In this episode we're climbing up an escape trunk from the engine room as if there were an emergency down there. To support this channel and the museum, go to: www.battleshipnewjersey.org/v...
@Justin T If nothing else, he might like to see if an Iowa-class "Turret Monster" has more differences or similarities to the Abrams and Bradley variety that he is used to. :,-)
“Halon would prevent the fire from getting oxygen - Well I also like oxygen” Greatest line. I always knew there would be escape routes but never thought to look them up. I’m really glad I found this.
Thankfully, it's to an extend anti-catalytic, specifically to the free radical combustion process in flames. Humans employ an oxygen carrier to bring atmospheric oxygen to enzymatically mediated oxidation reactions. No free-radical chain reaction that could be interrupted.
@@namibjDerEchte Sadly though, halon != oxygen. When there is a fire there is already a shortage of oxygen and a surplus of smoke and other non-breathable gasses. If you then pump in halon to put out the fire, that just pushes out more of the oxygen. It's not "breathing in halon" that kills you, it "not breathing enough oxygen because half the room is halon and smoke" that kills you. A halon system is safe as along as you can escape the room easily, in a couple of munutes. This is not a problem in an office or a computer room,, but it's near impossible in an already dark room in a ship with smoke and halon-fog, doors that require cheaterbars to open them.
@@namibjDerEchte it doesn't suffocate you chemically, but it does displace oxygen as mentioned in the video, and it also produces aa number of toxic and acidic decay products. so between choking on a low oxygen atmosphere and being in a gas chamber, it's recomended you make a hasty exit and go see the ship's doctor.
@@diegoviniciomejiaquesada4754 Drach and Ryan have made a number of videos together. Drach and Dr. Clarke also have made a number of videos together. I have seen Jingles in a few, but I think he was just lending his voice for plot telling, not historical commentary. Pretty sure he was in the Jutland Video Drach made.
As a former Machinist mate on a carrier I was always down in the engine room. We had escape trunks that went up to just below the hanger bay. ended up either in medical or the mess decks then we went up one more ladder to get up and out. But that was a very long climb with several hatches to open on the way. We engineering types all had it in the back of our minds that if the ship was hit below the water line and our engine room started to fill that it was just our time. We knew what we were getting into and we all knew the chances of getting out were fairly slim for us. The trunks were more for a peace of mind.
For a while my GQ station on the Newport News was at the throttles of #1 engine. The Des Moines cruisers were built with combined engineering spaces (engine room and fire room together). For emergency exit I would have needed to go down one level to the bottom of the escape trunk and back up three or four decks in the trunk. We had a couple of more senior POs who were a little rotund and as a skinny 19 year old I set my goal to get up the trunk before those guys jammed the route. Thankfully we never had to use the escape trunk for real but we did use the route a couple of times during drills. I remember going through the scuttle once while wearing an OBA. It was a very tight fit even for my 130 pound frame.
hahaha that was my first thought when he poked his head out of the top of that truck, "I guess the navy back in the 40's, through 90's didn't have quite the incidence of obesity that the general American public does now."
I remember a certain PO1 on my first ship ('98) who couldn't fit through a scuttle, due to his weight. The number of CPO's like that was quite...large.
We had the 1200psi Main Line blow on our Knox class FF. Fortunately the lead PO sensed that something was wrong and had the control room evacuate up the emergency scuttle just before the steam pipe blew. We were "Stuck" in Subic Bay for a month while they removed all the Asbestos that went everywhere and replace the pipes.
It's amazing how you can come to know a something like the machinery spaces so well. You may not immediately be able to say what is wrong but you know something is and in the case of your PO, wrong enough to order his men to evacuate the area preventing multiple causalities.
@@Melanie16040 the same can happen when you recognize the noises that normally come from your car. Learn what your car sounds like it could save your life. When I worked in it I knew it all the equipment sounded like when it was running in the room. If something was missing or different I would hear it. I would also check all the status panels in the room the other supervisors didn't on the other shifts but I did. I literally walked around the entire computer room twice a day and glanced around repeatedly during the day looking for red lights LOL! You also get used to humidity levels and temperatures in a computer room. With the amount of air conditioning we had there should be no warm spots. That's a real great way to tell that an air conditioner is about to die! The house I live in now has well and believe it or not I can hear the harmonic from the well 40 ft from the house in 120 ft deep in the pipes when I use water. It's kind of weird. I used to build and repair computers for people also as a side job. From experience on my regular job and working with them I could hear things like fans that were starting to go bad hard drives that were starting to make a funny sound power supplies that had a funny smell. Yeah us computer geeks have Spidey senses!
@@roceye Interesting how that works isn't it? If our interests lead us to both watch the same video, there's decent odds that interest might lead us both to watch another video and so on down the line.
Ryan: Just an FYI from a Gunners Mate who became a Professional Fire Fighter after his 4 years of service. A Tripple F ( Aquious Film Forming Foam ) makes water lighter than oil. Oil floats on water. So it in effect floats and forms a thin layer of water over the oil. Denying Oxygen. There is a famous Training film of an oil fire in Texas where a fire fighter runs through the pool and each step where he disturbed the AFFF flares up almost burning him and then you see the footsteps close up and extinguish the flames.
When I was going through DC training one of the instructors I had was on the Samuel b Roberts when she took a mine hit to the engine room. He could not get to the escape trunk because the entrance was crushed so he went out the regular entrance/exit. He was lucky, snipes don’t have the best chance of survival when things go south.
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was built at the shipyard I worked at, Bath Iron Works. Granted, that was 20yrs before my time, but many of the "old timers" would speak with great pride about building her and repairing the mine damage. The fact that she didn't split entirely in two pieces and founder is a testament to the quality craftsmanship of those incredibly skilled tradesman. A tradition that lives on at BIW to this day. BATH BUILT IS BEST BUILT! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Served on the Roberts for a bit 01-03 A-Div and I don't recall any escape training until I went to subschool toward the end of 03,and even then it was pretty perfunctory, combating fire and flooding though, went into pretty good detail on that....
I was on the moosbrugger until she decommissioned in 2000 and then I was in the Vicksburg until 2005. Both out of mayport. I was in mp division and escape trunks were covered as part of egress training. Sorry for the confusion.
@@pauld6967 I recall a placard on a ship museum [possibly Battleship Massachusetts] listing damage control goals First was "never underestimate the amount of damage your ship can sustain and still function".
