My Dad and I were on a beach in Subic Bay Phillipines when I was a boy of about 10 or 11. We were goofing off just kicking around and I looked up and was like WHOA!!. There was a HUGE nuclear submarine coming into port maybe 200 yards away from where we were standing. It was so massive it defies explanation. You kind of just have to see it. It was moving past us in absolute silence. I remember my Dad saying something about there being enough nuclear weapons on board to destroy several countries. It was a truly mind bending experience I will never forget. I've been aboard the USS Drum at the Battleship Alabama memorial park but that thing was rinky dink compared to the one we saw. Amazing machines. The pinnacle of human engineering.
Proud to be an American and an Infantry Veteran. One thing our Grunts respect from the Navy is the Submariners, that’s not an easy job and deserves respect. And hats off to our incredible ship designers and builders, we’d be nothing without you.
This is only to show what is talked about, and not shown. That would be a completely different timetable. Timecode: 00:00 intro 00:10 short story about submarines 00:57 talking about disposal of submarines 1:38 Talks about Benjamin Franklin type of Submarine 2:03 Process on how to decommission a sub, into the dry dock 2:11 Explaining what a dry dock is 2:32 Explaining how a submarine gets into a dry dock 3:14 Removing valuable items 3:24 Talks about what they do when the boat is taken apart 3:36 Jumps back to taking the sub(s) apart 3:56 Talking about rails in the dry dock 4:19 What they use to take the subs apart 4:34 Chains and pulley systems 4:54 James K Polk submarine Specs 5:09 Talking about safety with submarine teardown 5:38 Heavy duty cranes 6:00 Crane operators sits high up and move heavy stuff 6:40 Introducing a crane operator 6:46 How loads are being secured and hoisted safely 7:18 Crane tracks 7:37 Talks about large military boat dismantling process 7:45 Military air-crafts being disassembled of valuable parts 8:15 C130 Hercules being dismantled 9:06 Plane is being blown up for faster process 9:31 Dismantling US military plane process, and reusing components 9:59 Talks about what parts can be reused 10:16 Where planes go to rest 10:33 309 aerospace maintenance and regeneration group 10:47 Talks about dry conditions and hard surface 11:05 What they use to safe the planes for corroding 11:14 It takes a long time 11:37 Talking about the size of the Bone Yards 11:58 The start of 309 aerospace maintenance and regeneration group, and the collection 12:15 Huge organization for finding parts, for planes 12:30 How the planes are stored by a system 12:49 The last landing 13:09 What kind of bone yard the A-Marc is, and their aircraft preservation process is 13:33 Type-1k planes 13:44 Type-4k planes 14:03 Comparing subs and ships with aeroplanes of disassembly 14:23 Talking about some bone yard's that can be visited by the public 14:48 Outro
I did this for 10 years at PSNS including Reactor Compartment Disposal. I became more intimate with Submarines than I thought possible or desirable. PSNS has brought Recycle up to an Art form.
@NOS PSNS was charged with disposing of vessels with nuclear propulsion. It was after they got nailed by the EPA early in the project that pollutants such as chromium, asbestos, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Lead (Pb) and so on were seriously addressed prior to disposing of the vessel. Up to that point, the reactor was defueled. The Reactor Compartment was was cut out and capped on both ends with 2" thick steel plates. The forward part and the after part were welded back together. Some of the Main Ballast Tanks were filled with concrete to ensure it sank one last time in the deep sea never to resurface. Cheap and easy, comparatively. After the EPA investigation, the pollutants were removed and legally disposed of by workers like myself. Everything that could be recycled was cleaned, processed and reduced in size and shipped to the open market. We could actually recycle s submarine in 7 months after the last sailor left the boat to the last piece of steel riding out in a rail car. It is an expensive proposition.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is the only Naval Shipyard authorized to scrap U.S. Navy submarines. The reactors are allowed to cool down first. Then all the remaining nuclear fuel is sent to Idaho for reprocessing. The nuclear reactor is encased in steel shielding and sent to Hanford, WA nuclear reservation for disposal. There are some great photos of the nuke reactors graveyard somewhere. Then all that high quality steel of the hull is cut up into manageable chunks, put on railroad cars and sent to steel mills for recycling. It’s a good gig. The welders hate working cut ups because there of the chance of injury. All the 688 (Los Angeles) class submarines that are scheduled to be decommissioned will be scrapped at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. All the early SSBM subs have been cut up. Even the nuclear surface ships, ex USS Long Beach, ex USS Bainbridge, ex USS Truxton, the later CGNs (ex USS Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Virginia) all cut up at PSNS. The scrapping business is a big part of the PSNS mission.
