We so often hear of the British expedition of The Terror and The Erebus. Which ended in abject failure, not to mention misery. I had never heard of the Chelyuskin so this was a real treat. Not least because of the fact that women and children were on the ship but also the heroic rescue and fantastic leadership by Otto Schmidt. Thanks for this.
It’s interesting how it can go either way. On Auckland island south of NZ there were 2 simultaneous shipwrecks. One went Lord of the fly’s the other held it together.
Seems like the expedition leader Otto had a good head on his shoulders. The influence of good leadership and planning has in such a desperate situation, should not be underestimated.
This is one of those stories where early on I realize "this has exceptional detail.... someone wrote a book from first-hand experience, didn't they?" This of course leads me to suspect that a lot of time was spent writing diaries, possibly after the expedition was over.
Despite the dire situation and the hardships the crew had to endure, it was really refreshing to hear a story about a stranded ship where the survivors didn’t immediately give in to savagery and violence…
This is the first of these stories Ive heard where people are actually competent and didnt devolve into canibalism or somebody turning into a tiny dictator
@@SirDerp909 Not everybody gets to be a leader. In a crisis, somebody has to step up. If not, there's a power vacuum and disunity. In a situation where one's survival is at stake, rational adults put aside their petty egos and unite behind a competent leader. The leader isn't always competent, but it's almost always better having somebody in charge than not. I hope you never end up in a situation like this because your childish attitude would get people killed if not just yourself.
It's usually helpful to have a person in command in these situations given they're competent. So many people devolve into a panic stricken mess in these situations and need a strong leader
arguably, there were more casualties... not those of the ships crew, but those of civilians who would have survived had the pilots involved in the rescue been at their day jobs... you see, most of these aircrafts worked ferrying doctors to remote villages in "Siberia", and the time spent rescuing was a time in which there were people lacking medical help. of these, a number died.
@@stanislavkostarnov2157was just thinking the same thing but we also can’t assume there was any medical events going on either. It’s only assumed but they also wouldn’t fly the doctors and supplies out if they didn’t need it. I don’t think there was significant casualties at all though.
@@cccc285 we have actual statistics, I believe it was something like 35 permanent injuries *(we are talking amputations due to infection where limbs could originally be saved) and I think it was 3 or 4 deaths... it was a while back I might be off with the numbers... (there was a paper on it presented by Diletant-Media a while back, if you read in Russian)
I lived in Kotzebue, Alaska (on the Chukchi Sea) for a few years. It was -55 degrees F the day that I landed there. Despite that I fell in love with the place. I miss it every day.
Try to imagine the feeling you have hearing the sound of an approaching airplane engine sitting on a melting icesheet for 8 months without a ship. In the first place it is incredible they were able to locate the expedition so precisely after so many months on shifting ice in the middle of an ocean, without GPS.
Why incredible? Marking your position on a dry land (and ice is far more like dry land than moving ship) is easy with navigational instruments, and the ship surely had multiple officers who had to pass rigorous exams in their use and knew how to find out location well...
@@KuK137 The radio helps a lot as well. Using a second receiver, you can locate a radio transmitter very precisely just by using a map and the two directions to the transmitter. After that you can guide the plane to that location from the ground using the plane's radio and the same two ground stations just as easily. The advantage that GPS gives you is that you just need a receiver to know where you are, so you don't give away your presence or position, which is a huge deal in warfare and very economical for civilian use.
A harrowing adventure well told. After watching several stories in which there are many fatalities, I felt relief when I learned that all but one person was successfully rescued.
While it makes total sense it's still wild seeing on the map what looks like blue ocean but there was an entire camp there, cos it was mostly just vast expanses of frozen ice. The maps showing the different locations just made those thoughts even more jarring, it's insane to think how much of the northern waters and the Arctic Sea in general are just covered by such thick layers of ice that it's safe to set up camp on it. Wild. Great video as always!
Are? We're quickly moving the word to 'were' with CO2. You don't even need reinforced ships now in summer, soon you will be able to travel the passage 8-9 months a year...
@@KuK137 Not so fast, rising CO2 levels won't just mean thin ice and happy sailing days. Yeah, the ice will be thinner, but the weather will also be way more unpredictable, violent and dangerous. I can take my own nation of Denmark as an example of this, despite Denmark lying quite a bit further south than these seas. Denmark is almost entirely surrounded by water, with the only exception being the southern end of Jutland, which is connected to mainland Europe. Jutland is, however, the only peninsula of Denmark. Everything else is islands upon islands and all of Denmarks weather, including Jutland, is entirely governed by the ocean currents and the location of the jet stream. Last year we had the wettest year ever recorded, since recording the weather began in 1874, including a storm surge that flooded large parts of Denmark, left entire vacation home areas under so much water that it reached the roofs of the buildings and even flooded cities and turned them into temporary versions of a Scandinavian Venice. This year we got the wettest april ever, after getting a whole months rain in just 4 days and next week we can expect cold days and nights with frost and ice, despite entering the latter half of April, which normally means warmer weather. We've also had quite a few spring storms, which neither normally occurs and as I'm writing this it's raining once again and it's quite likely that we'll smash last years record as the wettest year ever recorded. And Denmark still lies hundreds of kilometers below the Barents Sea. It will be much, much worse up there and it doesn't matter that the ice gets thinner, when it won't get so thin that ships can't be crushed in unexpected storms. The more the arctic ice melts, the more unpredictable, violent and dangerous the weather becomes.