I'm reminded of my training/DC quals on board Lexington (AVT-16) shortly after my arrival there in 1984. It was explained to me by my Chief on Day 1 that my future liberty depended on meeting certain DC training deadlines, the very first being escaping from OA Div berthing (O-2 level starboard, just aft of the island and forward of the mid-ship expansion joint) under simulated fire/lights-out conditions, blindfolded (a blacked-out OBA) to the outside of the ship (60 seconds to the expansion joint and 90 seconds to flight deck catwalk via aircraft elevator machinery room); this had to be signed off within my first week aboard. And it wouldn't have looked very good for the AG1 LPO to have his liberty pulled (in Pensacola, yet), so you know I got her done!
Thanks for covering this very necessary but very overlooked feature. I'd feel great pride being assigned to a battleship, but I'd feel total elation knowing that I could quickly get out of a room that didn't want me inside of it.
It’s really convenient that there are spaces in the battleship that aren’t dependent on paint to prevent rust. The ship is too big for a non-profit to keep completely painted in impeccable condition, so it’s nice that you’re able to let some spaces go without necessarily damaging the metal.
Having read all the comments no one has mentioned how hot it is in the boiler room and therefore the escape trunk. I served on the USS Luce DLG7 (DDG38) 3/1/2 years as a Boilertech and lucky enough to be stationed as Repair 5 for GQ all that time. I spent GQ on the mess deck, and most of my training for it was firefighting. So I only had the escape training for the boilerroom once (in getmo) And I will never forget it. Outside air temp 98 boiler temperature 800+ we did our watches huddled under the air vents and rushing through our routine work to get back to the vents. So you have an escape tunnel which is sealed in that atmosphere. The hatch dogs are hot, the escape tunnel is over 150* and every metal surface is hotter. So under these conditions doing our post refit qualification, we do an emergency shutdown of the boilers and run for the escape tunnel. I burn my hands on the dogs to the hatch, then I burn them again on the rungs up the hatch gasping for air that is not even full of smoke or rushing steam you could expect from a real emergency. I get to the top hatch burning the hands some more and my little 130 lb body could not even move the wheel to open it the next man in line squeezes next to me and together we get it open and squeeze out. Making me happy once again I was a phone talker on the mess deck during GQ. It is always hot in the boiler room so I expect that the escape trunk is always hot, just better than the alternative.
I do want to say and also thank you Ryan for going through all these hatches, tubes etc that you do! You make it very interesting videos more so than I've seen on any others videos of a similar topic! Thank you for all that you do!
I was an EM on the USS Nimitz. Depending on what watch station I was on there were different ways out. In the switchgear we had our own escape scuttle and in the MMR and RAR they had scuttles similar to what was shown here, but i remember them being bigger and having angle iron for ladders.
I didn't work in the engineering spaces but I went back into them every evening while on patrol to deliver the POD. While submerged, we had one single way in and out of the engineering spaces to the rest of the boat. Starting just forward of the reactor compartment heading aft into the engineering spaces you would enter the reactor compartment tunnel through the always closed WTD from Auxiliary Machinery Space #1 (AMR1). Walking aft through the tunnel you would exit through another always closed WTD into AMR2. Continuing through AMR2 you would pass through the usually open WTD into the actual engine room and the furthest aft compartment of the boat. AMR2 and the Engine Room were both two levels high, so within those spaces there was more than one way to move vertically from deck to deck. While surfaced there was a second way out, which would be through the aft escape trunk forward in the Engine Room to the outside world.
Capsizing being so fatal to crew and also the ship is the reason that post WW1 U.S. combat ships had full beam fire and engine spaces with no centerline bulkhead to split them unlike other nations. Even flooding of the largest spaces on the ships would prevent capsizing which would make a ship sink even faster. And with later U.S. boiler design and turbines staggering the fire and engine rooms meant propulsion was nearly as resilient as splitting the compartments.
From a army vet i would like to say you surely know how lucky you are to be in the position you are that your job is to help preserve such a beautiful peace of American might. I would give about anything to spend 24 hrs just look a evey square inch of that ship!!!! And my humble thanks for taking care of one of its greatest peaces of our great country!! THANK YOU ! ! ! !
Hi Ryan, I really enjoy your tours and talks. I have been to both the New Jersey and the Wisconsin now. Both times I just left with a feeling of shock and awe at the sheer power of these ships and the brave men who manned them. I was a professional video editor in Hollywood for over 20 years and besides maybe pulling a comb through your hair once in a while, I want to compliment you on becoming a better on camera personality through the years. You are becoming a polished presenter relaxed and more at home in front of the camera which is no small task. Soon you'll be hosting a fireside chat in a smoking jacket recanting history's greats sea battles with intro music as the camera dollys in. What ships they are. I also am a ham radio operator but when I visited the New Jersey the radio room was not in operation. Best to you, Tod in Vegas. :)
This video conveys the deadly serious business of naval warfare. You’ve done the future a service. More videos teaching the stark dangers to every last man on New Jersey is a good idea. War is hell. Naval engineering is super cool. Sometimes we forget the ugly task & purpose of it all.
Halon is scary stuff. We had a shot put into one of our spaces by accident when people were in there. Hatches were closed, but they managed to get out in time. It was OK to escape from main boxes, but it was completely dependant on what had happened and where you were. The escape trunks on T45 Destroyers are horrible little spaces, and are long, nasty climbs. Older ships maybe not so easy to get out though.
I served on CV-61 Ranger during the 1980's in No 1 Main Machinery Room. Ranger's engineering spaces combined the boilers and engines into one space and there were two escape trunks. One, was located on the starboard side and was accessed from the lower level, the other was on the port side and accessed through the control room. Both led up to the 2nd deck (which was right below the hanger deck).
For a untrained civilian contractor, the escape trunk is not an enjoyable climb. I was working on a piece of equipment that had components in both the engine rooms and CCS when they opened the reduction gear, you do not cross an open reduction gear on a gas turbine powered ship. I had to exit by the escape trunk, I think my fingerprints are permanently engraved in the ladder.
It's amazing how expensive reduction gears are... Gotta take every precaution to ensure nothing gets in to damage them. Curious, why would your fingerprints be permanently engraved on the ladder?
@@Melanie16040 he was gripping the ladder because he was a little uncomfortable being on it. The idea of gravity drawing him down the ladder and into a space that was dangerous just kind of made him hold on to it tighter.