I retired from the shipyard in January. We call it the short Beach now. Only the reactor sections are left. The standing joke is the razor you used this morning used to be a nuclear submarine because Gillette was one of the buyers of the steel. This is definitely an old video. The guy operating the crane is retired and was on the board that interviewed me years ago.
The sheer spectacle of observing the precise and deliberate disassembly of a colossal engineering marvel, akin to the artistry of expertly cutting through a magnificent fish, is nothing short of mesmerizing. It's truly captivating to witness the meticulous process unfold, revealing the intricate inner workings and hidden complexities of a submarine as if delicately slicing through the layers of a freshly caught fish.
One of my friends was a Nuke tech and ended-up getting exposed to Nuclear material during one of these disassemblies and ended-up getting a medical discharge... definitely not an easy or fun job.
@@charlesparker192I worked around radiation sources for years and we were closely monitored. We film wore badges that were changed out monthly. We also had a gieger counter with alarms set to go off if there was a problem. I had a high reading one month and was given a few months off with pay to limit my annual exposure. That was 40 years ago and I’m still kicking at 70.
I've been doing scrapping part time of whatever I come across since the mid 80's, but this is a whole different level especially with nuclear material goes. This video was too short. 😁
Would have been nice if such care was taken with the $90B of equipment abandoned in the "successful" evacuation of Afghanistan to keep all that technology out of enemy hands.
We have left equipment behind after every war, my father remembered watching bulldozers shoving trucks and aircraft into the sea off Okinawa after the war, my neighbor at ft Bragg told me he helped bury Helicopters at the end of the Vietnam war, sometimes it’s just cheaper to leave it
I was in the Navy in the mid to late 1960's and was in New Construction at Electric Boat in Groton Connecticut. The Polk was there at the same time I was and I got to know a number of her crew and was aboard her a few times as she was being built. Interesting to see the end fate. My own boat was commissioned about 3 months after the Polk but we were decomm'd in 1992 and scrapped before she was, also at Bremerton Shipyard.
@@thatguy7085 I don't know which is the worst. Depends on how you felt about your vessel. Mine was a good boat and from talking at reunions to later crews everyone pretty much liked her. Those things took you out and brought you back and fed you too boot!! We'll soon be joining them one way or another. 🙂
@@webbtrekker534 it was sad to see… and kind of surprising. It took numerous maverick hits and two harpoons… didn’t sink. I thought the thing was a rust bucket… but it stayed up.
Half of the 15-minute video was about planes, I guess "The Hypnotic Process of Scrapping US Gigantic $4 Billion Nuclear Submarine" was not so hypnotic.😁
As a youngster seeing a couple of Los Angeles submarine launchings in Groton was a bit thrilling. However the Ohio class sub under construction in the dry dock next to it left an impression in my mind to this day with it's immense size. Not to mention the potential destructive power it possesses.
Indeed, my Father worked on the guidance systems for those and I have a few photo slides of the first Ohio being built, the regular sub next to it looks so tiny that I didn't see it until I read the description at the bottom of the photo.
@@Thadude701My brother in law served on them. He was a sonar tech from 1963 till he retired. My brother did 13 years and after one patrol in a fast attack, 650 Pargo,he quit because something scared him. He was an STC.
Kind of sad to see the old submarine get ceremonially retired like that - Then cannibalized - Followed by the massive boneyards - Maybe the next episode will be optimistic power and might.