@@Visiopodoff topic from the video but you’re so right. To give less extreme but perhaps more relatable example, my childhood in northeast ohio was filled with snow days and long winters of feet of snow and playing outside in our days off from school. That was elementary school, so when I was 6-10. By the time I was in high school they implemented a system in our district where if we had to take more than three days off for snow in the winter, we had to make them up in the summer. Nobody was particularly upset about that though. Because when we used to average 10-15 snow days in elementary, by the time I was a senior in high school we would have maybe one. And now, ten years after graduating, the most snow we get in my area is about 5 inches. In northeast Ohio/western PA (where I live now) white Christmas is a thing of the past. If it does snow at all significantly, it’ll be in February or late march. And it’ll never be more than a few inches. This winter my stepdaughter desperately wanted to build a snowman but there was never enough snow. Not enough snow for a single snowman. And this isn’t Florida! It’s Pennsylvania! It’s twenty minutes from where I grew up, where my parents cars used to be snowed into the driveway so bad they had to call off work when I was a kid! Of course there’s still enough ice on the roads that my Nissan can barely get up a hill, but no fucking snow. It’s insane. Like, my stepdaughter is 4 and the way things are going, I truly think she might never experience a snow day ever. In an area where I used to have 15 of them when I was her age. Meanwhile this summer, since about a month ago, every single day has been at least 90°. Summers were never ever this hot when I was a kid. There have been heat advisories almost every day. At work, where the business has existed for 30 years, they’re finally implementing policies that allow us to change uniforms in the summer because it’s just too damn hot to go outside in what we’re supposed to wear.
This is a master class in competence. What intelligence! Creating a new fuel for the heat to save coal. Evacuating a ship with over 100 ppl and all necessary equipment in 5 mins, even making sure to get the communication equipment first! Brilliant. RIP to the quarter master.
One thing that is insane, is how the Captain was able to continue to log the ships position. That speaks volumes for the type of man he was, being able to not succumb to hopelessness when your crew and ship become stranded. It’d make sense that you’d just want to be mopey and feel shitty, but this guy know he still had a job to do. That takes some brass!
She was probably forced along with a husband. It was a trade route. Perhaps he had a new job somewhere new? After the first birth it also becomes less of an ordeal for many women, do perhaps a bit of hubris as well.
Wow this story is incredible. I can't believe I've never heard of this before. I was so relieved to hear that even the newborn made it! Imagine being in that environment and giving birth on a ship in the Arctic Circle. Giving birth wouldn't even be the scariest part, then you have to keep a newborn alive while stranded in the frozen Arctic. The captain, Otto, must have been quite a formidable and level-headed commander.
This was an awesome story. Out of all the stories from history that I’ve read, the ones where sailors get trapped in Arctic ice are some of the most insane. I imagine that being trapped out in the middle of the ocean with nothing but white as far as you can see would be one of the most horrible fates you could go through.
Along a similar theme, the story of the ww2 plane "glacier girl", might be an interesting story to cover. It was a p38 lighting doing reconnaissance in cold weather, crashed, buried in 100ft of ice and recovered years later. I got to see it fly for the first time in the early 2000s
@thurayya8905 yeah to the best I can remember it took quite a while, between locating, excavation, and fixing all the deteriorated parts. Pretty neat stuff
I literally have to play these scary interesting videos to fall asleep now. Something about the creepy but calmness of it just puts me down, i usually make it thru 2 whole ones but by the third im for sure out. Love learning thru this guys videos 😊
First reaction: Oh boy, new video, nice! Second reaction: technically I just cheered about the fact that now I'll be able to hear another tale about human suffering
I've never said it before, but I'm a special fan of how you tell these stories. You have great pitch inflection, which keeps these stories from sounding flat, but your voice is also relaxing.
What an absolutely inspiring tale of resourcefulness courage and cooperation. The leadership and coordination by Schmidt and the captain, together with the concern and support from their government, the local people and the crew are all phenomenal.
Saw this and was like, is this a rammstein video, then read the caption. Very similar picture but different ships. This was a fascinating video. Arctice exploration is always fascinating to me.
What an amazing story. Those pilots flying rudimentary planes and using basic navigational aids and knowing the risk to their own safety, but they still pulled it off. True heroes, one and all.
