Sinking Ship Simulator: The Royal Navy's Damage Repair Instructional Unit
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- tomscott.com - with many, many thanks to the Royal Navy and everyone at HMS Excellent! royalnavy.mod.uk
How do you train sailors to save a sinking ship? Sure, you can teach them the theory, but there's no replacement for having to hammer softwood wedges into deck and bulkhead splits that are spraying cold, high-pressure water in your face.
At HMS Excellent in Portsmouth sits Hazard, a Royal Navy Damage Repair Instructional Unit (DRIU). Every Navy recruit who's going out to sea will have to go through something like this -- and on a much harder level than we did! But then, they'll have had months of training and teamwork beforehand...
DIRECTED BY Matt Gray: mattg.co.uk - @unnamedculprit - see behind-the-scenes video at • Sinking Ship Simulator...
WITH:
Paul Curry - @cr3
Melinda Seckington - missgeeky.com - @mseckington
And again, with many thanks to all the Navy team who were so generous with their time and effort: royalnavy.mod.uk - / royalnavy / royalnavy
This is like an escape room on steroids.
Except you're trying to escape drowning.
My thought exactlly
Reuben Willard yep
So the game 999
“Colonel, We’ve managed to avoid DROWNING!”
Oh how far we’ve come
See, you would have been fine if some sailor hadn't been keeping all that water in his locker!
underrated banter
Sea*
Slap some flex tape on that bad boy
Matthew Sanetra no he means see
WretchedCash522 I made it a pun. r/woosh
Half a billion dollar ship being kept afloat by brute force and the simple wooden wedge. I love it.
I just love it when multimillion/billion dollar vehicles and equipment are somehow kept in working condition by a combination of sheer determination and whatever happens to be around
To quote tom "the art of the bodge"
BECAUSE WERE BRITISH
Rule 1 of the British military: If it can be done cheaply and looks like it'll work instead of properly, do it.
Rules of Britain and it's military forces: if it's cheap and works, do it, if it's neither your screwed, and if it's only cheap but doesn't fully work, do it anyway
I am 62 I did that training when I was 17 yrs old when I think back to it I still feel cold and scared. We were told that if we did not seal the leaks in time we may be drowned. It got to about 8 inches from the top I was treading water then they suddenly drained the compartment. We did not have enough time or material to seal all the holes. If I live to 100 yrs I will never forget that day. Have told family of that day now having found this I can show them.
Wow, thanks for sharing. I guess they wanted you to feel what it was like to stare death in the face.
So they gave you an impossible task just to see how far you'd get? Was this the US Navy or another country?
The adrenaline definitely kicks in at this part of phase 1 training. Was actually a very good team building exercise
@@eliju420
I think they just wanted to drill it into them that they CAN die
The brain can't comprehend death until its staring it in the eyes
@@eliju420 He's likely referring to the exact training in this video, so probably the UK's Royal Navy.
Escape room? No thanks - Plug the hole room? Yes please!
Sounds like a sex dungeon but ok
@@MrPijus123 do both
RyanRyzzo that where you were conceived?
Fix the hole or drowned
thats what I call your mom's room
I wonder what would happen if someone said over the speaker: "We lost control over the water level."
Nikey_Boy theres an emergency stop button which drains the entire thing out
@Yamato Bismark Lmao, funny how that pressure makes you work harder, right?
YOU DIED
That’d be me.
PA- “Appears to be that we have lost control over the water level”
Couple secs later: “Just kidding your gonna live”
And the emergency stop button isn't working!
1:13 that grin is like "I get to max out the controls on my boss, oh happy days!"
7:29
The Navy: We're going to try and drown you while you bash wedges into holes
Also the Navy: please mind your head
Both of those things are for the crews safety. Where is the contradiction?
@@nonnaurbisness3013 Well, it’s hardly safe to try and drown someone; plus, is watching your head and reading signs your highest priority while trying to save a sinking ship?
@@KnakuanaRka That sign is on the outside of the simulator
Well when you put it that way.....it's a riot 🤣
K1naku5ana3R1ka there not trying to are they if it gets to their neck there going to stop it and take it as a fail
Woulda been easier had they had.. **slap** Flex Tape!
