibly tall “Pagoda” masts and sleek lines. Nagato was the most powerful ship afloat when launched, while her modernizing updates from time to time kept her current. That she survived the war at all was a miracle, as she was the original “super dreadnought” of the Japanese Navy. A lucky ship until the end.
She was damaged multiple times. Bombers mostly. Japanese used her as a "floating anti aircraft barge" and was hit further. They cut down parts of the ship (IJN) to increase the area of fire for said anti aircraft batteries. Still would have been very neat to see and old workhorse!
Yes, it would be fascinating to see this giant afloat or at least preserved on land. I also consider Japanese ships to be the most beautiful. We can only hope that in future some country would re-float her and make a museum
@dražen g Thats because George Lucas based his space combat in Star Wars around WW II. Also Japanese design was very popular at the time in the US. Everything hightech came from Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. You can see this for example on the helmet of Darth Vader, which looks like that of a Samurai.
I do wish some of the greats had been saved. prinz, nagato and warspite at least should have been preserved for future generations to see
0:00-0:04 The Battleship in the right photo is actually Nagato's sister Mutsu, which was lost to a devastating explosion from her third turret in 1943.
It Still Lives in World of Warships!
and kancolle
and Azur lane
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@@mistiik1337 ew
Nagato and her sister Mutsu used to be the most powerful battleships in the world alongside Nelson and Rodney of the British Empire and Colorado, Maryland and Westvirginia of the US. Now it's just her that remains, as the others were dismantled. Nagato is still there at the bottom of the ocean, telling us the glory of the past, once when the battleships ruled the seven seas.
Nagato is the only one still intact. Mutsu was ripped apart by a magazine explosion, and the massive 1980's Government contracted Salvage Operation left behind a such a small chunk of the hulk that its not even worth diving.
Sad ending for a great ship.
Beautiful and evocative and unsettling and bittersweet imagery.
Seeing the diver next to those giant rudders and propeller screws just absolutely amazes me that humans can build something like that, especially back then without the aid of computers or automation, just thousands of people with slide rules and pencils and rivet guns and welding torches.
And then thinking of the hundreds more who lived inside and in a real way brought the ship "to life" through their carefully coordinated and directed action like cells in a body circuits in a robot. With that kind of emergent alchemy conjuring an independently acting "creature" out of steel and seamanship you can really see why ships have always captured the imagination and emotions like that and held a romantic image unlike so many other human creations.
And it makes it sadder how how a ship like that never got to fulfill her purpose, and everything her builders and crew put into her, and fight like she could have in an era that hadn't passed battleships by, but perhaps all that relief work after the Kanto Earthquake could be said to be the source of a higher honor. Either way hopefully she's at peace and doesn't go mad with regret and despair on the bottom of the sea and come back in the present to destroy humanity for creating warships only to suffer this way and to torture the half of her who dares to hope for a second chance, as depicted in a certain mega-hit browser game that starts with a "K." As awesome and incredible as it would be if such magnificent ships somehow returned to seek redemption in a form where they could tell us what they're feeling (and awesome to just see a real-life kanmusu, how crazy would that be?) the ensuing devastation is better left in the realm of wild science-fantasy.
RIP Nagato & builders & crew, and may the atomic weapons that sent her and the others resting with her to the bottom never be used again.
Nagato lost her sister, survived the war during a time when most of the IJN was decimated by the USN, only to unceremoniously executed with two nuclear bombs.
This is almost as sad as the US sending off the Nevada.
He even Survied the first nuclear test....
She survived both war from WW1 and WW2 also the last IJN ex flagships she survived because of lack of fuel she can't go out to fight and just become a docked floating AA platform
Nagato not died!!!...her legacy will keep alive in inside World Of Warship and Kancolle
Azur lane
And Haruhi Suzumiya.
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@@pierce7993 and naval creed
As featured in _Kantai Collection_.
I can picture anime Nagato, when I look at that battleship.
am I the only one who feels bad about what happen to Nagato
gabe tuttle No, your not alone.
Thank you
No....
no
you're not alone.
Thanks guys your work is so appreciated by us poor boys. Wow. How awesome.😯
Man watching this video really makes me wish I could have met my grandpa he served on the Marshalls
Pretty sad that these ships have rich-history in them and yet they got nuked
Poor girl....I love WW2 warships, though i think war is aweful. I just can't stop appreciating these massive floating turrets and the beauty of these magestic vessels. I love many American warships, including USS Iowa, Noth Carolina, Massachusets, Missouri, New Jersey and Texas, are still alive, and that the Brittish HMS Belfast is still very much afloat, but we will never ever be able to feast our eyes on the likes of IJN, Takao, Atago, Fuso, Magato, Musashi, Aoba, Yamato and KMS Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Eugen, Hipper, etc, etc :/
cool video
ah, if only someone rich enough would recover her, repair her and turn her into museum, this ship deserve to live, like Iowa sisters,
maybe but it would take a ridiculous amount of time to conserve.
