These anchor drops get a little out of control to say the least! Today's video is on the top five anchor drop failures.
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Why do you have to add music when there's action going on? We want to hear how they break apart
Right on!
@Luxeau Svay lmao
Its so all the people that never got tomlive a exciting life can feel like the rest. I agree with you.
because it was 2 years ago recommendation.. 2021 are smart
It’s like adding music to porn...... I’ll never understand it.......
When your watching a video called "top 5 anchor drop failures" you quickly realize there is a top 5 video for every last thing.
Someone needs to make a top 5 top 5 video
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nobody: KZhead at 1am: "Bruh, wanna see some failed anchor drops?"
Yes, yes I do.
Got me at 5:30 am
4:30 am
@@atf5487 ah fuck, the alphabet boiis are on to me again
hey dude, youre WRONG its 12:45 am here right now...........
This is why I don't use anchors and choose just to drift around like an idiot when I'm out sailing the high seas with my giant ships!
Hi Barnacules! I enjoy your content. Have a good day!
Why is anchor dropping required?
@@zarishiftikhar5520 , I guess it's like pulling your car's handbrake lever up. 😅
@@nuclearwinter21 Really??
I just have a few tug boats to pull me around when I wanna park I just run aground
I'll give what enlightenment I can as a sailor. The first 4 videos are basically mechanical failure on the anchor apparatus, called a windlass. The brakes on an anchor windlass are pads, much like on a car or truck(though obviously made tougher). What happens during an anchor drop is initially the brakes are holding back the weight of the anchor - but as more chain comes out the amount of weight the brakes need to hold back increases. On older equipment the weight can be too much for the brake system. In the chain locker(the compartment where the chain sits when it's not in use) the end of the chain is bolted, welded, etc. to the inside of the compartment so that in normal operation the ship does not lose it's chain. IN the event of a runaway anchor chain, however, it's not uncommon for that bolting, welding, etc. to fail and result in the whole chain coming out. In the one video it mentioned a "warning show" and danger shot'. The Warning shot is all yellow and is literally the "run away" warning. The danger shot is all red and is just what it says, because at that point if you're close to the windlass you're in extreme danger - hence why you saw the people running away in the one video(the one where the flames were coming out of the windlass). Sometimes the plate it's bolted to will hit the end of the spill pipe, thus the thud we heard in one of the videos. IN short, it's one of the potentially most dangerous operations that happen on a ship, fueling and docking being the other two big ones in my opinion. Very easy for something to go wrong. Hope this explaination gave a little insight to you folks.
...insight the poster should have given. Thank you.
cheers m8!
Ys fuelling dangerous?
Thank you for schooling us on what we just watched, had I read your comment before watching I would have understood what I watched instead of asking myself why did this or that happen...jmo
This post is why the KZhead comments sections exist. Uploader should pin this at the top!
I can't imagine anything more scary than standing next to a runaway anchor and chain. As a former squid, if I'm not mistaken, just one of my ship's chain links weighs approximately 310 lbs. You get caught in that moving mass, you are a red mist through the hawsepipe!
Heck yeah..
"Grease".
Steel braid under similar loads - if a CH-47 is sling-loading an anchor and the main cable snaps, the cable turns into a LOT of little end-bits, and a cat o' nine tails moving fast enough to cut through that Chinook like it was made of cheese. (I got to give up my off duty hours to FOD walk bits of helicopter for the next 9 hours)
They are long as heck too, granted I know the sea is deep but sheesh
Try to crap. In 20 foot seas
I used to enjoy spending time with my children now I just watch anchor drop fail videos 24 hours a day.
Me watching this video: wow yeah they really messed that up Also me: *never seen an anchor dropped properly in my life before*
Me too 🤣
Imagine how bored you must be to scroll down to read my comment.
bruh...
Even more so to read this reply
Videos From Elsewhere yup
Yours was mine the 3red from the top
@@videosfromelsewhere926 Then proceeded to give this reply a thumbs up and respond with this sentence.
