The Man Who Survived for 18 Months On an Island After His Submarine Sank
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its not clickbait, its just good marketing
Come on, dont add ads to a comment which says that you did not mean to clickbait.
Nice
Excellent video btw.
Imagine suffering through one of the most painful things a human can exprience, witnessing 3 of your crewmen die, having to swim 5 miles afterwards and running across multiple towns for 18 months to avoid capture until you were saved, just to be called a liar and an idiot for the rest of your life
FiveGreenBottles not gonna lie but if this story wasn't uploaded to youtube and there was a talk about him saying he did it, you might just also call him a liar.
Ryn Zoku i would be skeptical, but as long as he gave all of the details i think i would believe the possibility.
After going thru all that... I'm sure he realized that there were more important things in life than the opinion of others.
@@rynzoku8662 well if he was a stranger from Reddit I would 100% downvote him and call him a lier
He’s British. It’s our idea of fun
"There were no witnesses to back up Capes' story." Maybe because... they um... y'know... died.
excunatly
What about the people on the island that he stayed with
@@branthebrave they weren't real witnesses because they weren't on the submarine
your also dead teddy
*there will be no witnesses if theres noone to witness*
Brave villagers who looked after him.
They all faced being executed if they had been caught.
Some of the real heroes here
I don't think the Italian army was known for those kinds of summary executions. Nazis yes, Soviets yes, Japanese yes, but Italy?
@@AICW Not as much as Germany, but they did execute civilans, especially non-Italians. They also helped with the deportation of Jews.
@@AICW The Italians aligned themselves with the Nazis after all, not that surprising
@@9mmSurpressor i heard that the italians and germans even drank the blood of jews! such horrible inhumane acts!!
this is honestly one of the most terrifying situations i can think of
What's even more terrifying is being trapped in a sub in the Marianas trench with you having a fear of the dark and tight spaces alone
Stuck in the Sahara or in a submarine? Which ordeal was worse? 😱
When it said 18 months i assumed 18months underwater --- Edit the comment is outdated since he changed the title.
Thats how click bait works my friend
We all did...
Cringeworthy comment just desperately wanting attention very bad lol
I sent it to a discord and now im disappointed
@@justmeitis1143 It's not clickbait, it's just that it's sort of misleading. He DID survive 18 months after the wreck.
I can't imagine how it would feel to go through all of that, and then getting insulted and humiliated for the rest of your life.
@Lion Pride Stop with the spaming, this only pushes people away from what you're preaching
Pffft, try having joined the Marine Corps between 2000 and 2010.
Basically Vietnam veterans in a nut shell.
Lion Pride no joke I even see this message on Xbox too and people are just spamming the shit out of it for no reason
At least he and his family knew the truth. F everyone else.
Getting recommended this now by CZcams is crazy
This would be an insane story to turn into a movie that I would definitely pay to watch.
As long as they don’t ruin it by making it “woke” with Capes being a black, lesbian, trans woman.
@@bigedslobotomy 😂😂
I survived 35 years (so far) after I fell off my bike.
Wow, I can’t believe you spent that long in the hospital
im only a few days in.... damn 36 years!!!
Wait so you’re like 40 years old?
why trivilise, something that is really not a joking topic . Disgraceful!
@@royferguson3909 shut up
Have you ever wondered if there's just a person stuck at sea right now and no one knows they're alive?
There almost certainly is.
@Lion Pride
Well that's cool and all but Hentai is better.
@Lion Pride Source for that? What chapter in the bible.
How many basements with prisoners have you driven by?
@@nubberton1345 this... is troublesome
But entertaining, yes
That's an amazing story. As you pointed out, there's not usually survivors in sub accidents. I can't imagine the terror of it all, and keeping it together enough to save yourself is probably no easy task. Belated props to this guy
When a submarine sinks:
*Wait, wait, wait, that’s not supposed to happen*
I mean
What exactly is the joke here? Just le memespeak?
@@CaptainGibbons what
@@RussPait91 The OP isn't a joke at all. Or insightful, or anything. Am I missing the reference, or...?
@@CaptainGibbons submarines are supposed to go under the water
What I thought this video would be about:
- A man who survived 18 months underwater
- A man who survived 18 months in the ocean
- A man who piloted a submarine alone
- A man who lived alone on a deserted island for 18 months
None of those were true...
It didnt say any of that so why would you expect it
I expected the second one
Niue It hinted to it? 😶
The clickbait is real. Stupid video. Disliked.