I served on some of these boats and I'd call it Terror-F^cking-fying instead of hypnotic. Seeing Hull fractures and rust up close. Realizing the reality that green water was mere fractions of an inch from blasting into the people tank. Most likely in an inaccessible place. Bonefish had her impulse ram carry away and say a fare how you do as it rifled through the watertight bulkhead from Tubes Forward into the Forward Battery. On her way to killing 4 crew members in 1988. Causing such a powerful explosion it broke her keel. Then the sea water and battery acid produced deadly hydrochloric acid fog. cooking the soft respiratory tissue in seconds. Something I'd never forget seeing up close and personal. The accident was predicted. Darter in her overhaul the same year was found to have the same defect. Bonefish decommissioned herself and I believe was sunk as a target. Darter followed 18 months later. Making her final dive to Davy Jones's Locker in 1992 when Tautog slammed a fish into her starboard side just aft of the sail. You can see the video here on RUclips.
My older brother was a STC on a fast attack and came back from a patrol and quit submarine service. He told me he wanted to see his family grown up. I worked at EB for a short time after I got out of the Navy and in 1976 I worked on the Groton and the Pargo which was in dry dock. That was the last submarine my brother was on. I did just four years in a Patrol Squadron.
Interesting to hear that story about Bonefish. I knew she'd had a fire and 4 died and she was decomm'd but never about the ram. I rode two boats, one Nuc one Diesel.
Yeah it is, because the US did it . They have several things so overrated as in their technologies are topnotch and top secret too and stuffs like that.
Interesting...one of the jobs I had years ago when I lived in SE Arizona was to maintain the Digital Electronics Corp computer system that hosted the database for all the planes there at the Boneyard in Tucson at Davis-Monthan AFB. As such I got to spend a lot of time there.....fun job.
I was mildly surprised at a USN nuke sub scrapping. This is the 1st I can recall of such an event with a USN nuke sub.. Wasn't expecting much as even a 30 year old nuke sub is still classified in many areas. It really didn't delve to deeply into an overall scrapping, I get that. Plus it's done in a secure yard and even the yard birds have some sort of clearance to do their job. One thing for sure it's a tough, dirty and dangerous job. Glad we have shipyard workers who do this for us.
Gotta be careful letting those yard birds get read in on the top secret classified material, They might decide to defect and fly to Russia! Especially those California gulls, you can't trust them at all . . .
Oh, they've been doing this for years. Every nuke sub and ship ever made in the USA has or will go through this process. Check out pics of the Hanford site where they store all the reactor compartments.
@@R.U.1.2. russian subs: don't they store them (or the reactor compartments) in shallow water at murmansk? Sinking all that valuable titanium and whatever scrap doesn't fit my mental image of russian work safety standards...
excellent video, but it is a pity that they do not go into detail about the decommissioning of nuclear components, and the supervision of the UN on this... before proceeding to the sectioning of the resistant hull! greetings from Argentina
How is the video excellent? It should be about scrapping a submarine, but he talks about cranes and planes. The whole sub thing is less than a minute long, and its NOT hypnotic
More related to aircraft, Eastern Airlines 401 which crashed in Florida had parts reused on other L1011 A/C and many of them reported haunting of the dead crew members
To me it best to do way with subs. Like the battle ships! Jet bombers can get there faster! Subs can be detected from the air. This would leave LOTS MORE MONEY > For better and more useful military Equipment ! Like Exoskeleton Soldiers ect ect.
Not fiscally possible. The subs are scrapped because the nuke fuel has been used up and the associated machinery is worn out. All the Subsafe components have reached the end of their certifications. The piping are all associated machinery are worn out from 30 plus years of continuous service.
Subs and all ships suffer from "hull fatigue". The steel can only be safely stressed and relaxed so many time before it become brittle. Plus the technology becomes obsolete and retrofitting not worth the time.
