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They utilised stealth, operating unseen and undetected beneath the waves until they disappeared just as silently as they had patrolled the oceans, never to be heard from again, leaving us to wonder: why did four submarines suddenly vanish during the spring months of 1968?
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I was in the exact same situation
Feels like Christmas in July
This is such an underrated channel
You know your explanation is correct but at that time the us navy was experimenting with there subs and attempted to shorted the refit period by reducing there maintenance it is believed that the Soviets tried the same thing
And also there was a surviving member of the scorpions crew who had transferred off the ship two days before because he was concerned about the "condition" of the sub which was lost a bit later.
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My grandfather had orders for the scorpion just days prior to its disappearance that were only diverted by a higher commander requesting him for a different mission. Its shocking how easily he could have been lost and I never born
Yikes? You ok? Such info must be chilling.
@@dubuyajay9964 when you stop and look at your family history a lot of things are chilling to think about. Then you wonder why kept them alive for you to be born as well. My father escaped a civil war happening is his country and made it to the U.S. but before he left he was taken by soldiers to a training camp and basically forced to enlist. One officer on the camp for some reason let him go home and then his family helped him leave for his own safety. The civil war wasn't pretty at all as even young kids were enlisted by force, at least that's what I've been told.
Imagine how your grandfather felt when he heard that boat went missing and he knew he was meant to be there. That shits surreal af
There are so many crazy things that happen to my family that if happened different buy one person's actions I would not be here .. one of them thing's that make you think of is there a paradox out there a different plane we live on
Scary. My mom’s dad was nearly part of a planned invasion of Japan that never happened due to the bombs. I think your grandfather was lucky that he never got on board.
This just came out within the past couple days, but The Minerve was located about 28 miles off the southern coast of France (near the Toulon Port) and about 1.5 miles deep.
My dad served on a Soviet sub. Said they called them “tin can coffins”.
In Soviet Russia, sub serves on you.
Jesus Christ .....what?
Jesus Christ .....you make no sense
@Jesus Christ Holy shit guys it's my boyfriend Jesus Christ himself. He's kind of a slut and people are always nailing him. But I forgive him. He taught me how.
@Jesus Christ dude why are you mocking and being blasphemous toward religion,since at the end of the day, who knows when will you die and what you will meet on the other side, so advice for you:dont push you luck with mocking a divine religious being from that certain religion or othervise karma will strike you, just saying dont push your luck
My Grand Father was a Sub Mariner from 1965 to 1975 serving on the USS Casimir Pulaski, I'm sure happy nothing like these incidents happened to the one he was on. This was a very thorough and respectful look into these stories , thank you for uploading this!!
Served on two submarines during the 70s. Remember two incidents that could have resulted my being a statistic. One was almost laughable; the depth gauge got stuck, and we almost reached crush depth before the problem was noted. The second was more interesting. After launching a new version of the Polaris missile off the coast of Florida, and heading to Bremerton, Washington to onload our real missiles, we encountered a severe turbulence that damaged our boat. The official explanation was that we passed through the shock wave of an undersea earthquake; I now believe we were hit by a Russian sub that had tracked us after we stopped at San Diego for repairs to one one of the main feed pumps to our reactor. This is not recorded anywhere online, which leads me to believe the incident was covered up.
"the depth gauge got stuck, and we almost reached crush depth before the problem was noted"
"I now believe we were hit by a Russian sub that had tracked us after we stopped at San Diego for repairs to one one of the main feed pumps to our reactor"
Jesus Christ, dude!
@@FA_2_Pilot I once read about survivors of stranded submarines. Past crushing depth the submarine would implode rendering every organic thing inside it to mashed potatoes. But in cases where submarines got stranded non-past their crushing depth the first thing that would happen would be the air becoming toxic from too much CO2 and the temperature dropping to freezing cold. The crew would be told to go to sleep in order to not waste oxygen by moving too much.
IMO there is some difference between the shock of an earthquake and the shock of a collision. Oh, yes. DBF, man.
@@seanhokanson4115 I may have lived in the same barracks with @ M.I.
Interesting story. Going from FLA to WA state for fresh birds? We had locations an awful lot closer than that to reload. I rode boats in the 80's and we got hit by a concussion wave and ran into.... it is not possible to not be able to distinguish the two.