Thank you for pronouncing Moscow correctly. Cossack is pronounce cos-sak rather than koh-sak for any future reference. You put a lot of work into pronouncing difficult languages well, which is definitely appreciated
@@local_authority Russia, Moscow and Cossack are just English translations of Rossiya, Moskva and kazak, so yeah, we also don't call England Anglia when speaking English. However, many consider foreigners struggling with quite simple words a bit funny :)
Please make a video of the 20th century Arctic expedition ship Karluk, commandeered by Icelandic anthropologist Vihljarmur Stefansson, wherein the ship got stuck in Arctic ice off the coast of northern Alaska, and the sole survivors included an Inuit seamstress called Ada Blackjack who led the rescue of the remaining survivors and nursed em all back to health.
What an absolute adventure, you can see where the bold daring explorer character archetype comes from in stories and films, based on real, fearless, resourceful, and determined people who navigated a perilous, much less-known world than our own. One casualty in an 8 month struggle against the uncaring cold and dark wherein brave individuals even birthed children and leaders made timely and life saving decisions. All the while the stoic people they led and were assisted by offered each other help regardless of nation showing the very best of humanity.
I used to live in Adak. The southern part of this video by far. The Bering strait has some of the worse weather in the fucking world. This story is crazy. In FALL? Into WINTER? WOW.
Really enjoyed this one. This one was a lot more inspiring and less sad than a lot of the others. Also I know it was such a small part but damn, the women aboard were badass. "Don't send me, send someone weaker and less useful!!!" I'm sure every single person there wanted to get out of there and for them to be told "Hey, you can get out of here, no questions asked and in relative comfort" and they're like "nah, we want to do what's best for the group!" Also nice that it seems like morale was generally really good, so everyone stayed civilized and didnt devolve into wild beasts like some of the other stories
This really exemplified what a difference good leadership makes. Otto seemed to be very intelligent and as well prepared as possible for this situation, Im pretty sure that with other/worse leaders the loss of lives would’ve been a lot higher
Not only the leadership but the capacity of the staff, it is clear that it was a well-prepared expedition with people trained in several areas who managed to keep the situation under control.
Glad to see a relatively happy ending among the "Scary Interesting" expedition stories! What resolution and guts among the stranded and the rescuers! 👏 👏 👏
despite the very terrifying topic of being stranded in the artic/crushed by a glacier, this story has kinda a feel good tone. its nice to see when humanity works together
Should do a video about the Great Lakes Ship wrecks. They have lost hundreds of ships and thousands of people have died in the lakes. There are some definite good stories out of those wrecks too. Good and bad
I'm happy for the (99%) good ending. Everyone involved really was a hero for the ability to survive in such a painstaking situation. Also cool that the US helped as well. I hope we can reach that level of cooperation again
It's incredible how the crew managed to endure such harsh circumstances and remain hopeful. History is truly full of adventurous and brave individuals who pushed the boundaries of human endurance.
The map made it look like there was a random canal through that island between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea. But when I looked it up, nope, it's a natural waterway zigzagging all the way through and it has several neighbors that go deep into the island but not all the way.
A rare episode where just about everyone survived. The same can't be said for those poor souls on the Franklin expedition. Even now, no one knows the fate of the men who left their ships and attempted to find help heading south.
Big fan, here!! I like to listen to these while doing my mundane house chores. The creepy ambient audio tracks and sound effects always add so much ("Blood Kiss", I think it's called?? is my favorite)! (I did notice the new animation during the intro sequence though; that was a cool touch!) Keep 'em comin'!! ❤👍
I was looking for a video to listen to while I start cleaning, absolutely perfect timing and I got so excited!!! You're one of my favorites here on RUclips, thank you so much for working hard!💕
You need to research and do a video of the USS Jeannette wreck. Such a fascinating story that even includes the last islands that had a wolly mammoth population. Seriously look it up. Do it. Your viewers will love it
Your storytelling skills are my favourite. I actually love you more than MrBaller. Your voice is calming, and paints vivid pictures of horrific events. Thanks for your work!
You can check out the lost Brusilov expedition. It was a Russian hunting expedition that got stuck in pack ice in 1913 and drifted north. Half of the crew decided to leave the vessel and walk to land, of those (and everyone else left on the ship) only two have returned. Their journey is well documented in a diary of mr. Albanov and was published as a book.
Whenever I hear of Russian ice breakers I think of that story about the whales trapped in Alaska. It was a Russian ice breaker that was able to finish the job of breaking the ice from the sea to where the volunteers had to stop due to the thick ice.
@@gaz8891 it was called Operation Breakthrough. It happened in 1988. There was a movie made called Big Miracle which follows the story pretty closely. It is about 3 trapped grey whales. I looked it up for you. 😀
Another shipwreck story in the artic did not go in the way i expected. Even if it was the 1930s and technology was better by that time standard, i was surprised that practically everyone survived. Thats impressive resilience in such weather conditions
Going out on a treacherous voyage to the Arctic..with a pregnant woman who gives birth to a daughter on the ship during the onwards journey. Just awesome 👍
Never realized that there is a Barents Sea close to the Arctic just like a Bering Sea. Of course there's no chance of any miscommunication having ever happened because of that...
