Sinking the MANTA and then diving it!
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2023
- @afogg2006 invited me out to Destin’s beautiful
Section of the Gulf of Mexico where we were going to sink the second largest vessel yet, to become an artificial reef. The video shows the process and basically it’s an inside look as to how these dive sites and fishing spots become where they are follow along and if you have any questions or anything like that, please comment below.
I can't wait to see it reclaimed by the marinelife. There's something so pretty about a sunken ship covered in sealife and silt.
I’ll post a follow up when I re-dive it soon
What do you mean, "reclaimed"? It was never part of the seafloor in the first place.
@@privateer0561 a simple type o
@@RedBaronGuy it means taken back
@@jayden-ve1hy I know
HMHS Britannic also touched the sea floor before going completely under, which is why the bow of her is broken off.
I was just about to say something about that
Yup
@@LITTLE1994 true
Exactly what I was thinking
No "the" in front of HMHS, just HMHS Brittanic as the H is for a possessive noun.
HMHS Britannic style sinking! With the hull touching the ocean floor before completely submerging, very interesting
Stern-first instead of bow-first, but otherwise very similar. I imagine Britannic probably had a similar movement of suddenly stopping and rearing up. Britannic's bow broke off in the process, I'm guessing this didn't take as much damage thanks to being a smaller vessel.
@@quillmaurer6563 Yes, this vessel probably didn't break its bow since it was smaller in length and weight. Surprised how it wobbled for a few moments after hitting it, without further sinking. I guess new air pockets formed inside and kept it buoyant.
@@tanknoob1278 That would make sense - the ship as a whole was overall dense enough to sink without other support, but when it hit bottom part of the weight was supported by the bottom, it had enough buoyancy to remain standing upright. Probably the last of the remaining buoyancy was towards the bow as well. Though it actually wasn't completely sunk yet, what I describe is if it were to be fully sunk but briefly stand upright on the bottom. In this case the bow was still floating on the surface, the stern sank first, once hitting bottom the bow remained floating for a few seconds and the stern was sitting on the bottom, so the ship just sat in that equilibrium for a few seconds before the bow sank.
Glad you enjoyed it!
There's something eerie yet absolutely beautiful watching a ship sink into the water.
Love it
Excellent footage of Manta sinking into her new home.
Thanks so much
I used to work on the crew that ran that boat and it's sister ship that was sunk near by the M/V Dolphin. Rest well OBC-1
The dolphin should be sunk this month
Sinking Manta: Welp looks like I'm going down to bottom.
Also sinking Manta: wait a minute that's Titanic, excuse me Titanic may I have your autograph, I'm a new sinker.
@@Spear30 oh thank you for clarifying, I was under the impression dolphin had been scuttled already.
Thanks for sharing, always fascinating to watch these!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.
Great clip , good job
Thankyou tons
So cool man
Thanks a ton
amazing, great video!
Thanks a lot!
Nice work!
Thank you! Cheers!
So cool! 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
not sure how it would be done, but some kind of underwater footage during the sinking would be fantastic
Due to the massive turbulence in the water and the incredible silt cloud, we had multiple cameras on the ship, but there’s nothing you can see
@@Spear30 oh, okay that totally makes sense. What about some sort of drone-style underwater camera? I’m new to the marine enthusiast circle so I’m not sure what type of mobile submersible cameras exist or if they even exist at all. But a shot from a distance of the ship striking the ground would be pretty powerful in my opinion. A lot of people don’t understand how strong the acceleration and force these massive objects is when it hits the sea floor
please do more shipwreck dives like this!
Sinking of the sister ship will be in a few weeks hopefully we can do another video and do it better!
@@Spear30 awesome! please return the wreck after a year or so
Very cool!
Thank you
Awesome
Thanks so much
Nice clear water for being so shallow, it won't take long before it's teaming with life
That’s righttttttt
Thank you for sharing! Can't wait to see how all the little fishys and sea turtles like their new hotel lol
Can't wait myself… thanks for the support
LIKE YOU SAID AWSOME ,, THANK'S!!!
You're welcome!
That's the most satisfying I've seen yet
Thanks
great footage, subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
Very interesting
I think so too!
what an amazing sink! love it.
It really is!
Haha. Long time ago i was an AB on another survey vessel named MANTA (Callsign DLAU) from Geco Prakla. Nice sinking by the way. Chris
Very cool!
GREAT VIDEO!!! LETS DIVE,..
Appreciate it!!
❤❤❤
As a man I can say this was very enjoyable
Thank you so much
I wouldn't say enjoyable. Interesting but sad.Better than being scrapped. Ex Royal Navy
underrated
Thanks so much
🥰🥰🥰
Fascinating. Great footage, editing and commentary.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much
Imagine if the guy in charge of releasing/cutting the tug boat line became distracted with another task...and forgot to do the more important job in hand...gulp.
There was an emergency break away on the actual battleship just for that reason
Great video - thanks!
Your welcome
ship go brrrr
I’m from destin
Nice
It would have been a good thing to see pictures when the ship was in operations... a long time ago
That was smoke coming from the ghost engine trying to save the boat 😂
That was just all the leftover rust after sandblasting all the hazardous materials out
It's sad but good they recycled the vessel for future research and keep the marine life continuing
The hats the whole thing …. It’s a future other than scrap
I think I recognized that tug. She looks like one of the Robins tugs from Norfolk Va.
That tug is out of Pensacola Florida
I think you're missing the point
It's not a deep dive I would love to see the ship once settled! Was this a ferry?
I have a video tour swim through posted under my account
how long do you figure it'll take for it to really get going for the reef
Initial recruitment begins almost the first week, but six months to a year it will be in full bloom
The vessel hit bottom before it was fully submerged. The britanic did that.