OMFG THAT WOULD BE HILLARIOUS. Hi Phil Swift here with Flex Tape SMACK. Got a hole in your ship? oh yah looks like it. THATS A LOTTA DAMAGE. SMACK. FLEX TAPE.
Johntron dude
I cut this boat in half
Nelson Martinez thank you for saying that
British rebuild party
I imagine the enemy trying to sink that ship as it slowly turns into a cluster of wedges poking out in every direction.
Lmao same
Now its a wood boat
There’s an old joke in the Royal Navy like “the soviets don’t need nukes, they just need something that destroys duct tape and we won’t have ships”
"what are they doing captain?"
"They're beginning to believe"
gzerox2 haha I love that
I don't need a sinking ship simulator. I have my life for that.
Boo hoo
The USN also has these live damage control simulators and they’re terrifying. Water everywhere, the only light is on your helmet, people yelling and screaming….I remember having to shore up a bulkhead with 4x4s and wedges and a friggin sledgehammer. But when you finish and the water starts to slow down and then stop…that’s a helluva good feeling.
1:17
Missile: *hits boat*
Guy in the back:
Bloody hell
Uss stark, persian gulf, 1987? Hit by exocet missile.
Yes, a bit emotional for a brit, but we will let him off ;)
This time....
@@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 Someone needs to remind him not to do it again tho.
British navy: 1945
*B L I M E Y*
4:37: "if they are feeling kind, they can drop the water level."
4:46, Driver: "Poseidon will have no mercy, neither will I!"
No comments now I will ruin it ajajaja ez
What would poseidon do?....
@@ziontkiii56 have no mercy
Driver: "Things you might not know huh? Well, do you know what drowning is like?"
* turns key *
@@seventhportal Things Tom might not know
They’re too calm. They’re like:”Oh hey we’re drowning!”
I mean, that’s how I’m gonna react when there is a water spraying in my room
British people are just built different
staying calm will probably keep you alive
The moment you start panicking and stop thinking is the moment you have already died, and these people have had that lesson drilled into them.
Did that in 1978, still remember the initial panic when the lights went out and the water flooded in. Once in action though, you concentrate on the task at hand
“I just sawed this boat in half!”
"Phil Swift detected! Brace, brace, brace!"
This is what flex tape go though
But if you put it back together you'll still have made a whole
1000th like!!!
Trover19 imagine instead of “brace! Brace! Brace!”, it goes “I just sawed this boat in half”, then BOOM! Water starts chugging into the room
Imagine astronauts banging wedges to fix a hole after space debris hit the ISS fuselage
Well they can't just let all that space inside now can they?
@@GreatMelonLord lmao
Bail out all that space!
I mean at one point when someone was scrambling to find a repair kit to fix a small hole in the side of the ISS, one of the astronauts just... Stuck their finger in it for a bit.
They are too advanced to use wedges in space. They be using flex tape!
That “Bloody hell!” was so absolutely British, and I love it 🤣🤣
Brings back memories of the Submarine version of this that I had to do periodically. Its literally the worst feeling having that water hitting you from everyside trying to patch one pipe up. I always felt like a wet Chihuahua standing there when it was all done. Getting those wedges in is difficult work. I could barely get them in there it takes just pure brute force and coordination.
Imagine those crew doing this in WWII, on freezing waters, in dark compartments , not knowing if the ship is already doomed or not
One would hope that they'd have put all of their depth charges to good use before they sprang a leak.
Depth charges!
Trust me the water is freezing
Not even knowing if the ship’s still over water!
Imagine wooden ships...
I love how at 1:24 you can just hear Matt in the background yelling _“Bloody HELL!”_
B L O O D Y H E L L
Absolutely british
Lmao saw this as it happened. Poor Matt
*B L I M E Y*
Bloody hell
At Raleigh it is known as HMS Havoc - for fairly obvious reasons. They used to start this exercise by shouting 'enemy aircraft' then throwing in a couple of thunderflashes (REALLY loud fireworks) which deafened you in a small metal compartment, then turn the lights off for about 15 seconds for maximum confusion. Zero chance of fixing all the leaks - you just need to restrict it to the point that the pumps can cope
Did anyone else just want them to see them close the cabinet and be like “It was already broken.”
"this group is no good, fill her with water and get the next batch ready."