Two French Daphne submarines were lost while snorkeling. Minerve and Eurydice. The snorkel head valve and lower mushroom valve failed. The boats simply flooded and were unable to surface in time. I was a commander of a Daphne submarine 1971 - 1974
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky
I laughed at this more than I should lol
*Than. The way you said it, there will be submarines in the sky after planes are in the ocean.
Thank you for correcting his grammar Justin!
Its much morer funniest now
Planes are the submarines of the sky.
That’s deep
The Minerve was found exactly one year to the day this video was published. 🤯
@Bella Donna Why?
this video is cursed
They found the Dakar as well.
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Is
Reminds me of the story my grandpa told me. He was in Yugoslav navy in 1960s on Croatian coast. Yugoslav navy still had in service few old Austro Hungarian u boats. One was called Sava. My grandpa watched it go under the sea...it never got out. To this day no one knows what happened to the Sava but it was classified as an engine failiure.
Jugoslavia has a Navy?
@@Skibbaaa Yugoslavia no longer exists. Also, why would you be surprised that a coastal nation has a navy? He mentioned that they had WW1 U boats, so unsurprisingly, they weren't very well equipped, but they had a navy
Was that the extent of their navy... I'm sorry my older sister drove a Yugo omfg if that is any indication of their technological capabilities I totally understand why that sub never resurfaced.
Of all the things to vanish, submarines seem the least unusual to me.
The Minerve was recently found, and were it not for this video, I wouldn't have known anything about it. (I've learned a lot from this channel while being very entertained--a rare combination). Perhaps as new information surfaces about the Minerve and, hopefully, the other vessels covered in this episode, Bedtime Stories will choose to do a follow-up video re-visiting this topic, as was done for the Dyatlov Pass incident.
This channel deserves a lot more attention. The illustrations are certainly what stands out first they definitely add quite a bit to the experience for me. The subtitles are cool and though I personally don't need them I like the extra though that's put in for people with hearing problems and people who simply prefer to watch with no sound. But the part that I enjoy the most is the effort put into the research. The tellings I find on this channel are often the first I've heard without the extra 'facts' that have been added over the years. I also feel there is an effort to remain unbiased that I appreciate. Over all a great series!
The artist for these videos is amazing.
Looks like charcoal drawings, that being said its fantastic for charcoal.
Maybe you guys should do the Curse of the Olympic-class ships: "Olympic", "Titanic" and "Britannic", how all three suffered severe accidents and that Violet Jessops was aboard all three ships at the time of the accidents?
I'd love that! Then again I really enjoy reading/watching about those ships and their stories.
Yep! She was definitely Miss Unsinkable.
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Big Bill O'Reilly- WTF, dude?? 🤔
I'm a Trumptard? I think my correct spelling and syntax alone proves otherwise. And where will I be deported to, since I, and my ancestors dating back to the early 1800's, was born in this country? Please educate me! 😄
Bethany Gee huh, why is it taking him a year to respond? Must be one heck of a lesson he’s gonna teach
The loss of the Scorpion was most likely from the piss poor maintenance it received at it's last refit. The US Navy was (at the time) trialling reduced maintenance on some subs in order to reduce fleet running costs. After the Scorpion loss in 1968 (and the earlier Thresher loss in 1963) the US started the SUBSAFE programme (actually started in 1963 after the Thresher loss). Ironically the only sub to have sunk since the start of the programme in 1963 was the Scorpion, the only sub not to receive SUBSAFE certification.
... What chucklefuck named it subsafe? That's like naming a submarine standardization program SUBSTANDARD
Wow! Thank you for this wonderful tidbit. Thanks for the research. Nicely done.
The French Minerve was just located, it was on the news today. they may now finally figure out what happened to her.
