Shame they wasted another opportunity to turn a retired ship into a Cadet Ship for Sea Cadets what Cadet would't go mental to spend a summer training and staying aboard a real Canadian Warship? What a waste. Thank you for your service HMCS Annapolis

What a waste of metal People could’ve scrapped this

Or quickly.

I am always sad to see the death of a ship.

It looks like they have her tied down to keep her from listing or capsizing

props scuttle

@@evelia1156 I'm certainly no expert but I doubt those ropes would do much to stop it from rolling. They'd be able to hold maybe a couple tons each but this ship and the forces acting on it are absolutely in excess of that many times over.

Is it really good for the eco system? Have all toxic materials been removed? Probably yes but I'm still wondering

@@norgeee The relevant authorities on toxic items would have been all over that ship. It's why it takes soo long for a ship to be readied to become a reef.

@@robleary3353 as it should be :) I read that they'll use her for diving practice as well, a fine end to a long life of service.

you think people never laugh and joke at funerals?

They are cheering as “you had a great service! Job well done! Farewell!” Type of cheer. Just like people clap and cheer for athletes who retire on the field…. They are celebrating the ship and it’s years of service, not the destruction of the ship.

All right, calm down captain Haddock.

She was cut up all over, with her water tight compartments left open though. Besides a keel breaking torpedo hit, warships are pretty tough. Look at the Falkland’s war for example, England lost 3 destroyers, but they didn’t sink right away, and casualties were pretty light all things considered.

There are stones that would have worked as well. The sight of it sinking made us sad. We both served in the Navy.

@@nickandmikec better she be sunk than taken to the breaker yard

@@nickandmikec unfortunately it’s the little hiding spaces, nooks and crannies that are the favourite places for marine life to grow. A boat is perfect with plenty of surface area and plenty of safe hiding places.

People cheering at the sinking of a ship, even for one to be used for an artificial reef, is kind of screwed up IMO. Kind of like people cheering when a building is imploded. Similar to people having to stare (while they're driving by) at the site of a highway crash. To each his own, though.

@@nickandmikec At least she gets to stick around in one piece (mostly) and help the ecosystem instead of being ripped apart and scrapped.

We know

That you can't really see much of due to all the smoke, at least until the sudden final plunge.

2 of them 21 GoPros were not recovered, right?

32 metres.

Try something smaller!

Too help shore line marine growth. Also, deepest part if the ship is 105 feet at low tide. Making it more accessible to divers who are rated to extreme depths.

The recreational diving depth limit is 130 feet. Most ships that are deliberately sunk for this purpose, tend to be placed between 60 and 100 feet. Y'all land lubbers and your precious "landscape" have nothing to fear.

yes

Shame isn't it, those cold war ships were all so bloody handsome, she's got lumps and bumps in all the right places and some nice curves.

they ARE repurposing it. As an artificial reef. Great for local tourism and the environment.

It was.

You can't see it in the video, but there are hundreds of people and as many boats observing the sinking. They are volunteers and divers that have spent tens of thousands of hours cleaning and preparing the ship for sinking. After years of waiting, they are celebrating all their hard work.

It's being repurposed as a diving site and marine life habitat. You'd perhaps prefer it be towed to Bangladesh and be cut up for manufacturing soda cans?

I'm no expert but scrapping a warship is an expensive task compared to sinking it and creating an artificial reef. (USS Kitty Hawk and the USS John F. Kennedy were sold for 1 cent each for this reason as well).

@@vanillazur yes about reef ,thought about that after posted

@@johnneedy3164 the reef idea feels like a cop out to justify being lazy/cheap and ultimately hucking hundreds of tons of shit in the water where it has no business being. Is there heavy metals in the ships construction? Oil? Plastics that will break down into micro plastics and leech hormone disrupting chemicals in the water? Besides the steel itself what is going down with the ship?

@@evil1by1 you know I was wondering about all the HAZMAT CRAP

Pretty sure they removed most of the crap before sinking it

I agree 💯

Low rent housing for the fishes . . .

The view of artificial reefs!

The question you should be asking yourself is, "Why is my grammar absolute horse shit?"

She's serving as an artificial reef now.

just dumb

Those poor Chinese kids in the scrap yards will never get to get their hands on that metal. Cry me a beverage, letter avatar.

No, this was 2 years of cleaning and removing toxic materials on this vessel to make an artificial habitat for marine wildlife. Now, if you spent 1000s of hours on something, would you not cheer for the achievement? Please think and read the video description next time, JoJo.

Also, what in the world is a gomer

Boo hoo. Cry me a beverage.

"mUh PoLlUtIoN!" GTFOutta here, damn hippie!

All the polluting materials were taken off of the ship, leaving only a steel hull behind. It was then sunk to produce artificial habitat for marine organisms in an age where the real deal is disappearing at a rapid pace.

Proof that stupid people will just write a salty comment without even checking the description.

@lee armstrong It's literally being turned into an artificial reef dumbass

All hazardous and sensitive materials are removed before sinking. Only thing left is the steel husk. It'll turn into a nice safe habitat for the fish in that area. Shut the hell up.

Dropping ships to become artificial reefs or just dive-sites is a fairly common event as ships go. There are very strict rules about removing all toxic materials, loose objects and the like. Prepping a ship like this takes a lot of work to minimize contamination.

There are very strict rules concerning the removal of toxic materials, loose objects and the like. Prepping a ship like this takes a lot of time and is obviously costly.

Take a dive on it after about a year. You might be surprised at how much it has helped. Sealife takes up residence very quickly.