@Whitest monkey 🙉 that was completely different, he was picked up by a coast guard cutter. You're not going to stop a dozen warships just to pick up one man.
@Whitestmonkeya whole fleet isn't going to stop for one sailor.... A rescue or tender ship in the back of the line picked him up Edit: I'm responding to the comment above me, which mentions someone who fell off an AIRCRAFT CARRIER. A lot of you seem to have a hard time figuring this out, and feel the need to tell me that its an "Airship in the video" which just makes you look like a dumbass
They were young It was probably a laugh at the beginning thinking the air ship was going to come down. But sadly this is one of the decisions where all three of the sailors would have seen their lives flash before them But what I will guarantee you is those further up the Admiral chain would have had their heads rolled out
@@PEROYTUCARA Has nothing to do with the narration I am talking about what went on the ground with a group of very young sailors who do very young things And take risks having a Laugh Getting excited and holding on to the last second and then realising that the situation is out of their control. if the grownups would have been around those grownups with responsibility and I am not talking about their sergeant who could have been a year older than them I'm talking about people further up the Military Chain those folks would have been in their 30s and 40s and would have made it very clear When I say let go They would have let go Of the rope Knowing the reality of the situation if they clung on That airship wasn't going to be coming back down. When you have a young mind You want to prove something to your mates And you are full of adrenaline you think it will come back down when you've got a more mature mind you know the Harsh realities of the situation.
Same for me it was the narrators voice and in breaking into tears live on air that got to me And when I say live on air I MEAN live as the recordings was being made, Which trust me was a very rare thing to do as most narrators We're told to keep that composure Back in the 30s
Heart breaking. I don’t understand why the single sailor who held on had to wait 2 hours before they hoisted him up into the blimp. My heart goes out two the two young men who fell to their deaths.
Did you not notice the angle of the Airship? It is likely that any rescue crew may have been injured themselves, and would certainly have had to climb the now almost vertical compartments to get to the tail hatch.
That's the whole point of it The uploader Has come across this film on the off chance and thought ohh i'll make a good shot of this and as dramatic as possible Remember he gets paid by youtube for the clicks Didn't you know that
@@jamesbomd3503If you take things this seriously in your life, I don’t know how you live with yourself by having a misspelled user name. “Bomd. James Bomd.” Chill the f*ck out.
@@NitroGummyBearWell, nobody cared about falling deaths back then, not after 2 world wars. "Their fault." Falling is still the leading cause of death on a jobsite today. Sadly, that was a part of life back then. "It's a bird! It's a plane! No... it's just a high-rise worker."
I can relate - back in Aug ‘23 I floated on the open ocean for 16.5 hours after our dive boat got separated from us - the feeling of climbing into the USCG raft at 1 a.m. was so incredible.
@@thecakeisalie6601its way of adding a sense of utter surprise and shock to what you follow it up with. if you either above the age of 65 or never had a social life it would make sense that the word “bruh” may seem trashy.
Imagine this? You're trying with all your might to keep this thing moored to the ground with your mates, twenty of you, and she starts taking off! You have only a few seconds to decide - do you give up and bail out or keep going? Before you have a chance to even realize what's happening you're already waaay farther up than you're comfortable with dropping from unassisted! Whoa. RIP to the lost souls who held on too long and then not long enough! 🙏✝️
@@chincemagnet Gives them more compiled data where Google will denote all interlinked accounts and eventually flash ban them all.. meaning they now have to pay for bogus phone numbers just to set up new accounts which lately is getting pretty difficult and expensive because temp #s no longer work for account verification, meaning you either need real #'s or an SL7 hacker. The point is.. don't make it easier for people to destroy the internet.. 5 years from now, youll have to pay for premium search engines that filter out AI and I'm starting to think that's their real goal considering RUclips has briefly removed the ability to report AI bots more than once.. It's sort of like the TV marketing model. First it was free, then you had to pay for Cable, and now you pay individual producers for streaming services. Google is definitely gearing up for a Google Pro service that addresses "Dead Internet" theory as AI models tip the scales into an internet environment where 60%+ of all information/accounts/posts aren't even real people..
@@seezy1 Yeah.. they love opening up statements the same ways.. Particularly with the smaller 4b, 6b, 8B models these bots use because they're less resource hungry and cheaper to deploy. They love to be like "Imagine This..." or "Picture this" "Get this" etc etc.. It's been given a "system prompt" that shapes how it approaches every answer/response/comment which leads to these repetitive openers. This is a bot that is trying to use the closed caption scripts in the videos or is actually told to retell the story based on visual/auditory inputs and being told to re-summarize it into it's own story/comment.. Hard to tell which input it's using to draft a response, because of the way large language models actually don't look at every letter in a word, it's just a clever system that uses repition of binary codes to search for overlaps of that binary in large data sets to automate a response using those sets of repeated code. It's why if you currently (at time of writing) ask gpt "How many Rs are in the word strawberry" it will tell you there is only 2, because it purposely drops letters and thinks its an overlap of corrupted data and just ignores the existence of the first R. Which could explain why a smaller LLM using like a 4B model couldn't figure out what a zepplin was because it tossed too many letters out such as one of the extra Ps and now it's not sure what is being talked about, hence "keep this thing moored" it replaced the noun with "thing" because it probably had to many binary overlaps with other words so it skipped the word and then deduced an answer based on the other binary overlaps of what was likely being talked about without getting it quite right.. haha or I'm wrong and it's not a bot.. but everything I've talked about it quite real.