I once had this happening with a roll of toilet paper. Completely unwinded itself from the pull of gravity. Quite fascinating. :)
I hope you weren't hurt.
That's happened to me
Klaus Vogler it's a nightmare when you run out lol😱
Were you wearing a hard hat?
autonomy Hardhat, safety goggles, welding gloves and my toilet has a seatbelt :p
Q: What do sailors use to blow their noses? A: Anchor-chiefs.
Thats great lol
Bless you.
Bless you. Nice one
This is just incredible how much force and weight the anchor and chain weigh while flying uncontrollably
seems like there isn't that much difference between "gets a little out of hand" and "goes terribly wrong"
Lol. Fine fine fine death.
Yustas There never is...🙈😂
With very large objects, no, there isn't much difference.
The difference is about two microns.
Except the huge flames coming out of the windlass / the chain getting dropped completely.
I had no idea it was so dangerous. I completely underestimated this video when I clicked on it, having never seen an anchor drop.
The physics here is just crazy. Massive metal things just flying
Only a sailor can appreciate these videos.....they're AWESOME! I was a brakeman/nozzleman during anchoring ops. Had smoke a few times, NEVER a fire.
Not even a sailor and I absolutely appreciate this. And especially the people being that close to thousands of pounds of metal flying around at breakneck speeds.
08:54 Golden Anchor... I'd forgotten about that. Ships with the highest crew retention received the Golden Anchor award :) I'm glad to see that runaway anchors have happened on other ships. In the late 80's we were doing a runaway anchor drill off the South Carolina coast.... yep, lost the anchor and chain, tore the padeye right out of the chain locker. U.S. Navy ships lose their anchors more than people know. We had a Dive Salvage ship come and recovered the anchor and chain... pretty darn embarrassing. I think the USS Sunbird did the anchor recovery...
I know nothing about ships, but I'm surprised these anchor systems don't come with some type of centrifugal brake which would limit the speed that the chain could achieve while dropping.
These videos show extremely rare failures. For the most part, in my entire career, I only knew of one anchor windlass failure. We were very interested in material failure and subsequent repairs, I was the Senior Instructor for the U.S. Navy's NDT Schools. Our inspectors performed in service inspections as well as in-process controls when repairs were warranted. Failures shown here are primarily mechanical fails over material defects partnered with operator error.
Frederick Dunn - I guess anchor and chains are worth a lot of money. Better to retrieve than make new all the time.
Number Eight, the cost of the anchor and chain is strongly considered when getting into the feasibility of a recovery/salvage operation and the decision makers almost just left it there. You can buy salvaged anchors surprisingly cheap, but then, you have to ship them and that often costs more than the anchor. :) I almost purchased a stockless anchor from Navy DRMO to put in my yard as a showpiece. Shipping was going to be three times the cost of the anchor. The aft anchor on one of the ships I served on weighed 35,000 lbs they are priced at basically what a pound of iron is worth. $1,000.00 per ton, so a 35k lb anchor is worth $17,500.00 and that doesn't pay for the resources necessary for recovery unless it's in shallow waters.
I think that golden anchor is the one on the Midway I honestly don't know how many ships have golden anchors bur I do know that the USS Midway has them
"We wanted to add a few successful anchor drops" I think you mean. "We didn't have enough to draw it out to 10 minutes so here's some more stuff to look at."
Lmao wow tru
1:41 I don't know why but it looks like a meme when it goes so fast.
THE POLAR EXPRESS
You know shit's got real when steel starts to burst out flames :D
Love this narrators descriptive ability. " here are 5 armchair drops that go wrong. Number five, this anchor job goes wrong. Number four, this anchor drop doesn't go right. Number three, this anchor drop didn't go too well..." like, he just had a thesaurus out in front of him and glanced down at it once or twice.
Anchor Management classes
David Curry Films bravo sir, bravo
*Screams* THAT WAS SO FUNNY OHMYGODD
Haha. A+ my friend.
