THE BIGGEST BUNKER WE EVER FOUND - The Oil Bunker - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2018
- Firstly, apologies for the low light. The amount of oil in this place soaked up all of the light.
Built as a Naval oil reserve in the late 30’s, this bunker complex consists of 9 oil reservoirs. Each of which can hold around 19,500 tons of furnace fuel oil totalling 175,500 tons of fuel. Built with concrete that was 35ft thick, this bunker was completely bombproof throughout the 2nd world war.
This served as a huge fuel reserve in the event that shipping routes where cut off by German forces.
Over 15 men died during the construction of this bunker mainly due to rock falls. The site today is very dangerous and since our visit, it has been sealed.
In part one we look at the east maintenance tunnel and then move on to gain entry to the main complex via the oil filled plant room.
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There's a simar installation in Scotland. Someone entered one of the tanks (empty) and recorded the longest echo on record. Your explore videos are amazing . Kudos
The background commentary in which you details history of the location is awesome & makes you stand out very positively from other urbex channels. Keep up the great work 😎👍❤️
Love your videos! Love how you give a bit of history with each location you visit. I look forward to every new one you post, 👍🏻
Those two photos were awesome mate, great job! That was probably the most light in that room in decades.
Love the videos of you under ground exploring and the still pictures of the huge engine room was amazing......really love the forts you end up in I tend to think that some of them are older than the history book and research tell us....regardless of my thoughts I look forward to seeing more videos....great work m8👍👍
looks like an old lister generator at the start, probably from the early 50s looking at the panel. In the main room, they weren't engines but the looked like large electrically driven pumps for transporting the oil. shame this place is sealed. a few days down there cleaning it and putting grates on the pits would make it a wonderful museum of what was effectively the heart of the British navy.
The main generators in the still images around the 14:30 mark look like they could be similar to the Ruston-Hornsby units used in the 9.2" costal forts around New Zealand like found here www.newswire.co.nz/2014/04/wrights-hill-fortress-open-day-an-ideal-anzac-day-activity-for-families/
I like how you respect the areas you explore. You explain all you can and help preserve the places of history for all those that can't explore as you do.
We Americans don't know the feelings your ancestors had during the war. You bring the reality of what it was like to be in the middle of the battlefield. Bombs falling all around, forced into the shelters and the hardships they faced every day.
Makes me proud to be an American. Americans and Brits were working together but your ancestors were in the battlefield and in danger all the time.
Keep documenting the tunnels and showing the world the bravery, trials, and ingenious things Englanders did for their country and the citizens.
Some of your explorations are quite dangerous but you continue to document these fantastic innovations of the past..
From "across the pond" I say, thank you, stay safe and Great job!! Keep up the good work!!!
Most definitely. I've been finding more photos recently that where taken in places such as these during their use and its astonishing as to what those people endured. Fortunate British people are just plain stubborn (especially back then) which helped the determination to persevere 😂
It's only in recent years that I’ve been looking more into the actual documentation of the time which outlines some of the operations that where undertaken by the UK and US armed forces (not just what Hollywood chooses to warp for a good movie). Especially accounts of valour in battle. Some of the stuff those guys did was just plain suicidal in our eyes but they fought on and it's that determination shown by all Allied forces that resulted in victory.
Great vid! Loved finally seeing what was on the other side of the machine hall. Nice idea with the bags on the feet.
It’s the best we had for the job 😂 part two next week shows all the tunnels and tanks on the other side 👍
My heart was going a bit when you were stepping around the machinery. Sometimes those huge old industrial pumps, have 4-6ft deep sumps around them 😱
Yeah, I found that out the hard way 😂
12:30 - confirmed - you're actually insane! ;-D That place is crazy but amazing to see, thanks!
Transformers Robots in Disguise lol. Loved the one liners. Another great exploration. Photos are amazing. Thanks for sharing guys!!!
I work in oil fields of west texas, and work with this stuff, how ever its closed up and contained. I load tanker trucks and sometimes the vapor from that makes me dizzy. I love your adventures. Good job.
Greetings Texas! I’m guessing that this stuff has undergone a certain level of Hydrodesulfurization. Although it stunk, there where no ill affects.
Great video guys
WOW, nothing else I can say 😨😨, awesome !!
You should carry a few disposable DuPont Tyvek disposable suits. That way you can keep your cloths clean when you run into places like this one.
Not a bad call.
@@SubExploration Without telling how you get into any one place can you go into how you get into some of these places? Don't tell anything that would risk any place to the jerks that just go to steal and destroy things. Thanks
Awesome photo of the machinery but boy that was a messy place.
