I hate it when they try to drama it up by creating a nonexistent problem and then solving that problem.

they added plenty of BS that had nothing to do with the Jupiter 1 wasn't you watching?

Agree 💯

Oil companys basically wrote them an open check. Not a big deal if you have all the money in the world.

Getting it into shallow enough water to salvage (Scrap) is not possible in the gulf shore without enviro damage ....well done !

Very Well Said!

Well we had to salvage our own country a few times

Smit is real good too

Shut up Already !! Lololol The Norwegians are Jyst as Good !! So there ! LOLOLOLHAHA

Yea? I expected more than that?

@@themantheledge how? The things was fucking massive. There was nothing else they could’ve done with it.

@@HMSHOOD1920 India chop boats way bigger, admittedly not very enviro friendly, but job gets done

@@HMSHOOD1920 Watch more of this channels videos, and you'll see this was a smaller item , and should have been salvaged. resources are not infinite

sharks

It sunk

The pontoon had a stress crack that started leaking and the weight of the water tore it open

developed hole in the pontoon likely due to metal fatigue. or maybe it hit a rock or something somewhere.

Couldn't have been THAT brainy, unless dude just grabbed money and retired!!

They don't realize that you don't need background music.

Stan Patterson there are no real deep water ports in the US Gulf.

It was already falling apart, would not have made the trip, and there is no where around there that scraps such things, especially when it is hanging so deep in the water.

Cost it cost way too much to scrap something then it does to go sink it

Also, artificial reefs in the GoM does wonders for the ecosystem. It's amazing how much life they support. Just wish they put it in an area that had a depth of 200-300 ft. Would be an amazing place to fish.

Cheaper to sink it.

Sometimes because of them, it doesn't work, either....

Stan Patterson thats right engineers are mostly hated by mechanics

@@devinhaisma because mechanics are low iq people.

@@DieselRamcharger it has nothing to do with IQ

@@devinhaisma lol oh yes it does. engineers went to college mechanics are low tier fuck wits.

Agree.. there should have been secondary, back up redundant systems in place to avoid this, surely? Multiple giant airbags that inflate to keep it from actually rolling?

@@woooster17 Agree, there is a good case for the use of giant airbags for maritime use and in other areas too.

​@@anthonyxuereb792 Agree but Pemex is a burrocratic monster no Quick reactions. Just bag her or pontoon her till pump out.

Probably because no expensive equipment on board. Cheaper to make new.

and it makes an artificial reef!

As soon as it went into saltwater nothing on that was salvageable and all honesty it would cost way more to try and Salvage than it was to just sink it

they cleaned the god damn rig out DO YOU EVEN UNDER STAND

That's really expensive to do and there are only a few places in the world that do it anymore due to the hazardous conditions such salvage creates for workers and the environment. They would've had to tow that whole thing across the Atlantic to have it salvaged economically and of course, they could not have done that without flipping the thing and with its catamaran design that would've been a giant operation using huge cranes. Nope, cheaper to just sink it safely and take whatever the insurance will cover, not like we'll ever run out of iron anyway.

you do know they clean the ships out when they sink them also in the video they remove the Oil and fuel DO YOU NEED TO READ A BOOK

Nope.

Think

As unfortunate as it is to scuttle it into the water, it can be used by the fish and other sea animals as artificial reef, which isnt an uncommon practice.

No benefit to anyone to not scuttle it, and since it was breaking up, and had all the oils and such removed from it, no harm to anything by scuttling it.

@@ke6gwf Plus ship breaking is really bad for the workers and the environment, the only places that do it economically are 3rd world. Better for everybody to clean it up and send it to Davie Jones rather than tow that thing hundreds or even thousands of miles to be scrapped by poor people with little to no safety equipment while polluting their local waterfront. That or have to pay a shit ton of money to an American firm to do it safely. Either way, it's way better to scuttle.

@@MrMattumbo Don't you have something better to do? The ships aren't the problem, the scrapping isn't the problem either. The problem begins with MONEY, again. They scrap the ships where it is cheapest. Wich happens to be third world country's, because there are NO rules. It is definitely possible to scrap ships safely. Everybody that claims otherwise is an idiot. It IS possible, it's just not cheap to do safely. That's where 3rd world country's come in. Don't understand me wrong. I'm NOT condoning this, but it is what happens. It's stupid to throw all that iron away too. Iron WILL run out too.

OOOooo... it's a conspiracy, John! Beware!

Probably because it wasn't sensational, so the news ignored it. No one was hurt or died, it was in Mexico, and it didn't cause a spill.

Because cutting underwater is how people die, even when well planned out.

Im an underwater welder . and ill tell u first hand . u do not want to cut underwater in conditions like this . . currents .lose metal. Crude oil . none of that stuff mixes well along with the swells. Also . as soon as u cut something free you have to be on the look out for anything else that could crush u . or get tangled on ur airline . .plus cutting piece by piece would take way to long . better to work from the surface pull it away and drop her free in deep water .. They did everything flawlessly . unless ur an underwater welder .you dont rele know how dangerous this all could be

Why the fuck would they sink something like this?

It was managed by Mexico you tool. Owned by U.S. company, but operated and leased by Mexico. They removed all the toxic material and deep sixed it to save cost. It is a reef now being used by gulf species as habitat. Everything on that pontoon came from the earth and Mother Nature will reclaim it. Stop using electricity and riding that motorcycle. All parts are either made of or use of oil.

Art Bridgeman before writing things that you don’t know about, you should learn a little bit about antifooling, that’s one of the most toxic material, but for sure, it’s an artificial reef 100% no toxic. What a pack of shit that you’re writing.