Very Nice! 👍
ohhhh...das goot!
Tugboat captain: look, there is the anchor, let's park right under it.
dang, I wonder how deep the ocean on the first clip was...
Bottomless! xD
Just all snakes up on top of each other don’t really matter how deep
@IfYourAnusHadAFace ummmm...each link weighs between 360-500 lbs
200 fathoms is 1200 ft.
some one broke the bedrock and the anchor fell into void
When you're walking your dog and suddenly he spots a cat somewhere, that's almost exactly whats happening lol
Surly something you don't think about unless that's your job. Kinda makes you wander how many of those chains are on the bottom of the ocean floor. Hats off to the brave people who do this for a living.
They're expensive so if possible, they are retrieved.
Don’t call me Shirley!
No way for retrieve
The stud link chain shown in the first successful anchor drop runs at about $50 USD per foot, the anchor itself being about $15k, well worth the price to hire a salvage boat with a ROV if need be to retrieve it.
They can be retrieved.
6:43 its a pinoy " Halaka! no more anchor" hahaha
I am pretty sure it's Greek and he says malaka a curse word, two times one because the captain and the company will literally shit on him and a second time he says "Malaka...! No more anchor" to the Philippino crew.
I don't live near the sea and the largest boat I've ever been on was 79ft long. But still I enjoyed watching this and found it interesting :-).
_Drop the anchor _Completely done captain
"Before this video ends, we wanted to include a few successful anchor drops as well to get the video to the 10 minute mark" There you go, fixed that sentence for you ;) But in all seriousness, why not just say it how it is? It's blatantly obvious that that is the reason for the successful drops, to stretch the video to the 10 minute mark.
Great
Why does it matter if they want to stretch it out to 10 minutes?
@@grtu4252 thats from where they get paid for the video
I mean, whats wrong in that ? Yk you can always leave when ever you want... Everybody here does something a bit extra for some more money
Who cares?
They need good airflow and ventilation to keep all of the rusty dust to a minimum. They also need a small mist of castor oil on the chain to reduce the friction.
the chain goes in the ocean so that would bring the oil in as well
Heat is the enemy when paying out anchor chain. When the brakes start smoking, it's time to lock them and let them cool.(before it's too late) If not- this is what can happen.
Nope
@C S if you listen to advice from this guy above you will drop anchor for couple hours and if he wants to do it slowly then why not by windlass? Without letting go chain, meh.
Hey! You scratched my anchor! - R. Dangerfield.
HEY YOU BROKE MY BROKEN ANCHOR WTF BRO
Kamrron your Reply = Bus Window Licker x 1000
MAGGOT VOMIT lol
I was gonna say that, but you beat me to it.
Moose! Rocco! Help the Judge find his checkbook...
Good you included some succesfull drops in the video, I had no idea how that must have looked.
Those are some heavy ass chains. Amazing machinery. I learnt a lot here, thanks!
When there's action going on and a ad shows up 😖
BeastModeJelly it’s called yt premium 😂
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You need some better explanations of what we're seeing. Most viewers have never been on a ship and have no idea what is happening vs what is SUPPOSED to be happening.
Yes it does. Thank you.
OK... I kinda figured most of that out, so I'm glad I got that part right. Honestly, though, in this day, why are people still controlling the anchor brake with a manual wheel?
Al thank you for the explanation, all makes more sense now.
i too had guessed that they were trying to slow the anchor, but it does seem there be a better way.
Al Thanks. I was trying to apply my knowledge of winching and still couldn't figure out what was going wrong.
The ex-Tarawa lost her chain due to a failure of the brake assembly on the anchor windlass not because they turned it too many times. During my time on board, we anchored 4 times (Guam, Phuket, Kuwait City and Eritrea); it's not like the system got a ton of use to begin with, so I'm not surprised it failed. My guess is that the PMS schedule had a replacement pad thickness that hadn't passed that so A-gang had no reason to fuss with it. The stopping and starting of the chain is meant to allow propulsion to draw the chain out across the bottom; this prevents fouling when weighing anchor as well as preventing drift dragging. And the rigging was later recovered by navy divers, if any wonder about that.