@@Melanie16040 I really don't enjoy ladders, I almost got wiped off of the stick, radar mast, once when the man above me slipped and came down between the ladder and me. I believe I have engraved my fingerprints in a few merchant ship ladders going up the stick as well.
6:10 Halon is actually not some oxygen removing death gas. It works as a fire suppressant by preventing a chemical reaction between the three sides of the fire triangle. In the early 90's it was found to be a possible Ozone depletant and while it was not outright banned it's use and distribution began to be phased out. The myth about "pulls the oxygen out of the air" started to be circulated to social engineer a fear of the agent and further limit its use. I still see some old halon extinguishers every now and then on the towboats I ride. Also, yes just like any other non-breathable-air in high enough concentrations it can suffocate you just like a CO2 fixed system will.
GREAT video Ryan!!! I seen those hatches on the Missouri and wondered how a man would get through it, seamed a little small. I also pictured a tube, like the main guns, really nice to see the whole thing.
Oh my the tank is on fire! wrong channel? But really. on my 3rd day on USS Speigel Grove, lsd32. Had to get 3decks to weather deck blindfolded. I did it. I didn't get it until a guy started a fire in the wardroom galley. Smoked-out the officers quarters. Could have killed many.
On the USS Curts FFG-38, the SONAR equipment room, all the way forward and all the way down (not nearly as far as New Jersey), was my general quarters station. I remember having to paint the escape trunk for that space. It wasn't much fun, but I did find an awesome place to take a nap!
A) Glad that he survived the war and passed along the story. B) On a lighter note, we could consider this to be Civil War Part 2. U.S.S. WASHINGTON, BB-56, was a *North* Carolina class battleship and U.S.S. Indiana, BB-58, was a *South* Dakota class battleship.
I personally blame Washington for not anticipating that Indiana would go in the complete opposite direction they reported at a higher speed than reported directly into her path...
I worked in the Engine Room for many years, but whether we could get out or even wanted to, depended on how deep we were at the time or if we were under ice. Fortunately, never had to think of this for real!
You know I could swear Ryan is wearing a "utilities" shirt seems fitting, but maybe a set of the coveralls might be more appropriate seeing all the lovely tight and spotless places he squeezes through lol
Being an Airedale in the Navy. I stayed mostly above the waterline. Only when assigned to ship's S2 stores Div. as an E2 did I venture close to the waterline. Of course we taking aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk CV 63.
MM3 USS Independence CV62.. 3 Main aft port scuttle hatch went from the lower deck all the way to the second deck, about 20 feet in it went from vertical to about 30 degrees and opened into the Officers Mess.. Interesting drill , Lights out and make it out, we opened the hatch under a table during the Dinner Hour.. The officers cleared the table and moved it away asking if we were ok. they were unaware of the drill but could here the space alarm below ,, we politely explained our drill, apologized for the disruption of their meal and were excused..
What would really be great too is if Ryan would touch things around him and tell us what they are instead of just standing there because what he says is interesting but equally interesting is everything in those rooms he stands in! Thank you Ryan for finally telling us what the yellow squared lights are we see throughout the ship. Now we know those were there when the ship was built and not when it became a museum.Ryan what are all the papers on the wall inside the escape tube about and what do they say?
Interesting. I can't imagine what it must be like trying to get out of the engineering spaces on an air craft carrier (CVN). If you were still alive, it was easy to get out of the boiler room on a gearing class destroyer. Two short ladders and you were on the main deck. Barry
Very interesting , my father was an Engineering Officer on a Command Attack Transport during WWII and while different I assume the situation was similar
It appears the escape trunk wall needs to be scraped, and a new coat of paint applied! I bet that job must have been difficult to perform. Good video Ryan.. one of my biggest fears is not having an escape route available.
very easy to paint in there. shop vac at the bottom, sand blast it clean from the top. close the bottom, fog it with primer. wait a day, fog it with paint.
It’s actually USS William D. Porter (DD-579) that you’re talking about. USS Porter (DD-800) was another fletcher class destroyer commissioned later in the war that had a normal, relatively uneventful career. Apparently they decided to name 2 ships of the same class after 2 guys with the same last name for some reason.
I am ex Navy and a current merchant seafarer. One ship I worked on a few years ago had an escape scuttle in the control room that was right next to the SCR drive cabinets and the access door to those cabinets swung open right to where the escape ladder would be. Because they could not put two things in one physical space, guess what was sacrificed? That's right, folks. Our safety. So you look up at an escape scuttle 12 feet over your head and no ladder to get to it.
AFFF is lighter then water so it floats on top cutting off oxygen to the fuel that floats on top of the water and burns and to lower the fuels temperature. I was a firefighter on the USS Kitty Hawk.
Ryan, at the end of the video, was that the DC emergency power couplings on the bulkhead ? That is how power was moved around a damaged area much like running an "extension cord" in a house. Kudos to the camera operator taking paint chips to the face. They held their post in the face of adversity.
Those were Casualty Power systems, yes. For reference, heres a video about it: ruclips.net/video/yeiiHAJUurE/видео.html What you saw was actually Ryans second climb up there. The first time when he opened the scuttle there was such a gust of air I jumped back assuming Ryan fell. By round 2 I was prepared.
This is fascinating stuff!! I'm adding this ship to my road trip idea list, lol. It's only a 9hr drive away from me! (A very American thing to say! 😆). Especially if I find something interesting enough for a stop to camp halfway in between Ohio and you guys, then I'll be out there in a year or 2 😁.
Escape trunk becomes a chimney in a fire if both doors are open so close the bottom before opening the top. The story I was told was a seaman open the hatch and only 3 of 8 made it out, the rest burned
I was on a carrier, the USS Ranger, seven peopled died in 2 seperate engine room fires. In once instance several people were found dead at the bottom of the escape trunk. I guess they were overcame by the smoke.
If my memory serves Halon is heavier than air and thus displaces breathable air toward the top of the space. It does the same in your lungs should you breath it in. Doc once told me first aid for Halon inhalation was to stand on your head till you exhale all the Halon out of you lungs. Probably the worse way to suffocate that I've heard of on board a ship. On the Perry class I served on most of our escape trunks exit to the main deck with one exit on the deck above the bottom most space. We were a fairly small ship so not many decks above the lowest/ machine spaces.
Halon interrupts the chemical chain reaction of a fire, and displaces the air as well; Carbon Dioxide solely displaces air (which is why you have to seal the space) either way its bad for you
The follow up question would be about life jackets and rafts. Where were they stored, and were there enough? You wouldn't want them destroyed by the first few enemy shots.
