Return to the USS New Jersey - How high, and low, can you go?
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2023
- Today we revisit USS New Jersey and go have a look at some more places you won't see on the regular tour route!
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Pinned post for Q&A :)
Drach, since this vid is on the Delaware River, do you plan to do a video on the actions of the Royal Navy on the Delaware during the American War for Independence? I'm thinking of the explosion of HMS Augusta in 1777 in particular, when the American river fortifications were being contested.
what is the "lightest" you could build a first rate? is it possible to create a sort of proto-battlecruiser, and would their be any advantages to this?
What are some of the oddest discoveries when a ship has gone to the breakers or is being refurbished? I imagine there are quite a few "Mike was here" bits of graffiti from the original builders, but I can imagine some may have gotten a bit more creative.
@@lonjohnson5161 At one time on the Proteus they took a patch off a bulkhead and found a dead pigeon inside the small void. Obviously it annoyed the welder so he sealed it in during one of her yard periods.
No Q or A - just: I posted a comment somewhere on NJ’s channel about 2 years back, around the time of your first visit - “Save one of those dark, weird spaces in the bottom for Drach” I said.
No idea if he even saw it, but you certainly got a FANTASTIC tour.
when you said if you left me up here alone id just be dead. I picture Ryan adding you to the tour "and up there is our tame British naval historian Drach. If you listen carefully you can hear him yell facts about naval history down at you."
10/10 would enjoy that exhibit.
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*naval
"We just have to remember to send up tea and sandwiches every few days so he doesn't start getting cranky and trying to turn the radar by hand."
@rdfox76 "then starts screeching about 5 inch 38s. It's weird, we know, but how often do you capture one of these alive?"
All of us "say the words"
Drachma " Ryan Symanski, cura..."
*Wild cheering by audience *
42:00 it’s nice of ryan to invite you into his home void space where they store him when he’s not working.
As a fellow vertigo sufferer, who has himself worked at well over a 100ft and even having to step across a three foot gap at 120ft to oblivion in the river Tees below, Well done Drach, I could see the fear in your knuckles, had you held on any tighter that ladder was in danger of being crushed! My hat's of to you mate and your efforts to provide quality content are appreciated. If there was a John Knowkes Medal, I's nominate you.
Kudos to Ryan for handling Drach's fear with patience and understanding. No pressure at any time, and giving Drach options and forewarning when possible to allow Drach to come at each challenge with as much comfort and rationality as possible when his brain was probably sounding every klaxon known to man.
I’m not sure if it’s the same thing but I used to have acrophobia really bad. While I never completely got over it, it helped to visit a friend who worked at a coal power plant on the 30th floor. The elevator (similar to the ones you’d see on construction sites) looked about as rickety as you can imagine and when you step out it’s all expanded metal for the catwalks. That lets you see straight down all the way down the ground level. Let’s just say that helped a lot.
It takes some real stones to overcome something that is not only inherently somewhat dangerous, but something that one has a phobia of. (I personally don't have phobias that I am aware of, but, as a former ski and climbing instructor, I've seen many students with such, and can appreciate just how scary they can be!)
Also, admitting to being scared can be even harder. I salute people that can do so and confront their fears, even though such may seem irrational to non-sufferers.
Anyway, Cheers!
P.S. Actually I think I may have a (mild) phobia of riding in a vehicle with someone who I do not know in control. Cabs, small planes, etc make me tense up, and it's hard to sit still without offering unnecessary advice. Is that a phobia, or just a control thing? (Also, the number one phobia is, apparently, public speaking. I don't understand that at all!)
The only way Drach would have fallen is if his hands somehow detached at the wrist!
My palms were sweating the whole time too. I have vertigo, yet i use my fear to enjoy the heck outta rollercoasters.
But climbing towers or the mast of a BB would be right out.
Congratulations.
Wow, I didn't realize how much of a phobia Drach had. Credit to him for really facing his fear!
For those that haven't had a chance to watch the video yet, the closed captions helped a lot with getting through most of the faint portions of the audio. 🙂👍
Sorry about that, but the wind noise was so intense any higher on the threshold and you've have constant wind howl :D
Darn, I should've thought of that. Now I'll watch it again with captions on. Thank you!
I love how when Drach & Ryan are climbing the foremast, Drach is completely (& rightfully) terrified while Ryan is acting completely casually as if he's still on the ground 😅
One day at work I was talking to Ryan about the goings on of the day (this was around Lunch time I think a couple months back) and he just says "yeah I've been to 013 (the radar platform) twice already today." So, always be kind to your Curators, they will go places that your fear of heights won't take you!
