Can you believe it's been a year since this!! The most predictable / insane story of 2023 - revisited - 🎧 Dive into the depths of maritime mysteries with our latest episode, where we explore two of the most tragic and intriguing underwater incidents: the Byford Dolphin accident and the Titan submersible disaster. Discover the harrowing details, the science behind the catastrophes, and the lessons learned from these deep-sea tragedies. 🌊⚓️ #TrueCrime #ByfordDolphin #TitanSubmersible #PodcastEpisode #MaritimeMysteries #DeepSeaDisasters #ScienceAndSafety #UnderwaterExploration #HistoryPodcast #TragicEvents
Can you believe it's been a year since this!! The most predictable / insane story of 2023 - revisited - 🎧 Dive into the depths of maritime mysteries with our latest episode, where we explore two of the most tragic and intriguing underwater incidents: the Byford Dolphin accident and the Titan submersible disaster. Discover the harrowing details, the science behind the catastrophes, and the lessons learned from these deep-sea tragedies. 🌊⚓️
#TrueCrime #ByfordDolphin #TitanSubmersible #PodcastEpisode #MaritimeMysteries #DeepSeaDisasters #ScienceAndSafety #UnderwaterExploration #HistoryPodcast #TragicEvents
Hi Friends! Our transcripts aren't perfect, but I wanted to make sure you had something - if you'd like an edited transcript, I'd be happy to prioritize one for you - please email doomedtofailpod@gmail.com - Thanks! - Taylor
hello welcome to doomed to fail my name is Taylor we are the podcast that brings
you history's most notorious failures and epic disasters twice a week every
week but before that we are re-releasing our first 26 episodes because those
episodes we did in two stories in one show so they were pretty long so we
decided to do twice a week and have two episodes a week but we wanted them to be individual as well so we been we've been
re-releasing these basically that that's what's happening um and we're almost at the end so it is episode 26 part one and
can you believe that it has been a year since the Titan submersible imploded um
what a wild year 2023 into the first half of 2024 is and has been and who
knows what is next and can you believe that someone else is saying that they're going to go down in another submersible
to prove that safe it's uh I don't know kind of feel like just don't go there since then we've done a couple scary
ocean uh other stories as well far ased one on the blue hole and yeah no just
don't go um but join us for this episode to revisit the story of the Titan
submersible which as you know imploded on its way to the Titanic and also the equally terrifying story of the biford
dolphin incident where some people were like above the water but PR pressurized
and then like a door opened and everybody exploded um it's real gory and weird so enjoy these this is almost the
end not of the show but of our re-releases and um yeah so if you have
any feedback or questions doomed to fail pod gmail.com Doom to fail Doom toil
pod.com and I'll I'm sorry I'll let you to it episod matter the people of State of California versus orthal James
Simpson case number ba09 my fellow Americans ask not what your country can
do for you ask what you can do for your
country so Taylor yeah this our last week of
anonymity I just I just went out and went to Walmart you know just to be
unrecognized in public for for for once for the last time I would and Sh a
stranger hand of the gross store I'm never going to have this chance again CU we're going to be so famous
perfect we'll go ahead and kick things off I'll make the intro welcome to
doomed to fail the podcast where Taylor and I explor two relationships one his
work and one usually True Crime Although our promise tends to change all the time that are full of R Flags I'm fars joined
here by Taylor hi Taylor hi fars I'm so excited to be here I know it's Sunday
and it's late late in the in the weekend usually record earlier but you had your parents in town and I had to work
yesterday and just this week I've been more tired than I've ever been in my whole entire life so I feel like a human
today so I'm glad that we're doing this today this time this moment like this is exactly when I should be recording I'm
in the exact right head space cuz like yesterday I felt so rushed the family was here I had to take care of things
and earlier this morning they were here and now it's like they've been gone for like an hour and a half or so and I can
just like ease my way into normal life again you know so this is the exact right time yeah one my husband took the
kids to the park cuz I hate I hate the park [ __ ] hate it as boring as [ __ ] so he takes the kids to the park because
the kids love it soly because their children but yeah so it's nice I've been home for a little
bit just kind of and I was i' been home for like an hour by myself and I haven't been listening to anything I've just
kind of been like trying to like get my mind around what I'm talking about this
week and I'm super excited to talk about it and to tell you but Wonder in a thing
so as usual everybody knows Taylor and I never share we're discussing beforehand so I have no idea what Taylor's going to
discuss but I don't know why I get the feeling that there might be like a through line there's always a through
line former literally there is always my stories are very unique though but we'll
get to that in a second I think today I go first is that right yes so why of you tell us where your signature cocktail is
where signat your drink for your okay I also want to just I'm going to do that
in a second I promise but I also wanted to say part of the reason that I feel like I'm in this like crazy mind space
at the moment is because like this whole week I've been reading this book on um on what I'm going to talk about later
