What Ive learned from videos like these is one consistent thing, no matter where it happens or who it involves the reaction of "WTF?" is universal.

I was in the US Navy and was told that if an anchor gets loose, get out of the way and let it go.

I was aboard a Navy Fleet Oiler AO105 Mispillion when we dropped anchor offshore of So. California. The anchor chain evidently had been in the chain locker for a while because it was covered with what looked like dry green moss which flew in a cloud around the chain as it snaked across the deck in rapid coiling motion so loud I could not hear anything else and I was 25-30 feet behind it watching from a gun tub. I looked like it was moving 50+ MPH as the fog of moss was obscuring the links. I would characterize it as a frightful violent happening and was very happy that I was as far back as I was.

@user-mp9rd4hg8b

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, once that thing is out of control, there's no stopping it. The problem is knowing when it's too late to do anything.

FYI, the Navy ship anchor mishap did not "almost take out" anyone, much less the entire crew.

@crankshaft007

5 ай бұрын

Just a click bait channel recycling old videos

I've seen other anchor dropping failure videos, but this one is by far the best. Thanks for doing such a great job as to why chain brakes fail. I've even learned about the anchor chains just watching this very informative video.

Can you imagine all of the things that are on the bottom of the ocean?

I would think one of the first lessons in tugboat captain school would be "don't push on the ship directly under the ANCHOR".

Cameraman never dies.

Nice vid❤

Bless those who put out to sea. I keep you all in my prayers. I wish you calm seas and good fortune 🌹⚓

4:44 Lucky bastard!

The winch that the chain wraps around was called a "wildcat" when I stood sea and anchor detail in the '70's.

Je suis enthousiasmé par la poésie de vos commentaires ! Mille mercis Michel Balat, Canet en Roussillon, catalogne, France

Are these brake failures or operating errors like releasing brake too much anchor falling too fast and not being able to slow it back down?

Not bad ⚡️

At least two of my seven ships had anchor problems. In 1972 while on USS Floyd B. Parks DD-884 a split link came undone as it was going around the windless. We were able to refasten the link. In 1981, just before commissioning, USS Acadia AD-42 lost her anchor.

@andyman8630

5 ай бұрын

did the Acadia ever find it?

@martinwalker9386

5 ай бұрын

@@andyman8630 my understanding when I joined her crew about 2 months later was she was in 500’ of water or so. They never said it was retrieved.

@andyman8630

5 ай бұрын

@@martinwalker9386 thanks for the update!

@miapdx503

4 ай бұрын

And thank you for your service. Salute! 🌹⚓

that first one? even when the anchor hits bottom the chain is not going to stop due to both weight and momentum of the chain

In just about any Navy, the world over, losing your anchor is viewed as a major embarrassment. The USS Saratoga (CV-60) lost hers, once, in the Dardanelle Straits.

I was on the port bridge wing of a ship that almost lost its anchor. I had just shouted to the executive officer that we had too much sternway on, when he ordered "Let go the anchor!" I stuck my head inside the bridge and repeated myself. He finally took off the 1/3 astern. The chain was paying out like kite string in a strong wind, because the anchor took a hefty bite into the deep coral sand of the sea bed. The capstan was groaning with the brake applied and the rusty dust billowed up all over. The focsle had been cleared and the red shot was just creeping on to the deck when all stopped and went quiet.

The aliens stealing our steel

Old clips mixed with new as usual....

When I was 1st officer apprentice, we’re just come out of Lagos Nigeria, once we cleared the Commodore channel, we had to enter the bight of Benin, turn head to tide, then drop both Anchors so port Anchor, haul it up then the starboard anchor, as early 80’s it was common for people to stowaway in the chain lockers. We did have I think two stowaways in the starboard chain locker there was two much mess coming up the Spurling pipe to be one person. Not all ships would drop both Anchor’s due to the time to way Anchor, I loved that west African run from Tilbury to GQEBERHA SOUTH AFRICA, however we would enter the Indian Ocean. May our wife’s and lovers never meet.

Ich bin viele Jahre lang zur See gefahren und kann diese Probleme nur bestätigen. Wenn die Besatzung das Ankergeschirr allerdings regelmäßig wartet und pflegt, sollte so etwas nicht passieren.

The teeth are in the windlass. The brake works on the windlass. As the crew winds the brake wheel, the windlass is supposed to slow down, and then stop.

The floor is molten aluminum. The ladle was hit by two aluminum billets.

Another Near Disaster (Major Island link Ferry mishap) my family business was part of... 30 ish years ago, NZ Rail came to my folks work to get some maintenance grease for one of the Cook Strait ferries (The main link (other than plane) between New Zealand's North & South Islands, They had the practice of knocking out the break chocks on the winches when they were entering Tory Channel so if anything nasty happened, they could wind out the anchors. So they bought the grease, did the normal service on the winches, and went about their business... which was all fine... until they approached Tory Channel... and per the norm.. Knocked out the chocks... Only to have both anchors immediately dive into the sea at probably 20kts, through the confines of the channel (Not wide enough for the Ferry (Laden with passengers and vehicles) to turn sideways in). Luckily the ship master knew he had (200m?) of chain to play with, which was enough to leave the anchors unwinding while they passed through the narrows into the wider inner mouth, where they could turn and wind in the anchors as they travelled back out. This passage can have 12+kts of tide and 3-4m of wave action at the mouth on a GOOD day.... Guess sometimes good lubricants can be a little too good... (My dad was friends with a couple of the Captains & radio techs etc so we got the unabashed info rather than the "A Ferry had an issue while entering Tory Channel" abridged version the rest of the country got.

