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- Canadian diver Matt Zuidema discovers a mysterious vehicle in the Detroit River on the US border. Drain the Oceans dives deep into the unknown; a truly epic, original series that takes underwater adventure and earth science illustration into a whole new era. Ambitious exploration, advances in scientific research, and innovative technology mean earth science and history step forward to expose hidden evidence of the most amazing undersea mysteries, as never seen before.
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is the narrator really this STUPID? Its a Model T Ford, and yes they had an electric starter and a hand crank
I tried.....
You definitely can't find it at this link or just by searching the site. 👎 Guess I'll wait for it on discovery plus? Probably forget and never get to see it 😢
Hi Nat Geo! It's been 2 more weeks, this is still not on your website or Disney + 👍👍 anticlimactic
I don''t see it.
My Dad was born in northern Michigan in 1902 and had several relatives and many friends in the Fair Haven area. Dad told me he and his friends "ran" whiskey across the Saint Claire river, which because it is wider, doesn't flow as fast as the Detroit river and therefore freezes faster and thicker than the Detroit river. He told me they always used old junk Ford Model T or early Model A sedans that had the back seats removed to accommodate more cargo. Dad said both he and the driver would ride on the running boards with the doors open in case they broke through the ice. They always "ran" at night usually in a snow storm, which covered their tracks and provided concealment from the police. I'm guessing the truck was crossing at the southern end of Lake Saint Claire, which would have thicker ice than on the Detroit River and wouldn't be a whole lot further across. If it was loaded and on its return trip to Michigan, it would be significantly heavier and more susceptible to breaking through the ice. The truck was probably swept down river by the swift Detroit River current after spilling its "precious" cargo on the Lake and upper River bed. There might be a "small" fortune in Canadian whiskey scattered on the floor of the Lake and River. My Dad was a young guy at the time and many kids at that age did and still do crazy things for fun. He and his friends weren't gangsters, just stupid kids making a lot of money in a short time. I'm sure glad the ice didn't break and that the cops didn't catch them.....😊
That was very interesting. 😊
That is so ballsy, enjoyed your comment😎🇦🇺
Prohibition is hands down the most instructive case study on government policy based on a "good" (but far too nosy) intention resulting in literally no worthwhile result.
Great history, Thanks for telling us what probably did happen
My grandpa worked for the purple gang and ran booze over the river also.
Inspiring.
While others are focused on exploring space and beyond, there's still hidden mysteries right here on earth.
Seriously. Just like someone told me, how can a person take of another without taking care of himself/herself. So too, how can we go beyond earth without taking care of it first?
Especially hidden under water..
There is a real reason for this. The earth is a fragile system. If anyone wants life to ensure from our place in the universe we need to be able to get off this rock.
They explored a higher percentage of space, than they have of the oceans 🙄🙄
@@jokermlbbyt4517 ik that's how u know we still live in a society that lives under the delusion that they are the center of the world and the earth is flat and magic pixies made our shoes.
Looks like it could be a Ford TT truck built from 1917 to 1928. There was a ferry service between Detroit and Windsor at one time, so it's possible it was lost from one of them. It's also possible it was a rum runner's truck lost through the ice during prohibition.
• Episode 2: *What kind of truck is it*
• Episode 3: *What was it used for*
• Episode 4: *Who owned the truck*
• Episode 5: *How did it meet its demise*
• Episode 6 (finale): *Why didn’t it float*
lol. Right ?? Each episode will show 5 more seconds of the actual wreck along with guesses and closer footage of his gear.
I have all the channels on the tv in the living room but i don't want to go in there. I will wait until i can watch it on my tablet through CZcams or get annoyed and unsubscribe
Don’t forget the Christmas special: *was there enough room for the Truck too fit on the floating door from Titanic*
@@Hascienda27 I thought that’s the *HALLOWEEN SPECIAL* 🤣
Basically, yeah.
I grew up on the southern part of the river. My granddad was a bootlegger. There was a Seagrams distillery at Amherstburg (probably still is) and trucks would run on the ice from there to Grosse Ile when the ice allowed. The river is broader and slower in those southern reaches and would freeze up pretty solid in most years.
Now that makes sense. A bootlegger’s truck in the 1920’s going across the frozen river in winter but it fell through the ice and there’s likely some booze under the truck and a skeleton or 2 somewhere in the river. ..