I live in remote Alaska and work as a commercial fisherman. Without doubt this crew was absolutely very very lucky. The winters up here can be brutal and finding yourself adrift on the ice pack would be the worst
I'm not real thrilled with events going on in and around Russia these days, but I do have admit I find their language and some of their history fascinating.
Globe was the warmest in recent history during the 1930's, that's why they were able to use the northern passage for trade then, but not now while the globe is significantly cooler.
We so often hear of the British expedition of The Terror and The Erebus. Which ended in abject failure, not to mention misery. I had never heard of the Chelyuskin so this was a real treat.
Not least because of the fact that women and children were on the ship but also the heroic rescue and fantastic leadership by Otto Schmidt.
Thanks for this.
It’s interesting how it can go either way. On Auckland island south of NZ there were 2 simultaneous shipwrecks. One went Lord of the fly’s the other held it together.
@@donnydodoI’d love to read about that do you know the names of the ships?
@@donnydodoI’d like to know the names of the ships too :) Thanks
It doesn't make sense to me why they brough civilians in this trip, though, shouldn't it be just military personel?
@@ryuunosuk3 Why would a cargo ship be crewed by the military?
Seems like the expedition leader Otto had a good head on his shoulders. The influence of good leadership and planning has in such a desperate situation, should not be underestimated.
Russians do wonders when governed by germans for whatever reason. Romanov royal family or mr. Schmidt here are good examples
I fully agree. That was an incredible feat! 🙏⚘️
If you fail to plan you plan to fail
Yeah definitely seemed like he was above and beyond expectations
fully agree, the crew survived and only suffered 1 fatality largely due to the good leadership of Otto and his wise decision making
Its incredible they almost all made it off the ice. The captain must have been a great leader to keep morale going for such a long difficult time.
This is one of those stories where early on I realize "this has exceptional detail.... someone wrote a book from first-hand experience, didn't they?" This of course leads me to suspect that a lot of time was spent writing diaries, possibly after the expedition was over.
They had women on board 😂
Considering there was a birth, technically he broke even
@@ay-dionne And the baby LIVED! :D
Bro said they broke even lol . But yeah good job by the captain for sure.
Despite the dire situation and the hardships the crew had to endure, it was really refreshing to hear a story about a stranded ship where the survivors didn’t immediately give in to savagery and violence…
This is the first of these stories Ive heard where people are actually competent and didnt devolve into canibalism or somebody turning into a tiny dictator
All that cold air made somebody shrink, and then start ordering people around?
I'll see my way out....
Because they're Russians, not Europeans. Much less intrinsic vanity.
@@SirDerp909 Not everybody gets to be a leader. In a crisis, somebody has to step up. If not, there's a power vacuum and disunity. In a situation where one's survival is at stake, rational adults put aside their petty egos and unite behind a competent leader. The leader isn't always competent, but it's almost always better having somebody in charge than not. I hope you never end up in a situation like this because your childish attitude would get people killed if not just yourself.
That’s very easy for you to say lol, ignorant
It's usually helpful to have a person in command in these situations given they're competent. So many people devolve into a panic stricken mess in these situations and need a strong leader
Only one casualty, and out of unfortunate circumstances. An amazing result for captain Otto.
arguably, there were more casualties... not those of the ships crew, but those of civilians who would have survived had the pilots involved in the rescue been at their day jobs... you see, most of these aircrafts worked ferrying doctors to remote villages in "Siberia", and the time spent rescuing was a time in which there were people lacking medical help. of these, a number died.
@@stanislavkostarnov2157was just thinking the same thing but we also can’t assume there was any medical events going on either. It’s only assumed but they also wouldn’t fly the doctors and supplies out if they didn’t need it. I don’t think there was significant casualties at all though.
@@cccc285 we have actual statistics, I believe it was something like 35 permanent injuries *(we are talking amputations due to infection where limbs could originally be saved) and I think it was 3 or 4 deaths... it was a while back I might be off with the numbers...
(there was a paper on it presented by Diletant-Media a while back, if you read in Russian)
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 Maybe, but I'm talking _numbers,_ not speculations on coulda shoulda woulda.
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 This is a retarded way of thinking.
I’m amazed that it turned out so well for them. That’s rare in these stories
Definitely.
For real
was honestly expecting something awful.
Nice black metal pfp. What band is it?
What's up with spoilers appearing while I watch the start of the video. Fullscreen mode is mandatory I guess.
These folks did so damn well. I never hear these types of stories where people make almost all of the correct decisions
It’s evidence of slavs being white fr.
It's like a horror movie where they see one person mess up and everyone learns from it.
nah they just happened to be Russians
I lived in Kotzebue, Alaska (on the Chukchi Sea) for a few years. It was -55 degrees F the day that I landed there. Despite that I fell in love with the place. I miss it every day.