First time ever real life core ever click bait
Submarines are a no-go for me. I don’t think I’ll ever be open to the idea of going in one.
in what possible scenario would you ever go in a submarine 😂
@@SCBLGamingFilm the navy
I will go in one in a museum but god forbid I enter the sea in one, fear of drowning is a huge nope
I've been in one before and they're really really cramped.
@@MapShiba WWII era ones for cramped for sure. The modern day nuclear ones have more open spaces are they are designed for long times submerged. Das Boot is a great movie depicting the cramped nature of German U-Boats.
when your life's at risk, you'll find yourself able to do a lot more than normal
I still can't believe I finished my mother in law's casserole
Give him a break guys, hes never done this before and I believe it was an honest mistake.
yeah hes not the clickbait type
99 Peons That’s where the comments show up from. Because he’s never done this. It’s unexpected from him.
Lol wat. He has 100+ videos. It's not the first time he's clickbaited either
@@terryserys its not clickbait
@@pointblank0020 it's very un-clickbait
"They bolted the escape hatch from the outside" then wtf is the point of installing an escape hatch.
Edit: 2.7k likes, damn I figured my comment would get lost and not in the top few comments these months later. Thanks everyone
@Lion Pride Wtf!?
Time stamp?
@@leadharsh0616 6:23
@Lion Pride Shut up. You aint making anyone religous by spamming a comment section with a copypasta
@@brycetwyman oh thnx
This man really said “a side quest” like he was reading a script for gta vi
Yeah he had to watch out to not fuck up the plague side quest on Kephallonia
since when did GTA have side quests? that's more of a fantasy RPG term
Isaac Plumbo there are side missions.
Lurker M they are called side missions in GTA, trust me.
Mike Yerke the most popular video game series, we’ll probably. It’s made by rockstar games.
Plot Twist. The "innocent passenger" John Capes was actually a highly trained, covert operative on a mission that went awry. He was (for some reason) discredited and hung out to dry by the higher ups when he did not play ball after his PTSD inducing, 18 month long disenfranchising ordeal.
I was wondering why anyone would be a "passenger" on a submarine in wartime in an active warzone. And he slept in a torpedo tube? Like WTF, what civilian would choose to travel that way?
Lion Pride no one wants you here, stop spamming.
@@marcussantiago folding beds are in the oddest spots in a submarine, aka wherever there is room. Technically speaking it's safe to sleep on top of the torpedo tubes, it won't blow up or anything.
@Lion Pride Jesus is fake along with your religion.
@@marcussantiago He wasn't an civilian
RLL: Doesnt make the video 20 seconds longer to make it over 10 minutes
*Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve*
Love how he had his last swig of rum, as he thought he was going to die. Lol
That and waking up on the beach, just like in the movies lol
I wonder if that last swig of rum is the reason he made it out of the four initial survivors
@@sixsaber0039 What would be the logic behind it? Alcohol diluted his blood, thereby decreasing the pain of the bends?
@@CrazyCatLadyEurope It could have also calmed his nerves so he didn't panic too much on the way up, it also could have clouded his judgement on making a slow controlled accent in which he would have most likely drowned.
I doubt he drank enough rum to make a notable difference.
Suggestion: The man who survived both atomic bombs
Merrill George bad not even close to good lol
two atomic fart bombs
@@jaxon_6749 well it’s good luck that the person survived
The airplane's pilot ? 😜
@@jaxon_6749 Surviving two atom bombs and living to the age of 90 sounds like good luck to me.
My father was a WWII submariner, he told me about the training to use the DEA in the tank at HMS Dolphin. It did not sound like pleasant operation to undertake so big credit to a man who actually survive the escape. Fortunately my father never had to rely on his training but being a submariner was one of the more risky arms to serve in, regardless as to which nation you were fighting for.
Luckily this has never happened to any of our submarines
Amen brother
You will achieve heaven
Indeed. No one would survive on one of those if it even gets hit by a rock.
As far as the rest of the world knows at least
Only submarine going down under your watch is a sandwich.
The video's title literally made me think that a person survived INSIDE the Submarine for 18 months after it sank.
Edit 1: thanks everyone for the likes. My first time having more than 2000 likes.
Edit 2 : since the title has been changed, instead of commenting, "look at the title" and stuff like that, I would request you all to read the pinned comment.
Yeah deceptive clickbait but still an interesting story.