Just park it anywhere in East L.A. and it'll be dismantled within a couple of hours guaranteed
In Compton they would probably start having big assed parties inside them
Thats funny right there
Nigga stole my Hercules and two F18
You broke it.....
😂
My Dad and I were on a beach in Subic Bay Phillipines when I was a boy of about 10 or 11. We were goofing off just kicking around and I looked up and was like WHOA!!. There was a HUGE nuclear submarine coming into port maybe 200 yards away from where we were standing. It was so massive it defies explanation. You kind of just have to see it. It was moving past us in absolute silence. I remember my Dad saying something about there being enough nuclear weapons on board to destroy several countries. It was a truly mind bending experience I will never forget. I've been aboard the USS Drum at the Battleship Alabama memorial park but that thing was rinky dink compared to the one we saw. Amazing machines. The pinnacle of human engineering.
This showed absolutely nothing about dismantling nuclear subs. It had some subs half dismantled but that was as close to it as it got
Hey, we got two out of the 15 minutes about "subs" at least! And you were hypnotized, admit it!
Thinking, class action law suit
Proud to be an American and an Infantry Veteran. One thing our Grunts respect from the Navy is the Submariners, that’s not an easy job and deserves respect. And hats off to our incredible ship designers and builders, we’d be nothing without you.
We unfortunately never see documentaries about the engineers manufacturing these marvels.... They deserve so much credit
This is only to show what is talked about, and not shown. That would be a completely different timetable.
Timecode:
00:00 intro
00:10 short story about submarines
00:57 talking about disposal of submarines
1:38 Talks about Benjamin Franklin type of Submarine
2:03 Process on how to decommission a sub, into the dry dock
2:11 Explaining what a dry dock is
2:32 Explaining how a submarine gets into a dry dock
3:14 Removing valuable items
3:24 Talks about what they do when the boat is taken apart
3:36 Jumps back to taking the sub(s) apart
3:56 Talking about rails in the dry dock
4:19 What they use to take the subs apart
4:34 Chains and pulley systems
4:54 James K Polk submarine Specs
5:09 Talking about safety with submarine teardown
5:38 Heavy duty cranes
6:00 Crane operators sits high up and move heavy stuff
6:40 Introducing a crane operator
6:46 How loads are being secured and hoisted safely
7:18 Crane tracks
7:37 Talks about large military boat dismantling process
7:45 Military air-crafts being disassembled of valuable parts
8:15 C130 Hercules being dismantled
9:06 Plane is being blown up for faster process
9:31 Dismantling US military plane process, and reusing components
9:59 Talks about what parts can be reused
10:16 Where planes go to rest
10:33 309 aerospace maintenance and regeneration group
10:47 Talks about dry conditions and hard surface
11:05 What they use to safe the planes for corroding
11:14 It takes a long time
11:37 Talking about the size of the Bone Yards
11:58 The start of 309 aerospace maintenance and regeneration group, and the collection
12:15 Huge organization for finding parts, for planes
12:30 How the planes are stored by a system
12:49 The last landing
13:09 What kind of bone yard the A-Marc is, and their aircraft preservation process is
13:33 Type-1k planes
13:44 Type-4k planes
14:03 Comparing subs and ships with aeroplanes of disassembly
14:23 Talking about some bone yard's that can be visited by the public
14:48 Outro
I did this for 10 years at PSNS including Reactor Compartment Disposal. I became more intimate with Submarines than I thought possible or desirable. PSNS has brought Recycle up to an Art form.
I bet you could have safely disposed of that carrier brasil sunk a few weeks ago...
Those cases come down to cost, right?
@NOS PSNS was charged with disposing of vessels with nuclear propulsion. It was after they got nailed by the EPA early in the project that pollutants such as chromium, asbestos, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Lead (Pb) and so on were seriously addressed prior to disposing of the vessel. Up to that point, the reactor was defueled. The Reactor Compartment was was cut out and capped on both ends with 2" thick steel plates. The forward part and the after part were welded back together. Some of the Main Ballast Tanks were filled with concrete to ensure it sank one last time in the deep sea never to resurface. Cheap and easy, comparatively. After the EPA investigation, the pollutants were removed and legally disposed of by workers like myself. Everything that could be recycled was cleaned, processed and reduced in size and shipped to the open market. We could actually recycle s submarine in 7 months after the last sailor left the boat to the last piece of steel riding out in a rail car. It is an expensive proposition.