@andyman8630

5 ай бұрын

always good to have a Captain who knows his schidt (ship)

@TheButlerNZ

5 ай бұрын

@@andyman8630 Specially when putting up with a pair of ankers.

@andyman8630

5 ай бұрын

@@TheButlerNZ lol!

@TheButlerNZ

5 ай бұрын

@@andyman8630 It was the best path to take... I was wondering how to work in "having barnacles on his dingy" or 'How many oars does a seaman need... or did I get that back to front"

@andyman8630

5 ай бұрын

@@TheButlerNZ frack to bunt!

Cthulhu broke the chain on the oil rig.....a sign of his displeasure, maybe there needs to be complete redesign of these chain movement systems that doesnt require a drag/friction type brake

Story 6; I counted 6 shots after failure, and then I couldn't see the chain. Looks like someone's in some BIG trouble

I think they were turning the anchor brake the wrong direction.

around 3:49 u said theirs teeth that stop the chain.. kind of in a way, there r wheels with teeth that register the chain that are basically hydraulic pumps, the wheel the guys r turning is supposed to shut a shuttle of valves that slow the chain, im not sure exactly how the low speed full stop brake works tho iv never worked on that part

Some sailors were fresh out of bootcamp and my son was training in chain safety. Idiot fresh thought he would do exactly what they were teaching not to do and my son nearly lost his leg. To many growing up with video games and think physics doesn't apply

Thank you for referring to each of these events as a failure, instead of using the verb “fail” as a noun. It is possible to turn a verb into a noun, but when a noun form already exists, as it does this case, it is absolutely unnecessary. And extremely annoying.

Pounds??? Feet???

So many ways to die at sea. “The sea is selective; slow at recognition of effort and aptitude, but fast in sinking the unfit." - Felix Riesenberg

Dam i started smelling something burning at 9:00 in....oh shit i got something in the oven.....

That looks too small to be a tug boat, perhaps it was a pilot boat??

*These unbelievable scenes made me very impressed and excited, the images and video comments are very good. LIKE a lot, guys*

@user-mp9rd4hg8b

5 ай бұрын

LOL, right, sure.

@silvussol8966

2 ай бұрын

Such a real comment, lol 🙄

The first clip is not a ship in the ocean, but at a coast. It's not supposed to float this heigh. Either the ship sailed into the shore by accident, or it's at one of those Indian companies, that chop old ships up, on shore. So either they were trying to remove the anchor, or they tried to lower the anchor onto the tugboat, to sail it out to a larger ship, to drag this ship free of the coast.

@YouChwb

5 ай бұрын

"or they tried to lower the anchor onto the tugboat, to sail it out to a larger ship" ?? 🤣🤣🤣

@akyhne

5 ай бұрын

@@YouChwb Well, I admit I don't know how that would work, but the tugboat was under the anchor for a reason.

@IAW88

5 ай бұрын

*Hi friends, have a nice day!*

@andyman8630

5 ай бұрын

@@IAW88 so far so good!

It's normal for us😂

Anchor is there to lay out the chain, that the real anchor chain has all the weight ea link is 350 lbs ...................

Feet is normal measurement

Metric is not a standard unit of measurement because you have metric you have your pain metric German metric Japanese Metric And those are all different from each ather so which measurement of metric is the true measurement

You’re literally just showing vids that have been on KZread forever years

@tonygunk1886

5 ай бұрын

I believe he’s stealing lol

@IAW88

5 ай бұрын

*Hi friends, have a nice day!*

@user-mp9rd4hg8b

5 ай бұрын

@@IAW88 You must be related to the channel owner

@Most_Dangerous

5 ай бұрын

This is a topic I wanted to cover for a while. I don’t care if it’s been on KZread before. No, not stealing. Much if not all of these videos are in the public domain, filmed on military ships by government employees. Oh also, that IAW88 account is not related to me

@eviehammond9509

5 ай бұрын

And yet here you are watching & commenting.😂

We’re in America not England

It's windless as winding a watch not windless as in the wind blows strong every one gets it wrong there are winches that wind on a drum then there are winches that just dump the chain in a box hence windless. A laugh every one gets it wrong winches do not use air currents to operate. Lol

Lets make more videos!!! Really like this channel but 1 a week is not where you are....... make them more often THEN be like everyone else and get lazy when that $ lets you stop working.

Click bait channel, recycling old videos

@Most_Dangerous

5 ай бұрын

How’s this clickbait? We show the video in the thumbnail and the video is about exactly what it says it’s about. It’s the opposite of clickbait

@lesbrunswick5137

4 ай бұрын

I hadn't see these videos, so I am glad he put it up.

20 feet, 120 feet, 180 feet. Why don't you use Normal metric measurements, so that NORMAL people understand what you're talking about !!

@jessica19141

4 ай бұрын

Not every country uses metric...some people still have the intelligence to figure out fractions...grow up

@elipepper6875

4 ай бұрын

suck it

@tomsparks3259

4 ай бұрын

I've taken the time to learn the metric system. Why don't you take the time to learn the imperial system.

@BYardleyOfficial

4 ай бұрын

​@@tomsparks3259 yep I kinda know both

@ernestgalvan9037

4 ай бұрын

Maritime length usage is not metric,,,, it is fathoms, and shots… also cables. No metres, or feet.