When I was in the Italian Navy, before being assigned to my ship, I had to do a similar training, in a similar ship model, but not with water. It was fire.
I never felt so scared in my life afterwards
+Andrea Tani Damn, the italian navy has ships capable of going into lava lakes?? Niccce.
+Andrea Tani wait to be qualified to fix a sinking ship you had to fix a burning ship LOGIC
+Ralien Seems to me like you'd be able to sit back and let both problems cancel each other out!
Ralien It was not training to fix a sinking ship, it was a training to prevent, manage, and extinguish fire on a ship.
In a lot of cases fire is worse than water on a ship: you can isolate or slow sinking in a way that the ship can return safely home, but fire is a different beast altogether
***** That's the italian way: let the issues solve themselves :)
I used to be in the Canadian Navy and we had a similar (but much more primative and smaller) training compartment/tank in Halifax, Canada. The same principals were applied: the water level was controlled externally and if your team was performing favorably, they'd slow down the inflow of water. But if your team wasn't getting the holes plugged up or the shoring (timbers) in place correctly, the operators would nearly fill the compartment! It is surprisingly realistic once you're down inside one of these Mock-ups, and easy to forget that it's just a drill, especially when the cold water keeps rising!! Well done Tom.
If I was a sailor, I would want to get as much training in this simulator as I could to prepare me mentally for a real life scenario such as those simulated here.
That looks so fun. But I'd probably have a panic attack
My brain would probably freeze since I can't do anything under pressure.
Me too
And I have abysmal social skills
that is so me :)
I would happly pay to do this with a team of friends
the most unrealistic part is how clear the water is.
Well depending on where a ship is the water could be crystal clear or blinding with how dirty it is.
@@Lunk42 even in clear water, a real ship would probably be filled with gunk from behind and under things you can't reach and would be going in the water as it starts flooding
@@teph1256 That wouldnt be a lot I think
@@gideonkloosterman H
And oil, and no lighting
Watched this and it immediately brought back memories of using a quite a bit of lower tech and smaller damage control sim. Those things it is a lot of fun to do, just pray I never need to use those kind skills in a real emergency.
In 1968- to 72 I was stationed at Point Loma Sub base., San Diego. The navy had a simulator that taught the same damage control principals. Thanks for helping me look back in time.
7:22 I’ve never seen a more polite warning sticker
"Mind your head"
Waaaaaaw sooo polite
How is it polite? Mind means be aware in this context! Bloody hell are you Americans?
@@user-jg3qh2cq7e probably not an American. American warning stickers are usually just paragraphs on a tiny sticker or non existent
@@gabe8168 "Don't be dumb, but if you are, you can't sue us because of this warning"
Getting to do some really cool odd stuff these days tom. Long live youtube and the doors it opens.
+colinfurze Agreed :) Looking forward to seeing more things from you too!
+Tom Scott Yea, on that topic, I'd just like to say how much I appreciate the variety.
After spending the day studying, going to lectures, attending meetings, etc it's nice to see something a bit odd.
I have no idea who this +colinfurze guy is, but I think I'm about to find out.
+Falcrist Colin is a proper madman/ mad scientist type,
Your youtube channel is the best!
wait, COLIN, didnt expect to see you here
Can't imagine the stress of this situation... and add being hit by more rockets/artillery as well a rough sea.
That’s cool, it’s like a metaphor for the UK itself.
lmao
Good thing we've got plenty of wedges. How are the cracks in the EU holding up these days?
cry more
I've heard that one of the biggest differences between Japanese and American ships in the Pacific War were the levels of damage control. The Americans were able to keep afloat ships that the Japanese would have written off as beyond saving.
Jim Fortune thats why american carriers were often declared as sunk by the Japanese just for them to reappear a few months later, the damage observed by japanese strike pilots was often beyond the IJNs ability to fix so they got declared sunk. Techniques improvised by those american WW2 crews are still taught to sailors to prepare them for saving a ship in an emergency
@@themadhammer3305 one of the beauties of war
yo boychilli adversity is the mother of invention
*cough* Lady Lex *cough*
The British aircraft carriers were harder to damage than the American ones because the decks were armoured, and the German warships were much harder to sink than other warships because they had the smallest possible amount of doors through watertight bulkheads
Imagine you’re in the navy then your boat gets hit and all you hear is “bloody hell!” in *matts voice then you just die
I believe that was Matt yelling
1:24 captions : ,,MATT : Bloody hell!"