Also, kudos to you Drach for doing this! I share your fear of heights and you're a braver man than I am. I'll happily stick to my deep engineering space below water.
Very brave of you to stuff your fears and climb up the top of New Jersey!
Hi Drach, i was on the USS RANGER at the end of her life before her 93' decommissioning. If you think what you did gave you vertigo how about this. In order to get your mast climbers certificate, you must climb up to the yard arm and walk out to both ends, then climb to the top and scratch your initials in the top. Check out pictures of the Ranger from that time frame and take measurements to see how high i had to go to get that certification. I did that while in dry dock in Long Beach CA in 89'.
Drach, my father, who served as an electrician's mate aboard the CVE-111 Vella Gulf escort/jeep carrier in WWII told me the most terrifying thing he did in the war was being lowered in a bosun's chair over the corner of the flight deck to change the running light bulbs in Puget Sound in a high sea, so I'm sure he could identify with your climb! Thanks for taking us along!
Thankfully, Drach's interest is in ships and not bridges. It's impossible to understand a phobia unless one has it. Good job sir!
Ah yes, the eagerly anticipated return to _the VOOOOOIIIIID._ 😁
Thanks for braving the dizzying heights for our education and entertainment, Drach!
Drachinifel, I'm glad you climbed all the way to the top for us, the view was great and it was cool to see all the equipment, but I think I speak for most of us when I say you don't need to do that again. It was obviously rough on you. You went above and beyond for us. Thanks.
Edit - You don't need to do that again on any ship!
Except perhaps on the Cutty Sark. 😁
I'm JOKING, Drach! Please do not interpret that comment as a dare.
Shaft alley, aft steerage, frame signs in glow paint on the bulkheads. If nothing else, you transported me back to my youth today Drach (on other vessels of course). Well done on the climb, up and down.
As a South Jersey native that lives 10 minutes from the ship, a Navy veteran WT3 and married to someone who's deathly afraid of heights I absolutely appreciate your fortitude in climbing to top for your viewers. Love the channel and much thanks for all that you do!!!
Bravo Zulu to you Drach for facing your fear of heighs in this video. I am not bad with heights but think I might have an issue with climbing up a Battleships tower.
Well being unwell on a fifth floor balcony, my favorite post would not have been in a battleship tower 😂
Ryan and his team do so much amazing work on NJ. I've personally only ever been on the Missouri at Pearl, but eventually I want to see all 4. Absolutely incredible machines.
Something about seeing Ryan test Drach’s vertigo warms my heart ♥️ 😅
Thank you for all the altitude-induced suffering you endure to bring us such excellent content.
I'm getting freaked out by watching this on RUclips. So congrats on making it up the mast despite the vertigo.
As an EW(Electronic Warfare Technician) I would have spent a fair bit of time up in ECM and on the SLQ-32 antenna platforms. Right below the SPS-49 antenna. I know a bit more about New Jersey because my one instructor who was on New Jersey, who told us a few sea stories.
When you're up there, it really shows just how massive this giant fortress of a battleship truly is. So glad she's being maintained with such care. Could use a coat of paint on top of that funnel, though!
Just to get an idea of scale:
How many Standard Curators were you above, then below the waterline?
And how many Standard Curators long is the New Jersey?
New Jersey is approximately 147.8 Standard Curators long.
We need a joke information book where all the units are standard curators. For angles you could use curator radians which would equal radians anyway.
Sadly I can't find a value for the air draught of USS NJ.. but the draught would be about 4 curators. I haven't seen the video [yet] but I'm guessing they went to outer plating of the keel so 4 SC would be correct.
@@abyssaljam441 Air draft is about 110 feet with the topmasts folded down to clear the Brooklyn Bridge. Which is about the height of that highest platform they were on.
With the info from @rdfox76 they were 18.33... SC high
Hello Drach… the Universe works in strange ways…. You post this today and I will be visiting her today! I am a viewer from Philadelphia. Cheers
Have fun aboard!
Drach, I do not blame you for your fear of heights. That platform is stupid high.
I'm absolutely terrified of heights myself.
Drachinifel, the Vertigo Edition.
I completely understand that feeling. Probably a good view of SS United States from up there!
Nice job as always Drach. Thanks Ryan for sharing these spaces with us and Drach.
Train story: I once carpooled with an air quality inspector who became famous for a similar incident. He was inspecting facilities in the port area and stopped his vehicle to check his map for direction. Unbeknownst to him, he had parked straddling the train tracks, and while consulting his map the train came along and made a low-speed, 2-3 mph, impact with his vehicle. He was not yelled at by four supervisors into a fetal position, and the last I checked was now a supervising inspector himself.