The USS Akron would later in 1933 crash, killing 73 and hugely damaging airships reputations. In fact it is the true titanic of the sky, being worse than Hindenburg and other notable disaster such as R101, Dixmude, R38 and Roma. Making it the worst Airship disaster.
Theirs a theory that a lot of these airship “disasters” were fabricated. Airships are the oldest form of air travel and much of their history has been erased. Their has been docking station for them erased in many major cities of the world. Do some research you will be shocked of the old world technology you will find.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
@@markanthony2873it’s a type of knot that creates a noose like loop that you can put your foot in and stand in or put around your butt/hips and use as a seat. It’s useful for more things but it’s often used to make hand and foot holds in ropes
It would be scary as hell, but from that high they wouldnt have felt a thing when hitting the ground because you would be dead before you have time to feel the pain so it could have been worse
I saw this video on a program over 50 years ago, and have been looking for it ever since, trying to find background on the event. THANKS! Fascinating story. I could never understand why they didn't drop more quickly.
They had actually been told to hold on to the lines no matter what. But had they been experienced handlers (instead of enlisted sailors who were there for one reason or another), they would have realized that this was not just a "bounce" (?), but bit of an emergency (?) abort. I have always found this film clip really difficult to watch...
@@karlbark very, very difficult to watch! I was only a child when I first saw it, and it never reappeared again. For a while I thought it was just part of a nightmare I had once. But it had an impression on me like nothing else.
@@catohcatohcat5969 You know what ? It was *exactly the same for me ! This stayed with me for a loong time after I saw it for the first time. Later (with the internet, RUclips and what have you) this film clip would come up once in a blue moon. I always closed my eyes when... (they fell). I haven't actually watched this since back then ! It's a bit strange, really that this affected me (us?) so much. After all there is no shortage of death and destruction on RUclips/internet. Anyway, best regards from Iceland 🇮🇸, -Karl Trausti ('68 model, just in case you wondered).
@@karlbark"they had been told to hold on to the lines no matter what" - WTF 🤦♂️ 😂 I'm letting this mf go as soon as it pulls me an inch off the ground
@@DaynGonzo 50 years ago a janitor was actually a job that could afford you a house, car and 2 family vacations a year, not to mention pension and retirement.
Everyone would automatically think letting go is a no brainer but you literally had a split second before you were now up to high to do so. It all happened so fast, how awful for them especially if they were affraid of height like myself. Its possible if they were affraid of heights they did not "grow tired" its likely they fainted. I know it makes me incredibly dizzy and sick to be up high and i would have surely met the same fate. R.i.p. to them
Its a vicious cycle of not wanting to let go because it already seems too high, and that thought alone is enough time to have that happen 3x before you're too high to let go
@@orangeusername1792 The inability to make a quick decision has cost many people their lives in many situations for sure. My mechanical aptitude would keep me alive in this situation.
@@jstravelers4094You're so sure of yourself but the truth is that you have no idea what you would do in a do-or-die situation until you're already in one. I was a US Army airborne infantryman, and I've seen people lose their lives due to inaction who were highly trained and 100x more sure of themselves than even you claim to be.
@@joelglanton6531 Extremely doubtful my friend. I worked in dangerous situations daily for 30 years and am alive today to inform you that you're so very, very wrong.
About 10 years ago I asked two men about the news of the Hindenburg. One was 88, the other 95. The 88 t.o. was in grade school on May 6, 1937. He remembered all the excitement of the crash, almost like reliving it. The 95 y.o. was in hs then, said they had been discussing the promise of airship travel. After the disaster, the subject was dropped.
@@deller5924 What smartphones got to do with anything? military doesn't use smartphones even today, they use radios and they had radio communication in 1932.
Not like they had radios or anything at the time. Had to send someone to go find a way to get the message to the crew wether by flagging it or Morse code or whatever communications they had onboard
@@fuoco1365 They had radios in 1932, this isn't WW1, the USS Akron was a scouting aircraft carrier and had radio to communicate both with its scouting planes and the units it scouted for, if the troops on the ground had radios I don't know, but I assume they did since the whole landing wasn't a surprise since they had time to prepare to film it.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
This is why we don't let things like that happen anymore. We use equipment to hold things and usually strike them to release them like anchors on ships.
I was stationed at Lakehurst NAS in the 80s. The rails where still there. The mobile mast and tail support was still there. I believe the tail support weighed in around 100 tons. Quad rails supported them.