I want to move north, right now I live in Utah and despite adoring the sand we don't always get much snow.
@@mariawhite7337I don't like sand. Its coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Was it unbelievably cold, share some anecdotes pls
@@clintoruss153 Dude I think MINUS FIFTY FIVE DEGRESS Farenheight counts as 'mother freaking cold'
@@mariawhite7337 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just got off graveyard shift and now I have something to watch before bed. Thanks!
Same😅
I miss the graveyard shift. No people, easy commute, it was great.
Me too.
You went from graveyard shift to graveyard ship. Now I feel bad for making that joke, damm
Same here buddy.
Try to imagine the feeling you have hearing the sound of an approaching airplane engine sitting on a melting icesheet for 8 months without a ship. In the first place it is incredible they were able to locate the expedition so precisely after so many months on shifting ice in the middle of an ocean, without GPS.
Why incredible? Marking your position on a dry land (and ice is far more like dry land than moving ship) is easy with navigational instruments, and the ship surely had multiple officers who had to pass rigorous exams in their use and knew how to find out location well...
It sounded more like they were on the ice sheet for about 3 months (Feb-Apr). The 8 months is the entire trip (Aug to Apr).
@@KuK137 The radio helps a lot as well. Using a second receiver, you can locate a radio transmitter very precisely just by using a map and the two directions to the transmitter. After that you can guide the plane to that location from the ground using the plane's radio and the same two ground stations just as easily. The advantage that GPS gives you is that you just need a receiver to know where you are, so you don't give away your presence or position, which is a huge deal in warfare and very economical for civilian use.
A harrowing adventure well told. After watching several stories in which there are many fatalities, I felt relief when I learned that all but one person was successfully rescued.
One of the most competent captains ive ever heard of in a story like this. Same with the crew as well. They deserved the highest of honors
I love this one. A harrowing tale with all but one surviving is incredible.
That Otto sounded like an outstanding leader.
Epic beard on top of it.
While it makes total sense it's still wild seeing on the map what looks like blue ocean but there was an entire camp there, cos it was mostly just vast expanses of frozen ice. The maps showing the different locations just made those thoughts even more jarring, it's insane to think how much of the northern waters and the Arctic Sea in general are just covered by such thick layers of ice that it's safe to set up camp on it. Wild.
Great video as always!
Are? We're quickly moving the word to 'were' with CO2. You don't even need reinforced ships now in summer, soon you will be able to travel the passage 8-9 months a year...
@@KuK137 yeah, but what was it like in 1700?> :D
@@KuK137 Not so fast, rising CO2 levels won't just mean thin ice and happy sailing days. Yeah, the ice will be thinner, but the weather will also be way more unpredictable, violent and dangerous. I can take my own nation of Denmark as an example of this, despite Denmark lying quite a bit further south than these seas. Denmark is almost entirely surrounded by water, with the only exception being the southern end of Jutland, which is connected to mainland Europe. Jutland is, however, the only peninsula of Denmark. Everything else is islands upon islands and all of Denmarks weather, including Jutland, is entirely governed by the ocean currents and the location of the jet stream.
Last year we had the wettest year ever recorded, since recording the weather began in 1874, including a storm surge that flooded large parts of Denmark, left entire vacation home areas under so much water that it reached the roofs of the buildings and even flooded cities and turned them into temporary versions of a Scandinavian Venice. This year we got the wettest april ever, after getting a whole months rain in just 4 days and next week we can expect cold days and nights with frost and ice, despite entering the latter half of April, which normally means warmer weather. We've also had quite a few spring storms, which neither normally occurs and as I'm writing this it's raining once again and it's quite likely that we'll smash last years record as the wettest year ever recorded.
And Denmark still lies hundreds of kilometers below the Barents Sea. It will be much, much worse up there and it doesn't matter that the ice gets thinner, when it won't get so thin that ships can't be crushed in unexpected storms. The more the arctic ice melts, the more unpredictable, violent and dangerous the weather becomes.
Global warming lol... it's not happening!
@@Visiopodoff topic from the video but you’re so right. To give less extreme but perhaps more relatable example, my childhood in northeast ohio was filled with snow days and long winters of feet of snow and playing outside in our days off from school. That was elementary school, so when I was 6-10. By the time I was in high school they implemented a system in our district where if we had to take more than three days off for snow in the winter, we had to make them up in the summer. Nobody was particularly upset about that though. Because when we used to average 10-15 snow days in elementary, by the time I was a senior in high school we would have maybe one.
