Wow no phoney drama? No mindless editing? You will never go mainstream! Don't ever change! You think you went back in time there? I feel I'm watching tv I grew up on! Glad I found this channel!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Such a grossly underrated channel. Bro, you deserve minimum 1 mil subscribers to justify the quality content that you make. More power to you for all your future adventures... XoXo❤️❤️❤️

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sathya!

Churchill is the coldest inhabited place in the Canadian provinces. You should go to Churchill in the winter and make a video of how cold it gets if you can. It will get tons of views like the videos of Yakutsk and Oymyakon get. With this quality and the interested people, it would skyrocket your views! and make a cool video!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, Andrew. That's something I could do in the future, because right now I can't afford to go back!

@johonanandrewgomes7593

3 жыл бұрын

@@lifeofluke yeah, I mean you don't have to go to just Churchill. There are so many options in Nunavut for example if you wanna go somewhere new. Kugaaruk the coldest inhabited place on earth by windchills would be a cool place to show. But these trips are expensive indeed. But again love the content and quality, keep it up!!

you deserve a much bigger audience

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Billy!

Amazing it's still there. Usually the Canadian military bulldozes places. Good video!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly why I wanted to see these spots before they get demolished!

Ya ! Thats cool my uncle used to work there back in the day he was a RCAF member.

Another great video, The missile base was very cool, had no idea that existed there

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Ya, some pretty interesting sites up north, I love finding out places that exist like this

I have been to Churchill twice. Once as a tourist and once for work. Super cool. If you ever go back I would suggest a few things to visit. The Port : you can ask the port manager (i cant remember his name right now but I can find out) for a tour. It is super cool to see. Massive structure. During low tide you can walk to the Itika but you need to be careful. When I was working there a tourist guide located a unexplosive ordonnance while walking there (back in the 50s and 60s the army where testing a bunch of rockets, artillery shells and other explosives. During the season belugas are cool to see. the polar bear jail is neat to see. You should also visit Prince of Wales fort.. A fort build in the 1700s most of it has been destroyed but the main walls still stand. there Is also the former navy base that you can "visit" there is almost nothing left since they took all the walls off to take out absestos. There used to be a massive military base back in the 50s and 60s but it was destroyed in 1981 after being abandoned for a while. For a cool fact, the USA actually build most of the military base and the base was supposed to be used as a relay base to transport wounded USA soldiers from Europe back to the USA during WW2. During that time, planes didn't have much range and needed to do a few stops to cross the Atlantic. After WW2 it the base focus on research and was an important logistical hub for the DEW line construction. Either way for me Churchill was a like magical place to visit. Too bad the old military base was almost completely destroyed it would have been cool to preserve it as a reminder of the past and of the cold war.

That was so awesome ! Learning more about my country's history! Thank you

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Shawn!

i didn't know about these things. always planned to go to churchill. maybe this year.

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

It's a fascinating place!

Beautiful video Luke.!:)

Very well done! Love the content. Touring abandoned sites may not be for everyone, but I find it intriguing and educational. Thanks for sharing.

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, same here!

Wonderful photography as always. Another good story well told. Thank you!!!

@lifeofluke

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, that's very kind!

Very interesting stuff and the site has stuff everywhere! Great video of this site !

Awesome documentary, Luke! I always get to learn a bit from your docs and am very grateful for all the hard work And Soul (!) you put into each one of them. It’s very sad that so many structures like these, in Canada’s North 🇨🇦 , are in such a sad state. Lots of historical value right there. Looking forward to watch your next project, Luke 😊 Peace! ✌️

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

This is so good to read, thank you very much, Miguel! Not all the buildings in the north are like this, but as you know I'm attracted to abandoned buildings!

Great explore Luke!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brent!

Wow, this is a very interesting video, Luke. Great job.👌👌👌

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jacques!

Cool🙌🏼 Sure brings back a lot of memories! Spent the summer of 1975 there. Then lived there from 1976-80. Had both work and fun adventures there! Nice to know the truth about the Ithaca. I heard couple of stories about it. One is that captain thought it was the mouth of the Churchill River!

This guys subscriber count is criminally low

i was captivated by this adventure

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear that

Northeastern Ontario had a series of radar stations such as the Pine tree line. A few places were CFS station Lowther and CFS Ramore which were closed in 1974. I didn't know about Churchill having all this history. Thanks!

@lifeofluke

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Billy!

I just subscribed. You're content is fantastic. All the best

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kelly!

I was there during a launch in 1974 the real reason for the 2 walk ways is because of hyper-golic fuel used wile the fuel loading and how it was so important to never letting the 2 components come in contact tell launch time

@lifeofluke

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, thanks Dale! I had to educate myself about hypergolic propellant.

Very nice video all around.

That was really interesting thank you 👍

Great Video! Love the channel Luke

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Simon!

damn if i had known you were out here in manitoba wouldve invited you for some hiking or something ! awesome

Another great vid. Keep em up.

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Corby!

loved the video!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

appreciate it, Matthew!