Well if I just died, I wouldn't get the time necessary to recover from the scenario and give a reaction.
There's nothing to imagine.
Zaire yes but hypothetically, in the event that you didn’t immediately die.
@@maxmanning5482 If I didn't immediately die, I'd probably be too concerned about the very realistic threat of drowning to hear anything.
I'm just complaining, btw, I have no agenda in picking out the issues with the comment.
I lost my breath several times while watching this. I'm definitely not getting on any boats soon.
It's not bad there's teams in place if something were to happen it be addressed quickly
It’s the most controlled thing you’ll do, the team that control it can pump the water out in a couple of second and there’s usually a safety diver in there with you
@@redleader6755 safety divers? In the states if it gets above waist level we just fail
this is an incredible training capability, you can really imagine the difference between a crew with this training and one without.
Wow..if this a training simulation and it already looks scary.just imagine if this is real life scenario where lives are at stake and under combat.
This is why you drill it over and over again--so when the real thing happens, you don't need to stop and think.
Royal navy training, make it as hard and "real" as possible so the basics of the job become automatic.
@@mulgerbill Repair crew on the job: Oh no the water is so yucky. I HAVE A FISH IN MY MOUTH
Then Titanic sinking music starts playing
Not to mention more holes being blasted than you can fix
Imagine your boat sinking and you and your crew and a trying to repair the damage and you hear from the bottom depths of the ocean
*"T o s h o w t h e p o w e r o f f l e x t a p e , I c u t t h i s b o a t i n h a l f ."*
That's a lot of damage!
The EXTRA wide roll.......
Underrated
The advertisement it made was exaggerated 😂 but it still does a good job
@@virginialao5132 Oh the hilarity of those stupid infomercials. 😆🤣xD
I have had to train in one of these before to rank up in the Navy and im not lying it is way scarier than you think, i mean people may say “the waters clear so its easy” or “15 degrees isnt much” but when you are in there it can be incredibly tough and it is actually fairly likely this can happen if you are aboard a ship, usually destroyers maybe other ships. And i have had to deal with these kind of leaks before and they are very hard to repair, so looking at how Matt did and how they performed they did very well.
One of the best courses in my time in the RN. Lessons learned that day will stay with me forever.
My uncle did this 30 years ago
And I have to do in a few weeks time, I'm very much excited
Update: did it, it went well was great fun, we did a smaller room with less holes, we have a BSSC and ISSC in phase 2 in which we do more, we also had the HMS Chaos which doesnt move but is used to demonstrate more stable solutions to the holes
have you done it yet?
*Did you survive?*
How did it go?
@@justmonez I'm on week 4 at the moment, still got a while to go yet
@@bread7713 dont know yet 0_0 remind me in 4 weeks when I do it
Biggest surprise is that to fix a hole in a ship...they use wood? I guess thinking about it, it is a substance that can be shaped quickly and will expand slowly as it absorbs water. But still it's a little odd if every British Navy ship has a stack of wood in a cabinet in case of a breach.
+tangerinealarm Yep, that's exactly it! It won't stop it completely, but it'll stop most of it - and then expand to help fill the gaps. Then they get some pumping equipment in and start clearing it out.
+Tom Scott I still think in the 21st century there must be a better system than wooden chocks!
+Luke Carter Probably not one that can be deployed quickly with minimal training that can also be stored indefinitely without degrading. Bear in mind that these repairs are very much a stopgap measure, meant to hold out as much water as possible util proper damage control teams can get in, assess what needs doing and effect more lasting repairs.
+tangerinealarm Well, you want it to be cheap, light, and to float to the surface if someone drops it. You could go with some high-tech plastic gadget, or you could just use some wood.
+Luke Carter its simple, its cheap and in the short term its effective (which since its a temporary fix is fine). so why spend the money to develop something different to do the exact same job?
Love it. I joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1979 and did similar training, although this modern RN facility is of course more advanced!