I don't understand how I missed this Thanks Simon stay safe
Quite a old video now. Keep up mate 😉👍
Lol this is from 3 years ago lol had to of missed it .Cheers
What an amazing place I’m blown away by the shire size all the plant
Geographically (north to south) from one end to the other it measures about a mile. Combined, the tunnels are roughly 3.1 miles 👍
Great video keep up the great work you do love your work👐👐👐
Thank you very much sir!
Definitely you don't want to get lost in there with the battery's running low
Get an h2s monitor for that expl.
Yes I would certainly recommend that to anyone else. This was filmed back in June. Since then we have got some gas detectors 👍
wow ...was a cool idea to explore that oil rig ....the big industrial engines are still there ..... the big ones i could just about bet they would run with some work .
FANTASTIC the things you do ;) brave guys you are
Brave? Stupid? Same thing 😂
wow nice location ! LIKE
How long are these tunnels? Great explore.
Yes this is a very nice video. A good example of "slip-form concreting" in tunnels.
If you want to read on the subject, there is an "indian standard" on making tunnels called: "Code of Practice for Construction of Tunnels", starting of with part 1: "is.5878.1 Code of Practice for Construction of Tunnels". 7 parts in total, with references to other Indian Standard files. All downloadable for free. You will get what they mean real fast.
Concrete lining...
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth
You guy’s went well prepared but you could have taken some oil absorbent granules for that oil. I’m just thinking of the environment. (I’m taking the Mick) Love the burp & cracking banter.
Lmao.
Sub Exploration as well as IKS, you are both my favourite channels on RUclips. Great vid guy’s.
😂 would hate to imagine how much absorbent granules you would need to clean this place up!
Man, I appreciate your editing style. No sensationalist bullshit & unnecessarily drawing things out. Just straight to the point√
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Thanks! Yeah i see a lot of others out there that work on nothing but speculation and it drives me nuts 😂
Do you know Shiey? ...would recommend√ :]
Yes I do, he does some crazy shit 👍
A suggestion, tyvec suit cheap and quick to use.
Incredible place , very interesting views & pictures - thanks guys
I’m sure there is a huge pipe network running around a massive area of the UK feeding from your location that carried fuel round the UK
Shame about all the Beeps !!!!!
Yes there was a huge pipe that ran several miles to the local Naval dockyard.
Yes there won’t be beeps in part 2 tomorrow 😂
Yes there is a supply system running round the whole country. It used to be a big secret and owned by the MOD. A few years back it was sold to a private company.
If you're out in the countryside and see a post with a dayglow orange top , bit like roof with a number on it, that's one of the pipelines.
SandMan Jono There is a supply pipeline running into this place from the old oil refinery at Fawley, on the New Forest side of Southampton. The pipes out of here went straight to the dockyard in Portsmouth for fueling warships. Every wartime military dockyard in the UK had a facility like this somewhere nearby as the oil here was solely bunker oil for military use. There is also an oil tank farm in Gosport, the other side of Portsmouth Harbour from the dockyard with a pipeline running direct there for the same reason. Portsmouth was one of the biggest dockyard facilities during the war and a vast array of warships operated from there during the war, so much so that it was estimated that, had the Germans been able to blockade the supply lines to the US and other countries, the oil in these facilities would only keep the Royal Navy operational for a matter of a few weeks. I have visited this facility and my abiding memory is of the overpowering smell of the bunker oil, even though it has been effectively empty for 50 years now, it is truly overpowering...
@@hammyh1165 That system isn't the same as this, which was designed for bunker (crude) oil. The more recent system is largely used for fuel types like aviation fuel to airports and supply of already-refined products like petrol and diesel to other facilities for further refinement...
@@gosportjamie yes I understand they are different types of fuel, I live less than a mile from one of the biggest bunkerages in Britain, although there's not much of it left now as it's been in the process of being demolished for the last 10years.
I would bring a extendible pole to check where I want to step, would be safer, because I can poke into the oil with it to see how deep it is, and as for bags on your feet, well a set of good work boots rated for use on oily surfaces would help, though I guess with that much oil on the floor, they might not be much better, but I think the bags where a slip hazard, just have a spare change of clothing, hope no one lights a match down there, that would be one huge fire, lol, I would be so worried about it that I would have had someone stand guard at the entrance to make sure no one else goes in,
I have only recently learnt that the pump room has a 12 foot shaft in the floor that we could have fallen through into the oil. Not good!
Taking your lives in your hands on this one boys !!
Jealous of you guys..! Many Saturdays as a kid spent down here with my dad..Pump room, watchmen's hut, the concrete stairs exiting on top of the hill..
Sweet memories...😊
You went inside here when it was live or just as it went into disuse? Either way i bet it was much cleaner.
@@SubExploration Very much alive though only on Saturdays with the old man.. The stokers came in and ran the pumps weekdays, absolutely deafening..And I do remember the smell in there damp, chalk sediment, the smell of RN FFO..! I feel lucky to have even set foot in a place as secretive as that at a young age..