And now, ten years after graduating, the most snow we get in my area is about 5 inches. In northeast Ohio/western PA (where I live now) white Christmas is a thing of the past. If it does snow at all significantly, it’ll be in February or late march. And it’ll never be more than a few inches. This winter my stepdaughter desperately wanted to build a snowman but there was never enough snow. Not enough snow for a single snowman. And this isn’t Florida! It’s Pennsylvania! It’s twenty minutes from where I grew up, where my parents cars used to be snowed into the driveway so bad they had to call off work when I was a kid! Of course there’s still enough ice on the roads that my Nissan can barely get up a hill, but no fucking snow. It’s insane. Like, my stepdaughter is 4 and the way things are going, I truly think she might never experience a snow day ever. In an area where I used to have 15 of them when I was her age.
Meanwhile this summer, since about a month ago, every single day has been at least 90°. Summers were never ever this hot when I was a kid. There have been heat advisories almost every day. At work, where the business has existed for 30 years, they’re finally implementing policies that allow us to change uniforms in the summer because it’s just too damn hot to go outside in what we’re supposed to wear.
This is a master class in competence. What intelligence! Creating a new fuel for the heat to save coal. Evacuating a ship with over 100 ppl and all necessary equipment in 5 mins, even making sure to get the communication equipment first! Brilliant. RIP to the quarter master.
Lol yeah it’s always “ran out of X because nobody bothered to count and ration it til it was basically gone”.
One thing that is insane, is how the Captain was able to continue to log the ships position. That speaks volumes for the type of man he was, being able to not succumb to hopelessness when your crew and ship become stranded. It’d make sense that you’d just want to be mopey and feel shitty, but this guy know he still had a job to do. That takes some brass!
Stories of human victories over strife will always be appreciated more than others.
No
Vikings and samurai didnt arise from heartwarming disney princess tales
Third trimester is a wonderful time for an arctic voyage
Inuits,Lapplanders and Siberians give birth in or near the Arctic everyday!!
Right? What was she thinking?
She was probably forced along with a husband. It was a trade route. Perhaps he had a new job somewhere new? After the first birth it also becomes less of an ordeal for many women, do perhaps a bit of hubris as well.
That there was women and children in the horror is mind blowing
Wow this story is incredible. I can't believe I've never heard of this before. I was so relieved to hear that even the newborn made it! Imagine being in that environment and giving birth on a ship in the Arctic Circle. Giving birth wouldn't even be the scariest part, then you have to keep a newborn alive while stranded in the frozen Arctic. The captain, Otto, must have been quite a formidable and level-headed commander.
This was an awesome story. Out of all the stories from history that I’ve read, the ones where sailors get trapped in Arctic ice are some of the most insane. I imagine that being trapped out in the middle of the ocean with nothing but white as far as you can see would be one of the most horrible fates you could go through.
Oh nice my suggestion worked, glad you decided to do it, thanks! Was my favourite story from encyclopedia when I was small.
Thanks for the suggestion! I love researching this. Such an amazing story.
@@horrourstoriesthe work you did on this episode is amazing! huge props to you (and the rest of the team of course!)
There's also book from one of expedition member, Aleksandr Mironov (but no clue if ever published in other languages but russian and czech).
Along a similar theme, the story of the ww2 plane "glacier girl", might be an interesting story to cover. It was a p38 lighting doing reconnaissance in cold weather, crashed, buried in 100ft of ice and recovered years later. I got to see it fly for the first time in the early 2000s
Someone actually renovated it to the point it would fly again? Amazing!
@thurayya8905 yeah to the best I can remember it took quite a while, between locating, excavation, and fixing all the deteriorated parts. Pretty neat stuff
I literally have to play these scary interesting videos to fall asleep now. Something about the creepy but calmness of it just puts me down, i usually make it thru 2 whole ones but by the third im for sure out. Love learning thru this guys videos 😊
Спасибо!! Great job on this one, and well done with pronunciation of russian names and titles.
First reaction: Oh boy, new video, nice!
Second reaction: technically I just cheered about the fact that now I'll be able to hear another tale about human suffering
I have morbid curiosity. I have watched thousands of people die on camera. Two just yesterday, both inhaling air duster.
@@Vicus_of_Utrecht I think you belong on 4chan if that's your bag, man.
Maybe they all survive… 🤞🏼
@@alexmartin3143 yeah this is one of those where early into the story I guessed they'd have many survivors just from the intensely detailed story.
You cheer about RUclips videos
I've never said it before, but I'm a special fan of how you tell these stories. You have great pitch inflection, which keeps these stories from sounding flat, but your voice is also relaxing.
okay ngl that ice cracking sound and effect at the end of the intro was awesome
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Most stories of this type don't end as well... I'm amazed the crew found a way to thrive in those conditions.
What an absolutely inspiring tale of resourcefulness courage and cooperation.
The leadership and coordination by Schmidt and the captain, together with the concern and support from their government, the local people and the crew are all phenomenal.
Wow. It's amazing how much preparation and professionalism (and a little luck) kept almost everyone alive.
Saw this and was like, is this a rammstein video, then read the caption. Very similar picture but different ships.
This was a fascinating video. Arctice exploration is always fascinating to me.