I'm unlucky enough to have experience of the simulator and a real damage control situation from collision. I did the damage control training at HMS Excellent and I was also on HMS Nottingham when it ran aground in 2002. The simulator was fairly representative of my experience onboard the Nottingham, including the equipment used. (Although, both in simulation and on ship we had access to more than just wedges and hammers.)
honestly this seems like it'd be really fun
It should be a game like laser tag or bowling
PizzaYum 2004 what does this, laser tag, and bowling have in common?
Politiekman good point
It is fun. See it as a combination of a rollercoaster-ride and an escape-room. However, ppl are likely to get injured alot doing this. There's using hammers in very awkward situations and when the mock-up rolls (and somebody forgets to hold on to a floating piece of wood 4x4) it can get dangerous quickly.
DreadX10, yup
When the lights turned off, that's when I would have cried. 4:07
How would crying help you in a crisis?
@Mark Omega Oh please, someone on the Internet being afraid of the idea of drowning is in no way comparable to hundreds of people's lives at stake. They're very clearly not in the Navy, it doesn't matter. Stop acting like you're some macho, emotionless action hero.
Imagine having to go through all of that in reality, with the only light being provided by flashlights.
@@AudieHolland Imagine having to do that in a wooden ship, with the only light of a fire torch. Which you don’t really want to be extinguished by all the coming water. Terrifying.
good news is that with all the water no one would be able to tell
I’ve done this, absolutely loved every minute of it, the instructors are top fellas too.
Done this myself when I was in Navy training. Crazy experience!
Captain, we are sinking!
Send Scott
But, captain
Send Scott!
ok
Alby Kool don't get it...
chicken nuggets neither do I
I'm trying to sense the pun as Mimu Mi made a punny reply
It's a quite hard pun to digest
But captain we dont have one scott in the tripulation
Epic prank: Cover your 3-4 friend's eyes and take them to the "ship". Then, tell the, that it's the 48 hour ship challenge! No phones, no internet for 48 hours inside that room without going out. Then, tilt the ship a bit for some time so they think they're floating on the sea, and around 5 hours in start the simulation and make them freak out. Like seriously freak out.
mankeez Just to be warned: that kind of prank has a high chance to end any friendship.
Yeah that would be cool! They should make a prank like this i want to see their reactions!
mankeez can we get this to a lot of likes so this can happen
Calm down satan
Did you mean: US navy bootcamp?
Wow make so much sense to have these sorts of simulators!
Me: **is trying to cut my shower time in half to conserve water**
The Royal Navy: **is probably running one of these simulations simultaneously**
I wanna say the water is recycled. Dont know why it eouldnt be if its chlorinated.
Its salt water
Californian almond farmers: *growing almonds, infamous for water consumption, in a land full of drought*
Conserving water plugs the pipes though. The pipes need to be cleaned more often. The water supplier spends more money on the cleaning yet makes less money due to people conserving water. You pay as much as before for your water bill despite using less because the water supplier must compensate for the increased amount of cleaning.
Not sure why I'm telling you this 🤔. Maybe to let you know that it is pointless to conserve water if you are doing it to save money...?
@@IsleNaK More of an environmental impact thing but good point on your end
"they trusted us with hammers!!" that is now my favorite quote
I was fortunate enough to go to HMS Raleigh for work experience in yr10 and we got to do this for ourselves. From experience (bare in mind I was 15 and scrawnier than I am a year later) that bloody locker was the hardest part. I was told to climb in and I had to have a mate help push me in 😂
Edit: I forgot to mention the staff didn’t go easy on us and put it on a 15 degree turn so the water was just flying about
I took my turn in the unit @ HMS Raleigh (1976-77) and they gave us a fail which meant we had to do it all again the following day. Oh to be 16 again!
@@tonystanney3804 As much as I hated doing it in the moment , cannot wait to do it again when I join up
who would win?:
-the literal wrath of poseidon pressurized trough a hole
-one wedgy woody boi
I loved it ! Our lot got the mess deck compartment too and we were getting the full 15 degree roll. We were also using splinter boxes and accro props.
Missile which costs thousands of cash: *peep*
A piece of wood and some hammer: *hey*
@Samuel Parsons You okay?