I did wonder if the rigging was ever recovered, so thanks for answering that question. Do ships carry spare anchors and rigging in case of a lost set?
@@CanadairCL44 No. But ships normally have two anchors, one per side.
It must have taken one Hell of a powerful crane to haul that pile of chain back to the surface.
@@taraswertelecki3786you could do it with the ship's equipment. The divers would have to attach a steel cable to the anchor and and ordinary (strong) rope to the cable. Rope pulls the cable up, windlass pulls the first few links of chain up, remove cable from the windlass, loop the anchor chain around the windlass and go. Of course, none of those phases is remotely easy except pulling up the ordinary rope.
US Navy. Lost our anchor chain in 2014 after we ran aground and were trying to hook our anchor chain up to the back of a ship to get towed, one of the most aggressive things I've ever witnessed. Pure uncontrolled destruction.
I can only imagine. The sheer mass and energy involved is staggering, and when all that lets go at once...
Imagine how heavy the anchor is then how heavy it is with 1200’ of huge chain. It just keeps getting heavier the more you pay out.
Humans, we can build planes that can fly themselves but seemingly not a fully automated anchor system.
You don't think the brakes are power-assisted on a freighter? Hm, I'm no expert, but I can't imagine they're purely mechanical / gravity-based.
Yes we can fail as well so what !!
@ L. Galling Power assisted does not = fully automated. Although I will say some of the above are probably down to maintenance issues in which case 100% automation still isn't worth jack.
Moving tons of metal very quickly is not something you can adjust with a firmware update. Automation can't prevent metal fatigue, for example.
I was thinking the same thing. Why let it free fall? Why not have oil bath fan (think torque converter on a car) that would slow its descent and not wear on the breaking system? They all seem to have a go/no go system right now.
I had problems with a few bike chains...
Issac Davis my bike chain snapped in half
i had a problem with a bicycle chain when i tried to attach it to a chain saw...
You should drop them in lake.. 😂
Good to see the seamen trying to fix the situation and not panicking while anybody else would.
GREAT! this is what my life is about, watching Anchor drop failure videos at 1 am
I guess it's down to how good your brake linings are on the control drum. You can see the smoke from the hot linings that turn to flames when operators try to rescue situations by locking the brake as hard on as possible.
LuL, U said "hard on!"
@@brockshields9336 seamen Stains.
in the next episode! top five mouse pad fails
Hairy Ballbastic I’m getting more excited about the top five door stop fails video.
5 million people would still watch , couple thousand $
Stunned....you mean on billion dollar ships the anchors are braked by a couple of guys turning a fancy handbrake.......!
The girl at 2:53 is like wtf am I doing here??? 🤣😂
#2: I like how the cameraman took a few steps back - the first indication it was about to go all wrong.
2:27 They´ve got helmets on their hed, but i got a watermelone insted!
Is there any video available of ROV or such recovering anchors/chain lost at sea?
After intense research I can personally guarantee you that these are the top 5 anchor fails.
Stop putting music on this stuff. Or at least get better at editing it so its really quiet. Nobody is watching this for the music anyways.
I QUIT watching BECAUSE of the annoying as hell background muzak.
I really hate when ppl. Post car videos racing and they put music, I don't care how catchy the beats might be, the only music I wanna hear is the ones coming from the tailpipes and engine
Digitrevx Trev פרודיה של פרתנית
ANYWAY
THANK you!
How many anchor's will be on the ocean floor, today? I think thousands world wide....
Surely thousands. However, usually its more economic to have a ship "rescue" your lost anchor (usually with a robot-submarine and divers) than to buy a new one. Those things arent cheap.