@@Galactipod Ships are kind weird when they sink. In very deep water they often right themselves before hitting the bottom. Probably because most of the compartments have flooded, adjusting the center of gravity back to something like normal.
It'd be nice to have some B-roll of the compartment on a tripod, provides a better sense of the location on the ship. That can also be used to cover some of the "less glamourous" acrobatic moments with Ryan. Still love the videos though, keep up the great content!
Isn't it fun saying Aqueous Film Forming Foam? I've been a Firefighter for 20 years and I still haven't gotten tired of that one. Especially trying to say it really fast. Lol
The aft auxillary machinery room, on a British Type 42 destroyer, up between the boilers, through a scuttle and then a contortionists climb between the diesel exhausts upto 01 deck, via 2 more scuttles, popping out between the cruise gas turbine intakes. If you miss the exit you are pretty much on your way up to the 996 platform.
@@chernobyl68 : Jefferies tubes also tend to be places where low ranking crew are most likely to die from getting sucked out into space or attacked by various predatory creatures.
Ticonderoga class cruisers had great escape trunks for all the main and aux spaces. And every space I saw that was manned during GQ had at least two ways out. The only spaces I knew of that were single entrance were ones not normally manned such has various unmanned machinery and fan rooms
My sea and anchor detail on the sub tender Proteus AS-19, was down in the port shaft alley. The only way in and out was down a trunk much like the escape trunk on New Jersey, it was a little bigger and had a safety net about every ten feet or so in case you lost your footing on the ladder. It didn’t bother me when I was younger but now I think, “What if there was a fire in passage way where the access hatch was located, and I was down in the shaft alley with no way to get out.
I wish I could donate to new Jersey and Texas but with the turmoil my life is in, all I can do is watch, like, and subscribe. (No one to share with anymore) But its the thought that counts haha.
I visited the US and stayed at a hotel near this beauty and didn't even know it was there, i would have loved visiting her, now i don't know when i'll be coming back 😔
Not easy to leave engineering spaces or the ‘people compartment’ on my platform. Usually punching holes in the ocean without a sound or a trace of being there. And just operating the boat to best of everyone’s ability so that we can keep her operational and she can keep us safe.
Does anyone else have the same issue I do with this channel's audio always being low? I know there are limitations to the quality because of the acoustics etc, but compared to other channels I always have to put the volume up when I watch a video from the Battle ship, and when I go to another video and forget I get a boot in the ear . Is it just me? (I am not trying to complain, and throw shade, I love the content). The other thing I noticed, but it was in older videos (I have been binge-watching this channel a LOT) is that it sounds like the editor might have done the audio while wearing earphones, the result sounds odd for people listening with speakers. Again I am not trying to complain or be a snob, I just want to ask if it's just me, and if it isn't maybe help make your content even better (love this channel).
This video's audio was actually really good. The older videos have tinny audio before they got a new mic. I usually have headphones on while watching on my phone but also watch a lot of videos on my tv using those speakers and the audio on the newer videos has been alright. RUclips uses audio compression so their is only so much they can do/control. Make sure you have the video set to the highest resolution as the audio quality seems to go along with that. Lately the RUclips app has been automatically setting the quality lower on videos I watch despite me having a very fast connection, I think they're probably trying to solve some bottlenecks on their side of things that way but it's sucks to have to manually change the quality on every single video manually.
"Oh my God, the ship is on fire!"
Chieftain reference. Gotta get him on board...
Yes
No track tension so he might be bored
@@lycossurfer8851 there are many other things he can try tensioning. Plus it has 9 BIIIG guns
@Justin T If nothing else, he might like to see if an Iowa-class "Turret Monster" has more differences or similarities to the Abrams and Bradley variety that he is used to. :,-)
Hahahaha... I knew that reference.
Also... I wonder if there is a warship version of a "Turret Monster".
When water is bubbling up from your deck plates, "that makes for a very bad day."
a significant emotional experience
@@ulfpe Event!
“Halon would prevent the fire from getting oxygen - Well I also like oxygen”
Greatest line. I always knew there would be escape routes but never thought to look them up. I’m really glad I found this.
Thankfully, it's to an extend anti-catalytic, specifically to the free radical combustion process in flames. Humans employ an oxygen carrier to bring atmospheric oxygen to enzymatically mediated oxidation reactions. No free-radical chain reaction that could be interrupted.
@@namibjDerEchte Sadly though, halon != oxygen. When there is a fire there is already a shortage of oxygen and a surplus of smoke and other non-breathable gasses. If you then pump in halon to put out the fire, that just pushes out more of the oxygen.
It's not "breathing in halon" that kills you, it "not breathing enough oxygen because half the room is halon and smoke" that kills you. A halon system is safe as along as you can escape the room easily, in a couple of munutes. This is not a problem in an office or a computer room,, but it's near impossible in an already dark room in a ship with smoke and halon-fog, doors that require cheaterbars to open them.
@@namibjDerEchte it doesn't suffocate you chemically, but it does displace oxygen as mentioned in the video, and it also produces aa number of toxic and acidic decay products. so between choking on a low oxygen atmosphere and being in a gas chamber, it's recomended you make a hasty exit and go see the ship's doctor.
I would love to have Dranchinifel, Admiral Jinggles and Ryan explaining a video like this the whole way.
@@diegoviniciomejiaquesada4754 Drach and Ryan have made a number of videos together. Drach and Dr. Clarke also have made a number of videos together. I have seen Jingles in a few, but I think he was just lending his voice for plot telling, not historical commentary. Pretty sure he was in the Jutland Video Drach made.
As a former Machinist mate on a carrier I was always down in the engine room. We had escape trunks that went up to just below the hanger bay. ended up either in medical or the mess decks then we went up one more ladder to get up and out. But that was a very long climb with several hatches to open on the way. We engineering types all had it in the back of our minds that if the ship was hit below the water line and our engine room started to fill that it was just our time. We knew what we were getting into and we all knew the chances of getting out were fairly slim for us. The trunks were more for a peace of mind.