I hope they do find out what happen to her
It's weird to first listen to this video ages ago only to come back and see there's been a major update like that
Thanks for sharing 👍
Extensive tests by the French Navy found that the Minerve and Eurydice French submarines both sank as a result of the Snorkel Head valves failing to shut due to a malfunction. The second mushroom valve at the base of the air tube also failed and before the control centre chief realised what was happening, the boat shipped too much water and could not regain the surface. I was a Daphne submarine commander aged 31 in 1972. The same incident happened to my boat but fortunately, as we had been forewarned, an alert control centre team blew the ballast tanks in time to get the top of the snorkel mast out of the water in calm sea as the boat surfaced, and we survived. In those few seconds we shipped 8 tonnes of water in 40 seconds. The same happened to a third Daphne submarine the Flore, and they just managed to surface with the stern of the boat almost submerged. The design was modified and the Daphnes continued to deliver excellent service for many years without further incidents. Theo Honiball
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I was thinking more like MEGLADON
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obvious kraken incident.
Don’t y’all mean owls or whale sharks?
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So you're okay with fabrications and inaccuracies? Heck, the K-129 was Golf-class DIESEL ELECTRIC SUB, not a nuclear powered one. It had nuclear missiles, but no reactor onboard. Honestly that ruined the whole thing for me.
What are you talking about? He’s got four subs just within this episode! 😉
@@keirfarnum6811
Nice one! Actually, I thought exactly the same thing before seeing your comment. Like minds, eh? 🤗
The story you present about the USS Scorpion is what was commonly believed in the US Submarine community (at least in my circles) in the 80's. More information has come and some photos declassified. Its the still classified photos that keep many of us from changing our minds. We accept the public version to keep the peace, but we know the numerous mechanical issues only made her vulnerable.
Good story telling. Although k129 was not a nuclear submarine. It was a Gulf class diesel electric missile sub. Carried 3 nuclear missiles and possibly nuclear torpedoes.
The oceans terrifying, keeps their secrets. This case has always boggled me. Thank you.
I was watching the video and when I heard the narrator say that the Minerve had never been found until this day, I was like "Wait, what?" But then I checked the date and realized the video was made a couple of years before she was found. But yeah, they did finally find the Minerve in 2019.
Respect for you pronouncing the French submarine as it would be in French - that is dedication and hard work right there - and also a sign of cultural appreciation and sophistication.
You think you are better than the rest of the world
This would make for a great story in a James Bond movie!
They did its called the spy that loved me
You need catching up on your Bond films - watch The Spy Who Loved Me from 1977, still good.
Stromberg!!!
Right!?
I was in the U.S. Navy between 1971-1977 and had occasion (approx. 1975) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to speak to another guy who was or had recently been assigned to a SSBN operating in and around the Pacific Ocean. Over beers one evening he claimed he knew “first hand” (his words) the U.S. Gov. knew for a fact the Soviets sank the Scorpion in retaliation for a U.S. submarine sinking a Soviet sub during the same time period; and actually had been expecting it. I’m not saying what he told me was true. He didn’t say how how came to possess this information and I didn’t ask. Also, in thinking back to that conversation, and because it’s been so long ago, I don’t recall if he provided details concerning which Russian vessel was sunk or exactly when and or where. It could have been bullshit, who knows? I do remember he was a chief petty officer sonarman around 30 to 35 years old. I mention this just to point out that the guy wasn’t just some hair-brained youngster who would be more inclined to make-up tales. But again, who knows....
Thank you for your service.
Why cover it up?
@@SamuelBlack84 Your guess is as good as mine, who knows. Why does the government cover up many things that they know.
@@parrot849 What I wouldn't give to know all of humanity's most closely guarded secrets
The Vatican Archives, military war records, the government
Things that would turn the entire world upside down
Hope you are doing great with your new additions to the family and that their health is doing well! Great video again as usual!
Damn this is an excellent channel. Exactly the sort of spooky-without-sensationalism stories I like, and always a thorough examination of the evidence. I'd heard of, at a minimum, and in some cases read extensively about most of the topics, yet I never have failed to learn something new and/or encounter a novel interpretation of the events from these videos. Top quality work; I am of course now subscribed (did that five min into the first one I watched) and will be looking forward to future videos, since I've watched all the existing ones.
Thank you! New one this Sunday ;-)
You realize that 95% of the ocean in unexplored. There could be empires down there of seapeople. Biology is not against it. 95% we would have never know is that is true. A submarine goes to a maximim of 800 m. The ocean is km deep.
More people have been to the moon than to many of the deepest parts of our oceans, which are less thoroughly mapped & documented than the surface of the moon. Amazing & mind bending!