Not A Real Ninja It has its upsides and downsides. Life onboard of a ship is indeed very different from life ashore. There are a lot of traditions and superstitions onboard to begin with. In general we sailors are old fashioned. "Politics" work very differently from "normal" workplaces too. I think the majority of people couldnt do this job. To begin with you need to have a very thick skin and have a good sense of authority. You cant be gullible either. In any port in the world, there will be people trying to rip you off, trying to slack on work (on things you take responsibility for, like lashing cargo), trying to get information that doesnt concern them for whatever reason, trying to steal, trying to blackmail you for a bribe etc. Its to be expected that everything that isnt behind locked doors or welded down on deck will be stolen in many (usually 3rd world) ports and especially drydocks. Even lifebuoys get stolen.
In case of a loss a diver and workboat will recover the anchor
Navy officer on the phone to the supply office: - Do you have an XXL anchor and chain, please? - I need one for my carrier. - Seems to have misplaced the one I had. Can't find it anywhere. 🤣🤣🤣
That must have been some deep water!! lol
Is this a reupload?
30 sec. in and the music sucks, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
you forgot the one from Caddyshack!!! - "Hey, you scratched my anchor!"
Great video man!
This is one task that should be automatized. Weight deployed, torque sensors, amps and breaking system temperature are easier to integrate for a circuit board. I can't see how an operator can keep track of all these while keeping the animal on its leash.
And if the ship looses power you have a run away tanker with no backup...
The
2018, you would think that they would have a better way of dropping anchors.
Dan Cujo now that you mention it - yeah your right 🤪👈
Agreed, the fact they are still using brake band technology is mind boggling. They could easily be using a hydraulic motor to obtain a controlled payout of the chain, much like they use to raise the anchor.
why not drop from the bottom of the ship?
Anthonyjh02 big hole in the bottom of a ship? What could go wrong?
Dan Cujo Do you think that you could design a system of anchoring that is more reliable than gravity....lol
6:44 "Malaka no more anchor" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
hhahaha lol lol lol
Greek flag. Hahahaa
I can only imagine how deafening that is. I can imagine just one link of chain, weighs as much as I do. Well I guess maybe 1 3/4.
At least 10-20 times or more as much.
Needs the drop anchor scene from Caddy Shack at the end !
The fish are like 'OMG ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES' 👀😱
"Its lucky no one was injured here. An anchor drop goes terribly wrong" Thanks for the info there buddy lol
from personal experience, the chain whizzing by can be truly frightening
I bet!
Anchors away 😁
@@therandomytchannel4318 Definitely lol !
In the original video of the US NAVY (lost) one, the chain was hug up on the "lip" i'm sure you NAVY guys have the right word for it, the sailors let pressure off and it slipped off, but the shock-load caused a runaway. Apparently divers were sent in to get it, but it had gone too deep in "muck". As reported by someone on the ship at the time.
what? they undid the brake by purpose, but WAY too much. when the chain became unstuck and began dropping, they immediately start cranking clockwise, but it's too late.
I was in mp-1 (aft propulsion plant) when this happened. First story we heard was that the deck crew had fucked up and that's why we lost the anchor. It wasnt until someone posted the video on youtube that they started saying something about a brake failure. I do remember that the Hong Kong port authorities were trying to keep the ship there until we retrieved the anchor, but because it was under 10 feet of silt, we couldnt get it.
@@hokaloah100 LMFAO
Is the background music necessary?
Flash Back what's wrong with it? not to many videos without background music.. or do you just complain for the sake of complaining?
The music ruins the video
Now I'm watching a recap of the series of anchor videos KZhead already had me watch
if the seas could be drained, what treasures would we find, or what collection of debris would be discovered
A lot of it probably deteriorates in the salt water over time
things got a little out of hand
*OUT OF HAND* nice pun, or was it unintentional
2nd (#4) might have been a bit faster than intended, but from my layman's perspective, and comparing to other anchor drop fails, not anywhere close to out of control.
