THE 'SEEHUND' RECOVERY

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10 жыл бұрын

Towards the end of World War II, a German two-man submarine of the Seehund Seal Class with two live torpedoes grounded on the Dutch coast near Egmond aan Zee. The sea and the sand did their work and it dissapeared from sight, subsequently to be completely forgotten until a classic North Sea winter storm partly exposed the hull. The Dutch Navy ordered recovery of the sub so the torpedos could be safely disarmed.
April 2002, complying with strict regulations, SVITZER Salvage and partner Woud Wormer sank a cofferdam around the still partly sunken sub. Carefully sand was removed and even more careful handling exposed the torpedoes which were disarmed by specialists.
Despite the submarine had broken, it is hoped nonetheless that it will find a place in a local museum to serve as a reminder of past time.

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@roberthendry6492 5 жыл бұрын

I lived in Holland in 1996/7 and how these people could do with water,what they needed to accomplish/to complete whatever they needed, never ceased to astound me....and they live below sea level, thanks to their own ingenuity!👍

@1980RPMC 3 жыл бұрын

This mini sub now rests at it’s final place in a museum. Bunkermuseum in IJmuiden. They rescued the mini sub from the because it was going to scraped etc. They even had contact with the former captain and have quite a lot of info about this mini sub.

@Dirtbug473 5 жыл бұрын

Ive learned much from my bro-in-law a retired EOD Specialist...who has trained with all EOD people of other countries years ago involved with NATO. These guys in this clip are "guttsy" . Im told they train, train, train and learn...to avoid getting hurt. Hats off to such a gifted bunch who help protect us all.!!!

@bernieshort6311 Жыл бұрын

These mini subs sinking 100,000 tons of shipping in the latter years of the war is astounding. That’s a lot of tonnage given the times and the small size of the mini submarines. A very interesting video, thank you.

@h2energynow 5 жыл бұрын

Nice video and explanation on why it was done this way. Glad everyone was safe.

@alexwild4350 5 жыл бұрын

To those who ask "Why didn't they just blow the torpedo’s in place and save all the money ?" The answer is it would have spread all the other recoverable pollutants all over the place and cleaned up nothing. That is the lead from the internal batteries, the copper and brass from the wardhead casing which after 70 odd years 'still shined'. The wiring, other brass fittings, oil from the engine, alloys and so the list goes on, all would have been spread far and wide, and not cleaned away.

@samfrancisco8095 4 жыл бұрын

Not if covered with blast pads.

@FJPETER 3 жыл бұрын

The true reason is they have unlimited budget paid from Germany

@philiphorner31 2 жыл бұрын

Yes lead does not come from the earth.

@ricksmith4736 Жыл бұрын

Greta said not to

@andyhastings5950 Жыл бұрын

@@philiphorner31 pissant question. Oil also comes from the ground. You want me to spread a 55 gal drum of used oil all over your living space???? Same with lead, especially lead oxide that is found in acid filled batteries. Now do you get the message??

@MrDriftspirit Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for uploading the video with so many detailes of the recvovery!. i am very sure, that i had been smimming and walking there several times in the 80ies and early nienties at holiday with my parents. memories to eastern vaccation now.

@frederickburns1739 5 жыл бұрын

History continues seventy years later!!! Great video!!!

@maxdwyer8761 3 жыл бұрын

@Bill Williams You say that like the "world'" had nothing do do with it.

@johnjephcote7636 Жыл бұрын

The contractors having plenty of experience in moving sand, is an understatement for the Dutch.

@rogerhazen3664 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks for recording such event. History is important

@michaelcuff5780 4 жыл бұрын

Man! Those torpedos still had alot of kick left in them! Good thing they had pros handle them.

@von-Adler 3 жыл бұрын

The Seehund was a 2 man mini submarine. The crew sat behind each other in canvas chairs. It carried two torpedoes externally

@wjp255 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. I enjoyed it. Thank you.

@elizabethcoleman5729 3 жыл бұрын

These men are amazing with their most danger work environment wow what courage these men have.