There was a old Bootlegger that lived on Anchor bay that was a friend of my Dads,He showed us out on Lake St Clair where he shot holes in his boat to sink it to avoid being arrested.
@@jamesrundquist6509 the
Kind of like Probert, but it was a boat and it wasn’t booze ;)
Q
A buddy of mine who worked in environmental science was tasked with doing battery counts at marker bouys in Tampa Bay that the Coast Guard had been throwing overboard for years. He said on the deeper ones it was so dark he could barely see his hand in front of him. He counted almost a thousand acid lead batteries during those 2 months.
What was the purpose of that ?
Saving the government money of course
So what's your point in telling us that?? I don't get it.
How many golden grahams (cont.)
That's terrible
Just my two cents: it is a truck pushed off the Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry. It might have been during the prohibition. The Purple Gang may have got rid of a non- working truck by off loading aboard and pushing the carcass over the side. The ferry was a tug pulled barge. The captain probably worked for Burnstien Brothers.
Interesting!!!
So uhhhh..... Yea..... You must be from Detroit too...... Cool.
Keep your two cents please.grandpa had a heart attack an drove of the road into the river.missing old people found in their cars after heartattacks is common
Haven't heard of the purple gang in years...all the old timers told many stories
@@darellawrence3535 nope...
I would love nothing more than to be a diver looking for Ancient sea wrecks and lost civilizations!!!
What a great life that would be!!!
Especially being bitten in half by a shark🙄
You know don't ya ,I said same in my comment then scrolled through saying the same ,what an qawesome adventure everyday doing that for sure
for the ppl who don't know the car is more then likely to be a Ford model T and thats been down there from at lest 1908
It’s a truck. It’s actually most likely a 1917’ish ford model TT which was fords first pickup.
@ariannasearway4674 Yup...I think you pegged it...
That is exactly what I was thinking
Exactly I knew that thanks to my dad he passed away in 2000 but he enjoyed model t vehicles.
That's exactly my first thought!!!
Model T Ford.
It would be a model t pickup truck. During the depression they used them on the ice to haul rocks to build up the shore along the river and lake st Clair. The river froze over before they started using ice breakers to keep it open. My grandfather lived up little river and would skate down the river to the Detroit river and right across to Peche island.
Trucks were also used on the ice to run booze during proabition.
That is too cool! Thanks for the info.
Wouldn't a model T be easily identified?
I should.note that I was not able to hear the audio, only watched the video and read the comments
@@mechantics it was so trashed and upside down that all he could see was the bottom of the frame and a wood bed. And it had a crank start on it. 👍
@@mechantics Yes, I agree; T's are quite recognizable. On a second watch I couldn't tell if the flywheel /transmission area was wide enough to be the large planetary gears (transmission) T's have. But it's a truck of similar vintage. 1916, 1918 or so. Could be a Dodge truck, or if planetary geared, a Ford. Dodge trucks were popular too and used in WWI. Or...
Jay Leno probably knows that car including number of units sold lol
I guess this is also how we discovered the difference between *a BOAT* & *a TRUCK* 🤔😆
🥸👽🥸🤓😆😜💡
Lol......
No Shwimmwagen there indeed!
Those things, VWs Schwimmwagens, were pretty amazing, basically the love child of a beetle and a bathtub. There are still around 200 remaining; the 2-knot top speed on water made the type 166, the most mass-produced amphibious vehicle (just under 16k produced) easy target for allied bombers.
😂 Why yes I did!
Looks like a 1917’ish Ford model TT to me (fords first pickup truck). I hope to see them release more of the episode.
It's not a TT the rear ends wrong it's an old clamshell rear end so it it's going to be back 1912 or maybe older
If someone spent a couple hours at a Detroit library looking at their old news paper catalog, you could solve the mystery.
FYI: Cars had both cranks and electric starters from 1912 (practically speaking) till well into the 30’s (and many beyond). It does look like a Model T frame, but the design was copied by many, and for good reason.
Where's the rest of the story? I want to see it! I'm guessing it was a rum runner on the ice and they ditched it to avoid arrest.
Or maybe a forerunner of Al Capone's era?
Al Capone's get away car? It got away alright!🤣
That's a great theory. Knowing national geographic they will blame it on aliens.. lol
@@JL-wb1dy It really was the aliens.