It really is insane the size of the military past and present in the USA…..mind boggling!
Living in freedom is NOT insane!
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is the only Naval Shipyard authorized to scrap U.S. Navy submarines. The reactors are allowed to cool down first. Then all the remaining nuclear fuel is sent to Idaho for reprocessing. The nuclear reactor is encased in steel shielding and sent to Hanford, WA nuclear reservation for disposal. There are some great photos of the nuke reactors graveyard somewhere.
Then all that high quality steel of the hull is cut up into manageable chunks, put on railroad cars and sent to steel mills for recycling.
It’s a good gig. The welders hate working cut ups because there of the chance of injury.
All the 688 (Los Angeles) class submarines that are scheduled to be decommissioned will be scrapped at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. All the early SSBM subs have been cut up. Even the nuclear surface ships, ex USS Long Beach, ex USS Bainbridge, ex USS Truxton, the later CGNs (ex USS Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Virginia) all cut up at PSNS.
The scrapping business is a big part of the PSNS mission.
Absolutely correct.
But why do they support homosexual special rights ?
I retired from the shipyard in January. We call it the short Beach now. Only the reactor sections are left. The standing joke is the razor you used this morning used to be a nuclear submarine because Gillette was one of the buyers of the steel. This is definitely an old video. The guy operating the crane is retired and was on the board that interviewed me years ago.
Гомикам не опасно работать с ядерными отходами, им терять нечего.
The sheer spectacle of observing the precise and deliberate disassembly of a colossal engineering marvel, akin to the artistry of expertly cutting through a magnificent fish, is nothing short of mesmerizing. It's truly captivating to witness the meticulous process unfold, revealing the intricate inner workings and hidden complexities of a submarine as if delicately slicing through the layers of a freshly caught fish.
One of my friends was a Nuke tech and ended-up getting exposed to Nuclear material during one of these disassemblies and ended-up getting a medical discharge... definitely not an easy or fun job.
Good that that person found out in time / or even was told / by military.....👍
Where at?
@@georgehopper7310 probably Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard in Washington State.
Yah I doubt it! It is a pretty safe process and exposure is extremely low. Airline pilots get more exposure. Good story though.
@@charlesparker192I worked around radiation sources for years and we were closely monitored. We film wore badges that were changed out monthly. We also had a gieger counter with alarms set to go off if there was a problem. I had a high reading one month and was given a few months off with pay to limit my annual exposure. That was 40 years ago and I’m still kicking at 70.
6:08 Didn't know Morgan Freeman did some shipyard work on the side but glad my man is following all of his passions
How can you tell? They all look alike....
this is the comment i ve been looking for
@@ricksmith4736 Nice racist remark.
@@wmanggrum And proud of it....
Very cool and informative. Thanks!
Pleasurable video. Thanks. 😊
That is one dangerous job right there.Those workers have to be alert every second.
Morgan Freeman is such a prolific guy
I've been doing scrapping part time of whatever I come across since the mid 80's, but this is a whole different level especially with nuclear material goes. This video was too short. 😁
Indeed it is, this is some rag picking activity with modern tech.
scrapping is the best way to find out how things work or are built. and I agree. I wanted more unclose and personal tho.♥♥
No shib
That crane operator wasn't Morgan Freeman,it was his little brother Lester Freeman.
Trust me,this is the interwebs,so it's gotta be true!
amazing video
Tell me that the crane operator did not look like a middle-aged Morgan Freeman.
Exactly
Would have been nice if such care was taken with the $90B of equipment abandoned in the "successful" evacuation of Afghanistan to keep all that technology out of enemy hands.
And the bringing to America hundreds of thousands of enemies to the country....