@m.g.540 4 жыл бұрын

Nerves of steel working so close to those torpedoes , you would find me one mile down from those things!

@MrDriftspirit Жыл бұрын

yeah, must be made for jobs like these. but the human psyche has normally a protective "device". the more time you spend at a danergerous situation(explosives, fire, speed, on a roof or at clibing, parachuting ...) the more you loose the fear in it. only respect and carefulnes remains (if the people were clever and not addicted in adrenalin)...but a little tiny risk still remains, as seen in göttingen in 2013 as 3 very experienced war material removers were killed while prepreparings for a dismantling of a 500kg bomb with an acidic detonator..

@chrisstegerman8058 4 жыл бұрын

I was there in that pit next to the Seehund to do a inviromental survey of the seefloor,very nice to find this video after al these years

@hammyh1165 4 жыл бұрын

The British Royal Navy museum has a nice working example of a German Bieber mini submarine . Look up the episode of Salvage Squad on here.

@ehpa9047 3 жыл бұрын

Was this one a Bieber? Does not seem to be a Seehund.

@robkunkel8833 Жыл бұрын

This type of work, which I thought was called “cofferdam” (an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out) seems so complicated. Yet, it has been used for centuries. Good work. Music background? … well, it ain’t that bad.

@lew832 3 жыл бұрын

excellent , interesting video. Thank you.

@Shadowofthesoldier 5 жыл бұрын

17:00 That's a masive plume of water! I lived in Saint-Nazaire, and we regularily got EOD teams at work in town and at the beach because of all the german activities and allied bombing during ww2.

@Highspeedoffset1 5 жыл бұрын

Really, And what was the size of the triggering charge?

@mileshigh1321 4 жыл бұрын

And people are complaining about fishes dying....Where do they think they can explode these on land safely?

@jameseastwood4984 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather Commander Tom Boyd took part in the St Nazaire raid and won the DSO.

@rickmaggie1 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I did not even know about this type of German U boat.

@ozziemederos 7 жыл бұрын

awesome video

@Kaiserzeit1871 5 жыл бұрын

Eine wirklich gute und informative Dokumentation. Sowas bekommt man im deutschen Fernsehen leider nicht zu sehen.

@DL6UK 5 жыл бұрын

guck mal richtig ...;)

@stevearizona521 4 жыл бұрын

....and the CSS Hunley which sank in 1864, is in far better shape, while it's being restored in a museum in Charleston, South Carolina.

@originalwolf8297 4 жыл бұрын

Funny what beautiful things are possible with stop motion filming. This Lego movie looks so real it's amazing.

@kismeaholyoufoks3390 2 жыл бұрын

if you see the welding at 4.50 you know why it collapsed

@wayinfront1 3 жыл бұрын

That was one heck of a bang at around 17 minutes in.

@pcz5233 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing that those live torpedoes sat there for so long ready to blow. Lucky nothing triggered them with a beach full of people....

@markjessurun7765 Жыл бұрын

WOW what a Nice recovery and very Professionally Removed!! Top of the Line Recovery by WEISMULLER SALVAGE and everybody was SAFE !! WEISMULLER SALVAGE UR THE BEST !!

@elizabethannferrario423 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my dear lord thank god no one was hurt ! A great job ! A privilege to see this excavation! How dangerous,

@samjam2376 8 жыл бұрын

does seem like a major project for what is being done

@MrTimothytim 3 жыл бұрын

True, but worth it if it cleans of the explosives from your swimming/living area by time :)

@matthewcoldicutt5951 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Sam. One has to admire the skills and efficiency of the Dutch salvors. Real pros

@davidpawson7393 Жыл бұрын

@Dragomir Ronilac What's your solution? Let kids find it after a storm and blow up?

@theephemeralglade1935 4 жыл бұрын

Okay, but the videos is giving me a nervous tick.

@parker1ray 4 жыл бұрын

I know it's part of history, but there is nothing left!