I used to drop anchors this size my self using only brake. There is a bit longer but much safer way to do it with a powerfull electric engine of winch 💡
I don’t think people realize how much those camera men deserve kudos, huge walnuts.
Gives new meaning to the term "iron lung"
I love how many people are saying this should be automated or a hydrodynamic brake would be better. In both cases you would need power to operate the system and if the ships generator should fail then you would be completely adrift with no way to hold position
Manual operation should be there as a backup in case of power failure. But yeah absolutely this stuff should be automated. Trivial for an electronic system to control exact rate of decent with pinpoint accuracy vs leaving it up to some guy loosening and tightening the brakes with a giant wheel. I get that's all most ships had decades ago, but no reason it still needs to be that way today.
Why the music. Not necessary. Ruins the video.
Maybe for copyright reasons
6:20 "Hey Pa, what is friction?"
Hey buddy you big chain is going too fast 💁 #megalodonFishing
Harley Thorson Lmao you can spell megalodon but you can't use the proper grammar or spelling of your Lmao #grammar/spelling epic fails... Lol.
Scheez bro 😼
r/woooosh
Harley Thorson Haha you're fucking hilarious, it cracks me up when I see someone using emojis on youtube comments.
@@charlesferdinand422 Emoji apocalypse 😬👿🙀🙊🙈👀💥 coming soon ☝👌🐻
Nothing to see here... everything looks perfectly normal to me. The only fail here is this video's ability to deliver it's promise.
"its" promise
Me didnt promissed perpheck spilling or gramore.
What do the shots and # of fathoms mean on the 3rd one? I can only guess fathoms are links or a metric used at sea?
This is new to me. Was the sea deeper than they thought? I thoughts ships had some kind of sonar sensor to say how deep the sea was underneath.
RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!
One way of making a coral reef!
Turkey Man lol true
or more like to increse world sea level..
Love this comment
Good way to make oil spill how much you think these big engines hold? Then sinks to the bottom were it will leak out everywere kill thousands of fish and other animals
@@Luciferms09 i think hes talking about the chain and anchor sinking to the ocean floor with the gaps big enough for fish to call home.
I'm no physicist, but don't fast moving metal gears and chains generate enormous amounts of heat? I can only assume that's dangerous.
Love the guy in yellow at 6:25 still holding it down while the wheel is on fire.
You could lose a fingernail in one of those winches.
or a whole arm more likely
Can't hear the cussing 'cause of the bloody musac ffs...
the old people who disliked this video should be dropped at sea lmao
When Diesel Engine Start Up be like: 1:24 Smoky
Ill admit i know jack about ships or boats ......but seems like this could be done much more efficiently with a different design
If someone asked me how strong I want to be, I would say I want to be strong enough to stop that chain 1:27
captain: anchor lowered? crew: something like that
It is amazing that this primitive tool is still being used
kameron steel what else would we use to stop a massive fucking ship from drifting???
kameron steel Tell me an another way to hold a 330.000 mt vessel...
Thrusters, just like a floating oil platform or a support vessel would use - though an anchor is cheaper if you don't require precise positioning as it doesn't require fuel.
ConcealCarry, I think Kameron means it's amazing how such a primitive tool is still relevant, still the best way, still necessary. Short of a rudder, nothing else from ancient sailing ships is still used today.
kameron steel you have a better idea?
I'm guessing that the anchor chain is supposed to feed out slowly, not freewheel.
Hello, could i ask you which segments are listed under creative commons
If the ship were to get closer to shore would there be less risk to lose the anchor and chain and be in a runaway situation? I also get that you are miles out in open sea, you don't always have that luxury. Are there times that the anchor never touches the bottom? Thanks Shipmates!
kzhead.info/sun/Zb2vp7yCfqWYeJ8/bejne.html ^ Video on how anchors work.
Just so y'all know the fires and smoke are caused by the metal friction heating up the oil and grease so fast causing it to get to it's flashpoint and ignite. (Or in some of these videos only cause smoke)