@@Old_Ladies that summarizes it perfectly
Cringeworthy comment just desperately wanting attention lol.
@@bowens9211 Cringeworthy comment just desperately wanting attention lol.
Madeleine Daniell Cringeworthy comment just desperately wanting attention lol.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
@Lion Pride How is this related to the comment?
@@enderman1838 i dont think it is
@@edvardskalva5556 Exactly
saw you on vsauce 3
That just made me think of my college prep English teacher, we read that book in high school. He always liked to paraphrase that as: “he who has why, can survive almost any how.”
I’m expecting one on me very soon, “Man survives 5 months in his bedroom, locked away from society”
2:30 170 feet = 52 meters (for that major part of the world using international standards)
What about the guy who survived after crashing his Toyota Corolla?
WHERE IS THE VIDEO
I did that once!
Which one?
F
Was his name Takumi?
"The man survived after his submarine sank" and also "The man survived for 18 months while hiding from Italian soldiers"
Wow. That's a good story for a movie.
Tom Hanks enters the chat.
Half of this comment section is just “the title made me think”
You’ll never get me to sign up to Curiosity Steam.
Preach
*starts playing raid shadow legends*
And why would he care
Its free depending on ur internet provider
_"Everyone gangsta till its WWII and your submarine sinks."_
-Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln did not live during world war 2 era and your spelling of his name is wrong.
Nein Nein Nein
roosevelt__ i dont understand am i wooshed or are you bad at maths
@roosevelt__ did you forget how to do math bro
@roosevelt__ what? 2 and a half years is about 30 months not 18. 1 1/2 years is about 18 months
171 FEET
5 MILES
17 POUNDS
For the rest of the world that uses metric system, it was hard to properly appreciate.
And the REST OF THE WORLD = 94.7% = ~7,386,000,000 people
Why America? Why are you soooo.... SMH
@@AlphaGeekgirl All Americana are taught Metric and US Customary. If we can do both then why the fuck can't you all do it?
@@DarjeelingEnjoyer bc we don't need to. Learning imperial system outside of the US is pointless at best. Using one system is way easier.
You're on the internet. Just Google it. Not that hard.
@@kinggremlin4574 I know It´s not very difficult, but do you know what´s much easier? WORLD WIDE USE METRIC SYSTEM
6:51 HOLY SHIT WW2 PREDICTED AMONG US 😳😳😳
Imagine the stories this narrator could tell his children
THE UK lost "79" subs !!!! in WWII ?? maybe 70 men in each crew on those WWII subs !? And the Germans lost hundreds of subs ! RIP >
Especially if he were to tell the stories to his children with the exact same voice, verbal delivery, music and promotions for Express VPN, Curiosity Stream and Skillshare in his videos, lol.
When I was your age, I made videos about people d y i n g
@@FreewayBrent grandpa? Why are you telling me to buy a service that went bankrupt 20 years ago?
@@TOMAS-lh4er those losses don't compare to the Eastern front
Not gonna lie... I thought you meant he survived that long INSIDE the sunken submarine
Cringeworthy comment just wanting attention lol
Clickbait strikes again
@@RwingDsquad Not clickbait, just viewers making assumptions
Katoshiku fair conclusion.
No one can survive that long on a sub in that depth unless it's a sub with the life support of the UNSC infinity
Moral of the story: Don't lie so much that people can't believe you when you say the truth
I think he lived a much cooler life people couldn’t believe
"I survived 18 months alone"
"I call this BS"
For those complaining about the title *"The Man who survived for 18 months after his submarine sank"* the title never stated that he survived UNDERWATER otherwise it would be *"The Man who survived for 18 months UNDERWATER after his submarine sank"*
True
Well, he "survived" a lot longer than 18 months - right up til 1985. Putting 18 months in the title implies he survived some perilous circumstance for 18 months, and the most obvious assumption is that the "perilous circumstance" was being underwater in a dead sub. Nothing in the title suggests those 18 perilous months were hiding from an enemy army. Total clickbait.
I'm glad I signed in to this school
But have you signed up for curiosity stream
@@OxuPoxu the million dollar question
CZcams have the best school in town and yet it still doesn't support them lol
I'm so happy my home country Malta was involved with this
Glad I found this channel! Your videos are so good!
"Capes was awoken in his bunk inside an empty TORPEDO TUBE..." ...Sorry, wut. :o
The torpedo tubes were often left empty, thus there was free space in them what was big enough to fit a human
@Lion Pride Go away
@RCA G That exists
Did the regular crew even know he was there? I feel there's a lot more to his story.