@Samuel Parsons it doesn't tho. It's standard in almost every naval ship these days
@@marcusborderlands6177 nah mate some random dude on the internet definitly knows more then the royal force which won 2 world wars
@@kaninchengaming-inactive-6529 Wood expands when wet, creates increasing force on the metal and friction holds it in place... if wood cracked under that much pressure on a ship... then how the fk did the primitive humans make wooden, straw or any ship for that matter?
@@rebeccaconlon9743 idk, ask @Samuel Parson
Wood wedges may seem too primitive, but the triangular shape of it and the property of wood makes it just the perfect solution. Beauty in its simplicity
"some press want to interview you sir, are you in a good mood?"
"nope"
"attempt to drown them and mask it as training exercise?"
"no no, they are the press, have a training exercise that is about sinking ships and get them involved..."
"oh sir... you're a big softie"
I think the white house is an even better simulator of a sinking ship.
did you try to turn it off and on again?
HiisiBoi420 finally a good comment
Just turning it off would do I would think.
i like this
If that doesnt work give it the good old bang of the fist 1 2 3. good to go.
Nah, it is water damage. Put it in rice.
I think they should do birthday parties for kids :L
+Joshua Mcateer The candles would be put out very quickly indeed...
+bigglessy and the kids
+Joshua Mcateer honestly that would be the best birthday ever
Ikr
+Antonio Fernandez sounds like fun
This was great fun. I did this in the summer of 2003 was a Submariner for 10years and I would do ot all again in a heartbeat. Best job ever.
Just did this yesterday, looking at it doesn't look too hard but doing it in the dark and it rolling 20° each way and maybe more was challenging with added more to the realistic side.
I went on this a year or so ago with the cadets. One thing that isnt mentioned is how cold the water is - its absolutely freezing to the point where it numbs you completely. When I was there we had around 10 people in at the same time, and all of these problems were occurring simultaneously. The locker was, no doubt, the hardest thing. You can't see anything, and when trying to push wedges in, your hand just gets shoved away by the power of the water. It was great fun but absolutely hellish at the same time.
dam, why'd they have all that water inside of the locker
This one made me laugh
Bet that locker full of water belonged to Davy Jones
piss wardrobe
*what if it's not water but a sticker sailors liquids*
@@jenkinsfamily2229 🤣
These exact techniques have been used for centuries - there were people whose job it was on wooden ships to go around and repair small daily leaks using tarred hemp rope called Oakum - this is where caulking comes from because it was also done in cabins above to stop wind draughts.
Imagine doing this while the ship is rocking back and forth, and the water is sloshing from side to side!
Believe it or not, I loved damage control training when I was in the Navy. In Germany in the 90s we didnÄt have quite as fancy facilities, but not too far off. Plus, we got to train building the wooden constructions in an actual ship. A decomissioned one kept for that purpose with holes in the hull. That was actual sea water we got to work in and still ... I loved it! So rewarding to stop the flow and see what you achieved immediately. Sometimes I miss the Navy ...
Loved Damage Control training and Fire Training. It was a Blast. Although sealing leaks and plugging holes was a little different.
@@lutkeone My two favorite Navy schools.
the moral of the story is: "if you go into the royal navy, take goggles..."
+Louieno1 Right!
I guess there's some reason they don't get any, but it seems that goggles would really help.
+Louieno1 And a mini respirator.
+catfish552 Googles could get foggy and you can't see through the splashing water anyway. Also keeping them inplace when you get hit by a pressurized stream of water would be impossible and they could actually be dangerous for your eyes if they slipped in the wrong angle and the sides would hit your eyes. I think they wouldn't help at all.
+rangedfighter but if they are diving to fix something under the water they won't see anything.
extremely valuable training.
I did this back in 2012 but we used clamps aswell, it wasn't just wedges. Anyways, I was in the mess deck on a bunk bed dealing with a hole there and I nearly lost a clamp behind the hole. Staff wouldn't have been happy! 😄
It was great fun anyways. Quite the experience and it was rocking all over the place!
That wedge split was clutch AF
This looks awfully expensive. I just get in my shower with all my clothes on and pretend I'm in a sub that's been hit.
Or you could just flood your house
That's an old Stephen Wright joke. :-)
They recycle the water like a pool so it's not as bad as a shower
This seems like a fun way to start your day
Wtf
Never have I felt such anxiety, watching such calm men, standing their ground in a flooding room, with water rising so fast. I respect their ability to adhere to the task.