and I listened to it cuz like everyone I have like a [ __ ] ton of stuff to do but it was like 48 hours so I was like in
this book and I was like you know bringing the kids to swim lessons and trying to get in my steps I was like
walking around the pool listening to this book and like taking notes in my notes app and like trying to like really be in it so and then I was reminded that
I read this like dumb ass post on like Instagram or LinkedIn where some dude was like you know exercise this much to
do this and he was like and read one book a week but audio books don't count and I just wanted to say [ __ ] that guy
cuz a that's the that's the the advice and clueless that Sher says she says let's read one non-school book a week do
you remember that part and she goes my first my first book is fit or fat you'll remember if you know and then also
that's like super dumb but also at worst it's like really ableist like some people can't focus on words people
whatever so anyway that's I've been like I think listening to this book actually put me a lot further into the story so
that's why I've been kind of losing my mind so I just wanted to share that with you and then also because we're here
before you get started I had another friend of ours that we know mutually try to mansplain whatever this to me and
they were like oh so for every episode you just like read a Wikipedia page and I was like no I'm reading like whole
books and I'm like learning a ton and I just feel like in the past 6 months I've learned so much and I hope that you have
too and that other people have yeah I have discovered that you know there's a
lot of stories that we've done before where I will look at the Wikipedia page and I'll read other content around it I'm like the facts just you're left up
up in the air in terms of like what's true and what's not because you know I covered what was the guy last week the
guy who killed um Versace and Harper's bizarre I mean I actually be grown a new
Fascination and appreciation with magazines and the amount of like actual
research that goes into publishing certain articles like har Bard did like that is the source of Truth for all this
stuff there was another one I did the Atlantic was a source of Truth for like and and you look at the Wikipedia
articles for example and they're just like taking these like broad swats and copy pasting over from like actual
Publications that are doing really legit research work which is really really interesting so and I think it's sounds
silly but it sounds silly but like then I'm like oh well they got this from this article you're like oh now that I've read more than one source on this thing
I'm like getting things so anyway it's super fun so this week I am drinking
conac do you know what cognac is I've had CAC is Hennessy KAC
yes okay yeah because I was G it's like it's a brandy and Brandy is distilled wine
which I didn't know or understand I I feel like I haven't had Brandy but I'm sure I have but yeah cacs you might know
are like henness Hennessy and corvier okay anyway so that's why I'm drinking
that is not a taste profile that I particularly enjoy cuz it's like sweet right like sweeter than usual anyway in
real life a lior it's like a leor liquor you one of those things
anyway so anyway I on the other hand have just discovered that our my local grocery store HB for
anybody that's in Texas has a passion fruit sparkling water I'm going to be drinking that because it has nothing to
do with my story but I just enjoy it so I'm go ahead and drink my little passion fruit fizzly fizzy water good Fe and
then I'll go ahead and kick us off and once again normally I cover true Prime
this week is a little bit different actually it's a lot different it's totally different it's like exactly 180 degrees different so it has nothing to do with True Crime whatsoever oh my God
what are you telling me Taylor consistently I think that we want to
keep this show Mostly Evergreen so we try not to cover super topical things that are in the news and the reason why
mine is different is I'm going to do something because what's been in the news this past week has actually sparked
my interest and curiosity and things and I did a lot of research on stuff so much of the rest of the country I was
following the Titanic subm merciful story very very closely and mostly it's
because I'm one fascinated by the ocean two I always had a thing for the Titanic
ever since I was a little kid I've always had a thing for the Titanic I when I went to Ireland like I went to the Titan I deliberately detour to go to
the Titanic Museum because I'm just like that into it and I find the story very very compelling has nothing to do with
Jack and Rose or James Cameron like this is like predates all that stuff good for and the third one is that both the ocean
and the Titanic the story and where the ship currently lies terrify me to no end
so and so scary but as a lover of all things horror I'm naturally drawn to
things that terrify me and this terrifies me okay so in the spirit of
the ever evolving premise here I'm going to discuss a red flaggy relationship that almost all of us have at some point
in our lives and that is our relationship with hubris okay so whoa I know I'm getting
getting super headyy with it here so huus the word is derived from the ancient Greek word for Pride insolence
outrage and is defined as a characteristic of one who has excessive Pride or
self-confidence usually the red flaggy Parts about this are minimal in our day-to-day lives maybe if huus that
you're the best looking person or that you're the smartest or that you made the right decisions whatever usually it's just it ends in being embarrassed or
fired or losing a relationship but it doesn't really matter sure when it starts mattering is when it impacts your