@@billl605 of the Mexican variety?
You can also watch the full episode of "Rise of the Mob" right here on Nat Geo TV! www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/drain-the-oceans and coming soon to D+!
OOOh, I love this kind of exploration/discovery. Thanks much for making the video, looked like fun.
Thanks for watching!❤
😇💜 What an AMAZING and COOL find.🤗💜 Thank YOU for sharing this adventure with us.🤗💜💜💜
Ford Model TT (1917 to 1926) ??? … 🧐🤨.
The vehicle's a Fort |Model T - or possibly a TT (built as a truck, rather than a conversion from a car.) With the arrangement of transverse springing, axle radius rods and other details it can't be anything else.
You know your stuff!
Could be a Dodge truck, or certain another brands. "Axle radius rods" were common to vehicles of the time. E.g., a 1927 Compton's encyclopedia I inherited from my mom shows the same axle radius rods in a diagram of a basic truck. In the filming pass over the transmission, I'm not sure it has a wide enough flywheel hump, a TT's planetary transmission would have? Maybe it is. Or just a flywheel with a regular transmission. I agree it was built as a truck, not a car conversion. But could be a truck from several brands. Dodge? Ford? Chevy? Studebaker?
“They’ll be able to buff this out no problem”
Great story and video. Thanks for letting all know more of what is at the bottom of the river.
Used to be a lot of rum running across the detroit river back in the day.. I believe there are(or there were) photos in the Vic Tavern of vehicles driving on the ice!
This is so cool! Wow! Thanks for doing all this. ❤. Is there a part 2? I need more info!
I feel like this is a cliff hanger. There is so much more to know. Please send links if there is more filmed about this. I need episode 2 stat.
You can watch the full episode of "Rise of the Mob" right here on Nat Geo TV! www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/drain-the-oceans
Excited as I am❣️🤗
Fantastic hobby you have. I personally don't think I would want to do it myself, but amazing to be able to find all that cool stuff.
Agreed on all counts. I live in Windsor and while I used to go into that water there's no way I'd do it anymore - it's filthy!! Plus, there is a crazy current throughout the river and the lake freighters moving through that river are utterly gigantic!
Awesome 😎 more please.... thanks
Literally amazing
That’s it?!! 😮
Nice job!👍👍
Well at least the Detroit River looks like it's in pretty good shape. I'm more impressed with that than the vehicle being found. 🤔
Cool graphics and it's awesome to see that like buried pirates treasure
Question : Why do divers always fall backwards out of the boat ?
Answer: Because if they fall forward they will still be in the boat. ( south Florida )
I know where an old car is in the river as well. I think that national geographic should make a special about the dangerous rebar and cement from hastily demolished bridges!
Do you have palsy...report the car
So inspiring. 🎉❤❤❤
Wheres the rest of the story???
Stuck behind a paywall, I imagine.
It's a teaser.
😂🤣🤣😂🤣
You can watch the full episode of "Rise of the Mob" right here on Nat Geo TV: www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/drain-the-oceans and coming soon to D+!
Surely some museum or historical society has pulled it out. Maybe this guy did. Surely Nat Geo wouldn't do this little without a better ending.
It's a "See-More" clip, i.e., a preview; not the whole story.
Wow😮 Wht A Great Find!!👍🏾
Very Interesting
Wow! Exciting. Never knew people dived in the Detroit river. I remember a few years back the police (if I remember correctly)dive team found an old cannon from a ship.
Surprised it didn't start when he turned that crank...old technology seems to run forever 😅
My curiosity level was skyhigh seeing this title.. and it still is.
My question was answered, but raised so many more questions 🤔🙄
Definitely a '20 something Model T truck with homebuilt auxiliary springs on the rear to handle more weight. A stock model T only had one cross spring in the rear.
LOL
Wow, That's 4 minutes and 10 seconds I'll never get back
thanks rode in it with my grandpa 50 yrs ago
Very interesting
That Was Great Clip this Vehicle Should be Taken Out and Stored in Museum
Years ago, many barges floated across the River, maybe the wheels weren't blocked off. Does the river freeze over in the winter? It could have gone through the ice, for it to be upside down makes me think it rolled backwards off a barge or a ferry
It's so exciting watching vids like this,I absolutely adore that fire in people that explore,discover and research to find the origin of things!!I've stood on the shores of the Atlantic and just gazed out and always thought to myself in awe like"I bet their are like "trillions " of pieces of history under that water"(I can only imagine standing by the SEA!WHEW!!llol..thanks for this vid,TRULLY makes life better and more delightfully fascinating ❤️😁🤗🥰🌄
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Looks like a model T with a flatbread on the back. First year electric starters for the T was 1919, I have a 1923 T Speedster, show winner!