I had a similar experience. Working 3rd shift at a previous job, I stopped to check a map when a light turned on about 100 ft away. The road was so rough that I didn't realize that I had stopped on a rail crossing. I quickly stepped on the gas and got out of there. I found a rail free spot a little bit more along the road and finished checking the map. I had to go back the way I came, and the train hadn't moved. I think the crew was having a little fun with me.
That climb up was bloody nerve wracking.
One can almost hear The Black Dragon giggling at your distress.
Don'tcha just love it?
Maybe because her nether regions are ticklish?
While visiting the USS Alabama I got to watch a new phobia develop in real time when my wife discovered a sudden and crippling inability to climb the ship's ladders. We had been on the USS Kidd Destroyer the day before. And went on the gato class USS drum next to the Alabama beforehand and she was fine. But something about trying to descend into the lower decks just freaked her right out.
Drach being "todesmutig"😂❤
Man, I'm literally working directly across from the battleship on Front St in Philly. I literally have the best view from the roof. Also if Olympia and Bacuna
Damn drach, just seeing that through video gave me a puckering feeling, i can't imagine doing it in reality
I sent a link to this video to a friend who used to captain the NJ. He said, "even though I served on the New Jersey for about 18 months, I am pretty sure I never went that high or low " Good job Drach
That was a fun day! I got to go to O-11 as well... A trip not for the faint of heart!
Hey, Drach... You did GREAT!
I know how terrifying climbing like that can be.
I watched my best friend freeze up on a ladder a long time ago...
I had to climb back up to him and stay with him.
It took a LOT of very careful reassuring and encouragement to talk him down. (We were about as high with NO safety equipment)
So you did just fine.
It's not irrational to be afraid of being up that high. It's legitimately friggin dangerous.
To your credit ? You did not yell, "MOMMY !!!" even once.... I feel ya. In my youth, such things didn't effect me- Sears Tower ob. deck in Chicago, top of Mt. Washington in NH.....NO MORE, NO WAY !!!
Kudos, Dracherini~
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Big hats off to our naval history man Drach, I'd definitely be feeling the same way if I had to go up top on the Big J, can only imagine having to go up there in a blow underway with everything rolling around.
Have had a height phobia forever. As I like to say, good ol' Terra Firma. The more firma, the less terra!
ITS MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL!!!! YOU GOT IT BACKWARDS!!!!
It's a british thing, like how they do dates.
"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope..." Me in roughly the first 25 minutes.
As someone that also has pretty severe vertigo, it was extremely validating to see Drach having the same reactions as I do to climbing into tall places. Thank you so much for getting us this perspective of USS New Jersey, your bravery did not go unappreciated!!
You poor man, your anxiety is palpable in your voice when you're at the top of the stack. Well done.
Love that you guys are collaborating....Best of both worlds!!!!
I admire you, Drach, even more than ever after this!
100 cheers for the birt for climbing the ladders
congratulations on conquering, enduring, and finding the courage to even begin the climb. exceptional, sir, exceptional!
I bet you could have the greatest game of Hide and Seek on New Jersey!
@ 28:00 YAY DRACH!!! You did it in spite of your fears!
It's always nice to see you do collab videos with Ryan and other museum ships. Thank you for the great video Drach!
I appreciate you pushing through your difficulties for us!
always cool when you get to see your favorite youtube nerds together in one video
My stupid brother-in-law had his wedding around the same time so I couldn't make it to New Jersey. A destination wedding to St. Thomas on a Tuesday! I was so mad.
As i watch, my hands become sweaty with the anticipation of the climb up the ladder. Up on top, with your head mounted camera, I get the same cold feeling in my stomach as I'm sure you did. Watching you walk around, holding onto the ropes at the top of the mast, I wish you well and express my thanks for conquering a perfectly rational fear. The human body wasn't intended to fly or fall very far. You have a perfectly normal working autonomic system. Thank you for taking the irrational approach and climbing up there to show us what few can regularly see. And thanks to Ryan at the New Jersey for helping us all get up there.
This is one of two battleships I saw (from a distance) in my travels as a trucker. I saw her from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, as I crossed from Philly into Camden.
just watching you climb makes me sweat all over the place..... hat up to you bro!
When my sister joined the fire department, she had to overcome her fear of height. She did this by replacing it with a fear of mice. When her stepson graduated from High School, the graduating class release a mouse or few mice in the gym. My sister and I were high up in the bleacher and my sister was freaking out.