I came across you video and I subscribed right away. I always wanted to visit Churchill, but will never get there. This is as good as being there, minus the bears and freezing weather.. thanks!

@lifeofluke

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wanda!

Hitting the like button during the first ad before the video even starts!🤘

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

thanks!

great video, Luke!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pawan!

Magnificent.

Thx dude. Great vid. Cheers...

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir!

Watching this video brought back memories from my Dad's comments when I was a child. He talked about riding bicycles at the research station, and I now realize they were used to speed up movement from one building to another in the underground tunnels. The deterioration of this facility and ship proves the second law of thermal dynamics. Everything goes from a state of cosmos to chaos or order to disorder. That alone should prove to scientists that a big bang would not likely form an intricate universe. The Ithaka (as painted on the actual ship with a "k") was not covered by insurance, and the story on the street was not as reported by most accounts available at present. ☺♥†♪♫ 4.14.2023

@lifeofluke

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that is true! Thanks Rob

Great video. Very interesting. I'm trying to think of where I've seen footage of those radar towers before.

@grundewa

3 жыл бұрын

They’re all over the arctic as part of the DEW line - Distant Early Warning. Used to detect incoming soviet aircraft and built in the 1950s. I think there were over 50 of these radar stations

@TheGamingStuffs

3 жыл бұрын

PUBG :D

Que sitios mas chulos, saludos

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias, Antonio!

excelente canal ¡¡¡

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Gracias!

My father in law was stationed there back in the day...the dew line they called it.

Once again, nicely done!

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jared!

Sickkkk

Ernie and I heard about it and went to see it early in the morning from the side view the missing nose cone made it look like a flat nose like the more famous miss piggy so we went back to town and asked people we met if they had seen the miss piggy just shows how fast rumors spread in a small town. She came out of the fog in time to try to avoid the ground but clipped a telephone pole anough to loose airspeed and you can see hoe she ended up, crash air lost another. Town decided the old war bird had decided it was time to become a monument. So we let her stay.

Nice domes. They should build a train station which docs right between them, because it would be a great spot for tourist to get off.

@conquerandwin

3 жыл бұрын

On another note, what a cool spot. P.s. ended up visiting Hedley and checking out the old mine because of your vids. I have a list of places to visit based on your videos.

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, awesome, hope you enjoyed it!

Another great video and added bonus, no wiggy sunglasses

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

haha

So much history

@tempestmane

3 жыл бұрын

In one video

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

ya there's a lot there!

What about the windmill the first attempt to harness the wind in the sixties. It looks like a war zone.blown apart from extreme wind and long abandoned.east on coastline from churchill I believe.we made a low pass over it in the eighties

Great choice in music 😂

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Erik!

I watched you walking around, when the sea has not frozen over. You do know that Churchill is called "the polar bear capital" for a reason, right?

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

I am aware

did the building still have lites?

Haha "NWA" spray painted on the front of Miss Piggy.

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that was pretty funny too

saludos desde el calor del tropico

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Saludos!

We're you worried about polar bears ? Looked like you were near the bay - and unarmed ...

@lifeofluke

2 жыл бұрын

I was always very close to the truck

Manitoba

You'll have to send in a damage control team, to renovate all that equipment, and get it working again. If parts are short - try cannibalizing for spare parts within the facility, from some other (secondary) system. Make sure you bring multi-meter, spare wire and some general purpose electronic parts, and 2 power sources; a power generator and some batteries. Another requirement for the site would be to rust-remove all that sh*t off the metals. For the air craft, it needs be towed to a restoration hangar ( on a flat bed ). Chop, chop, enthusiasm!

In the mid 1960,s I lived there and saw many rocket launches. in the summer the U.S. Navy was launching huge ballones, why un known.

@h.calvert3165

Жыл бұрын

They raise atmospheric evaluating equipment to test the upper stratosphere. My Dad was an RCAF meteorologist there, 1960-1963, & he sent them up daily. My whole family loved it there. My Dad used to fill one of the tough red rubber balloons with helium for me on the regular! (I was three to six!) 🎈

That radar site had a "Fallout Universe" feel

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Ya, I like finding real sites that mimic art (or even video games), it's pretty cool to see these places that exist in reality

What kind of drone do you use?

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

the dji mavic 2 pro

@paulreportingliv

3 жыл бұрын

Cool, I just sold mine and got the mini pro ... did you bother getting your drone license?

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Yep I have it

Tunnels maybe to not get eaten by polar bear

dont lick the paint its led

Did you get a visit to the bear jail?

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

Just the outside as it's super complicated or you have to pay for some tour just to see the inside

Just realizing, your ass is all over Canada ... damn,,,,, your exploring a lot of cool stuff no one else is posting, over a huge area

people have been eaten there watch out ..................

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Surely this could be utilized for some worthwhile purpose. Housing etc. At least clean it up!!!

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Aerobee pronounced air-oh-bee.

Polar bears worry you on this one?

@lifeofluke

3 жыл бұрын

a little bit

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