@@Cinemaphile7783 I had the run of all the hangers. Hanger 1 is the famous one and largest . 2&3 are smaller airplane types. The ones most can’t see, in the back are blimp hangers from WWII. I drove my car in one, broad daylight. 15 feet in, my headlights seemed sucked in to the dark. I got out and remembered it was my first time in there. I had no idea if a shaft or opening in the floor was there. Didn’t have a flashlight and one would need a big one to make a dent. So we backed out the way we came. Hanger one is huge. I’ve been top to bottom. I knew a new Chief who took her oath on the roof
When did they remove the Stern Beam, Rails and Airship mast's? I know Lakehurst had the large rail Mast used by the hindenburg throughout the 1936 season, the smaller rail mast for the Los Angeles, and that Tripod crawler Mast that was supposed to be used on May 6th 1937. Crazy to think Lakehurst kept all that into the 80's! I always assumed they removed all the Airship handling equipment in the 40's when they re developed the base for the war. Wish they would have kept a mast, and the stern beam for us to look at today.
Different era. Bro would have ptsd, depression, and survivors guilt nowadays. End up a homeless fentanyl addict in Portland. He shook that off and had lunch after 😂😂😂
I can understand the delay in recovering the guy to the ship. It would be down to organising rigging and lifting equipment. It's bloody hard to lift a man that far and the position of the line further complicated the rescue.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
I realize that they weren't ready for anything of this caliber to happen, BUT what on Earth would make any help take over TWO WHOLE HOURS to arrive!!?? I am saddened by those who lost their lives, but I am also impressed by the guy who held on for over 2 hours until he was rescued!! He must have had the strongest will to live!
Help didn't "arrive" the crew on the zeppelin pulled him up. But I'm thinking they had to figure out a way to reach the rope first since maybe there wasn't easy access from the cabin to the moor line storage.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
@@mtaylor3771 that's a lesson I didn't know about. Sounds like they wouldn't need to be designed to pull the mooring lines any farther than where the crew could grab a hook on each of their ends and snap a carabiner on holding the lines to the ship. So unlikely to be able to reel in the whole length of mooring line. Otherwise they could have tied all the lines together somehow then all the winches could be turned on at the same time and would only have to lift the line plus a fraction of the 170 lb man.
Nothing will give you motivation to come up with a solution to not die like the motivation that sailor experienced after watching his team mates falling from 100’s of feet.
@@comradestalin1109 Ummm … OP is correct. You simply can’t just hold on bearing your entire body weight with your hands for 2hrs. The fallen couldn’t do it for minutes and the survivor watched it all. You can discern from the initial rising stage compared to when he was the last one left, the survivor had managed to support his feet on the line : thereby taking the load off his hands.
Not a great joke. Actually quite lousy. 1) The semen/seaman type joke/wordplay is well worn 2) Your semen version doesn't even make sense. 3) There's a time and place for jokes. This clip here doesn't really lend itself to it. Back to Jokes 101 I'd say.
Recuerdo hace ya muchos añs haber visto un reportaje sobre desastres, he olvidado en qué programa, donde se veía las caídas completas. De la época que no había censura en la tv señal abierta
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
They KNEW they were going to be lifted up while they were holding and had the chance to let go instead of losing their lives but decided to hold forever.
Seeing what the Service has done to young men is so saddening. Nobody in this collective disaster was properly trained or equipped to handle the situation.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
Holy hell. Imagine literally holding onto life for 2 hours. Im blessed to say ive only been in a similar incident like once. For about 30 seconds. Felt like forever
These U.S. airships were both expensive to build and to maintain. I had learned of this story way before joining the U.S. Navy, and the video brings it to life although lives were lost. It’s tragic.
I think it’s funny that we only ever talk about the very few accidents that ever happen with these and don’t talk about the fact that they were far safer than any aircraft we have today.
Click on the 'Riding High' title link at the bottom of this video to see more US Airship content!
I know that is a tragic story , but the 12 yo in me : He said seamen !😁
Why did the sailors not let go when being lifted up? Did the sailors think they would be pulled up into the carrier? In any case very bad accident.
Thank God we don't have those abominations of the air anymore
I think they let go cause they were probably thinking "this feels really gay right now hanging together like this. I'm out "
I read about this and sadly 2 men fell to their deaths its also sad that some people are joking about it !
Took them two hours to decide to pull him up and they say the guys on the ground were inexperienced.
@Whitest monkey 🙉 that was completely different, he was picked up by a coast guard cutter. You're not going to stop a dozen warships just to pick up one man.
@Whitestmonkeya whole fleet isn't going to stop for one sailor....
A rescue or tender ship in the back of the line picked him up
Edit: I'm responding to the comment above me, which mentions someone who fell off an AIRCRAFT CARRIER. A lot of you seem to have a hard time figuring this out, and feel the need to tell me that its an "Airship in the video" which just makes you look like a dumbass
@Whitest monkey 🙉 even if they could then cant simply stop, ships dont have breaks, don't get your logic from a movie extract
@@Lindrios its a airship?