life in the life of those around you and most of the time that happens when it
happens in a consequential manner like it did this last week with the Titan submersible and with the Titanic itself
that happens in an engineering capacity where there's an immense amount of hubris towards the engineering prowess
of humanity and then it leads to horrible consequential things that end up impacting people's lives the reason I
brought the whole Titanic Titan sub meral thing was because I heard something that James Cameron said this
week about how ironic it was that the tit tit Titan is on the C4 next to the Titanic because neither leaders of those
two vessels he did all the warnings and instead relied on their own heris to move forward resulting in the death of
others so I'm actually be doing two stories today what is happening yeah
they'll be they'll be relatively quick though I promise but they're going to have to do with how humanity hubor and
Engineering resulted in horrible horrible tragedies awesome and these are going to be a little bit rare like these
are not going to be like super obvious ones well one of them might but the other one I definitely don't think you'll know about cool that sounds
awesome I I am exactly the right age and
the right sexual orientation for the movie Titanic to have destroyed my
life I totally believe yeah for they that was our vision of like this is
romance this is how romance destroyed my life yeah no unbelievable unbelievable the amount of times I saw the movie in
the theater I like how many times I like would like record on the radio you know remember they'd play the slay Down song
with like words in it like from the movie there you go my God it ruin my life I can't wait the two stories I'm G
to cover I'm gonna cover the more obscure one first that one also Taylor Just so you know a part of me was like
is Taylor going to get mad at me for doing this cuz I'm not doing true Prime and so I don't know if you're mad at me or not but I'm already super mad at you
I know I can see squinting your eyebrows so the first one is an incident that is
known as the bifur dolphin accident have you heard of this one no cool okay great
then I got you wait wait stop were you with us when we watch that okay we have that horror movie Club with with our
friends and we watch scary movies and there's that movie with George C Scott where he trains the dolphin to kill the president of the United States I didn't
see that one I skipped that one oh my God it's so bad and I love George C Scott so much but um it's the whole
thing so George Scott is amazing this has nothing to do with dolphins oh yes it's just called the B
for a dolphin incident but thank you I'm going to start with an old main stay of
oceanic disasters which are oil rigs in the case of the biford dolphin that is
the name of a natural gas rig but it's essentially the same concept as an oil rig humans have been very unique in or
we are generally very unique in our capability of going super above and beyond the laws of nature to get what we want and oil rigs are a great example of
this researching this really reminded me like how incredibly easy our lives are like
people do the most insane labor and work so that we have gasoline in our car so
that we have plastic so we have like it's insane the what people are willing to put their lives to doing to let us
have the basic modern conveniences we have and this is a good example of that so in the case of the rig by for Dolphin
this was positioned in the North Sea in November of 1983 okay the rig required work to be
done at or near the sea floor and it required divers to do that given that
the depths that we're talking about here are incred ible huge massive we learned all about that this week this type of
diving that these people had to do on the bik for Dolphin is called saturation diving have you ever heard of this
before okay it is a super I snorkel once and I was scared terrifying it's
terrifying guys go watch YouTube videos of saturation divers and oh my God take
turn the lights off and like just it is worse than any horror movie you'll ever watch because it's I hate it okay tell
me more saturation D me is like highly highly highly technical skilled version of diving so out of all commercial
divers in the United States there's only about 330 or so that are saturation divers right now so it is these people
get paid a lot of money and they take a lot of risk to do what they're doing as we learned with a Titan disaster the
lower a person or an object goes in the water column the higher the outside pressures are that are acting on that
body that's true for all parts of the body including oxygen and nitrogen and our Bloods and our lungs the the deeper
you go typically considered somewhere around 130 ft the more those things get
compressed and the longer you have to wait before coming to the surface right or you get the bends or you get the
bends so if you go straight from let's hypothetically say 500 feet below sea
level directly to the top you get the bend you get decompression sickness which results your in the nitrogen in
your body expanding rapidly from all the negative pressure around you which results in damage to your blood vessels
blocks the AA confusion you lose motor fun you die like you almost certainly
die as a result of this yeah preent to prevent this deep sea divers have to
stop at certain intervals to go back to the surface safely the exact interval varies depending on the person the gas
combination they're breathing how long they've been down there the temperature of the water and a host of other like
this is not hard science like there's a lot of factors that go into this what I've read is that typically it takes