1:45 This is why I avoid side quests
Misleading title, he didn't "survive on an island", he literally just lived normally with the locals and watched to not get caught by the authorities, that's hardly what the title implies as him being a Robinsons Crusoe or something.
dude lost 70 pounds tho
@@dontworryboutitsweetheart4454 he went on a diet had no money and?
the greatest feat was escaping the doomed submarine into the surface and swam onto the shore where his other comrades were likely to drown during the process of reaching the surface water
imagine trying to explain that story to your CO. "my b, my submarine sunk and i had to survive for a year and a half. that's why im late"
"None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell
I can barely stay inside my house when my phone's charging.
Someone made a comment before watching the video lol
From what I understand, subs aren't overpressurized (meaning, there's 1ATM onboard regardless of depth). You don't get bent by suddenly appearing in 50m depth and surfacting rapidly. What he probably experienced is damaged lungs from overexpansion of air as he was rapidly ascending.
Thanks for posting more I love watching your videos at 2:00 am
Subnautica in real life
Yeah lmao
Hard not to think of Simpson Tide:
Homer: “What would the captain do?”
Submarine captain (trapped in the torpedo tube): “Don’t fire the torpedoes!”
Homer: “FIRE THE TORPEDOES!”
I was getting more Odysseus vibes. "No Homers Club"
*Sees title* "Wow, now that looks like a good plot for a movie"
Thank you for uploading :)
5:17 capes kinda thicc ngl
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Actually, you have to breathe compressed air for a while to get the bends. Free divers go as deep as 400 feet, but since they are holding their breath, not using scuba tanks, there is no risk of the bends.
I also read somewhere that the escape gear was not meant to have the escapees breath during their escape but to make sure
they kept exhaling throughout their meteoric rise to the surface.
That way there's no chance at 'divers sickness.'
But if you're way too deep, you'll never reach the surface unless a miracle occurs.
@@AudieHolland the reason you exhale is so your lungs don't explode when the gas inside expands. You'll still get the bends on the way up though, it's caused by the gas dissolved in the water in your tissues
but he wasn't free diving, they went up with the rescue equipment, which had compressed air
@@Darduel I'm late to the party here, but breathing compressed air for a few minutes during an emergency ascent from 170 feet is not enough to cause decompression sickness.
The submarine at depth is at atmospheric pressure inside so the submariners could not have got decompression sickness (the bends) on a surface ascent from 52 meters as they would not have had absorbed enough nitrogen into their blood.
The biggest issue they would have had is the possibility of lung expansion injury going from 6bar pressure to 1bar (atmospheric), so like free divers they would need to slowly exhale as they ascended to avoid this.
Don’t worry, he had a totem of undying, that’s why he survived.
What.
RiwenX it’s a Minecraft joke
Lol
@Tazzy World actually that’s character in FPS video game
Cape has earned the achievement [Postmortal]
Good to know he had a lot of doors and torches.
😂
Nice
Torches don't work anymore.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate submariners?
They have some absolutely massive balls and definitely get my full respect
I am a Scuba Instructor, and as others have pointed out , you are mistaken about the risk of Decompression Sickness ( The Bends).They were at risk of a Barotrauma , but not "the bends" / deco sickness. Do your research mate
I can’t wait to explore the deep ocean in a submersible
Yes
HelO
did you survive the titanic submarine
I've never heard anything like this before. He is so lucky to have survived.
"You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"
Please put metric measurements under the imperial ones.
This ☝️
am i the only one who though he lived inside the submarine for 18 months?
A lot of people did. I think the title was crafted so people would make that assumption and click on the video
Yes you are the only one
I'm very creative well no he survived until 1985 many decades later
Clickbait
F-ZEROKID what else should’ve the title been then?
One of my relatives went down on a submarine in Pearl Harbor.. he’s still down there till this day. RIP 👏☝️
Man, posthumous vindication is so sad. I'm sure the guy was just happy to be alive more than anything, but the dude definitely deserved to be believed.
can we just appreciate for a second that the thumbnail looks really good
The video's title literally made me think that a person survived INSIDE the Submarine for 18 months after it sank
good 8 minute ad for a Curiosity Stream episode
I Love this channel. Thank you!