@@Lindrios did we watch the same video or no?
Either let go immediately
Or hold on forever
It’s just one of those situations. You’d hope you’d make the right choice in their shoes
They were young It was probably a laugh at the beginning thinking the air ship was going to come down.
But sadly this is one of the decisions where all three of the sailors would have seen their lives flash before them But what I will guarantee you is those further up the Admiral chain would have had their heads rolled out
Every second is like 15 feet. Oh man.
@@jamesbomd3503…they werent playing around, da f you mean? Which part of the narration made you think they were having a hoot and holler?
@@PEROYTUCARA Has nothing to do with the narration I am talking about what went on the ground with a group of very young sailors who do very young things And take risks having a Laugh Getting excited and holding on to the last second and then realising that the situation is out of their control.
if the grownups would have been around those grownups with responsibility and I am not talking about their sergeant who could have been a year older than them I'm talking about people further up the Military Chain those folks would have been in their 30s and 40s and would have made it very clear When I say let go They would have let go Of the rope Knowing the reality of the situation if they clung on That airship wasn't going to be coming back down.
When you have a young mind You want to prove something to your mates And you are full of adrenaline you think it will come back down when you've got a more mature mind you know the Harsh realities of the situation.
2 fell to their doom. Third dude is all smiles after being rescued. A different time....
I thought the same thing
the good old days, back when more doctors recommended Marlboro's because of the smoothness and flavour lol
@@DrWeird-zw5dc back when Coke was coke, and coke was pure
People died all the time so
And if he was British he'd still be smiling but have a pipe in his mouth stepping from side to side.
I saw that footage in a TV documentary in the 1960s when I was a kid. It stuck in my mind. It's the kind of thing you never forget seeing.
When a person becomes just a body it does something to the mind
Same for me it was the narrators voice and in breaking into tears live on air that got to me And when I say live on air I MEAN live as the recordings was being made, Which trust me was a very rare thing to do as most narrators We're told to keep that composure Back in the 30s
Yes, me too, I saw it on tv many years ago. I have never forgotten it! Rip to all ❤
@@bamboo59.52 It was in fact 1980, and the documentary was "When Havoc Struck."
"Hey its been 2 hours. Can we let the guy in?"
"Did he buy a ticket?"
NO TICKET!
Not funny j ass
@@jacobshort6528"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".........lol
“THESE TICKETS….ARE NOT……..TRANSFERABLE!”
@@AtomicJoshyou know what kind of airship this is? 🤓
Heart breaking. I don’t understand why the single sailor who held on had to wait 2 hours before they hoisted him up into the blimp. My heart goes out two the two young men who fell to their deaths.
There was probably no procedure to do so.
They probably had to figure it out from scratch
Windy and dangerous. And the weight to pull him in…
Those 2 are alright by now.
i assume it was hard to reach to that part of the zeppelin where ropes dropped. they may not have had enough preparatiosn or equipment on board too
Did you not notice the angle of the Airship? It is likely that any rescue crew may have been injured themselves, and would certainly have had to climb the now almost vertical compartments to get to the tail hatch.
Imagine being the poor guy to watch the other two plummet hundreds of feet.
Sure had a smile on his face
@@Air-buds that messed up
Sure he was running on adrenaline and concentrating on his own life. Most ppl don't think about that other stuff til later.
@@simoncalitri5550he did. Did you watch the end? Never did he not smile
What? Imagine being the poor guy falling to his death? You making it seem like the person watching has it worse
Well that was disturbing. Thanks.
That's the whole point of it The uploader Has come across this film on the off chance and thought ohh i'll make a good shot of this and as dramatic as possible Remember he gets paid by youtube for the clicks Didn't you know that
@@jamesbomd3503 alr bro calm down
@@jamesbomd3503If you take things this seriously in your life, I don’t know how you live with yourself by having a misspelled user name. “Bomd. James Bomd.” Chill the f*ck out.
@@jamesbomd3503Wow that was a waste of time to read
Grow a pair. This life is not for the weak
I've seen an interview with this young man who is quoted as saying, "It was a grand and glorious feeling to be inside once more!!"
Wild. He just watched two people fall to their death.
Oof
Pretty much sums up every males experience..lol
@@NitroGummyBearWell, nobody cared about falling deaths back then, not after 2 world wars. "Their fault." Falling is still the leading cause of death on a jobsite today.
Sadly, that was a part of life back then.
"It's a bird! It's a plane! No... it's just a high-rise worker."
That’s what she said…
I can relate - back in Aug ‘23 I floated on the open ocean for 16.5 hours after our dive boat got separated from us - the feeling of climbing into the USCG raft at 1 a.m. was so incredible.
Not everything you read on the Internet is true.
- Abraham Lincoln
How did your skin stay on after being tenderized for that long? I call bullshit
🧢
@@VideoDotGoogleDotComlol best reply of the month
You can’t relate you egotistical prick. Your life wasn’t in danger you were simply moored at sea for less than 17 hours.