I stumbled across this channel a few hours ago and have been unable to go to sleep... Bedtimes stories that keep you up, ha. Great work you are doing. This channel deserves more viewers. I'll be recommending it to everyone I know. Good work, please keep it up!
the losses of Thresher and Scorpion to accidents related to maintenance and quality control issues resulted in SUBSAFE, the most comprehensive safety program in US Naval, and probably world, history. It's the reason we haven't lost a sub since and the Russians kept losing them up through 2000 with Kursk. I should add, K-129 was not "in the wrong place at the wrong time", she was sunk because of a leak of fuels from one of her liquid fueled ballistic missiles, a problem that occurred on other Soviet boats. It turns out taking casks of extremely dangerous, toxic fuels to sea in a submarine was a bad idea. It's why we used solid fuel. It's also infuriating that you say these men "needlessly lost their lives", they were doing a job they knew was dangerous to protect their homes.
"Infuriating"? Think someone needs to chill the fuck out. They were inside a machine built for war and an act of war was not what took them, it was a failure of their equipment. That's why they "needlessly" lost their lives. Fucking hell CZcams is full of dumb, over-sensitive cunts.
Fred Flintstone Lol, so true.
Regardless of what took their lives, they were serving their countries. They knew the job was dangerous when they took it, as they say. Submariners more than anyone. I doubt they would appreciate being told they died "needlessly" when the world was constantly on the brink of global war.
I also enjoy how you totally gloss over the rest of my post to attack that one line, as if it was the most important point.
How could you tell them they died needlessly? They're dead! They wouldn't have an opinion on it. But I'd bet my bottom dollar that if you spoke to any of their relatives regarding the fact they died over incompetence or a failure of equipment that shouldn't have happened in the first place, they'd say the same damn thing. It was a waste of a life. They died needlessly. The fact I glossed over the rest of your comment was because you were actually making quite a lot of sense until you brought your over-sensitive emotions into it. Fair enough if you don't think they died needlessly, but to feel "infuriated" over it? Give me a break!
I just looked the K-129's depth of wreckage up. It isn't in 4900 feet of water: it's 4900 Meters of water, which is around 16 000 feet
Also, it is a Golf-2 class sub, which is a diesel sub not a nuclear sub, so there is no nuclear reactor "spread out" along the bottom, and the hull was not shattered, the hull was in one piece when they found it but it broke when they were trying to recover the submarine using that huge metal claw (which broke), so NOW most of the sub is in pieces and spread out on the bottom, but that's not how they found it.
@@22steve5150 Absolutely correct. When they were salvaging it, it broke apart and one of the missiles fell out and torpedoed towards the bottom. They were scared to death because they thought it might detonate. But thankfully it did not
K-129 was NOT a nuclear submarine, she was a 'Golf' class ballistic missile sub powered by diesel-electric motors. She carried 3, not 4, nuclear tipped ballistic missiles. Any nuclear pollution from the wreck must therefore have come from the shattering of one of the missile warheads not from a nuclear reactor in her power train as she did not have one. 12 kts was her maximum speed and was not fast for a sub in those days. The Scorpion, mentioned earlier, was a Skipjack class SSN capable of 30 kts at a conservative estimate and probably more (the Skipjack class specs are still classified as far as I know) while the Soviet Alfa class which entered service only 4 years later could make at least 42 kts. If you are going to present tales of mystery and creepiness then please get the known facts correct.
Soviet technology is overrated
Bullshit, Soviet technology is fucking unkillable unless it blows itself up.
@@kostyac6411 and yet we the U.S beat the snot out of them.
@@moviemaker2011z remind me when you beat the snot out of them, ever!
@@furious32ninja well that would be the cold war for you. And if we engaged them in warfare now we would still win. It's just common sense.
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The excitement with the notification for this video is too much for my heart to handle 😱
Your name sounds like the name of a Green Lantern Corps member.
There was actually an old novel: "to kill the Potemkin" which used the possibility of a secret submarine war as the cause for these disapperance of the Scorpion as the backdrop for its plot.
The choice of "Submariners spouting on top of a surfaced vessel" for a consistent background image is so perfect. It's the exact opposite of what we come to learn happened to this brave men and it is HAUNTING.