between 2 and 3 minutes prend to 15 feet of depth to go back to the surface so it
has to be like slow it's slow so for example for a 500 foot dive that would mean if it's like a short like you go
straight down to 500 feet you do something you touch the ground and then you go back up it takes about two hours to go back up but these guys aren't
touching the ground and going back up they're spending 8 to 10 hours on the C floor working
right obviously companies want to mitigate how how much time is lost every
day by people going down to the bot bom working then going back up because if you actually decompress every single day
it would be a nightmare for the divers it would be a nightmare for the companies the profit margins would be all of it's bad like none of it's good
so instead of doing that and decompressing every single day and wasting days of work what they do instead is they stay in a pressurized
tube called a diving bell that maintains the outside pressure of the depths they're working at so if you can imagine
it there's this like object like this spherical thing that gets dropped below
the ship over the workstation on the C4 it maintains the pressure of the C4 you
swim out of it go to the place where you're working swim back into it and then the pressure maintains you go back
up you dock with the ship and then you're good and then you just stay there basically you stay pressurized I hate it
so when they're done diving or when they're done working they go back in the diving bell that gets wrenched up to the
surface of the dock or whatever it is and there is what is called the pressurized living system or a diving
chamber that sits on the ship or the oil rig and that's where people the divers leave the dive belt to go into to live
sleep work you know do whatever and get back in the diving Bild the next morning and go back down it's all pressurized so
they're in like a a pressurized place but like above the water yeah yeah they're on the deck they're on the ship deck but the ship deck they're in a
chamber on the ship deck that is pressurized as though they are a th feet below the surface holy [ __ ] yeah it's
crazy and the way it works is that typically if you're a saturation diver
you can work about four weeks give or take in these conditions so you stay fully pressurized for four weeks and
then gradually once you're done with the job they start increasing the pressure slowly slowly and that rep is basically
reflective of them swimming further up in the water column until they're an atmospheric pressure of one make sense
how do you yes but how do you do you feel normal yeah yeah yeah your body gets adapted to it because you're breathing a
a special combination right like you're not actually like it's the oxygen of that level is so compressed that they
have to mix with other stuff for you to be able to breede normally but yeah it is you do feel normal wow on the B for
Dolphin there were four saturation divers I'm going to use their first name because two of them are Scandinavian and
that is a lot of consonant in a row that I'm not going to even try and pronounce their names are Edwin Roy Bjorn and
trolls guess which two are this skin navian ones Bjorn good and Roy Charles would trolls
Charles no t r LS Charles said Charles and I was like I don't know yeah exactly
yeah yeah so the diving chamber on the biford dolphin had two parts so there was
basically one section that was a kitchen and then another section that was like a living area and a bedroom area so on
this day in November 1983 two of the divers Roy and Edwin they were resting in the dive chamber they were sleeping
essentially underground or on the boat on the boat okay yeah on that day so
they do shifts right so beor two go down they do the work they go back in the diving bell go back hook up the chamber
and then they're up there and then the other two come back in and they go back down that's the way it works Bjorn and
trolls came up via the diving bell their day was done they came up via the diving belt at this point all four men have
been compressed to an atmosphere of nine so their atmospheric pressure is nine times the pressure that they would me
and you experienc at sea level essentially MH outside the diving chamber are two dive tenders whose job
it is is to safely dock the diving chamber to the D diving bell so make sure the two pieces are connected make
sure they're pressurized and usually the way they connect them is through this thing called the trunk so there's a passageway the diving BT goes up it fits
onto the spherical thing it's called the trunk that spherical thing connects the diving chamber then the dive tender
makes sure the two all three are pressurized to the same amount then they can pass through from one to the other okay all they're trying to do is Hees
pressure it takes a lot of I feel like everyone needs to be real on on this job real on you really don't want someone
drinking on this on the job here yeah yeah so bjor and trolls are in the diving chamber they get hooked up to the
trunk the trunk gets hooked up to the diving bell and they make their way from the diving bell into the trunk to get
into the diving chamber the two the two dive tenders had successfully
pressurized all three areas and they make their way through this in the
middle of the of them going through this so one is one is opening the diving
chamber where the two are asleep the other guys closing the diving bell
because once that's closed then they're inside they can pull it away and then come back later on and reconnect it in
the middle of this a dive tender released the clamp holding the diving bell to the trunk I'm so nervous because
I just I feel like someone's going to explode and I like feel like I'm going to throw up yeah that's exactly what's going to happen you really you really