@me109g4 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, thank you very much. Too bad the sub was in such bad shape, hopefully something can be done to it to make it look like a sub again. JT

@bondophobic 7 жыл бұрын

nice job

@jerrystauffer2351 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine when Truk lagoon finally goes off.....

@michaelmace924 3 жыл бұрын

Good job guys

@the_jcbone 4 жыл бұрын

Who encoded this? My eyes hurt.

@samjam2376 8 жыл бұрын

i like when the one guy says "everytime we do this there's something special" like they recover submarines everyday.

@kevinbyrne4538 8 жыл бұрын

+Glen Collins -- The Dutch salvage firm Mammoet recovered the sunken Russian submarine Kursk, so perhaps they don't recover submarines every day, but surprisingly often.

@samjam2376 8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Byrne ok

@asArsenic 7 жыл бұрын

They kinda do. They are professional salvers.

@toypupanbai3544 9 жыл бұрын

Fancy leaving it there all those years!

@crystalsmith4146 5 жыл бұрын

@ttesheba 6 жыл бұрын

Increible rescate.

@joelonzello4189 2 жыл бұрын

Wow ! Still deadly after all these years....

@Howoldareweanywayyipes 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty good charge for an old bomb.

@clifforddodson5459 4 жыл бұрын

They where still live ! That explosion 💥 was huge!

@RubenKelevra 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but that was only a tiny section of the explosive force those torpedoes can unleash.

@Schlappenschleuder Жыл бұрын

my eyes are burning from the corrupt framerate of the video

@sullybiker6520 Жыл бұрын

Dutch engineering is just amazing.

@garrydavis3475 5 жыл бұрын

Great great job with getting rid of the torpedos

@jeffmoore9487 7 жыл бұрын

Speaking of blowing things up, I can't imagine why they don't attempt to safely detonate the torpedoes, and if that fails, they can perhaps work more quickly and at much less risk and expense to salvage or just get rid of the danger. It's only sand, why so much care taken?

@kart44 4 жыл бұрын

I miss my VHS PLAYER

@RonanSmithUK 6 жыл бұрын

The lag in the camera footage is so choppy, they need a faster speed SD card :P

@TheButlerNZ 3 жыл бұрын

It's like watching American NTSC footage in NZ (converted to PAL).. that appears to drop a frame every 15 or so (a couple a second) just enough to make action look oh so frustrating. Luckily Movies at the time were obviously better quality but I still see it sometimes even on SKY digital... (I found an excellent app for android and made an NZ Sky remote that I put in my channel but I don't know if anyone has (or can) try it..

@Del-Canada 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of their videos are like that. May be a conversion issue as mentioned.

@alexandervonwrangel8026 5 жыл бұрын

Mensch, da habe ich immer Urlaub gemacht!

@duanelohr1869 4 жыл бұрын

If I were Danish, I would have to ask why? I think drill holes around the sub, put in a few tons of TNT, get everyone out of there, and just blow up the sub and the torpedoes into smaller pieces. Cost? A lot less than what was spent.

@onthetracksof007 2 жыл бұрын

Why Danish?

@davidpawson7393 Жыл бұрын

Deaf too?

@thomaslabantt6625 2 жыл бұрын

Should of restored it for history

@1corrsfan 2 жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine that 2 men were in this mini sub.. They have to be nuts to do want to sail in that..

@theonlybuzz1969 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool explosion of the warheads,

@Polypropellor 7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible job. I wonder how much it cost.

@Gremriel 3 жыл бұрын

Around €1.000.000 at that time

@pedrolistacarey4880 2 жыл бұрын

@@Gremriel - And where did that money come from...?

@Gremriel 2 жыл бұрын

@@pedrolistacarey4880 The recovery was ordered by the navy (because of the torpedos).

@pedrolistacarey4880 2 жыл бұрын

@@Gremriel - So, according to your answer, I grab it that the money came from the Navy's budget.

@xiro6 4 жыл бұрын

no minisubs where hurt in the recording of this documentary.

@mmi16 5 жыл бұрын

No mention of what the cost of the operation was with men, materials and equipment - what ever it was - it wasn't cheap!