Welcome back to my home state, and the Black dragon, always a pleasure.
The battleship New Jersey strikes back!
I once visited the New Jersey, back when I was younger. I might go back to it some day as my father is a Navy man.
Well, would listen to that… Ryan and Drac speaking sailor. Makes this old sailor effing proud
Brings back memories of when I was in. Had to climb ALL the way to the top. I used to work on the radars. Fire control tech
I was rooting for you the entire way up that danged ladder! Yiiikes ....
kudos to you for facing your fears drach
I couldn't have climbed that mast. Well done Drach. You were very brave.
Yay Drach! Applause! Applause! I am afraid to climb my neighbor's deer stand. 😅
Ryan having the mouth of a sailor on the top of that mast is so hilarious 🤣
Legend has it that if you turn one of the wheels in that after steering station hard enough, it could straighten the rudder on the USS Texas. Too bad you didn't try it, Drach.
Drachinifel was clearly scared! He did a great job of facing his fear!
Great job, Drach! Never easy to face your fears but you managed it. Great to hear the support from Ryan too. Stand up fellow, he.
My son suffers the same great for you concerning that fear for you to do so I know that was way hard. Not sure when you shot this but vary proud of you for doing so. Not many do so.
Seeing this for the first time. Super proud of Drach for going all the way up there. Don't know if I would be able to do it.
"There are men working aloft. There are men working aloft. Do not rotate, radiate or energize any electronic equipment when men are working aloft." I wonder how many Navy guys (past or present) heard that in their heads with Drach on top.
Drach,
You were a proper example of British fortitude overcoming your heights issue while climbing the mast. Well done.
Thank you very much! Enjoy the view. Bring back memories when I was in the US Navy. (MSO 489 / USS Gallant)
May you have a blessed Christmas. 🌟🎄❄️⛄️
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Hell yeah brother you should be proud of yourself. We all know fear but only the brave can muster the courage to shake hands and walk with it.
15:27 the plaque at some point certainly said „Kilroy was here!“ 😜
Kudos to you Drach for making that climb. You can hear the nervousness in the laughs while you are up there.
Drach talking about heights and vertigo... I'm six minutes in and my stomach is turning. I'm gonna hit "like" now because I might not get too much farther into it.
Bravo for making the climb!!!
Your tour took me back to my ship, USS Proteus AS-19, I was on her when she decommissioned in 1992. She was about the same age but with a lot more active years tending to the Polaris missile subs. She had a lot of store rooms and voids too. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Unless it’s grated steel it helps to see we’re you’re going, then stare at the floor as you walk to where you’re going. Unless it’s a clear floor, the sky walk in the Willis tower in Chicago taught me that. Focused on the phone intently to take that picture and got the hell out of there
6:01 Those pipes are boiler vents and superheater vents. Blowdowns are a different component and serve different purposes and they discharge below water line.
The things you do for us... I was lucky enough to climb as high as I could in the fire control tower of Missouri in 2012. Unfortunately the outdoor platform was closed for maintenance. But I did get to see the main director station and look through the range finder.
I commend you Sir for facing your anxiety and fighting through it. Well Done!
48:45 “Hello!…..Still alive?”
Kudos Drach. The arches of my feet were tingling the entire time you were up that mast. I could not have done that.
Good on you for powering through that and getting up there!
Damn, you're brave, Drach. I hate heights too. Thanks for doing the top to bottom video!
Vertigo can be cured! All you need to do is repeatedly expose yourself to heights - really simple in theory, but from own experience I can say it absolutely works.
Now, having an interesting reason to do so is another thing. If only you had daily access to a battleship... 😅
Thank you for doing that. that radar on top of the fire control is the Mk 13, which when the Iowa's were in service was possibly the oldest operating, in service radar anywhere.
i want to congratulate you on your feat theres no way i could do it love your knowledge of the ships you've covered especially BB62 and 48. thank you
This video is the first time I think I've gotten a feel for how immense the ship is. You are beyond brave for climbing up the mast.
Yep I am a vertigo sufferer as well, no way I would have made it up there, I could feel the vertigo sensation just watching the video!! Thanks for doing this, very much appreciated...
My brain has finally associated this into music with Drach's videos
My captain, my captain, thank you for all you do to make this such a great experience for us. Above and beyond. Bravo zulu!!!
The very depths et bowels of Jersey. Not just the bilges but your in Camden as well.
I used to live less than a mile from the USS New Jersey in Philadelphia city proper, and one of the things I miss most about the it is this fine ship and its incredible museum. The curatorial staff is incredibly professional and the areas open to the public on the ship are absolutely immense.