Bruh that's terrifying
Stole my line
@@-Cece you should know there bunch comments saying same thing and he didn’t know
"Bruh" 🤮
I woulda held on like wtf pu$$ys
@@thecakeisalie6601its way of adding a sense of utter surprise and shock to what you follow it up with. if you either above the age of 65 or never had a social life it would make sense that the word “bruh” may seem trashy.
Imagine this? You're trying with all your might to keep this thing moored to the ground with your mates, twenty of you, and she starts taking off! You have only a few seconds to decide - do you give up and bail out or keep going? Before you have a chance to even realize what's happening you're already waaay farther up than you're comfortable with dropping from unassisted! Whoa. RIP to the lost souls who held on too long and then not long enough! 🙏✝️
"Imagine this" = gpt bot... reported
@@TrueHelpTVimagine this
What do you think reporting it is going to accomplish?
@@chincemagnet Gives them more compiled data where Google will denote all interlinked accounts and eventually flash ban them all.. meaning they now have to pay for bogus phone numbers just to set up new accounts which lately is getting pretty difficult and expensive because temp #s no longer work for account verification, meaning you either need real #'s or an SL7 hacker. The point is.. don't make it easier for people to destroy the internet.. 5 years from now, youll have to pay for premium search engines that filter out AI and I'm starting to think that's their real goal considering RUclips has briefly removed the ability to report AI bots more than once.. It's sort of like the TV marketing model. First it was free, then you had to pay for Cable, and now you pay individual producers for streaming services. Google is definitely gearing up for a Google Pro service that addresses "Dead Internet" theory as AI models tip the scales into an internet environment where 60%+ of all information/accounts/posts aren't even real people..
@@TrueHelpTVwhat? i don’t understand. Is this something gpt does?
@@seezy1 Yeah.. they love opening up statements the same ways.. Particularly with the smaller 4b, 6b, 8B models these bots use because they're less resource hungry and cheaper to deploy. They love to be like "Imagine This..." or "Picture this" "Get this" etc etc.. It's been given a "system prompt" that shapes how it approaches every answer/response/comment which leads to these repetitive openers. This is a bot that is trying to use the closed caption scripts in the videos or is actually told to retell the story based on visual/auditory inputs and being told to re-summarize it into it's own story/comment.. Hard to tell which input it's using to draft a response, because of the way large language models actually don't look at every letter in a word, it's just a clever system that uses repition of binary codes to search for overlaps of that binary in large data sets to automate a response using those sets of repeated code. It's why if you currently (at time of writing) ask gpt "How many Rs are in the word strawberry" it will tell you there is only 2, because it purposely drops letters and thinks its an overlap of corrupted data and just ignores the existence of the first R. Which could explain why a smaller LLM using like a 4B model couldn't figure out what a zepplin was because it tossed too many letters out such as one of the extra Ps and now it's not sure what is being talked about, hence "keep this thing moored" it replaced the noun with "thing" because it probably had to many binary overlaps with other words so it skipped the word and then deduced an answer based on the other binary overlaps of what was likely being talked about without getting it quite right.. haha or I'm wrong and it's not a bot.. but everything I've talked about it quite real.
The USS Akron would later in 1933 crash, killing 73 and hugely damaging airships reputations. In fact it is the true titanic of the sky, being worse than Hindenburg and other notable disaster such as R101, Dixmude, R38 and Roma. Making it the worst Airship disaster.
No worries tho, Akron later repaid its debt by giving us Lebron James and Steph Curry
Theirs a theory that a lot of these airship “disasters” were fabricated. Airships are the oldest form of air travel and much of their history has been erased. Their has been docking station for them erased in many major cities of the world. Do some research you will be shocked of the old world technology you will find.
Gross. @@ZaeOSWS
Let’s just say, all airships were a disaster.
Lame@@ZaeOSWS
Dude holds on for 2 hours before people aboard the airship decide hey maybe we should pull this guy up
It was a standard test back in the days, after 2 hours you passed.
Had to call Israel to get permission
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
The reason the third sailor did not fall to his death, was because he was able to tie a bowline with one hand and sit in it during the flight.
Probably after the weight of the other two had fallen off… hmm 🤔😂
Probably had Boatswain Mate friends
I still remember learning how to tie a one handed bowline in Boy Scouts
What's a bowline?
@@markanthony2873it’s a type of knot that creates a noose like loop that you can put your foot in and stand in or put around your butt/hips and use as a seat. It’s useful for more things but it’s often used to make hand and foot holds in ropes
You can see the sailor falling to the ground with the others at the end...terrible😢
Poor young kids, what a truly horrific way to go.😭
Only for a moment
@koriw1701 still horrible way to go .
It would be scary as hell, but from that high they wouldnt have felt a thing when hitting the ground because you would be dead before you have time to feel the pain so it could have been worse
@@XReflexianIt's not the impact that is painful, it's the fall knowing what is about to happen and not being able to prevent it that's painful.