@Gremriel 3 жыл бұрын

About €1.000.000 at that time.

@sewashburn0529 7 жыл бұрын

Great video. It's a shame it was in such bad shape. It looked worse off than the Hunley when it was recovered.

@jayskinner4828 5 жыл бұрын

Actually the Hunley was in great shape considering the time buried.

@abnurtharn2927 4 жыл бұрын

Six years ago, any updates?

@Gremriel 3 жыл бұрын

The remains are on display at the Bunker Museum Ijmuiden (NL) bunkermuseum.nl/expo-atlantic-wall-2/

@nickforgie4290 11 ай бұрын

Seehund is the nickname of type of sub it was, the XXVII midget sub. the one they are digging up is the u-5095.

@Hurricaneintheroom 6 жыл бұрын

What a weird little submarine. I think they did a great job. I know nothing of torpedos or submarines so I bow to their knowledge on the subject. Does Seehund translate out to SeaDog? Per comments below yes it's true that Americans don't have the same experiences with the many munitions that were placed around Europe during many wars. We get cannonballs that are still active or every now and then an unexploded torpedo or bomb. Worse over there. Great job! From Phoenix.

@arnekrug939 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Seehund literaly translates to sea dog and it's the German name for seal. And we really have tons of explosives still waiting to be discovered. Almost every year they find a dud or two at construction sights and there are even more mines, torpedoes, bombs but also artillery shells and grenades that simply didn't blow up during the war or were cheaply disposed.

@sirbash6787 4 жыл бұрын

Sure the marine life was well happy about the 20m depth

@thepostman41 4 жыл бұрын

Good lesson on how government wastes money...

@damianousley8833 Жыл бұрын

Build a coffer dam and dredge out the sand and remove the heavily corroded mini submarine and the torpedoes which were heavily corroded. It would have been more fun to implace some explosives and blown it and the torpedoes up insitu and then allow the sea to fill in the hole with sand. A rusty bit of metal in a museum which has limited appeal considering most of the German minisubmarines were scrapped or sunk in deep water at wars end.

@heyabusa1 4 жыл бұрын

We really dont need the 'music'

@MrProject350 3 жыл бұрын

I would like to see this on a non Big Tech platform. Please.

@theonlybuzz1969 3 жыл бұрын

Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature.

@nevilledarman8n21 5 жыл бұрын

Great job no one hurt

@the_jcbone 4 жыл бұрын

Just my eyes.

@bogomir67 7 жыл бұрын

Why are These SVITZER vides always so jerky? The audio is smooth, but not the video?

@heloripascal8997 Жыл бұрын

So. how much of that explosion was actual torpedo and how much of it was the charge used to set it off ?

@maurice9551 6 жыл бұрын

Framerate? Which framerate?

@philiphorner31 Жыл бұрын

That's a pretty nice explosion.

@davidpawson7393 Жыл бұрын

So drlling offshore creates greater shock waves than the surf zone during a storm?

@tellmesomething2go 8 жыл бұрын

You cover with blasting mats. Safe. Very unstable to move. Plus the salvage costs. Not much left for a museum.

@higgydufrane 5 жыл бұрын

Arthur Bradley - They were worried about the heavy metals in the batteries and toxicity of other components. They said so in the video. There are usually reasons......

@michaelcuffsr9797 7 жыл бұрын

Damn i was gonna open a t shirt shop on the boardwalk!

@granskare 8 жыл бұрын

this will make for some nice work for archeology students

@klausvonschmit4722 3 жыл бұрын

Finally, our brothers in Europa have realized there is life after wearing banana hammock for swim wear! 😂

@chuckotto7021 Жыл бұрын

Wow! The fish paid the final price for the egos of men.

@davidschwartz5127 4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure glad for the zodiac Caption that there was no unusual shocks or vibrations as he was delivering the torpedo warheads out out to the ship that was taking the warhead out to sea for detonation.

@oleriis-vestergaard6844 Жыл бұрын

Thats really a wreck

@catchaser52 3 жыл бұрын

Someone made a lot of $$$$$ Why didn't they just blow it up !!