The french submarine "Minerve" located at 2235 meters 21/7-2019 , may they all rest in peace .
Only been a fan for a few weeks but i can honestly say this is my favorite channel.
The quality of these is amazing, keep em coming man! :)
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Should of put gameplay footage of the Cold Waters 1968 campaign in the background to add to the cold war submarine theme
Nah that'd break the aesthetic of the channel and ruin it's atmosphere.
I remember watching a documentary on the sinking of USS Scorpion. Robert Ballard (the man who found the wreck of the Titanic) theorized that the Scorpion might have encountered a “hot run”. Basically, a torpedo activated in the torpedo room. Since the torpedoes are meant to run in the cold ocean water, the engines don’t have a cooling system, but when they’re inside of a submarine it can’t cool down and runs the risk of over heating and exploding. The captain tried to turn the boat around which would make the torpedo’s guidance system automatically shut down the engine, as to not hit the boat it was launched from, under normal circumstances, but the turn could not be done in time and the torpedo exploded, sinking Scorpion.
WOW! Another amazing video also, happy 10k! I hope your channel grows & grows! I love your creepy videos! I can't wait to see more.
In October 2018, Hervé Fauve, the son of the last commander of the Minerve, led families of the crew to ask for new research through the French media. The submarine was the only Western missing submarine which had not been found since the end of World War II. The French Government started a new search for Minerve on 4 July 2019 in deep waters about 45 km (28 mi) south of Toulon.[10][11] The discovery of the location of the wreck was announced on 22 July 2019[2] by the company Ocean Infinity using the search ship Seabed Constructor.[12]
The wreck was found at a depth of 2,350 m (7,710 ft), broken into three main pieces scattered over 300 m (980 ft) along the seabed. Although Minerve's sail was destroyed, identifying the wreckage was possible, as the letters "MINE" and "S" (from Minerve and S647, respectively) were still readable on the hull.[13]
Brand new fan here. LOVE all of your stories here. Please keep it up :)
I've read a book a couple of years ago suggesting that the USS Scorpion's sinking was caused by an exploding torpedo battery. Apparently the type and make of batteries used in the torpedoes on the USS Scorpion had, under lab tests go into runaway overheating that actually resulted in the battery explode. Sonic tracking stations in Nova Scotia detected the USS Scorpion breakup but also detected that she had made a 180 degree turn around, a standard procedure for stopping a HOT runaway torpedo in a tube, indicating that the captain believed he had a HOT (runaway) torpedo in a tube when actually what he was told was that he had an actual overheating battery on an armed torpedo, which when it exploded, blew the nose of the submarine. So all indications are that the USS Scorpion at least went down because of mechanical reasons.
They have now found S 647 Minerve at a depth of 2370 meters south of Toulon. She was found by the same company and ship that found the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan.
Came back here to check if that was one of the submarines in the video!
What a. brilliant channel! Great artwork and narration.
Was missing you guys. Glad to see y’all still in the game. Best stories in my opinion.
The reason for INS Dakar's sinking is the only one more mysterious, since it apparently plunged below its crush depth and the crew didn't attempt emergency measures. Israeli Navy stated the boat was performing crash diving exercises. The loss could be attributed to a combination of mechanical failure of the hull and human error in judging the boat's capabilities.
Minerva was found in 2019, it probably sank in a storm, possibly due to problems with its snorkel.
K-129 became victim to either an explosion of one of its ballistic missiles, which would explain the radiation that was found by US survey vessels west of Hawaii, or it collided with USS Swordfish which trailed the Soviet vessel at the time, which US officials denied however. The more interesting thing about K-129 that was not mentioned in the video: Why was the submarine operating 300nm south of its expected patrol route and why were 15 additional crewmembers on board?
USS Scorpion's demise is not fully understood by the Navy, but due to the considerable damage observed on its wreck, the leading theories are internal explosion after a hydrogen build-up or a faulty torpedo.
Perhaps the Swordfish sank the K129 while the K129 was attempting to launch a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbor.
Great video, just wanted to point out that K-129 was a diesel electric submarine, and did not have a nuclear reactor. It was armed with nuclear missiles. It was also found at a depth of around 16,000 feet, not 4,900.