stepped on the story sorry I'm just like very nervous I'm like oh my God I feel like it's because
you feel normal right but then like one weird thing happens and you realize that like you're not normal you're oh my God
I can't feel my arms going when this clamp was released the negative pressure
as nine atmospheres of pressure rushed out of the chamber into the opening basically turned one of the guys into
just confetti because the temperature the pressure is trying to equalize the only way it can equiz by going out one
of the guys was right next to and trying to close the diving bell hatch and got
squish right through it with the force of nine pressure nine pressure of atmosphere wait how oh my God I'll
explain I'll explain this because actually in in case's wondering if I read just Wikipedia articles uh go I I
will be referencing their exact autopsy report from 1983 here in a moment oh God
three of the divers were super lucky because their blood boiled immediately
like they were they were so all of them died before you know it's like the time somersal situation they said that if it
was an explosive decompression by the time they would have understood what happened it would have been over right
same here like the amount of pressure we're talking about was enough to where they didn't know what was going on no nobody experienced any pain or anything
like that their blood boiled immediately one of the interesting things in the on report I found was they found like a ton
of fat in these guys veins and their arteries and around their organs and it was like what on Earth happened like
because nobody's experienced this has never happened in history before nobody knew what was going on they concluded
that the rapid nature in which their blood boiled broke down and denature the composite material of blood in ways that
chemically I don't totally understand but it converted them into adapis tissue into fat it basically converted what was
left of their blood into just pure fat it's like I have no idea how it works chemically
that was the inclusion of the autopsy report oh my God the one that got of the worst was a diver who was beginning to
close the diving bell door that was trolls he had his entire body shoved
through a tiny opening in the door which bifurcated him completely in half his
organs except for his trachea and small intestines in his spine well that's not your organ but they found his spine
everything exploded basically immediately so you're right he did explode wow those pieces plus his spine
were spit about 30 ft out in the other direction I found the autopsy photo so in the in the autopsy of um that they
generated for these guys there's pictures of them they so three of them
are just like weird looking like they just look like they have like weird bruises all their body because apparently it just immediately flash fried them from the inside but they look
mostly normal this guy trolls he was confetti they they in the autopsy report
um it states that he was delivered in four sacks to the to the corner oh my god there was a picture of his face
there was no bone nothing like it was just like just all you can make out was like he had like a he had the kind of
beard that I have and you could see that and like kind of where his mouth was that was basically it it l like it looked like leather face were they
inside inside they were inside suits no no okay so the three guys that had their
blood flat boiled immediately they were not wearing suits because the O pictures were taken when they were there and they
were just in their underwear I don't know if tr's in in in so what I remember reading about
saturation diving is that the typical protocol is you take all your gear off in the diving belt before you crawl in
uhhuh so probably not in his suit oh my God the ultimate cause of error was the
ultimate cause of the issue was human error on the part of the dive tender who disconnected the diving belt before trolls and bjor were in the chamber so
one of the dive tender that did that actually died too because the diving bell hit him with such force and
pressure just like pancak him completely the other one suffered tremendous injuries but somehow remained alive the
families of the divers ended up suing the government of Norway who had approved this system there's a lot going
on here that I'm not going into because it'll take 17 more hours there was no outside ability to read the pressures
from one from the trunk to the chamber like there was right more yeah we don't
know why he disconnected it like we don't know if he was just confused he didn't no whatever but basically there's
family suits saying that the government of Norway approved this process they approved these materials these Chambers to be used that was in the wrong and
apparently they only finally won judgment in 2008 which is 26 years after
the accident actually occurred and that's uh been probably the single worst
accident when it comes to pressurization and Diving bells and diving chambers has ever happened that well I just want to
warn everybody when you Google this you're going to get a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he's on Mars in uh
what's that movie oh oh yeah yeah um oh God it's not running man it's um no I
just had it and lost it but you know what I mean I know what you mean yeah and that's definitely not what happens
what happens is so immediately and and you know what Taylor like I was thinking about because like when when I was CU that's part of what
fascinated me about the whole Titanic thing was like Total Recall Total Recall because the pressure like the um the
physics of what happens to like to the human body in these situations is just you can't believe it right like right