Lol, I can see it now
this feels like a frostpunk campaign
Good thinking!
what a crazy story. glad everyone survived this one. except the quartermaster...rip
What an amazing story. Those pilots flying rudimentary planes and using basic navigational aids and knowing the risk to their own safety, but they still pulled it off. True heroes, one and all.
Out of all these stories of failed expeditions this captain sounded like the most competent of them all. Very commendable man
Thank you for pronouncing Moscow correctly. Cossack is pronounce cos-sak rather than koh-sak for any future reference.
You put a lot of work into pronouncing difficult languages well, which is definitely appreciated
Who cares we all have different tongues
@@local_authority Russia, Moscow and Cossack are just English translations of Rossiya, Moskva and kazak, so yeah, we also don't call England Anglia when speaking English.
However, many consider foreigners struggling with quite simple words a bit funny :)
Koh Sak is a small island off the coast of mainland Thailand😂
@local_authority profound 🤯
Same thing
Please make a video of the 20th century Arctic expedition ship Karluk, commandeered by Icelandic anthropologist Vihljarmur Stefansson, wherein the ship got stuck in Arctic ice off the coast of northern Alaska, and the sole survivors included an Inuit seamstress called Ada Blackjack who led the rescue of the remaining survivors and nursed em all back to health.
The sun had set for the final time is a ridiculously terrifying thing to hear
What an absolute adventure, you can see where the bold daring explorer character archetype comes from in stories and films, based on real, fearless, resourceful, and determined people who navigated a perilous, much less-known world than our own.
One casualty in an 8 month struggle against the uncaring cold and dark wherein brave individuals even birthed children and leaders made timely and life saving decisions. All the while the stoic people they led and were assisted by offered each other help regardless of nation showing the very best of humanity.
Never give up. 8 months on the ship / ice, and they nearly all survived
This seems to be the story where it looked to be it could be another "and they all died" but turns out one with least deaths over all and per person.
I used to live in Adak. The southern part of this video by far. The Bering strait has some of the worse weather in the fucking world. This story is crazy. In FALL? Into WINTER? WOW.
Really enjoyed this one. This one was a lot more inspiring and less sad than a lot of the others. Also I know it was such a small part but damn, the women aboard were badass. "Don't send me, send someone weaker and less useful!!!" I'm sure every single person there wanted to get out of there and for them to be told "Hey, you can get out of here, no questions asked and in relative comfort" and they're like "nah, we want to do what's best for the group!"
Also nice that it seems like morale was generally really good, so everyone stayed civilized and didnt devolve into wild beasts like some of the other stories
Right? That was pretty cool.
Russians built different, man.
Also notice that they accepted help from natives.
0:34 this was one of the best title drops of your videos
Agreed!
This really exemplified what a difference good leadership makes. Otto seemed to be very intelligent and as well prepared as possible for this situation, Im pretty sure that with other/worse leaders the loss of lives would’ve been a lot higher
Not only the leadership but the capacity of the staff, it is clear that it was a well-prepared expedition with people trained in several areas who managed to keep the situation under control.
It's a nice change of pace to hear a story about people stuck in ice and snow that *DOESN'T* end with cannibalism.
Glad to see a relatively happy ending among the "Scary Interesting" expedition stories! What resolution and guts among the stranded and the rescuers! 👏 👏 👏
Imagine being one of the kids born on that ship; must be crazy to tell people.
Makes me want to cheer - what stories! Thank you so much for sharing these!
Nome is same town where Balto and Togo led the famous dog-sled mission to deliver Diphtheria medication
This is so amazing! Thank you for covering this!
despite the very terrifying topic of being stranded in the artic/crushed by a glacier, this story has kinda a feel good tone. its nice to see when humanity works together
You've made such a unique intro that I only have to hear the very first TONE to recognize who I'm watching. That's impressive
Are you a genuine woman
@@MonTube2006 why are you asking?
Should do a video about the Great Lakes Ship wrecks. They have lost hundreds of ships and thousands of people have died in the lakes. There are some definite good stories out of those wrecks too. Good and bad
Imagine flying an open canopy plane across Siberia. F that!
I'm happy for the (99%) good ending. Everyone involved really was a hero for the ability to survive in such a painstaking situation. Also cool that the US helped as well. I hope we can reach that level of cooperation again
"He asked for help but they told him they had their own problems". Sounds like my country.
Sounds like my job
Sounds like my life
Sounds like most people
All things considered, this was one of the happier endings of the stories told in this channel (r.i.p to the quartermaster)
It's incredible how the crew managed to endure such harsh circumstances and remain hopeful. History is truly full of adventurous and brave individuals who pushed the boundaries of human endurance.
The map made it look like there was a random canal through that island between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea. But when I looked it up, nope, it's a natural waterway zigzagging all the way through and it has several neighbors that go deep into the island but not all the way.
Alone and well equipped- that sounds like heaven !!!
As long as the ship doesn’t leak or run out of … anything
A rare episode where just about everyone survived. The same can't be said for those poor souls on the Franklin expedition. Even now, no one knows the fate of the men who left their ships and attempted to find help heading south.