We have left equipment behind after every war, my father remembered watching bulldozers shoving trucks and aircraft into the sea off Okinawa after the war, my neighbor at ft Bragg told me he helped bury Helicopters at the end of the Vietnam war, sometimes it’s just cheaper to leave it
Australia will never have to worry about scrapping its nuclear submarines.
But what about the pump jets??😆😆
Why not?
@@Not1Edit Because Australia never ever had nuclear subs.
I was in the Navy in the mid to late 1960's and was in New Construction at Electric Boat in Groton Connecticut. The Polk was there at the same time I was and I got to know a number of her crew and was aboard her a few times as she was being built. Interesting to see the end fate. My own boat was commissioned about 3 months after the Polk but we were decomm'd in 1992 and scrapped before she was, also at Bremerton Shipyard.
My ship was used as a target… it was full of asbestos. Not good for much other than a target.
@@thatguy7085 I don't know which is the worst. Depends on how you felt about your vessel. Mine was a good boat and from talking at reunions to later crews everyone pretty much liked her. Those things took you out and brought you back and fed you too boot!! We'll soon be joining them one way or another. 🙂
@@webbtrekker534 it was sad to see… and kind of surprising. It took numerous maverick hits and two harpoons… didn’t sink.
I thought the thing was a rust bucket… but it stayed up.
Half of the 15-minute video was about planes, I guess "The Hypnotic Process of Scrapping US Gigantic $4 Billion Nuclear Submarine" was not so hypnotic.😁
Always thought it was kind of sad seeing all those beautiful war birds left never fly again.
As a youngster seeing a couple of Los Angeles submarine launchings in Groton was a bit thrilling. However the Ohio class sub under construction in the dry dock next to it left an impression in my mind to this day with it's immense size. Not to mention the potential destructive power it possesses.
Indeed, my Father worked on the guidance systems for those and I have a few photo slides of the first Ohio being built, the regular sub next to it looks so tiny that I didn't see it until I read the description at the bottom of the photo.
I served on a Lafayette class sub
I worked at EB in 1976 when the hull sections of the Ohio first started coming together.
@@Thadude701My brother in law served on them. He was a sonar tech from 1963 till he retired. My brother did 13 years and after one patrol in a fast attack, 650 Pargo,he quit because something scared him. He was an STC.
Interesting and very nice video. Many thanks.
I have actually been inolved in this scrapping at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard!!
Kind of sad to see the old submarine get ceremonially retired like that - Then cannibalized - Followed by the massive boneyards - Maybe the next episode will be optimistic power and might.
Even more impressive is getting the sub into the blue, recycle tote curbside.
Hello to all
This video is extraordinary
How to scrap to sub Thank you very much Thanks to you I learned a lot 🇨🇵👍👋🤔
See you soon for another video
I served on some of these boats and I'd call it Terror-F^cking-fying instead of hypnotic. Seeing Hull fractures and rust up close. Realizing the reality that green water was mere fractions of an inch from blasting into the people tank. Most likely in an inaccessible place. Bonefish had her impulse ram carry away and say a fare how you do as it rifled through the watertight bulkhead from Tubes Forward into the Forward Battery. On her way to killing 4 crew members in 1988. Causing such a powerful explosion it broke her keel. Then the sea water and battery acid produced deadly hydrochloric acid fog. cooking the soft respiratory tissue in seconds. Something I'd never forget seeing up close and personal. The accident was predicted. Darter in her overhaul the same year was found to have the same defect. Bonefish decommissioned herself and I believe was sunk as a target. Darter followed 18 months later. Making her final dive to Davy Jones's Locker in 1992 when Tautog slammed a fish into her starboard side just aft of the sail. You can see the video here on RUclips.
My older brother was a STC on a fast attack and came back from a patrol and quit submarine service. He told me he wanted to see his family grown up. I worked at EB for a short time after I got out of the Navy and in 1976 I worked on the Groton and the Pargo which was in dry dock. That was the last submarine my brother was on. I did just four years in a Patrol Squadron.