FASCINATING!!! I heard some stories when I served in the U.S. Navy, only ghost stories
Underwater sea creature be like-
>"Wow, moving sausages"
>grab a bite-
>"Blerrrg, taste like nuclear rad"
>Sub sank to the depth.
Thanks for your contribution to this video.
4:25 am, I finished watching all of your videos. bedtime stories is a diamond in the rough
A very tragic story. However, you have professionally presented the facts here and have given the lost sailors the honor they deserve.
1968, an "Annus Horribilis" A rotten year any way you look at it.
Znen, I totally agree with you. After 1 and 1/2 cocktails, I could probably launch into a near stream of consciousness rant in an attempt to support your assertion, but just let me say that 1968 was the next year after 1967. As a 14 year old kid, I saw 1967 as magical and fun...
Bart Atwood-Ebi Yah I know Bart. '67.compared to '68 is like comparing vintage champagne to swill. The assassinations, riots, massacres in Vietnam, it just didn't stop. I like 1967 better as well. Joined the jet-set on Pan-Am that year. (Remember when they made the going great?)
I didn't fly when I was 14, but I do remember the adverts.
"Annus Horribilis"...
What my Proctologist yelled during my last exam.
ianrsigel Hehehehehe
Dakar - Found in 1999
Minerve - Found in 2019
K-129 - Found in August 1968
Scorpion - Found in October 1968
Caused for the wreckages: Unknown
Wonderful story. Thanks so much... my Dad was a Naval Academy graduate (Annapolis) so this was meaningful to me.
I am a former Navy nuclear electrician and currently work in shipyard testing at electric boat groton. Your data on the scorpion is incomplete. There were further communications from the scorpion. The Navy also had a recording on SONUS when she imploded. They play it in training at electric boat and at NNPTC so people know the sound of a buckling hull. This means they had a very good idea what happened, when it happened and where it happened.
Excellent. Well done writing, narration and art work. :)
I love your channel I found it a few days ago and I’ve binge watched sooo much I hope you guys get popular soon
I like the fact that you're very respectful of those who've fallen during wartime in your episodes about it. And to me, that makes you a cool dude. 🤘😎🤘
Rock on.
As a retired Special Forces operator with 25 yrs of service, I find it hard that these "special crews" were so inept that they sunk their ships. Grave mistakes in Special Ops are very few. Incompetence is "weeded" out early on. I personally believe that they are ALL related. Yes, it was a "calm period" for the most part, but the Cold War WAS on going. This is just my humble opinion
Just astounding quality and production. Great video as always. Keep it up!
art work is crisp and very well done!
Brrrrrh, as a submariner myself, I have to say that this one hit home. The sea is a mysterious and often times, cruel bitch. Regardless of how these boats went down or which flag they sailed under, the men onboard have my sympathies. May they rest easy on their eternal patrols.
In general, it's hard to understand how vulnerable such a massive-looking military submarine really is.
All it takes is one tiny fault in a single weld (of which there are hundreds of meters on any sub) and you're dead before you know it.
To prevent this, all welds are x-rayed and examined by ultrasound. But some spots are hard to get in to - in particular where pipes are routed through the hull. The sea chest comes to mind.
1968 was one of the hottest times during the Cold War - and both sides rushed their new submarines into action. Saving time on quality control seems an obvious possibility.
Both sides did maneuver aggressively and very close to each other. Subs crashing into each other was a common Cold War problem.
On K-129, most probably, the reactor exploded.
The reactor section on Soviet subs was usually quite massive - for obvious reasons. I don't think ramming it with another sub would have created enough force to break the containment vessel inside the hull so that it leaked radiation.
And if it had happened indeed - it wouldn't damage a periscope. It would destroy the sail completely. Massive, massive forces at play. Therefore - very, very unlikely IMHO.
My new favorite channel. Awesome content-- thank you!
Why in the hell would you name a submarine after another submarine that vanished?!! Why not name another ship Titanic or another blimp the Hindenburg?!!! That was really really stupid. Talk about walking under a ladder while breaking a mirror with a black cat. Anyway good to have you back Bedtime Stories you have been sorely missed. Btw the story you did about the underground Nazi base in Germany still gives me the creeps.