18 Month in Island, i thought he survived after 18 months stuck in submarine until he get rescued.
Did you even read the title
@@andrewputnam2717 he changed the title, a day ago the title was :
" *The Man Who Survived for 18 Months After His Submarine Sank* "
There is no "on an Island"
@@ErnestJay88 Let the stan talk lol
can you use metric system? even a small annotation on the screen would be nice :)
1:16
Those odds are still better than my odds at getting into Stanford.
I'd like to see the measures in videos in metric units and freedom units, but I know is extra work so I'll keep converting them, but it throws away me being drawn into your interesting videos. Keep up the great content
Who’s here after Ocean Gate happened?
It wasn’t called 6:06 the name of the city wasn’t called “Smyrna” back than it was called “Izmir”. However the Greeks still called “Izmir” “Smyrna” as they did like calling “Istanbul” “Constantinople”.
big mad
Nick Hatz I’m not actually mad, just trying to fix an error. Its like calling St. Petersburg Leningrad in 2020.
I dont want to dissapoint you but there's still a lot of countries calling it Smyrna.
When the whole video is just an ad for an even longer video
Thanks for the movie trailer, I guess.
What a fascinating story! I never heard anything about the HMS Perseus or Mr. Capes. Thank you!
For people not using freedom units:
171 feet is 52 meters
70 lbs is 31.7 kilograms
It might be around 57 meters, not 52
@@pulkitmohta8964 It is 52. A lot of Americans think that there are 3 feet in 1 meter even though there is a little more
WHO even care and about metic so why say it . only European and American use metic units so it is pointless. plus the submarine is British.
@@dantetfear5253 Americans use the imperial system along with Liberia and Myanmar. Everybody else uses the metric system.
@@epiclava_real there is a little more than 3 feet in a meter. A feet is usually 30cm, or 0.3 meters. So if you approximate it to 1/3rd of a meter, than the answer would 57. Though the actual answer would be less
Did you know the earth is round?
Want proof?
Look at RLL’s profile pic, you should be able to see the ice wall behind the wind mill
RLL used to have a flat earth disk with a location mark from google maps as his profile pic.
Great storyline! Thank you!
great video dude keep it up
Can't even imagine what this guy went through AFTER his ordeal.
Nobody believed him. Even though he told only the truth, as he knew it.
He was branded a liar, and probably spat-upon everywhere he went, because "how dare you lie about being a WWII hero?!!"
Newspapers probably took every opportunity to question why he got a medal from the Queen. Did he deserve it?
There was no way to prove the veracity of his story, because underwater salvaging would not become a "thing" for several decades.
He died with everyone probably thinking he was a terrible fibber, and a disgrace to the British Isles. Even his own family.
He was only vindicated, completely, a decade after he passed away! It's great to know that his story was true all along, but... how effing shitty is it that this guy lived his entire life after WWII with everybody, at the very least, thinking he was a "crazy drunk," who fibbed his way into false heroism! That would literally drive me insane!! I'd probably wind up in prison, after I inevitably snapped from all that stress!
There'd be days I'd wish I had died in that submarine. Not even lying about that... Can only imagine he felt a little the same way, at times...
This guy died a hero JUST for enduring the derision he no-doubt received for decades after he got back to England.
Why is youtube recommending me this right now?
Neat story! Thanks for uploading!
I can’t even imagine him going what he went through, nearly drowning in a sunken sub, losing multiple crew members, and surviving for more than a year in a foreign land and/or the middle of the ocean, all just for everyone to think that his story is a complete lie and totally made up. So disappointing that he was never alive to receive the credit he deserved
As A scuba diver this is probably onw of the most scariest things I can imagine
Rest in peace Mr. Capes, we all know of your heroism now.
6:20 When you tell a real life story in the comment section of youtube.
True bravery. I doubt I could ever muster up such a level as this man.
Comments: 10% original content
2% first
3% greetings
85% *Woah I thought he was in a sub for 18 months!*
Wow true survival story! That man is a very clever well done to him👏👏👏👏💪💪💪
Yeah exactly! By the way your DNA 🧬🧬🧬🧬 Videos are awesome man!
@@temlee7865 totally not the same person
Great video!! For most people in the comments here, y'all must've not read the title correctly, it clearly says "on an island". Anyway, it's an amazing story, and very sad that nobody ever gave him the recognition he deserved while he was alive. I can't imagine how frustrated he must've been that people just didn't believe him. It's an amazing story!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Just imagine how cool his story would have looked in a flash escape game