Wow! Water pressure is very powerful and trying to repair it at the same time. Congrats to you.
"this is serious kit"
*Shows vid of someone whacking wedges with a hammer*
Looks hilarious, but that technique is actually really important to making structurally sound braces over a patch. They wouldve failed without knowing that
They trusted us with hammers. :P
+Naros I lost it at the 'and we FAILED'
DFX2KX
They did a good job at conveying just how hard it was, and how much fun they had. :)
Naros
That is very true, they did.
+Naros Oh nice! Are you with a cadet force?
Fraktallity - Inconsistent vlogs
Nope! I'm just a shark.
The US has something similar, or at least had> It has been many years since I trained on the USS Buttercup. Besides the flooding and damage control below decks we also fought fires (set by the instructors) in the superstructure, class A,B,C, and D. Look up class D fires...itś some fun!
This is just downright scary. My blood pressure is up watching it and they're doing this commentary mode. Can't imagine being there 😨😱😱
I want to try that so bad.
ErrorIcon it is great fun I did it as a cadet two years back
ErrorIcon They should do like a public thing or i dunno in a fuckin waterpark or something.
ErrorIcon same :(
Raidzor つ ◕_◕ つ yeah! :)
Just join the navy
What's truly amazing is that the initial method for dealing with a hull breach is the same as it was hundreds of years ago, wooden wedges and a hammer.
This looks both fun and terrifying at the same time
Did that in 2001,what a week that was. Best course the RAF ever sent me on. Oh yes I was on the DG deck, and it went wrong.
Tom: We left behind an entire hammer at one point
Paul: *They trusted us with hammers and we prevailed*
'Instructional staff would get the full 15 degree, to make it harder...'
*tries to supress evil smile*
That guy loves a good drill
"We're hoping to perform maintenance to let it tilt 45 degrees just to make it a little harder."
“Tilting to 170 degrees, try to hold up in there.”
Best fun I have ever had on this.
Wish they would show the engine room section, makes this bit look easy, when the ship is rolling 15degrees you have to time the rolls to get the wedges in otherwise you would be completely submerged when it rolled back over. Have done this three times now, its pure fun, the cold doesnt bother you once the adrenaline gets going.
Using wood may seems weird, but there is not many way to plug a hole quickly. The best way would be to bring the ship out of the water, cut the damaged steel, replace with new one, weld it, paint, wait for it to dry, then return to the water. Second best way would be to dive and weld a plate over the hole. The boat can't move while they do that. Third way would be an inflating baloon, but the sharp edges of the metal would shread it so no good. Wood is actually pretty good, can be roughtly and quickly shaped with an hammer and an edge. Once in place, the more you hit the wedge, the more it will deform and get better coverage since the metal will sink in the wood.
Remember, the hole has probably been caused by a missile or torpedo. That mean they are being attacked. They can't go outside to fix it, they have to plug it as best as they can. All they need to do is plug it enought so there is less water comming in than the pumps can take the water back out. Once they will be back in a safe zone, they will be able to do the better fix, like sending a diver to weld a plate in place. When their mission will be over, they will most likelly go in a dry dock to get proprelly fixed.
thephantom1492 why cant they move whilst welding?
Because the divers and all their tools would be swept away by the current. Ever tried sticking your hand out of a moving car? Notice how to wind catches it? Water does that alot more and a alot slower speed. Even if you were physically attached to the ship the water dragging on your body would make it impossible to work if the ship moves at any noteworthy speed.
But still this seems like an eneffective way of sealing a hole. I'm sure someone cloud improve on this.
@@burgundyknight6826 Wood is used as it expands to form a better seal in the hole
Just use flex tape
I'd love to see professionals doing this
Bodie and Doyle are probably a bit old for this now mind
I get to do this with my school as a part of CCF, I can’t wait 😁
I've been in one of those for navy cadets. It was awesome, plus we did training for fires on ships.
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Flex wouldn't work in this situation, its advertised to stop leaks and work underwater, but the PSI used hear is no where near to that of a leak in a bucket.
@@penguins6229 it a joke
This would make an amazing escape room type experience
Ahh, HMS Havoc, been and done this, an amazing experience..
Wow, the graphics are amazing!