It's a model T Ford if anyone is actually wondering. If you really would like to see a cool story check out the Bugatti in the lake.
Wow I think it's incredible that anyone would dive in that river, the current is swift. There must be a billion fish hooks down there.
Not to mention the pollution in that river! Granted the worst of it is downriver, but even up by Belle Isle it's pretty disgusting.
I know I’ve lost a lot of tackle from one end to the other
@Nate Williams I'd fish there one weekend a year and I'd lose 100 jigs
@@davidradke5170 😂trust me i know,especially at the foot of the Blvd under the bridge,you'd have to keep your lures off the bottom.
@@christinebutler7630 I have done some diving in there. It is very hard to see, once you get a few feet down, it gets dark quick. I can go up north and water is crystal clear.
The water is that clear in the Detroit river.amazing
Right? First thing I thought..... That water can not be safe.... Being an old school Detroiter.... I stayed out of city water.... ie: river rouge.....
1 foot vis aint that clear😵💫
While much of the video is authentically filmed underwater, the Nat Geo piece also uses "Drain the Ocean" CGI technology. The film part where the water gets clear and drains away, revealing the upside down rusted hulk, that's very well done CGI.
I live in Windsor - I wouldn't go into that water - it certainly doesn't look that clear to me whenever I walk by it - there are massive lake Freighters that go through the middle of the river constantly too - I'm sure they cause a good bit of the pollution in that river. That said, there are still a good number of people who fish in it and actually eat what they catch.
I have always loved Nat Geo exploration videos and this one has intrigued me. However it seems that Canadians won't be able to view this astounding "Drain the Oceans - Rise of the Mob" . Will this be available on the Canadian Discovery Plus channel?
Dad was born in 1913 in Wyandotte Mich, 10 miles S of Detroit. He told me, that bootleggers used to drive across the ice from Canada, with whiskey. Wonder if this was a bootleggers car?
So what I learned today: Trucks can't float... Ok, got it.
Amazing, How old is it?
Amazing. More of this please
The star shaped spikes at the rear wheels suggest this truck may have tried to cross the frozen river and fell through the ice.
Fabulous
I would love to frame that wheel inside a glass frame so cool!! Wow!
I live in the area. I have done many dives myself. It started when I was a kid and drag lining a hook picking up junk. Then I got into deep diving and found some cool stuff. Never saw the car but few sunken boats. Empty bottles and a some full ones. Fort Malden area has a lot neat things to find.
I'm certainly no expert but when u 1st saw the vid of the vehicle the modal T shape sprang to mind ,then I came to comments and ye could well by the sounds of it,but what an absolutely fascinating story to try a look into for,I from the UK and ye we have the history but the most likely rivers to hold such treasure (Thames etc) you really really wouldn't wanna step foot into it unfortunately due the sheer pollution we've desamated them with and continue to do so , the waters black at the best of time, such a shame and I truly admire the vast opportunity's America still has to uncover untold treasures! Happy diving!!
Very clearly and instantly recognizable as a model TT Ford.
Pretty cool actually
Ford Model TT Cool find!
Where's the rest of the video?
There's a number of them down there from the old Rumrunner days.
The current is powerful in the area. I’m from the area as well. There’s a lot of stuff at the bottom of the river. My best friends uncle was a rescue diver and pulled many bodies from the river. You never know what you’ll find down there.
Looks like a Ford Model TT truck. Transverse leaf springs front and back were a hallmark of a Model T and TT. Triangular arms that support the front and rear axles and allow for transverse leaf springs. The shape of the transmission right behind the engine looks exactly like the Model T and TT flywheel and magneto housing. The rear axle has the enclosed driveshaft at the top of the ring gear which is the worm gear design on the Model TT.
A "TT" would have two parallel rear springs and a worm rear end.
Yeah, you've piqued everyone's curiosity... Part 2?