Zagoreni02A As much as I would love to see her afloat. It's impossible. Radiation from the nuclear tests are st dangerous levels on her decks
Who wants it to be floated? It’s where it belongs.
I want to get people together to start a go fund me, or some kind of crowd fund. Imagine a American, German, and Japanese coalition, designed to recover the most notable wrecks, and make them pretty like an old car garage find.
@@justinh7980 Tremendous waste of money. Leave them in peace where they are.
長門よ、どうか安らかに眠ってくれ。
Winner took everything
And destroy it
Another awesome vid, Greg. Keep them coming.
Nagato could’ve been saved from the fate she faced at Bikini Atoll...
still intact after sinking for a dozen of years.
The ship is from 1910 and its from when Japan still at war with the USSR also survived WW2 thats a 100 years proofs of history
God bless
I remember diving on Nagato(pronounced "Naga-to", not "Na-gah-to") in 1968. I swam into the bridge, and at that point its windows had only recently been broken, so the interior and the bridge equipment, gauges, etc, were in great condition, with almost no debris anywhere! I had read how they operated these ships, so just out of curiosity, I went through the procedures of starting the ship's engines. I had to press the fuel primer bulb many times, and had leave the choke knob depressed for just as long. But when I pulled the engine start levers, 2 of them fired up!
I swam over and adjusted the transmission gear lever into "half full", and looked back to see 1 of the propellers turning. Next thing I knew, the force of that 1 propeller at half speed was causing the back end of the ship to slowly slide around on the ocean bottom. The ship actually spun 45° around!
And i flew to the moon lol nice story xD
Right.
Yeah coz steam turbines, powered by boilers that have not been lit since 1945 still have steam/heat/pressure 23 years later after being submerged for as long. I mean thats a great attempt at a cool story bro. But its about as believable as that time i went back in time and stole the yamato, took it further back in time and used it to torpedo the titanic.
Yea nice story but it’s totally fake.
I'm gonna call BS to obvious BS, Those boilers have been under water for over half a century, those engines aren't going to start
they cant it still has some radioactivity internally id imagine they would raise it but cant becuase it was used as a test ship for the atom bomb it was sunk due to high radioactivity :/ sadly
she started listing after the test so i guess what ever damage was casued would have gotten alot worse over the years
And how with her brother mutsu?
Mutsu exploded just aways off from Tokyo bay...
After the war, she had one of her turrets dreadged up and used for mesuemal perposes...
What a mighty warship, its a shame she went down. Truley the right ship for the wrong war
If the Japanese government can attempt to salvage _Yamato_ sitting at the bottom of the ocean floor, there's no reason they can't reach Bikini Atoll. #RaiseTheNagato
Emphasis on "was." The ocean's made her clean enough to dive on, so she _should_ be clean enough to float.
Mostly impossible. The water alone would destroy her upon trying to pick her up
Bikina atoll is part of an independent nation now. Japan just couldn't go in and salvage at their leisure. Furthermore, there is still radiation in the sand on the bottom. Okay to dive but not to stir up the sand which would happen in salvage operations.
They are going to attempt it ?? , its 1,200 feet down , they cant.
HowlingWolf518 Yamato can’t be raised, it’s been underwater for too long and it’s far too deep underwater.
Couldn't they just build a test ship using wrecks instead of destroying this treasure? What were they thinking? Update: "Nagato had been deliberately placed near the epicenter of both the Able and Baker detonations because the Pearl Harbor attack had been commanded from her bridge. Nagato managed to survive the Able Test unscathed, however, she sprung a leak after the underwater detonation during the Baker Test. Repair crews were unable to repair the leak due to high radiation levels and she capsized and sank during the night of 29th and 30th of July, 1946". :'(
Lorenzo Rozelnox. Treasure? It was an enemy combatant. Period.
The soviets didn't blow up the Maus just for the shits and giggles. I know that there are worlds apart between a battleship and a tank, but still.
Late to the party, but the reason is pretty clear. Not only was Nagato used in the test, she was placed at the epicenter of the tests, presumably to ensure she sank. The reason? A bit of revenge. Admiral Yamamoto gave the order to begin the attack on Pearl Harbor from Nagato's bridge.
Peter Johnson yamamoto and nagato weren't the flagship of pearl harbor.
cancel Yamamoto was the Admiral that commanded the Japanese Combined Fleet. He used the Nagato as his flagship and issued the orders for the attack on Pearl Harbor from her.
BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!.
good there is no skeleton inside
Except for the animals they tied up to the ships, check the wiki..
Sleep forever little one
そもそもここで潜るのは大丈夫ですか?放射能とか。
A bit higher than normal but it's safe. Also the Prinz Eugen.