@@Chris_at_Home I loved serving on those fast boats during the Cold War. Cheers to u and your brother.
D B F
Interesting to hear that story about Bonefish. I knew she'd had a fire and 4 died and she was decomm'd but never about the ram. I rode two boats, one Nuc one Diesel.
@@webbtrekker534 My older brother served on the HardHead, did shore duty teaching sonar school and then was on the Pargo.
I worked the Darter as a rigger at Mare Island. It was the first time the shop turned me loose with a piece of rope
Scrapping ships is interesting. It is not "hypnotic", a much overused word.
Shut up
I did yawn once or twice
Yeah it is, because the US did it . They have several things so overrated as in their technologies are topnotch and top secret too and stuffs like that.
To some people it may be.
@@deanwood1338 They be hypnotized? Wow! Now that's entertainment!
Interesting...one of the jobs I had years ago when I lived in SE Arizona was to maintain the Digital Electronics Corp computer system that hosted the database for all the planes there at the Boneyard in Tucson at Davis-Monthan AFB. As such I got to spend a lot of time there.....fun job.
Across the street from the Pima air museum outside of Tucson
'Sir I hear the order sir..
Just if I follow your orders I feel I should say that, if successful, we will never be able to eat Tuna ever again sir '
Its not a ship, it's a boat!
I see thousands of airplanes stored in Mojave Ca all my 58 years. Never knew why though….
Thanks, I subbed!
Pitiful! Best of luck to all of us!
Just amazing!
I live in Tucson, AZ Home of the 309th AMARC! Pima Air & Space Museum backs into AMARC. They DO provide escorted tours by shuttle around the boneyard.
The USS Key West was spotted entering Puget Sound this month. I've driven by the Base multiple time, surreal sight to see.
@6:40, "God drives crane"
I'm waiting for a sim game about scraping ships....
I was mildly surprised at a USN nuke sub scrapping. This is the 1st I can recall of such an event with a USN nuke sub.. Wasn't expecting much as even a 30 year old nuke sub is still classified in many areas.
It really didn't delve to deeply into an overall scrapping, I get that. Plus it's done in a secure yard and even the yard birds have some sort of clearance to do their job.
One thing for sure it's a tough, dirty and dangerous job. Glad we have shipyard workers who do this for us.
The Russians just take their subs to deep water and pull the plug. "Bingo, sub is scrapped".
This footage is as old as I am. Mid '80s if it's a day.
Gotta be careful letting those yard birds get read in on the top secret classified material, They might decide to defect and fly to Russia! Especially those California gulls, you can't trust them at all . . .
Oh, they've been doing this for years. Every nuke sub and ship ever made in the USA has or will go through this process. Check out pics of the Hanford site where they store all the reactor compartments.
@@R.U.1.2. russian subs: don't they store them (or the reactor compartments) in shallow water at murmansk?
Sinking all that valuable titanium and whatever scrap doesn't fit my mental image of russian work safety standards...
what exactly is "Hypnotic" about the process?
GOOD
At 1:07 they are boats not ships!
Why do your videos talk less about the actual topic and more on other slightly related stuff? Like all your videos?
nice
Curious to where the video material is from, particularly the older material from the subs? Why don't you credit any material sources?
6:07 Morgan Freeman as a crane operator 😂😂
(Just one),Was a 4-Billion Dollar floating machine.🤔
07:45 I thought this was going to be about submarines but they Flutus again.
Man let me have one of them f 15 ....I promise to put in my garage and take care I it!!
Worked on the Polk at refit 1 Holy Loch.
this is interesting
I was on the 600 when we entered PSNS drydock with the 602, have pics. This was in 1980.
Submarines once !
Submarines twice...
The narration appears to be written for a private middle school student or public school high school graduate.
Well, the "2-4-11 of Love(恋の2-4-11)" PTSD from KanColle kicks in......
In old movies the men standing on the sail had enough room to play cards, and today it's very little
a submarine is not a ship it is a boat
Thank you
I got to work on the james k polk sub in Holy Loch, Scotland while there in the Navy aboard USS Canopus for 17 months.