and it's not like that far away if you go like if I walked 500 feet you know
I'd be like oh I just or like whatever like you walk I could walk that far and nothing would happen to me but when you
go down that far you know it just becomes so like crazy and then I always think about always I mean whatever the
Titanic is crazy but I you know like all the other stuff like there were like
dishes and clothes and books and people and it's like everything is like it's like at one point getting soaked in this
freezing water and then also the pressure the pressure is just like changing everything it's crazy I mean also like if it was safe I would love to
go down there oh my God how cool is that so like I get the appeal think ever be I
don't think it could ever be like so safe where I could where I would do it I'd go with James Cameron whatever he's
doing I'd do no one else yeah even that would Scar the hell out of me but so that's the thing is like that's why
there isn't an issue with the Titanic and there's not an issue with the people the things that are down there is because the pressure is
equalized right that's the issue the issue with the submersible was that inside had a vastly different pressure
than outside but the Titanic all the water all the pressure has been equalized so like there's no at all been under there for so long
well it broke up when it went down so the the Titanic itself the inside of was equalizing as the outside was equalizing
so that's why I never went through a crush experience but oh right CU it was like cuz it was like open yeah it was
open it was open your problem is only when you're trying to keep the pressure
from outside from coming in but in the Titanic's case that was a foregone conclusion right and thatt yeah I mean I
obviously along with the rest of the world watched a bunch of videos of like steel drums being like vacuumed clothed
this week so yeah yeah the second story is going to be a lot more familiar but I
also found it really really interesting and I actually picked this one specifically because of your fascination with Russia do you know what the k141 is
no do you know what the KK is no so the kers was a Russian nuclear powered
cruise missile class submarine from the early 2000s I remember oh God go it was
called the k141 that is a classification like back then or um during World War II
the was used for uh a classification for German Nazi boats the K is for Russian
boats P is for American boats so on and so forth so every every country has their own classification essentially
and the cursed tragedy happened in the year
2000 and that's an important part of what ends up playing out here because to put things into perspective on why
things happened the way they happen it 2000 is about nine years after the
collapse of the Soviet Union so Russia was coming out of their
USSR State and they were financially crippled they're militarily kind of embarrassed because
that's what crippled them they're not doing too good the com the exercise in communism didn't play out as expected
the world's looking at them a certain way and so they found themselves kind of in this weird friendless State you know
from the year 1991 onto when the curse disaster ended up happening in 1998 the
entire world suffered a huge global economic recession which resulted in dramatic increases in prices for
Russia's main export at the time which was energy so around late 1998 to early
1999 while the rest of the world was suffering from this recession Russia began to actually feel a bit of resurgence they started feeling some
pride in themselves like oh we are we're doing good now like you know this could be what we need to kind of turn this
ship around and that's an important factor in understanding why things happen with the curse the way that ended
up happening in August of 2000 so Russia wanted to show that hey we're still here
we still got it so they put on the largest display of military exercise in
decades in the country's history so they wanted to put together in this August of 2000 this massive display of all of
their Naval warship power and part of that was the kers the k141 kers was
considered the flagship submarine in the fleet it had a reputation that again there another through line here fits
with the Titanic perfectly because it was considered Unsinkable nothing is it
was considered Unsinkable because would you even say that out loud I know I know seriously you're asking for the [ __ ]
drown the the reason this was considered Unsinkable had to do with its um double Hall design which essentially meant that
if one you could breach one part of it and then still not sink the ship and or the submarine until you breach the
second Hall again there's no such thing as UNS syncable literally everything which is literally what the Titanic said was like oh we have all these different
chambers so if you like breach one chamber it won't go in the next one or the next one and then it got sliced across the side and it's over this goes
back to my theory that marketing people never talk to product people they literally never communicate like it's a consistent totally right oh my God never
Tech and submarine construction on this morning in August of 2000 the kers was authorized to fire
off a dummy torpedo as part of this war game to kind of kick things off something goes wrong at this point we
don't know what's going on yet because I'm describing the events and as they're happening all we know at that time is
that Norwegian seismic seismic detectors detected a seismic activity measuring 1.5 on the RoR
scale 2 minutes and 14 seconds later they recorded a 4.2 on the RoR scale at
the exact same spot on the C4 this time I'm going to describe what we learned