For a while my GQ station on the Newport News was at the throttles of #1 engine. The Des Moines cruisers were built with combined engineering spaces (engine room and fire room together). For emergency exit I would have needed to go down one level to the bottom of the escape trunk and back up three or four decks in the trunk. We had a couple of more senior POs who were a little rotund and as a skinny 19 year old I set my goal to get up the trunk before those guys jammed the route. Thankfully we never had to use the escape trunk for real but we did use the route a couple of times during drills. I remember going through the scuttle once while wearing an OBA. It was a very tight fit even for my 130 pound frame.
hahaha that was my first thought when he poked his head out of the top of that truck, "I guess the navy back in the 40's, through 90's didn't have quite the incidence of obesity that the general American public does now."
I remember a certain PO1 on my first ship ('98) who couldn't fit through a scuttle, due to his weight.
The number of CPO's like that was quite...large.
It's a minor thing but I always appreciate Ryan for saying the farewell lines each time you all film. Much more personal than a pre-made bumper.
Same. It’s authentic.
Yesterday, 24th May 2021, was the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Denmark Strait and the loss of HMS Hood.
Bob Dylan's 80th birthday. Weird.
RIP Hood- and now all of her Crew. 1,418 who died on May 24th 1941 and the 3 who died decades later.
May they rest all in peace.
We had the 1200psi Main Line blow on our Knox class FF. Fortunately the lead PO sensed that something was wrong and had the control room evacuate up the emergency scuttle just before the steam pipe blew. We were "Stuck" in Subic Bay for a month while they removed all the Asbestos that went everywhere and replace the pipes.
Bario Baretto for a month ? Many would not survive that !
It's amazing how you can come to know a something like the machinery spaces so well. You may not immediately be able to say what is wrong but you know something is and in the case of your PO, wrong enough to order his men to evacuate the area preventing multiple causalities.
@@Melanie16040 the same can happen when you recognize the noises that normally come from your car. Learn what your car sounds like it could save your life. When I worked in it I knew it all the equipment sounded like when it was running in the room. If something was missing or different I would hear it. I would also check all the status panels in the room the other supervisors didn't on the other shifts but I did. I literally walked around the entire computer room twice a day and glanced around repeatedly during the day looking for red lights LOL! You also get used to humidity levels and temperatures in a computer room. With the amount of air conditioning we had there should be no warm spots. That's a real great way to tell that an air conditioner is about to die! The house I live in now has well and believe it or not I can hear the harmonic from the well 40 ft from the house in 120 ft deep in the pipes when I use water. It's kind of weird. I used to build and repair computers for people also as a side job. From experience on my regular job and working with them I could hear things like fans that were starting to go bad hard drives that were starting to make a funny sound power supplies that had a funny smell. Yeah us computer geeks have Spidey senses!
@@pilotsimms535 that would hurt me bad! I bet a lot of people were thinking that petty officer and buying him beers that month.
1200 psi is dangerous!
To mix a quote from @The_Chieftain and @Drachinifel "Oh bugger, the ship is disagreeable!"
Excellent
This might be the most british description of ship sinking ever made.
Jeez- we all watch the same channels, lol
@@roceye Interesting how that works isn't it? If our interests lead us to both watch the same video, there's decent odds that interest might lead us both to watch another video and so on down the line.
Ryan: Just an FYI from a Gunners Mate who became a Professional Fire Fighter after his 4 years of service. A Tripple F ( Aquious Film Forming Foam ) makes water lighter than oil. Oil floats on water. So it in effect floats and forms a thin layer of water over the oil. Denying Oxygen. There is a famous Training film of an oil fire in Texas where a fire fighter runs through the pool and each step where he disturbed the AFFF flares up almost burning him and then you see the footsteps close up and extinguish the flames.
When I was going through DC training one of the instructors I had was on the Samuel b Roberts when she took a mine hit to the engine room. He could not get to the escape trunk because the entrance was crushed so he went out the regular entrance/exit. He was lucky, snipes don’t have the best chance of survival when things go south.
During my DC training the focus was on fire fighting and shoring up bulkheads.
I don't recall a single mention of how to get out of a compartment. LOL
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was built at the shipyard I worked at, Bath Iron Works. Granted, that was 20yrs before my time, but many of the "old timers" would speak with great pride about building her and repairing the mine damage. The fact that she didn't split entirely in two pieces and founder is a testament to the quality craftsmanship of those incredibly skilled tradesman. A tradition that lives on at BIW to this day. BATH BUILT IS BEST BUILT! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Served on the Roberts for a bit 01-03 A-Div and I don't recall any escape training until I went to subschool toward the end of 03,and even then it was pretty perfunctory, combating fire and flooding though, went into pretty good detail on that....
I was on the moosbrugger until she decommissioned in 2000 and then I was in the Vicksburg until 2005. Both out of mayport. I was in mp division and escape trunks were covered as part of egress training. Sorry for the confusion.
@@pauld6967 I recall a placard on a ship museum [possibly Battleship Massachusetts] listing damage control goals First was "never underestimate the amount of damage your ship can sustain and still function".
I'm reminded of my training/DC quals on board Lexington (AVT-16) shortly after my arrival there in 1984. It was explained to me by my Chief on Day 1 that my future liberty depended on meeting certain DC training deadlines, the very first being escaping from OA Div berthing (O-2 level starboard, just aft of the island and forward of the mid-ship expansion joint) under simulated fire/lights-out conditions, blindfolded (a blacked-out OBA) to the outside of the ship (60 seconds to the expansion joint and 90 seconds to flight deck catwalk via aircraft elevator machinery room); this had to be signed off within my first week aboard. And it wouldn't have looked very good for the AG1 LPO to have his liberty pulled (in Pensacola, yet), so you know I got her done!
Well, we have at least two things in common: I like battleships, and more importantly "I also like oxygen".
Oxygen is like doing Oxygen... so good!
Same, I can’t live without it
Y’all 😂
Thanks for covering this very necessary but very overlooked feature.
I'd feel great pride being assigned to a battleship, but I'd feel total elation knowing that I could quickly get out of a room that didn't want me inside of it.
The amount of design and equipment in these ships is mind-blowing
It’s really convenient that there are spaces in the battleship that aren’t dependent on paint to prevent rust. The ship is too big for a non-profit to keep completely painted in impeccable condition, so it’s nice that you’re able to let some spaces go without necessarily damaging the metal.