I would have thought they could have raised the vehicle and studied it more
Years ago when winters were colder than today, Lake St Clair would freeze up and vehicles could drive onto the frozen Lake. That truck was pulling an ice fishing shed onto the pack ice probably close to the town of Belle River where ice fishing was popular, and later the ice pack broke away with truck parked on top and floated downstream to where the truck fell through the ice in the spring further down the Detroit River. Ice fishing was a popular sport on Lake St Clair many years ago with many setting up fishing sheds on the ice, the only way they got the sheds onto the Lake was pulling them with a vehicle.
5 seconds of actual footage, and no answers.....and no mention of where the full video is .
That's why I thumbed it down.
@@KuptisOriginal
Good idea, I’ll go back and do that as EVERYONE should.
Watch the full episode of "Rise of the Mob" right here on Nat Geo TV: www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/drain-the-oceans and coming soon to D+!
A starting handle. When I was young cars used to still have a starting handle even after they had electric ignition. If you had a flat battery you could still start the car.
So, when do we get the rest of the story?
You can watch the full episode of "Rise of the Mob" right here on Nat Geo TV: www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/drain-the-oceans and coming soon to D+!
Looks like an old delivery truck. These were used as bread and milk wagons. And frequently were used to drive over the frozen ice when they became old. As one would not wish to take a valuable new truck out where it could get lost.
How many knots is the current where this video was shot?
Thats not a vehicle.
Thats crushed hopes and dreams.
Que Historia mas Linda, conmovedora, lastima que ese muchacho hay tomando otro Rumbo.
Me recuerda a Tedd Williams, Golden Voice
Looks like an 1920 ice truck to cross a frozen river
I am fairly confident i could make that truck somewhat function again.
Why is this a partial video and how can we see the rest of it?
No link is here 🙈😡
Best spot for walleye in that river
I agree, drain the oceans, and filter the junk, every 100 years. 😢
It could have had an electric starter as well as a crank. Batteries were less reliable than today and manufacturers provided both quite often.
Side note: My grandfathers 1923 Essex Touring Car went through the Detroit River ice off the east side of Grosse Isle with a dozen cases of whiskey from Canada.
The front end punched through first, and he had to climb out because the lower edge of the door was already underwater and held shut by the running board, which had been folded upward by the ice as the car went through. Climbing out was easy enough, though, as the car only had a cloth convertible top and came without windows.
This all happened very close to the shore of Grosse Isle, and he was able to walk off the ice in less than a minute with only his legs below the knee wet. By the time he got off the ice, the car was gone.
My dad showed me where it happened a couple times when I was young, but I cannot remember the location now. I have driven the east side of the island many times, and cannot recognize the spot.
The family was not wealthy (hence the bootlegging) and the loss of the car was a major hardship that took a good while to recover from.
Main shipping lane in Canada. Even the avroaero proto type is somewhere in lake Ontario. Lots of shipwrecks. German subs were hit in there during the war by Canadians if still the St Lawrence. Canadians know all the wrecks.
There were no German subs in Lake Erie or the Detroit River during WW2. The St. Lawrence seaway didn't open until 1959, and ships must go through a series of locks to get into Lake Erie.
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do i see a walleye jig hahaha
There's so much stuff at the bottom of the Detroit River.
What is in the box on the truck 👀👁👁
They finally found the missing Concorde.
You just found yourself a model T Ford. Probably an early one.
I dove for 15 years in the Niagara River at Buffalo. The current was double the speed of what it was at Detroit and I know of no one who got injured from it. He claims the visibility is 5 foot. All the underwater shots have over 40 feet. this dude exaggerates. It was common for Breweries and ice housed to go out on the lake to cut ice for sale and beer production. It was most likly a truck collecting ice when a piece broke off and the truck was on a flow heading into the river, where it eventually ended rolling off into the river. It is quite common in lake Erie and the thousand island area to dive and see these vehicles like this on the bottom.
My grandfather smuggled Canadian whiskey over the frozen Detroit River during prohibition driving trucks accross the ice. This is probably one of those trucks.
Whoa. That's super old. The unusual is out there.
Lots to discover!
Probably a prohibition booze truck
Ford Model T.
Anyone who has ever worked on one knows exactly what it is. They are like roaches, they are everywhere.
Ford model T check with the Henry Ford museum . I thought the TT model was a heavy spec. T with 4 tires on the rear axle.
I live there and I would not mess around in that river.