@@elonmusk9697 like i said, it would be scary as hell
I saw this video on a program over 50 years ago, and have been looking for it ever since, trying to find background on the event. THANKS! Fascinating story. I could never understand why they didn't drop more quickly.
They had actually been told to hold on to the lines no matter what.
But had they been experienced handlers (instead of enlisted sailors who were there for one reason or another), they would have realized that this was not just a "bounce" (?), but bit of an emergency (?) abort.
I have always found this film clip really difficult to watch...
@@karlbark very, very difficult to watch! I was only a child when I first saw it, and it never reappeared again. For a while I thought it was just part of a nightmare I had once. But it had an impression on me like nothing else.
@@catohcatohcat5969
You know what ?
It was *exactly the same for me !
This stayed with me for a loong time after I saw it for the first time.
Later (with the internet, RUclips and what have you) this film clip would come up once in a blue moon. I always closed my eyes when... (they fell). I haven't actually watched this since back then !
It's a bit strange, really
that this affected me (us?) so much. After all there is no shortage of death and destruction on RUclips/internet.
Anyway, best regards from Iceland 🇮🇸, -Karl Trausti
('68 model, just in case you wondered).
@@karlbark"they had been told to hold on to the lines no matter what" - WTF 🤦♂️ 😂
I'm letting this mf go as soon as it pulls me an inch off the ground
One of the custodians at my school in San Diego told me he had been on that detail. He said they didn't have much training it was terrible
Is that right? How awful
How did he go from that to a janitor?
@@DaynGonzo 50 years ago a janitor was actually a job that could afford you a house, car and 2 family vacations a year, not to mention pension and retirement.
@Deejaay83urj38 No, that's not right. He's lying
How much training do you need to know to let go if you're being pulled aloft?
In hindsight airships seem like a terrible idea
The Navy said the same thing
I still think their pretty cool, I think if we had kept going they would have been safer by now
They were really cool, but oh man...
They were the technology of the day. Dirigibles or airships were the eyes of the fleet prior to the invention of radar.
If only Titan bombardment was real
Everyone would automatically think letting go is a no brainer but you literally had a split second before you were now up to high to do so. It all happened so fast, how awful for them especially if they were affraid of height like myself. Its possible if they were affraid of heights they did not "grow tired" its likely they fainted. I know it makes me incredibly dizzy and sick to be up high and i would have surely met the same fate. R.i.p. to them
I seriously get butterflies in my stomach really bad, when I picture them looking down ...And falling...
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When talking to a recruiter, remember these guys also spoke with one.
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No this was back when people joined because they loved their country
@@mr.maga.2024 no, this is back when people are just like they are now foh 😂😂😂
I love it, a real-life video without all the "Warning" "Possible Triggers Ahead" crap on it.
That last guy exemplified what they taught me in the navy every single day, “if you’re gonna be dumb, you’ve gotta be tough.”
Wow, very sad for the families of those two airmen.
Really ?
@@EatAPeach72 Are you saying that wasn’t sad for the families? You are cold. Wow! SMH
*seamen
Much more sad for the two seamen themselves.
Navy=airmen???
I saw the unedited version years ago,the camera zoomed in on one sailor who appeared to be 'cycling' as he fell.Very sad.
I would be filling my pants with fluids
Why hold on?
Once your feet leave the ground....it's clear you're not heavy enough to do anything for the airship!
Its a vicious cycle of not wanting to let go because it already seems too high, and that thought alone is enough time to have that happen 3x before you're too high to let go
@@orangeusername1792 The inability to make a quick decision has cost many people their lives in many situations for sure.
My mechanical aptitude would keep me alive in this situation.
@@jstravelers4094You're so sure of yourself but the truth is that you have no idea what you would do in a do-or-die situation until you're already in one. I was a US Army airborne infantryman, and I've seen people lose their lives due to inaction who were highly trained and 100x more sure of themselves than even you claim to be.
Fear. Fear is powerful.
@@joelglanton6531 Extremely doubtful my friend.
I worked in dangerous situations daily for 30 years and am alive today to inform you that you're so very, very wrong.
Thank you for showing us this, and having the courage to show more than most would be willing too. I subbed to support those who have a pair
You see him smiling?? I'd be too!!
because he won one of life's lotteries
I’d be in shock,..
@@adotintheshark4848 Holding yourself for 2 hours is not a lotteries it's strength and psychical ability..
@@zkirock7084 and luck
About 10 years ago I asked two men about the news of the Hindenburg. One was 88, the other 95. The 88 t.o. was in grade school on May 6, 1937. He remembered all the excitement of the crash, almost like reliving it. The 95 y.o. was in hs then, said they had been discussing the promise of airship travel. After the disaster, the subject was dropped.
Like how it took them 2 hours to realise a dude was hanging onto the mooring cable 😂
They didn't have smartphones back then and did not really know what to do, and how to communicate with them. It seams pretty easy today.
@@deller5924 What smartphones got to do with anything? military doesn't use smartphones even today, they use radios and they had radio communication in 1932.