two years later about what ended up happening and the reason I'm going to kind of blow past this because that's
not not the important part here basically what ended up happening was a torpedo they fired us this
hydrogen peroxide fuel source and with this type of fuel when it interacts with the Catalyst such as copper which it
also coppers what torpedo tubes are made of the fuel source or the fuel denatures
and expands in volume by 5,000 times this particular torpedo was not well maintained it was actually uh 10 years
old which put it well past its service life that it should have been used anyways it also had cracks in the fuel cell so
so you have a torpedo that's made of copper you have a fuel cell that has a combustible material that reacts
negatively when mixed with copper and that has cracks in it so that's the situation when the crew fired this
torpedo off they introduced the accelerant to light the fuel source which expanded the peroxide mixture by
5,000 times exploding the torpedo and setting a 4800 de F fire which
immediately incinerated the entire Torpedo Room wow that was RoR 1.5 that's
what was recorded the second blast detected was the initial blast setting off five more Warheads which explains
why it was like four times stronger basically oh like by accident by accident and the blast basically
destroyed the command center it blew a hole in the hall in one of its compartments the ship basically just like filled with water and sank to the
bottom of the ocean floor it took a while for the government to realize what had happened in launch
response but the response wasn't it I'm sorry I you but didn't we think it was like missing for a little
bit we so we didn't think it was missing okay we didn't think it was missing they
thought it was missing I'll explain that here in a second too actually that's a really good point so they launched a
response but the response itself wasn't that great they actually had a submarine rescue vessel but it was a converted
Lumber ship called the Mel rudnitzki and it had a diving bell a crane specialized
gear all that good stuff that it needed but it didn't didn't have the thing that obviously wouldn't have being a lumber ship which is automatic positioning
basically the way it works is that a lot of these ships that have do search and rescue missions and stuff like that they have to stay stationary over what
they're trying to do that's on the ocean floor right and the way to do that is through
automatic stabilizing so when waves hit you the ship is correcting itself it's like cruise control for the ocean you
don't have to be like Port bow Stern blow 20 12 all none of that [ __ ] like
the ship has little projectile or um points on the bottom that are kind of doing it for you and actually what's
interesting is that the Arctic Rose or whatever that that um the the submersible one was that also didn't
have auto correcting and that was also an issue initially because that was the first uh ship that was on the scene so
anyways consistent pattern there 12 hours after the curse sank uh this ship the Mel rudnitzki left port to go help
the sailors trapped in the curse by this point the families were growing concerned but they'v been told the sub
wasn't Unsinkable so very similar to the tit suers well they hoped that this was a loss of communication and nothing more
than that the day the curse went down even before Moscow knew what had happened so
this is before so back then pu Putin was President which he will be forever and always the day it went down the US knew
it was an accident they knew where it was they knew it hit the ground and on that day this is literally before Putin
knows what happened uh the us the UK France Germany
Israel Italy Norway all six countries reached out saying we know what's going
on we can help we have all the [ __ ] we have the the material we can help about Russia refused yeah they mounted their
own rescue which I will say it was anable how many things they tried it really it really was they did the best
with what they had but given the nature of Russia coming out of the USSR stage it was just like Amateur hour basically
so yeah yeah they had one subers that found the kers and tried to dock with it
but it couldn't form a vacuum with the escape hatch and it ran low on batteries and so and they had no more batteries
like that was the only so they had to take this thing back up plug it in for God knows how long before we could try
to go back down again it's just like stuff like that the ship the Mel whatever rzki didn't have the auto
positioning so the sea waves and all that would just constantly move it off position which was pointless they Tred
to lower a d Bell but couldn't actually um position it over the sub's latch
because of the non-pos piece of it they tried putting a remote submers back down there to open it but it couldn't open
the latch the batteries on that one submers recharge enough so they could relaunch it they freaking run ran the
thing into a boom on the ship and destroyed it and so that had to go back down and had to start getting worked on
for repairs so it took five days after the sinking before Putin finally said
yes I will accept help not for America I won't help take help from America I will take UK Norwegian help though so that's
what happened so the UK and Norway put together uh a task force a plan to do
this they used a Norwegian ship with a British submersible it was a joint operation and it took a couple days to
assem that so by the time they actually got to the curse the curse has been down for seven days that rescue team decided
to cut holes in the the ship and compartments they knew were already flooded they did this and were told that only Russians could go in the Russians
go in they collect all the classified material they collect some bodies and come back out one thing I mentioned here that I