Having read all the comments no one has mentioned how hot it is in the boiler room and therefore the escape trunk. I served on the USS Luce DLG7 (DDG38) 3/1/2 years as a Boilertech and lucky enough to be stationed as Repair 5 for GQ all that time. I spent GQ on the mess deck, and most of my training for it was firefighting. So I only had the escape training for the boilerroom once (in getmo) And I will never forget it. Outside air temp 98 boiler temperature 800+ we did our watches huddled under the air vents and rushing through our routine work to get back to the vents. So you have an escape tunnel which is sealed in that atmosphere. The hatch dogs are hot, the escape tunnel is over 150* and every metal surface is hotter.
So under these conditions doing our post refit qualification, we do an emergency shutdown of the boilers and run for the escape tunnel. I burn my hands on the dogs to the hatch, then I burn them again on the rungs up the hatch gasping for air that is not even full of smoke or rushing steam you could expect from a real emergency. I get to the top hatch burning the hands some more and my little 130 lb body could not even move the wheel to open it the next man in line squeezes next to me and together we get it open and squeeze out. Making me happy once again I was a phone talker on the mess deck during GQ. It is always hot in the boiler room so I expect that the escape trunk is always hot, just better than the alternative.
Mr. Bean had a nice, fast way of painting awkward areas with minimal fuss. You could try that ;)
ruclips.net/video/3amsAlYS5r8/видео.html
BOOOOM??
"......shutting the door in the cameraman's face....." - Well played!
I do want to say and also thank you Ryan for going through all these hatches, tubes etc that you do! You make it very interesting videos more so than I've seen on any others videos of a similar topic! Thank you for all that you do!
And gun barrels, don't forget gun barrels
I can see the shock on peoples faces when they show up for the USS NJ Escape room challenge and they find out they repainting the escape routes.....
If I was close to the ship, I’d sign up for any project.
@@eekedout Same here. :)
first task... find the key to the paint locker
I was an EM on the USS Nimitz. Depending on what watch station I was on there were different ways out. In the switchgear we had our own escape scuttle and in the MMR and RAR they had scuttles similar to what was shown here, but i remember them being bigger and having angle iron for ladders.
I didn't work in the engineering spaces but I went back into them every evening while on patrol to deliver the POD. While submerged, we had one single way in and out of the engineering spaces to the rest of the boat. Starting just forward of the reactor compartment heading aft into the engineering spaces you would enter the reactor compartment tunnel through the always closed WTD from Auxiliary Machinery Space #1 (AMR1). Walking aft through the tunnel you would exit through another always closed WTD into AMR2. Continuing through AMR2 you would pass through the usually open WTD into the actual engine room and the furthest aft compartment of the boat. AMR2 and the Engine Room were both two levels high, so within those spaces there was more than one way to move vertically from deck to deck. While surfaced there was a second way out, which would be through the aft escape trunk forward in the Engine Room to the outside world.
Capsizing being so fatal to crew and also the ship is the reason that post WW1 U.S. combat ships had full beam fire and engine spaces with no centerline bulkhead to split them unlike other nations. Even flooding of the largest spaces on the ships would prevent capsizing which would make a ship sink even faster. And with later U.S. boiler design and turbines staggering the fire and engine rooms meant propulsion was nearly as resilient as splitting the compartments.
From a army vet i would like to say you surely know how lucky you are to be in the position you are that your job is to help preserve such a beautiful peace of American might. I would give about anything to spend 24 hrs just look a evey square inch of that ship!!!!
And my humble thanks for taking care of one of its greatest peaces of our great country!!
THANK YOU ! ! ! !
Hi Ryan, I really enjoy your tours and talks. I have been to both the New Jersey and the Wisconsin now. Both times I just left with a feeling of shock and awe at the sheer power of these ships and the brave men who manned them. I was a professional video editor in Hollywood for over 20 years and besides maybe pulling a comb through your hair once in a while, I want to compliment you on becoming a better on camera personality through the years. You are becoming a polished presenter relaxed and more at home in front of the camera which is no small task. Soon you'll be hosting a fireside chat in a smoking jacket recanting history's greats sea battles with intro music as the camera dollys in. What ships they are. I also am a ham radio operator but when I visited the New Jersey the radio room was not in operation. Best to you, Tod in Vegas. :)
This video conveys the deadly serious business of naval warfare. You’ve done the future a service. More videos teaching the stark dangers to every last man on New Jersey is a good idea. War is hell. Naval engineering is super cool. Sometimes we forget the ugly task & purpose of it all.
Thanks Ryan & Libby! When I visited I was wondering where they went. Now I know!
"Sooo.. what sort of things can go wrong on the bottom of the ship?" Umm.. everything.
these videos are always well done and very interesting.
the presenter speaks very clearly, and makes for a great instructor.
well done.
These videos rock, i love watching some of the more hidden aspects of ship design and ship utility
Ryan my man! I asked for this a long time ago. Thank you. Just started working at BIW this week, thanks for the influence from you and Drach!
Halon is scary stuff. We had a shot put into one of our spaces by accident when people were in there. Hatches were closed, but they managed to get out in time. It was OK to escape from main boxes, but it was completely dependant on what had happened and where you were. The escape trunks on T45 Destroyers are horrible little spaces, and are long, nasty climbs. Older ships maybe not so easy to get out though.
I served on CV-61 Ranger during the 1980's in No 1 Main Machinery Room. Ranger's engineering spaces combined the boilers and engines into one space and there were two escape trunks. One, was located on the starboard side and was accessed from the lower level, the other was on the port side and accessed through the control room. Both led up to the 2nd deck (which was right below the hanger deck).
Thanks for the video I seen that floor escape hatch on the Missouri at Pearl Harbour and now I understand what the tour guide was talking about.
For a untrained civilian contractor, the escape trunk is not an enjoyable climb. I was working on a piece of equipment that had components in both the engine rooms and CCS when they opened the reduction gear, you do not cross an open reduction gear on a gas turbine powered ship. I had to exit by the escape trunk, I think my fingerprints are permanently engraved in the ladder.
It's amazing how expensive reduction gears are... Gotta take every precaution to ensure nothing gets in to damage them. Curious, why would your fingerprints be permanently engraved on the ladder?
Better than your DNA being intermixed in the gear oil and all of the walls!
@@Melanie16040 he was gripping the ladder because he was a little uncomfortable being on it. The idea of gravity drawing him down the ladder and into a space that was dangerous just kind of made him hold on to it tighter.
@@Melanie16040 I really don't enjoy ladders, I almost got wiped off of the stick, radar mast, once when the man above me slipped and came down between the ladder and me. I believe I have engraved my fingerprints in a few merchant ship ladders going up the stick as well.