Not unusual at all. Most US Navy ships are named after previous ships bearing the same name. Submarines were sent out alone to attack Japanese shipping and warships. Almost all
submarine losses were with all aboard kill and no trace. It was only after the war with access to Japanese records that the locations and more exact dates of loss could be determined As a matter of fact all six of the Skipjack class nuclear submarines were named for predecessors that had been lost in WW2.
It seems weird when a boat/ship w/a recycled name disappears or suffers the same fate of the previous namesake. Rarely does that happen obviously, so using a previous name doesn't seem weird when nothing happens to said ship/boat
Yeah, it is kind of strange. Or eery. Except for the Enterprise. I bet my ass, the US will name their first real space ship Enterprise. Just for traditions sake.
I don't know...why the heck would you name yourself Lael Destan?
The USA already named their first spaceship Enterprise: www.intrepidmuseum.org/Space_Shuttle_Pavilion
Sub crews are the closest thing humanity has, outside of astronauts, that are like starship crews.A spooky sub story is one about a Swedish WWII era sub that was depth charged by the Kreigsmarine and sent to the bottom were she made repairs to get home. The captain had an intense dream that convinced him that his sub should make a contribution to the war effort. During an argument with his first officer he revealed what his dream was about.
And...?
WORLD WAR TWO
When the U.S. entered WW2 after December 7, 1942, all of its submarines were not equipped with SONAR to detect other submarines, mines and torpedoes, and many of the these U.S. submarines were "lost at sea" in the Pacific theater of the war due to undetected enemy attacks.
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war. More at Wikipedia.
During World War II, he [Dr. J. Warren Horton] continued his participation in the development of sonar systems for the detection of submarins, mines, and torpedoes. He published Fundamentals of Sonar in 1957 as Chief Research Consultant at the US Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory. He held this position until 1959 when he became Technical Director, a position he held until mandatory retirement in 1963.
SONAR Materials and designs
There was little progress in development from 1915 to 1940. In 1940, the US sonars typically consisted of a magnetostrictive transducer and an array of nickel tubes connected to a 1-foot-diameter steel plate attached back-to-back to a Rochelle salt crystal in a spherical housing. This assembly penetrated the ship hull and was manually rotated to the desired angle. The piezoelectric Rochelle salt crystal had better parameters, but the magnetostrictive unit was much more reliable. Early World War II losses prompted rapid research in the field, pursuing both improvements in magnetostrictive transducer parameters and Rochelle salt reliability. Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (ADP), a superior alternative, was found as a replacement for Rochelle salt; the first application was a replacement of the 24 kHz Rochelle-salt transducers. Within nine months, Rochelle salt was obsolete. More at Wikipedia.
What sunk k129 is actually covered in a book which does shed some light on what may have happend to her. Just a few facts, she had extra crew on board that were switched out on short notice that later we still don't know the names of, she was the same class as Chinese copies, China and Russia were having serious political problems at the time, the kgb held the codes for all nuclear weapons, the captain and 1st officers wives watched their husbands crying as they flew out of the sub base something that they had never seen before, she had only just come back from a cruise when she got the new orders, the Russians seemed to have no idea where she was lost, that class had to surface to fire her payload but had an issue were in swells the tubes could flood sinking the sub, larger swells were recorded in the area she was found around the time she was lost....
and the name of the book is?
Also that book will say that it wasn't a nuclear sub and didn't spread radioactivity
Sinister? Nah. Goes to show you why USN submariners and aviators enjoyed higher pay because it was considered more dangerous. 4 subs sinking from a variety of reasons is just coincidence nothing more.
Man your new kids are gonna have awesome bedtime stories. You can sure tell a good tale!
This is a great channel. I am amazed of the high quality content of your videos. What I like most from this channel is that they are very good at researching the topic. No fake news here allowed! This is great. I grew up in Puerto Rico. I was always attracted to submarines. I wanted to be a submarine sailor. These histories were baffling and bizarre to me when I learned about them more than 20 years ago. I will be in Patreon very soon and I will support this great channel. The drawings in black and white are awesome. In one simple word: Amazing!!!
Please, just "knots". Not "knots per hour".
Thanks for your highly interesting videos.
You're absolutely right. Do not know how that one slipped through the proof read. Earlier on when talking about the Minerve we said just "knots", but yes later on we did indeed say "knots per hour". Thanks for pointing this out.