"Oh yeah, let's take some babies on a dangerous trip through arctic ice. Whatever might go wrong?"
Breeders don’t think
What does that even mean?@@pa4o93ir49
@@pa4o93ir49 People who use hateful terms don't think, either.
It's hard to understand, but sometimes people don't have a choice, it's real life.
Well nothing went wrong with or because of the baby.
Big fan, here!! I like to listen to these while doing my mundane house chores. The creepy ambient audio tracks and sound effects always add so much ("Blood Kiss", I think it's called?? is my favorite)! (I did notice the new animation during the intro sequence though; that was a cool touch!)
Keep 'em comin'!! ❤👍
I really enjoy these videos that you do in the early modern period 16th to 19th century
I can't get over how they were able to survive for 8 months 😮 sure made tough people back then 👍
I was looking for a video to listen to while I start cleaning, absolutely perfect timing and I got so excited!!! You're one of my favorites here on RUclips, thank you so much for working hard!💕
Same
You need to research and do a video of the USS Jeannette wreck. Such a fascinating story that even includes the last islands that had a wolly mammoth population. Seriously look it up. Do it. Your viewers will love it
Thanks for the Sunday episode. Take care, keep safe.
Wow i thought for sure they were doomed! Great work rescue!
That was one of your best episodes yet man. And that is saying something. Blow away that it turned out so well.
Your storytelling skills are my favourite. I actually love you more than MrBaller. Your voice is calming, and paints vivid pictures of horrific events. Thanks for your work!
l feel the same way about his voice!
You can check out the lost Brusilov expedition. It was a Russian hunting expedition that got stuck in pack ice in 1913 and drifted north. Half of the crew decided to leave the vessel and walk to land, of those (and everyone else left on the ship) only two have returned. Their journey is well documented in a diary of mr. Albanov and was published as a book.
Whenever I hear of Russian ice breakers I think of that story about the whales trapped in Alaska. It was a Russian ice breaker that was able to finish the job of breaking the ice from the sea to where the volunteers had to stop due to the thick ice.
That's sounds interesting. I'm going to see if I can find anything about that.
@@gaz8891 it was called Operation Breakthrough. It happened in 1988. There was a movie made called Big Miracle which follows the story pretty closely. It is about 3 trapped grey whales. I looked it up for you. 😀
Amazing how a crew and well-trained people can survive for so long in those conditions.
Congrats on the one million, really deserve it with all the effort you've put in since day one!
There's been about 15 people, if my research is correct, that have died in space. I'd love to hear you cover their stories. Or similar one's
Every Soviet kid knew the name of Cheluskintsy. Great storytelling, happy that more people will know about these amazing people
Another shipwreck story in the artic did not go in the way i expected. Even if it was the 1930s and technology was better by that time standard, i was surprised that practically everyone survived. Thats impressive resilience in such weather conditions
Meanwhile, the native people swung by, to check on them.
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Amazing story and well told!
Going out on a treacherous voyage to the Arctic..with a pregnant woman who gives birth to a daughter on the ship during the onwards journey. Just awesome 👍
I’m from Zimbabwe I listen to your videos when I’m scaring lions away from my village 🫡
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No you don’t.
@@fareastslavYes he does. I was the lion and he scared the crap out of me.
Now that's what I call a successful coordinated rescue. Probably the last time America and Russia would ever work in coordination... sigh
Never realized that there is a Barents Sea close to the Arctic just like a Bering Sea. Of course there's no chance of any miscommunication having ever happened because of that...
I live in remote Alaska and work as a commercial fisherman. Without doubt this crew was absolutely very very lucky. The winters up here can be brutal and finding yourself adrift on the ice pack would be the worst
Another great video from "Scary Interesting". Absolutely love this site.
I'm not real thrilled with events going on in and around Russia these days, but I do have admit I find their language and some of their history fascinating.
Many of us aren't thrilled either, believe me
That is amazing. not expecting that good of an outcome
congrats on 1 million!!! i love your videos and i’m so glad you’re getting the recognition you deserve!
Everybody:"We are Fucked, we will die"**mourn.
Russia: "So, how can we enjoy this?"
Schmidt
@@MonTube2006 he still a soviet citizen and the rest of the crew is soviet
I want to give a shout out to the true unsung heroes: The sled dogs.
I’m probably late, but happy 1Million dude!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 You deserve it and I can’t wait to see you grow even more!❤
17:29 considering how the world is now, its nice to hear of a moment where there was communication and cooperation
I'll be honest. When a new "scary interesting" video drops, I kick everyone out of my house for 30 minutes. 😂
Great historic rescue. Good information. Thank you.
I could never get tired of these videos
the sounds effects 13:10 are amazing, love them
Globe was the warmest in recent history during the 1930's, that's why they were able to use the northern passage for trade then, but not now while the globe is significantly cooler.