really love was learning like how big of a piece of [ __ ] Putin is and how he consistently is a piece of [ __ ] so apparently during this entire time he
was out having an amazing time vacationing and this ended up turning into a huge PR disaster for him
eventually he came back and was like I'll meet with the families of the sailors who just like tore him a new one
the media had reported that foreign assistance had been offered as early as the day after the ship the C had gone
down and pun had been like he was filmed doing this he told them no no they only offered help like two days ago I
accepted two days ago in the media was a false in the fames that was a lie too at one point this lady whose son was down
there started screaming at Putin and somebody from the government like injected her with something I was going
to say did they all get killed are they okay because I feel like once you yell at Putin in the face you jump off a building I mean that was it like this
woman was like screaming at him saying we're not going to let you get out of here a l you piece of [ __ ] like it was
like she was going off on him and then someone just grabbed her from back and just like injected her with something and she just went limp and they dragged
her out of there 23 men on the curse gathered in one of the compartments is a compartment nine that was slowly filling
with water but was somehow somewhat survivable and it also had an escape hatch the problem was when the ship went
down the nuclear reactors were set to automatically shut off when those shut off the air purification systems that
scrub CO2 from the atmosphere are also shut off so they're was gr Limited in theory they could have
opened the hatch and made a break for it but they were in the Arctic sea so
death yeah yeah death from the C so hey they could have drowned before they got to the top they didn't have to worry
they didn't super have to worry about the BS because they were pressurized to
the atmosphere of sea level because they were at sea level when they went down right the problem was the compartment
was seeping with water and so their bodies were absorbing nitrogen and their bodies were absorbing more pressure
being down there so there was a risk of getting the bendz but more importantly they're going to die out of being frozen
of death before they got to the top anyways so that was the biggest issue and their assumption was look we're in the middle of like a massive military
exercise of course somebody's coming down here so that was the idea the contentious part about what happened
with the kurur had to do with whether saving those 23 people was possible if Russia hadn't tried to save face and
accept help early on mhm the answer is we don't know and it kind of doesn't
matter because if there was a 50-50 chance they could then they should have accepted the help and should have not
tried to say face the way they tried to say face notes that were recovered from the sailors were timed and dated to
about 6 hours and 17 minutes when the ship went down but there's some assumptions that at least up to 3 to 4
days those men were still alive in there there's reports that there was banging heard on the hall this is like a common
thing that that that couldn't have happened because because again the ship was double hauled so like there was no
all those rumors of feel like this week I've been hearing that about like remember about happened in Pearl Harbor
where like people were banging on the hole for like two weeks and they couldn't save them yeah which which
could have been because those ships are IR Ironclad they're not double hauled so like that could have been a possibility
but in this case it wouldn't have been impossible because there would been like this sheet of of air between um between that and the outside water so that that
part is not true we don't know how long the men were alive we'll never know how long the men were alive it is it is
possible that they could have been alive and saved if they' accepted help from outside sources right so in the end the
families of the curse Sailors received a total payout of $335,000 from the government 12 or so of the high ranking
leaders of the Navy were fired and Putin went on to become you the guy we all
know in love today so wow that is my little Tale of Two horrific ways of
dying using pressure water oceans and all that there such a horrible ways to
die there you go it's unbelievable although I would rather die
like the B for Dolphin guys than die like the sailors in that compartment 100% because it's also probably dark
right oh yeah yeah as pitch black you're starving and slowly losing all of your oxygen mostly oxygen you're going to die
of not having any oxygen and all you smell is kerosene and the scream hear
the streams of your saors next to you so oh my God that sounds terrible and and also and also I I covered a Russian
story so look at me I do I I I instagramed about Russia yesterday because there's so much Russian stuff
happening in the world always and I just I love talking about Russia happy to
continue to talk about it I'm having a an emotional crisis watching the last couple episodes of this season of the great because it's so good and I'm so
upset so like it's just a whole thing but I love it never saw that oh my God it's so good it's so good there you go
are you covering Russia today I'm not but I have to pee can you hold on I can hold on thank you Taylor I can hear
you I'm muted not bet you could have heard me peeing but I just like to mute it just in case just in case I pee I pee
in a totally different room but just in case I thought there was a bucket next oh God like you remember when you were
like oh I like a
English (auto-generated)