Fantastic ship to look around. Really enjoyed our tour.
AFFF is lighter than most fuels, so the burning fuel floats on water but the AFFF floats on the burning fuel and suppresses it.
6:10 Halon is actually not some oxygen removing death gas. It works as a fire suppressant by preventing a chemical reaction between the three sides of the fire triangle. In the early 90's it was found to be a possible Ozone depletant and while it was not outright banned it's use and distribution began to be phased out. The myth about "pulls the oxygen out of the air" started to be circulated to social engineer a fear of the agent and further limit its use. I still see some old halon extinguishers every now and then on the towboats I ride.
Also, yes just like any other non-breathable-air in high enough concentrations it can suffocate you just like a CO2 fixed system will.
GREAT video Ryan!!! I seen those hatches on the Missouri and wondered how a man would get through it, seamed a little small. I also pictured a tube, like the main guns, really nice to see the whole thing.
Oh my the tank is on fire! wrong channel?
But really. on my 3rd day on USS Speigel Grove, lsd32. Had to get 3decks to weather deck blindfolded. I did it.
I didn't get it until a guy started a fire in the wardroom galley. Smoked-out the officers quarters. Could have killed many.
This was cool, the thought that went into the design of the Iowa Class is just amazing to me.
On the USS Curts FFG-38, the SONAR equipment room, all the way forward and all the way down (not nearly as far as New Jersey), was my general quarters station. I remember having to paint the escape trunk for that space. It wasn't much fun, but I did find an awesome place to take a nap!
It's hard to be a nap in the escape trunk during field day!
@11:50
Good to see we share a similar sense of humor. 🤣
Finally someone mentioned that lol
You mentioned battleships colliding. Father-in-law was aboard USS Indiana when she collided with USS Washington.
A) Glad that he survived the war and passed along the story.
B) On a lighter note, we could consider this to be Civil War Part 2. U.S.S. WASHINGTON, BB-56, was a *North* Carolina class battleship and U.S.S. Indiana, BB-58, was a *South* Dakota class battleship.
I personally blame Washington for not anticipating that Indiana would go in the complete opposite direction they reported at a higher speed than reported directly into her path...
I worked in the Engine Room for many years, but whether we could get out or even wanted to, depended on how deep we were at the time or if we were under ice.
Fortunately, never had to think of this for real!
You know I could swear Ryan is wearing a "utilities" shirt seems fitting, but maybe a set of the coveralls might be more appropriate seeing all the lovely tight and spotless places he squeezes through lol
Chambrey.
Right... I was thinking he was going "uniformed", but with khaki pants, well, it seems like a sailor who is unsure of his rank LOL
Very nice tour, thanks
Looking good Mr. Ryan! Keep up the great work. Looks very good!
Keep up the good work you're awesome you are the man for the job about the ship
Thank you to everyone preserving our history. Your daily efforts honor the lives given for us to be able to live in peace.
Being an Airedale in the Navy. I stayed mostly above the waterline. Only when assigned to ship's S2 stores Div. as an E2 did I venture close to the waterline. Of course we taking aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk CV 63.
MM3 USS Independence CV62.. 3 Main aft port scuttle hatch went from the lower deck all the way to the second deck, about 20 feet in it went from vertical to about 30 degrees and opened into the Officers Mess.. Interesting drill , Lights out and make it out, we opened the hatch under a table during the Dinner Hour.. The officers cleared the table and moved it away asking if we were ok. they were unaware of the drill but could here the space alarm below ,, we politely explained our drill, apologized for the disruption of their meal and were excused..
What would really be great too is if Ryan would touch things around him and tell us what they are instead of just standing there because what he says is interesting but equally interesting is everything in those rooms he stands in! Thank you Ryan for finally telling us what the yellow squared lights are we see throughout the ship. Now we know those were there when the ship was built and not when it became a museum.Ryan what are all the papers on the wall inside the escape tube about and what do they say?
Interesting. I can't imagine what it must be like trying to get out of the engineering spaces on an air craft carrier (CVN). If you were still alive, it was easy to get out of the boiler room on a gearing class destroyer. Two short ladders and you were on the main deck.
Barry
This has been my favorite video.
Good job. Interesting topic.
Hoping to get back out to the ship again soon! Looks like the world is finally starting to find some sanity again.
Very interesting , my father was an Engineering Officer on a Command Attack Transport during WWII and while different I assume the situation was similar
almost 40K subscribers!! Way to go.
Today I watched Ryan Szimanski pull out... and giggle about it.
Long pause... video cuts and comes back with him giggling.
I think "The Chieftain" calls it.."Oh bugger the tank (ship) is on fire"!!
Almost looks like dungerees I approve!!
i like how his statements are very unbiased
When your station is up top, you eat shells.
When your station is down below, you drink water.
Oh the conflict...
It appears the escape trunk wall needs to be scraped, and a new coat of paint applied! I bet that job must have been difficult to perform.
Good video Ryan.. one of my biggest fears is not having an escape route available.
very easy to paint in there. shop vac at the bottom, sand blast it clean from the top. close the bottom, fog it with primer. wait a day, fog it with paint.
9:25 Damn Ryan, I did not need to see that...
You forgot to mention something else that could pose a danger to a battleship...
The USS Porter.
“Don’t shoot, we’re Republicans!”
It’s actually USS William D. Porter (DD-579) that you’re talking about. USS Porter (DD-800) was another fletcher class destroyer commissioned later in the war that had a normal, relatively uneventful career. Apparently they decided to name 2 ships of the same class after 2 guys with the same last name for some reason.
Good ol Willy D
They Must be Republicans!
Also- being chewed out for missing such a massive target and making it look like the Navy can't shoot for shit
I am ex Navy and a current merchant seafarer. One ship I worked on a few years ago had an escape scuttle in the control room that was right next to the SCR drive cabinets and the access door to those cabinets swung open right to where the escape ladder would be. Because they could not put two things in one physical space, guess what was sacrificed? That's right, folks. Our safety. So you look up at an escape scuttle 12 feet over your head and no ladder to get to it.
AFFF is lighter then water so it floats on top cutting off oxygen to the fuel that floats on top of the water and burns and to lower the fuels temperature. I was a firefighter on the USS Kitty Hawk.
Ryan, at the end of the video, was that the DC emergency power couplings on the bulkhead ? That is how power was moved around a damaged area much like running an "extension cord" in a house.
Kudos to the camera operator taking paint chips to the face. They held their post in the face of adversity.