Not like they had radios or anything at the time.
Had to send someone to go find a way to get the message to the crew wether by flagging it or Morse code or whatever communications they had onboard
@@fuoco1365 They had radios in 1932, this isn't WW1, the USS Akron was a scouting aircraft carrier and had radio to communicate both with its scouting planes and the units it scouted for, if the troops on the ground had radios I don't know, but I assume they did since the whole landing wasn't a surprise since they had time to prepare to film it.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
“Sir let’s pull them up!!”
Pilot: “No ticket, no pulling”
No jokes ya miserable bastard.
This is why we don't let things like that happen anymore. We use equipment to hold things and usually strike them to release them like anchors on ships.
Yeah, and we can always google on the spot.
Thanks for sharing this bit of history 😊
My dude just said yeah my friends just fell to their deaths but don’t worry I’m fine anyway drinks tonight?
Smiling at the end "yeah I survived but they died"
Knacker!!!
I was stationed at Lakehurst NAS in the 80s. The rails where still there. The mobile mast and tail support was still there. I believe the tail support weighed in around 100 tons. Quad rails supported them.
I've taken pics of Hanger #1 and the Hindenburg memorial. I drove by there on the way to the shore every Summer.
@@Cinemaphile7783 I had the run of all the hangers. Hanger 1 is the famous one and largest . 2&3 are smaller airplane types. The ones most can’t see, in the back are blimp hangers from WWII. I drove my car in one, broad daylight. 15 feet in, my headlights seemed sucked in to the dark. I got out and remembered it was my first time in there. I had no idea if a shaft or opening in the floor was there. Didn’t have a flashlight and one would need a big one to make a dent. So we backed out the way we came. Hanger one is huge. I’ve been top to bottom. I knew a new Chief who took her oath on the roof
When did they remove the Stern Beam, Rails and Airship mast's? I know Lakehurst had the large rail Mast used by the hindenburg throughout the 1936 season, the smaller rail mast for the Los Angeles, and that Tripod crawler Mast that was supposed to be used on May 6th 1937.
Crazy to think Lakehurst kept all that into the 80's! I always assumed they removed all the Airship handling equipment in the 40's when they re developed the base for the war. Wish they would have kept a mast, and the stern beam for us to look at today.
This is insane.
It was a test...
That is… fuckin horrific… and tragic.
And seemingly unnecessary
the damn post game interview😭😭😭 he doesn't look like he just lost 2 coworkers 2 hours ago
Different era. Bro would have ptsd, depression, and survivors guilt nowadays. End up a homeless fentanyl addict in Portland.
He shook that off and had lunch after 😂😂😂
He was looking forward to a cocktail and the in-flight movie.
I'm sure that film of him was shot weeks later. They wouldn't have had a movie camera INSIDE an airship.
Rest in peace seamen.
So many jokes so little time
Semen*
I have millions of kids living in the sewers across America.
@@bluntforcetrauma2141 why are you impregnating crocodiles
I’ve seen the same thing with a fuel bag. Marines tried to stop it once it started rolling. Rolled right over the top of them.
90 years ago people held the camera steady unlike today😊
Most likely tripod-mounted.
Yeah! Well, I was stationed at Lakehurst, N.J. And LIVED!!!
I can understand the delay in recovering the guy to the ship. It would be down to organising rigging and lifting equipment. It's bloody hard to lift a man that far and the position of the line further complicated the rescue.
The crew of the airship may have also thought they could get her back under control and just land the guy.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
The guy who held on for 2 hours and lived was 19 years old. C.M. “Buddy” Cowart.
dude that guy hadda be fucked up after watching his shipmates fall like that.
Why hold on ? Unless your strapped to it, why hold on
I realize that they weren't ready for anything of this caliber to happen, BUT what on Earth would make any help take over TWO WHOLE HOURS to arrive!!?? I am saddened by those who lost their lives, but I am also impressed by the guy who held on for over 2 hours until he was rescued!! He must have had the strongest will to live!
Help didn't "arrive" the crew on the zeppelin pulled him up. But I'm thinking they had to figure out a way to reach the rope first since maybe there wasn't easy access from the cabin to the moor line storage.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
@@mtaylor3771 that's a lesson I didn't know about. Sounds like they wouldn't need to be designed to pull the mooring lines any farther than where the crew could grab a hook on each of their ends and snap a carabiner on holding the lines to the ship. So unlikely to be able to reel in the whole length of mooring line. Otherwise they could have tied all the lines together somehow then all the winches could be turned on at the same time and would only have to lift the line plus a fraction of the 170 lb man.
Can't imagine the awful feeling being on the ground witnessing a friend crashing into the ground like that. Brutal and traumatic.
Nothing will give you motivation to come up with a solution to not die like the motivation that sailor experienced after watching his team mates falling from 100’s of feet.