Thanks for the walk around guys..👍
@@neilborton8096 Amazing!
Great video, pretty scary, pretty nasty dirty place....when will part 2 come out??
This friday 👍
Would be nice to go back there with your new torches...
An AVR system used motors to adjust huge auto transformers to ensure that the voltages outvremained constant .
wow if you could get a small Generator or Generac down there and hook it up to the wires to the lights on the walls in that engine room you'd be able to see for the first time in many years it all light up .... beautiful part one .. what an environmental nightmare down there lol .. love the photo of the room all lit up guys very nice .
Tried my best to light it for the photo but i think i could have done better with my new lens 😂
Love this! Iks tried and failed at this location - but one question how is there so much oil about? I understand a bit of it but have they poored oil all over to stop people getting about?
My guess would be that as it’s a military site, they took the “hammer” approach. The MOD have never had the best reputation for doing things the “green” way 😂
175K tons of fuel, that is sick!
Mad , but very entertaining . And poor old Badger nearly got his hole felt again lol
Badger is never safe 😂
Ill send you a teddy bear Badger so you can show where the naughty man touched you lol
lol poor old Badger
holly smokes fantastic
Modern florescent lights on the top of the of the tunnel. Maybe it was still used in the 70s
Darwin Australia has a whole heap of these
nice pics
still, was a great explore, hope to see more, though iks has shown that many of the old bunkers and stuff like that is being torn down and disappearing, soon, we will have nothing left.
This is why its good to try to docuement these places. Honestly speaking, IKS does a great job in filming these places which is why we concentrate a little more on the still images.
Imagine the cleanup that place would require. Horrible environmental disaster there.
Yup. Let be honest the UK military doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to disposing of things. I can name a few sets of woods where digging is not permitted as they buried a load of ammo there 😂
Totally agree.
Looks like portsdown fuel tunnels didn’t know they was open again
That machine may have been a generator. The control panel is why I say that. It could have power a winch and pumps for the fuel.
I was going to say the same thing. Looked like a generator on the end of that engine. Most likely a diesel motor
I imagine that place was immaculate when in the hands of the army so how on earth would it end up like that with oil covering every surface? Strange as the maintenance would have been kept right up to scratch till the 90s
amazing looking place.. would love to explore this.. shame its been sealed looks like theirs so much down there surprised no one owns it or something... would make an amazing museum too i think if anything else
Yeah was sealed a good few months back now. It’s definitely owned but by who is a mystery.
ahhh its a shame that and oohh interesting.. quite odd that i wonder if anythings happened or happening with the place and what this mystery person is going to do with it if anything at all.. hmmm.. awesome video though as always and interesting to see the other parts :)
Pretty sure it's been opened up again
Really? First I’ve heard. Be good if it has, I know a number of people that wanted to see it 👍
really.. how come ?
Dangerous shit. Good video
That place is rather impressive isn't it
finally !
LOL 😂
You need to bring 0 LUX Night Vision headgear in a place like this and zero luxs night vision cameras with an IR spotlight
That way you can see clearly everything that's in the room and you can get really good photos in complete blackness
anyone else expecting a xenomorph to jump out at any minute?? :D
lol@10:47.. "only oil, only oil, only oil.. and all the other chemicals that they added in the oil.. my days have to be insane to go in there without protective gear
Oddly it was quite unrefined oil used in marine diesel engines, very high flash point , best not to eat too much of it tho,
Yum yum yum :-)
Have never claimed that we are not insane 👍
i just kept saying that to myself to get thru that mess :D
LMFAO (I've been in a poo tube)
😂👍👑👏😭 But being serious for a minute what a place!! I could spend hours in that plant room just mooching at stuff, great vid keep them coming.
Damn poo tubes! Been in two more by accident since then 😂
@@SubExploration lmfao (stop my sides hurt)
😂 👍 👌
spicymeatball07 n
Cool :)
you say insane far too much . love the vids IKS explored these fuel bunkers a i believe .
Yes he has. IKS gets all over the place
What is that grunting sound at around 3:01 right after he says hell yeah? Then right after someone says listen. It sounds too deep to be anyone's voice.
Oh guys, You Should be outfitted in class appropriate Hazmat jammies because that mucks a poison Stew. Respiratory appropriate equipment as well. But that's just me, I guess I could be over paranoid. Good luck and be careful I like Your videos and Thank You SINCERELY YOURS Mr Bradley ✝️🏀🤾⛹️💁🤸
If you had a smaller drone you could fly it down that tube and explore the tank... Maybe you guys should get a small drone with obstacle avoidance to explore places you can't go...