Those were Casualty Power systems, yes. For reference, heres a video about it:
ruclips.net/video/yeiiHAJUurE/видео.html
What you saw was actually Ryans second climb up there. The first time when he opened the scuttle there was such a gust of air I jumped back assuming Ryan fell. By round 2 I was prepared.
11:48 that’s an interesting cut there Ryan lol
This is fascinating stuff!! I'm adding this ship to my road trip idea list, lol. It's only a 9hr drive away from me! (A very American thing to say! 😆).
Especially if I find something interesting enough for a stop to camp halfway in between Ohio and you guys, then I'll be out there in a year or 2 😁.
I went onboard iowa and shes
.. 30 bours away from me :p
Escape trunk becomes a chimney in a fire if both doors are open so close the bottom before opening the top. The story I was told was a seaman open the hatch and only 3 of 8 made it out, the rest burned
"That makes for a very bad day" ,yup copy that, water bubbling in or live steam - usually both
The Battleship New Jersey equivalent to the Nicholas Moran "Ohh bugger, the tank is on fire." Seems fairly.... contrived, in comparison! :P
I was on a carrier, the USS Ranger, seven peopled died in 2 seperate engine room fires. In once instance several people were found dead at the bottom of the escape trunk. I guess they were overcame by the smoke.
I love Ryan's commentary but dang he is the king of bad hair days!
If my memory serves Halon is heavier than air and thus displaces breathable air toward the top of the space. It does the same in your lungs should you breath it in. Doc once told me first aid for Halon inhalation was to stand on your head till you exhale all the Halon out of you lungs. Probably the worse way to suffocate that I've heard of on board a ship.
On the Perry class I served on most of our escape trunks exit to the main deck with one exit on the deck above the bottom most space. We were a fairly small ship so not many decks above the lowest/ machine spaces.
Halon interrupts the chemical chain reaction of a fire, and displaces the air as well; Carbon Dioxide solely displaces air (which is why you have to seal the space) either way its bad for you
The follow up question would be about life jackets and rafts. Where were they stored, and were there enough? You wouldn't want them destroyed by the first few enemy shots.
Look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carley_float
They are strapped to the bottom of the ship so when it rolls over everyone can get their life jackets and get in their boats
@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Thing is, it doesn't necessarily roll over. It can just sink upright.
@@Galactipod Ships are kind weird when they sink. In very deep water they often right themselves before hitting the bottom. Probably because most of the compartments have flooded, adjusting the center of gravity back to something like normal.
It'd be nice to have some B-roll of the compartment on a tripod, provides a better sense of the location on the ship. That can also be used to cover some of the "less glamourous" acrobatic moments with Ryan. Still love the videos though, keep up the great content!
Cool, Ryan escaped!
Isn't it fun saying Aqueous Film Forming Foam? I've been a Firefighter for 20 years and I still haven't gotten tired of that one. Especially trying to say it really fast. Lol
The aft auxillary machinery room, on a British Type 42 destroyer, up between the boilers, through a scuttle and then a contortionists climb between the diesel exhausts upto 01 deck, via 2 more scuttles, popping out between the cruise gas turbine intakes. If you miss the exit you are pretty much on your way up to the 996 platform.
I think that another term for an escape trunk is a "Jefferies tube".
well sort of. you don't access anything to repair it in them though :)
@@chernobyl68 : Jefferies tubes also tend to be places where low ranking crew are most likely to die from getting sucked out into space or attacked by various predatory creatures.
Escape the ship seems like a fun game.
Seems like a fun place to work to me.
Ticonderoga class cruisers had great escape trunks for all the main and aux spaces. And every space I saw that was manned during GQ had at least two ways out. The only spaces I knew of that were single entrance were ones not normally manned such has various unmanned machinery and fan rooms
Shaft Alleys only have 1 ingress/egress route and they're manned during GQ as well as Sea & Anchor detail.
I think I just learnt how to properly climb a ladder thanks to the video
My sea and anchor detail on the sub tender Proteus AS-19, was down in the port shaft alley. The only way in and out was down a trunk much like the escape trunk on New Jersey, it was a little bigger and had a safety net about every ten feet or so in case you lost your footing on the ladder. It didn’t bother me when I was younger but now I think, “What if there was a fire in passage way where the access hatch was located, and I was down in the shaft alley with no way to get out.
Screwed, blued and barbequed!
A lot of notices in the escape trunk. I hope that they don't expect anyone to stop and read them on the way out!
Third deck lingerie!
The aft machinery space on the USS Miami. No way out that don't take us all!
As to the chipping paint in the escape scuttle, we had to acid etch galvanized winch housings and use a zinc based primer to paint them.
I will come down one day and visit, once Covid gets under control
I wish I could donate to new Jersey and Texas but with the turmoil my life is in, all I can do is watch, like, and subscribe. (No one to share with anymore) But its the thought that counts haha.
I visited the US and stayed at a hotel near this beauty and didn't even know it was there, i would have loved visiting her, now i don't know when i'll be coming back 😔
very cool
Not easy to leave engineering spaces or the ‘people compartment’ on my platform. Usually punching holes in the ocean without a sound or a trace of being there. And just operating the boat to best of everyone’s ability so that we can keep her operational and she can keep us safe.
Does anyone else have the same issue I do with this channel's audio always being low?
I know there are limitations to the quality because of the acoustics etc, but compared to other channels I always have to put the volume up when I watch a video from the Battle ship, and when I go to another video and forget I get a boot in the ear .
Is it just me? (I am not trying to complain, and throw shade, I love the content).
The other thing I noticed, but it was in older videos (I have been binge-watching this channel a LOT) is that it sounds like the editor might have done the audio while wearing earphones, the result sounds odd for people listening with speakers. Again I am not trying to complain or be a snob, I just want to ask if it's just me, and if it isn't maybe help make your content even better (love this channel).
This video's audio was actually really good. The older videos have tinny audio before they got a new mic. I usually have headphones on while watching on my phone but also watch a lot of videos on my tv using those speakers and the audio on the newer videos has been alright.
RUclips uses audio compression so their is only so much they can do/control. Make sure you have the video set to the highest resolution as the audio quality seems to go along with that. Lately the RUclips app has been automatically setting the quality lower on videos I watch despite me having a very fast connection, I think they're probably trying to solve some bottlenecks on their side of things that way but it's sucks to have to manually change the quality on every single video manually.