She was a sub tender repair ship, right.
@@mooglemy3813 yes it was. Theres a video on youtube showing it being scrapped in the UK. Broke my heart to watch it. Its called Ghost ship Canopus.
I WAS ONBOARD FROM 88 TO 95. SPENT MANY SUNNY DAYS IN HOLY LOCH. :o)
Morgan Freeman at minute 6:09 !!! Driving the Crane!!!
While interesting, that was a lot less about the submarine than I expected.
Shouldn't scrap them you my need them. Cried when the scraped the Uss john c Calhoun SSBN630. Even an old boat is better than no boat in a time of war
Ótimo.
I wonder if the cost for dismantling a sub is factored in the price tag of the sub, for instance ($4 billion)?
Stop it with the hypnotic…
Submarines are called boats and not ships. That is pretty basic. That concludes this videos credibility.
Power of the sun leagues under the sea.
excellent video, but it is a pity that they do not go into detail about the decommissioning of nuclear components, and the supervision of the UN on this... before proceeding to the sectioning of the resistant hull! greetings from Argentina
How is the video excellent?
It should be about scrapping a submarine, but he talks about cranes and planes. The whole sub thing is less than a minute long, and its NOT hypnotic
Very interesting, but suddenly jumps to aircrafts, and hush about the subs nuclear reactors.
There is somethting extremely sad about the decommissioning, or scrapping, of any vehicle. But the decommissioning of a ship is especially sad.
my friend there is so much of plane in this world and me never trivia in 1
Is there a way to purchase parts of the fuselage for personal use or transport to ones home?
Wouldn't it be great if you could solve every problem by first blowing it up with explosives? Then the job is easier AND you got to blow stuff up!
The F-15 I crewed is in that boneyard somewhere.
More related to aircraft, Eastern Airlines 401 which crashed in Florida had parts reused on other L1011 A/C and many of them reported haunting of the dead crew members
Sun are still extremely useful especially as a deterrent.
These are BOATS not SHIPS
You mean planes?
un rejunte de imagenes
Do the military believe in darkside?
To me it best to do way with subs. Like the battle ships! Jet bombers can get there faster! Subs can be detected from the air. This would leave LOTS MORE MONEY > For better and more useful military Equipment ! Like Exoskeleton Soldiers ect ect.
Exoskeleton soldiers seems a little sus coming from someone named super bee
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0:57 I know 4 of those dudes lol
The crane operator is morgan freeman 😂
Only use i have for a sub is, to savage things
Morgan Freeman the crane operator.😝
Yep good old american workers, took 1 1/2 years were as the chinese take 4 months.
Crazy!
Australia is buying three worn out nuke subs ,so will save you the trouble
What was the steam comming out near the con?
I suspect that because the reactors are cold they spin the screws and maybe generate electricity with piped-in steam from the shipyard ??
How many woman worked on this project just because you mentioned them just curious
Seus videos sao ótimos... Mas seriam melhores ainda se tivessem pelo menos as legendas em português...
Good video, but is ‘hypnotic’ the word you really want to use?
Better share to your allies those equipment rather tha dismantling
The allies Don t want the expense and headache of Nuclear Powered Warships.
Might want to keep them up and running regardless...might need them in a few years...strength in numbers..better keep them seaworthy...
Not fiscally possible.
The subs are scrapped because the nuke fuel has been used up and the associated machinery is worn out. All the Subsafe components have reached the end of their certifications.
The piping are all associated machinery are worn out from 30 plus years of continuous service.
Subs and all ships suffer from "hull fatigue". The steel can only be safely stressed and relaxed so many time before it become brittle. Plus the technology becomes obsolete and retrofitting not worth the time.
I SERVED ON THAT BOAT FOR 6.5 YRS. THE NAME IS POLK NOT POKE. JUST SAYIN'.
Algum programa brasileiro deveria ver esse vídeo e transliterar pro nosso idioma também
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