A grapling hook to throw up at the ladder is far cheaper 😀
A camera with flashlight tied to pole will be much more effective. I'm curious why they didn't used such solution to peek behind holes in floors and walls.
A drone requires light to use the obstacle avoidance. My obstacle avoidance doesnt work in the dark.
I know exactly where that is.. your so lucky as in one of the engine room's there is a 3ft by 3ft square pit that drops about 15ft, you lucky you did not fall through
Really?! lol
Damn...... Thinking about that is horrifying... Falling into a black filled pit drowning in cold complete darkness....😓😓😓😓
the fuel bunker in Poole is ok not as good as that one
Is there oil still in the tanks?
No they have been drained
Micheldever???
if you knew how many euphenisms you used there... I am meant to die laughing
That must have been a mammoth task to build that place, maybe it was built by Optimus Prime ;-)
Optimus would have made short work of it :-)
Why's there oil all over everything?
I wonder what sort of clothing is actually suitible for working in such an enviroment. Everything turn to *beep* after a while.
Whatever you wear, it should burn well. Yes, the feedback about the bleeps has been well received 😂 This issue shall be remedied.
Great! Yet another channel will just be music!! ;)
Hell no 😉👍
I would pay one penny per *Beep* but only for the real ones. Gratuitus use would be subed.
Insane thats all i heard,,,,better lighting needed
Check out Tom Scott's video, he went in one of the tanks.
Yeah i've seen that 👍
How did the oil get everywhere?
I have no idea 😂
@12:06, interesting find but it seems a bit toxic ;-(
Super Toxic!
reading the cc is sooo strange
Dosnt oil release hydrocarbons?
No idea
iks have a beater video of this site
Would have loved to see the size of inside of the oil tanks.
Same here but unfortunately the ladders to get up into them had been cut away. If the place is ever accessible again then I’ll go back with ropes and a grappling hook to take a look inside.
@@SubExploration that would be incredible to see, imagine how vast they would be. Do you live in or by Dorset? I've been on your Web page and noticed quite a few adventures in dorch and Portland etc. I'm in Bridport.
Not once have we been to Dorch or Portland i'm afraid 😂
Ahh just looked up the site i went on and it was called the urban explorer not your name, sorry. it has photos of this place on there so got confused. tbh they look like he migth have stolen your pics.
possible ghost at 7 mins in at 12 0 clock view..
well you know nothing down there is going to rott for the oil lmao
How is it that there is so much oil all over the floors and machinery. It looks as if they hosed the place down with oil. 🤔🤔
No idea. It's the MOD, they probably did a rush job to decommission the place.
Probably water getting into the main tanks caused whatever oil was left in them to rise and flood everything at floor level. The vapour from the oil then condensed on handrails, walls and outer surfaces.
5 people died, probably a shame. One scaffolder plummets to his death doing the octagon in Ely cathedral and they're inventing ghosts and saying it was suicide. Dodgy cables at best, but they will milk it. I'm not saying he didn't die, but that happens a lot here, and they want to milk that ghost tour. When your local newsagent is pretending to be the ghost of a grave robber...you notice, and I was 7 at the time
Hallen?
This isn't where I'm thinking isit
Glad to see our Government was so good at decomissioning this in the 90s. Looks like an environmental disaster waiting to happen.
Ik's was there folks
IKS is omnipotent, HE IS EVERYWHERE AND AT ALL TIMES!
Is it possible for me to join the team sometimes
Guy in the glasses even seeing anything in there?
no 😂
The generator at 6 mins would have powered the facility
Yup
This kind of exploration needs a special name. Geo-proctology?
No part 2🥺
Yes part two 👍 ruclips.net/video/Oo3XUm1At6s/видео.html
This guy with sun glasses lol
He didn't even realise he was wearing them 😂
this must be a secret doomsday tunnel the built in cold war time ?
It's a generator. 6.00
my sort of place, reminds me of my exploring days, nowhere was safe from us!.
yes it is a generator and they said it was petrol it would be diesel fuel because of the environment.
Yes I had realised when I said it. A little tongue tied.
Not surprised, a bit of a buzz those places eh?,
Cheers, J.
Reason I ask is there is abandoned site near were I live that is suppose to be a fuel depot for near by airfields, which looks possibly like a bunker.
"This place was de commissioned in the nineties" discuss.
Shut up Raymond
Yes it’s was the early nineties. What where they using it for up until then after the war? Interesting.
Were is this place?
Underground ;-)
Under a hill on the south coast, if you listen closely near beginning when he reads of wall he will say fort....?
Nice Video, but that's a big environmental pollution, why was not it disposed of? Here in Germany you found nothing old machines in Bunker. Everything was expanded!
Sofckingcreeeeeeepy 😵
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Damn! Kinda glad we invested in some gas detectors since we filmed this 😂
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