Another nerdy guy.Get a life please :D
And the point of your response is?
@@BedtimeStoriesChannel Don't feel bad. Arthur Conan Doyle also did that - and as an Englishman should have known better...
@@Komotau4691 How does knowing something equate to not having a life? I could just reply, "get an education."
K-129 was not nuclear-powered, she was a diesel-electric powered ballistic missile sub.
Really enjoy all these stories, fantastic stuff👏👍. I've started to watch these with my Son and he is now obsessed with us going to the Isle of Wight to look for the Sandown Clown 🤡! If you haven't already you should do a story telling about the A22 Caterham By-pass Ghost lady or the A229 Blue Bell Hill Ghost. Both are near to where I live and there's alot of stories online about encounters in both cases.
Talk about an under appreciated channel. This is some of the best content on youtube. I have just recently found you all and am slowly catch up up on your previous postings (on holiday for two weeks right now). Note to self, when RV camping in a remote location at night, view these videos with caution. I kept on waiting for black eyed children to knock at my door in the middle of the night ;) I subscribed, and when I get home I am going to hit up your Patreon. Keep up the great work.
i was just wondering if you'd disappeared just as i'd subscribed. fantastic.
Great channel. Subscribed!
This is so well done and produced, I wouldn’t be surprised if a tv network picked it up
If only all the info was correct, although that does make it like a tv documentary
Wooo hooo!
A new bedtime story!!!!
Thank you!
Hope the little one is doing well and you and the lady wife are catching up with your sleep.
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Little ones. It was twins and yes, getting back to a bit of normality now! Thank you :-)
Knew about the US and Russian subs but didn't know about the other two.
I remember when I was at medical in processing at the Houston MEPS station before shipping off to basic. I had enlisted in the Army and had chosen the infantry as my occupational specialty. In the Navy though, you don't get to choose what you want to do, they simply assign you somewhere. As I was leaving there was some poor bastard throwing a fit in the other room because he had just found out he was going to be assigned as a submariner. I felt for the guy
The Submarine Service is and always has been strictly a volunteer service. You must have misunderstood. Or perhaps that guy was a douche bag just wanting to drum up some drama.
Idk when u joined the Army but now a days u can’t choose ur OS
@@mback7558 in the army you can
@@trevord.6545 my son joined in Jan & was told picking wasn’t an option,u go where needed
@@mback7558 I don't know if the recruiter lied to him or if he just had a shitty asvab score or what then but you can pick from any of the jobs that you qualify for
I like this guy’s voice it gives a sinister atmosphere to these stories.
Even before it was mentioned the US sub was going to observe what a few soviet vessels were up to, I was convinced it was all due to soviet interactions. I can clearly see them even be willing to scrub one of their own subs to cover up the fact that they had attacked other submarines and didn't want to be held accountable. And what a better way to do it then have it be damaged close to a US territory and have it leak nuclear waste in its waters... Either way it definitely happened because of human involvement and not because of monster sea creatures or alien interactions
Yay yay yay!!! Have missed getting new episodes, glad you're back!
Egypt: we sunk the submarine!
World: shut up, Egypt. No you didn't.
Go home Egypt, you're drunk.
My great-great grandfather served in a U-boot in WW1, and it was sunk by a torpedo to its port side. Two days later he was found floating in the South Atlantic with one arm and half a leg. He survived, and there are pictures of him in our family. Up until the day he died, he claimed he saw things while floating, he said he saw an aircraft, flying 2x as fast as possible (remember, biplanes), and that he saw a great creature rise in front of him and try to kill him. After that, he couldn’t remember anything. My family says it’s just delusion, and it probably is, but I can’t help but think that something might’ve happened.
Not too long ago there was a disappearance of an Indonesian Navy Submarine that was recovered. (Unfortunately the entire crew was dead.) It reminded me of this episode here.
Very nice! More like this one.
Soooo glad you're back!!
The last message from the USS Scorpion was not about Soviet vessels at all. It was a very simple communication stating that they were "operating normally". It was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Soviets were nowhere near close enough to have caused her sinking. Always check your facts everyone.
Ex-Submariner here. Pride runs deep. Hoorah!