Sure did
I prefer seeing fish in Japanese ships sunk by US Navy aircraft.
Been there, done that, certified for SCUBA by the US Army Corps
of Engineers.
Awesome
hi
Welcome
@@Spear30 hey are you doing okay buddy?
Makes me think of Titanic
So many times ships sinking are similar
Rip R.M.S Manta, 1987-2022
How long is the ship, and the depth of the water?
The ship was 180 feet long the depth of the water where we place the reef was 114 feet
I saw this on tik tok guys boat's name is deep obsession
We had a bunch out there … I was with the director of costal resources
No time for lifeboatz
It’s crazy the speed the water claims a vessel
Coordinates of this AR? I live here and would love to dive it.
If you Google destins artificial reef map you can find them there and many more if not message me I’ll get them for ya
How do you get the go pros back
After the ship settles, we dive down because we take depth readings to figure out what we’re going to relay to the dive shops, as far as what depth, or where, and we collect the GoPro’s then
How old was that vessel??
It was commissioned in the early 80’s I believe
You can hear the tugs honking
2:38 Was the drone pilot drunk or not existent??
It was a local news agency flying a drone
@@Spear30 You should fly it yourself if possible, that camera work was... yikes... Cool vid though still.
So the numbers are ?
They are posted at portal.myokaloosa.com/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f5377a1d1931450282ac20dae3448cb5&mobileBreakPoint=100
The camera man is to good
I felt actually so sad ... It felt like you killed the poor thing watching it dying slowly.
Well, the other death would’ve been getting it cut up and sold to a scrap yard this way it’s on the bottom to be home for fishes and dive sites for divers who are learning and to spear fisherman and it gets a second chance at a whole New World
@@Spear30 it should totally be a home for sea life
if it were a warship i'd say turn it into a museum ship, there were many warships that I think shouldnt have been scrapped and instead should have been turned into museum ships
If you think this is sad, think of the alternative - ships gradually cut away to nothing at a scrapper. At least this way she'll remain intact and serve a new purpose, rather than being torn apart and melted down.
4:20 this looks like a filter
It was a perfect day
Why scuttled?
To create an artificial reef
"So I'll stop talking and let you watch"
*proceeds to play god awful music instead of letting us listen*
Sorry I didn’t play what you wanted. But there was no audio to hear that I wanted on there. But thanks for the tip.
they never show the stuff while it goes down underwater......
It’s so turbulent videos aren’t the best
@@Spear30 I kinda like them , just the view on how it goes ! Seen maybe 5 . One took a full min do before reaching the bottom , but was mesmerized
Why can't a single soul record the actual sink underwater. That would be the shot
Good luck finding this one soul who have such hugh balls to be under a sinking ship!😂😉
I've always wanted to see that too. Not from a diver directly underneath the vessel, of course..... But from a diver who is off to the side to film it going down to the bottom. I always wanted to know just how fast they actually go down. Like the Titanic for example... It's estimated that the bow section plummeted at a speed of 30 miles an hour before crashing to the sea floor.
@@timemachinefan Too dangerous to have divers in the water, you don't know how the ship will behave
Underwater visibility and a safe distance would have proven disappointing I think, it would have been good tho maybe an Underwater drone 🤔
We have four cameras I have the footage just with the silk loud and everything else and all the turbulent water all you see is just bubbles
I would never get to know the reason why it was not taken back to the shore for scrap.
Thanks so much more in the works
So this one and another research ship were bought to be artificial reefs. It's to help during storms and to help the fish population. Destin actually has a great many artificial reefs. Some of them old battleship tanks, (I believe), and actually some are made of oyster shells collected from local restaurants. They get gutted and drained of harmful materials.
Simply google it if you really need to know
Waist of good recyclable steel! There is no hard evidence that doing this will help anything in the long run other than make the cost of steel go up!
This is absolutely a fabrication of the truth. There is evidence. There are multiple reports and documents about sustainable artificial reefs that help produce juvenile fish populations. It’s worth a Google rather than just assuming.
@@Spear30 im not assuming anything, its a waist of steel, there is no getting around that, steel is becoming a commodity, that is far mor important than an underwater playground for divers, marine life can make a home anywhere, in on or around things, dumping boulders is far more practical than this idiotic act of controlled pollution, plus in shallow water the oxygen level is so high these ships will be rusted to nothing in 60 to 80 years, rocks and or concrete lasts much longer!
I think this should be illegal deliberately sinking ships it is cluttering are oceans as well as contaminating our oceans most likely with hazardous materials that may be on that ship
You do understand that the ship goes through an environmental protection agency inspection after a thorough hazmat, cleaning, and removal of all contaminants and debris, and the ship on the seafloor slowly dissolves into the ocean much like the natural minerals that are already there that’s why the ocean is taken back the titanic and it provides structure for re-fish to have a habitat to reproduce And further allow for recreational fishing and produce corals and actually protect the oceans. If you have any questions, please ask.
Exactly, well said.
Polluting the ocean human beings don’t deserve this earth
They're specifically sinking it so it can be a new home for fish; pretty much the opposite.
I’m sorry that you don’t understand exactly what’s happening here, but that is not polluting the ocean you are uninformed and inaccurate
Dislike. In the oceans is too much garbage to add there another just for fun of several people.
Not at all it provides so much more. You should look into how much they help
@@Spear30 help to whom?
should be banned
Why on earth shouldn’t be banned
Its stripped of all hazardous materials, its literally being done to home and protect marine life.
Sad. That could have become a really unique yacht.
It is a really unique artificial reef
Why would you sink it in shallow waters?