Lmao what do you mean, the only thing he had to think about was holding on. He was completely helpless in this scenario
@@comradestalin1109 Ummm … OP is correct. You simply can’t just hold on bearing your entire body weight with your hands for 2hrs. The fallen couldn’t do it for minutes and the survivor watched it all. You can discern from the initial rising stage compared to when he was the last one left, the survivor had managed to support his feet on the line : thereby taking the load off his hands.
Thanks History X. Talk about hidden history.
“2 semen grew tired and let go” is also how I was born
so 2 separate deposits from 2 individual "semen"?... sounds about right for you
@@noobsaibot1182 you must be very young or retarded..
Not a great joke. Actually quite lousy.
1) The semen/seaman type joke/wordplay is well worn
2) Your semen version doesn't even make sense.
3) There's a time and place for jokes.
This clip here doesn't really lend itself to it.
Back to Jokes 101 I'd say.
@@junkers66
It's been 90 years get over it.
OMG - that would be horrifying to lose grip that high up.
Lyft 20th century edition
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My guy smiling and laughing like, "yea the other two had to let go but I'm a true seaman, I got that mega grip and forearm strength."
Recuerdo hace ya muchos añs haber visto un reportaje sobre desastres, he olvidado en qué programa, donde se veía las caídas completas. De la época que no había censura en la tv señal abierta
You aint bad unless you hang on to a airships cable at 2000 feet!
So you're telling me one seamen penetrated the egg shaped vessel?
One source I saw gave the survivor's name as Bud Coward Ironic! The picture of the ship doing a nose stand was the USS Los Angeles
Mr Coward was no coward. He stood on business. Safe travels yall.
2 HOURS!!!! THEY LEFT HIM THERE FOR 2 FUCKING HOURS
"It's been 2 hours, think we can let him in?"
"I guess"
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
Thank you for your service.. Brave and loyal!!
Crazy watching that big thing dropping seamen.
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The fact that that last guy was smiling after almost dying, it was just crazy
Imagine knowing you have 3 men hanging and taking 2 hours to finally care.
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
Gravity is like the intellect. It is both your friend and your enemy.
poor Semen
Why don't they mention the names of the two poor guys who fell? Salute to both of you gentlemen. RIP
RIP sailors. Bless their service.
Id actually seen this picture yesterday lacking context and i was wondering what this was all about thanks 😊
Bless Them. Well held on Bud. God Love A Sailor.
Held on 2 hours before being rescued thats extreme dedication to survivial.
They KNEW they were going to be lifted up while they were holding and had the chance to let go instead of losing their lives but decided to hold forever.
Grip strength is used as an indicator of overall health - it can also be useful sometimes
Seeing what the Service has done to young men is so saddening. Nobody in this collective disaster was properly trained or equipped to handle the situation.
He won the "Hold TF On" challenge.
How traumatizing that must have been for those seamen on the ground.
Rumor has it they are mouring his death.
Two hours? After an hour and a half, was the captain still thinking “it will settle any second now.” Jesus!
I wonder if there was any of the traditional "Let go of my foot, you're weighing me down!!"-conversation going on before they fell to their death 🤔
When those are your collegues, you do not need enemies.
What's a "collegues"
Airships dropped light guide ropes to the ground crew below. These guide ropes were thin, but strong enough to pull up the heavier MOORING lines. The winching system inside the airship wasn't designed to reel in the guide ropes AND the much heavier and THICKER mooring lines PLUS the weight of a 170 pound man. Those mooring lines were thicker and up to 400 feet long!
“Sorry bob there aren’t enough seats inside. Can you hang on another hour or two?”
Holy hell. Imagine literally holding onto life for 2 hours. Im blessed to say ive only been in a similar incident like once. For about 30 seconds. Felt like forever
RIP those sailors who died.
Imagine watching the only two people that you’re with fall to their death and you tell yourself not me!That’s a man!!! Wow what a super human
That last dude is what GI JOE with KUNG-FOO GRIP was modeled after
These U.S. airships were both expensive to build and to maintain. I had learned of this story way before joining the U.S. Navy, and the video brings it to life although lives were lost. It’s tragic.
The old black and white footage creates a distance that makes it easier to see, but this was a whole person, and this is truly horrible.
I think it’s funny that we only ever talk about the very few accidents that ever happen with these and don’t talk about the fact that they were far safer than any aircraft we have today.
can you imagine being in one of those during a 'Nose Stand'? That shit looks worse than falling
The moment you realize you have just surpassed the point of no return and should have let loose 0.5 seconds ago but are now too high 💀💀💀
"...if you hold on...for one more day...." - Wilson Phillips
I remember watching this for the first time when I was very young and it traumatized me
God bless them. How terrible. RIP brave men. Thank for your ultimate sacrifice. 🕯️
That one dude falling was gonna hit like a water balloon, he was *zooming* to Earth!
Bro saw two people die and still had to wait another two hours before being certain he wouldnt suffer the same fate 😢
That's insane. The fact it happened and that they got it on film back then.
That split second decision whether to hold on or let go.
Damn imagine that. Every second you hesitate to let go, it's that much further a drop......