@michaelmckinnon9169 5 жыл бұрын

Was the Seehund preserved and restored to static display condition?

@garywheeler7039 4 жыл бұрын

Its a pretty deteriorated and rusty bit of mangled metal.

@thomasholmes8063 5 жыл бұрын

I would have tried to detonate those torpedos!! They did the job right. I am in too much of a rush.

@Highspeedoffset1 5 жыл бұрын

They DID detonate the torpedoes.......

@bwghall1 3 жыл бұрын

why risk it by taking on board ship/ why not blow it up in the dingey.

@DL6UK 5 жыл бұрын

The sailors who were inside did a clever job beaching it and so saving numerous lives and theirs!!!!!We all can be proud of them nomatter what nationality we are.

@Steve25g 3 жыл бұрын

a shame, so long was waited...

@jayt6575 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the documentary was interesting. The video quality far as the lag or choppiness really hindered watching the video. Made me a bit nauseous.

@camojoe83 5 жыл бұрын

One guy with a fucking excavator and a 3 man blasting crew would have got that done for so many millions of dollars less..

@train4905 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@finscreenname 8 жыл бұрын

Holland just let it sit on the beach for 50 years with live torpedoes under it????

@asArsenic 7 жыл бұрын

The submarine is just one of the tens of thousands of tons of unexploded munitions in the Netherlands. There has been a clean-up effort ongoing since the end of WW2 and they are STILL busy. The submarine was stable and away from a populated area. The chance of anyone getting hurt was extremely low and the cost of removal was fairly high.

@bigglesworth480 7 жыл бұрын

and they could have spent the money on making new weapons?

@asArsenic 7 жыл бұрын

roderick fysh Why would they do that?

@phyllisbentley5067 7 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure it's that easy to cause a torpedo to detonate, especially after being UNDER a beach for decades. But then, it's German ordinance, I don't know what type of detonator it used and the only expert I know on the subject died in a stupid auto accident 50 years after the war was over. Unbelievable that he survived so much in WW2 and died because some young, drunken fool wanted his side of the road too.

@waskozoids 5 жыл бұрын

just in case.

@josebenitez3732 7 жыл бұрын

While my father was stationed on Guam the EOD (explosive ordinance disposal)Team would come in every year to the schools and show us how and what happens to those who handle or manipulate ordinance. NEVER HANDLE ORDINANCE!!! CALL POLICE OR MILITARY!!!

@arjanwilbie2511 5 жыл бұрын

Every year there are reports of people in the Netherlands dying of ordnance explotions in sheds by idiots using grinders. They deserve it...

@prichards5113 5 жыл бұрын

Did das boat end up being displayed/preserved?

@AdamSteidl 4 жыл бұрын

facebook.com/bunkermuseumijm/photos/a.1542860612593987/2045394409007269/?type=3&theater

@samuelschut3297 5 жыл бұрын

bakkum en Egmond aan zee

@waskozoids 5 жыл бұрын

und tulipanen schwiebelen.

@anthonyjohnramsey 3 жыл бұрын

i wonder if the germans want it back

@bobhennis3585 5 жыл бұрын

it seem like a long approach to a short problem. . it's out in the open, nothing around. why not set charges and blow the tubes right there. thats the way they do world wide to get rid of explosives found. oh well it's done.

@MrBugsier5 5 жыл бұрын

there is a village right behind the dunes you see in the video, it woul have broken a lot off windows! 500 kgm off high explosives going off is no joke...

@normandate4495 4 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness for the experts commenting, where would we be without them?

@ArtVanAuggie Жыл бұрын

Those two explosions were (are) stock footage of unrelated incidents.

@derekrohan9619 Жыл бұрын

4:51 I don’t comment often. However that precise weld looks like hammerd dog sh$t. Any welder worth his salt knows you don’t weld down hill, you can only see it for a second but it literally looks like someone stuck bubble gum all over. I understand it’s temporary but it is supposed to potentially hold back a lot of water and sand.