When your watching a video called "top 5 anchor drop failures" you quickly realize there is a top 5 video for every last thing.

I'll give what enlightenment I can as a sailor. The first 4 videos are basically mechanical failure on the anchor apparatus, called a windlass. The brakes on an anchor windlass are pads, much like on a car or truck(though obviously made tougher). What happens during an anchor drop is initially the brakes are holding back the weight of the anchor - but as more chain comes out the amount of weight the brakes need to hold back increases. On older equipment the weight can be too much for the brake system. In the chain locker(the compartment where the chain sits when it's not in use) the end of the chain is bolted, welded, etc. to the inside of the compartment so that in normal operation the ship does not lose it's chain. IN the event of a runaway anchor chain, however, it's not uncommon for that bolting, welding, etc. to fail and result in the whole chain coming out. In the one video it mentioned a "warning show" and danger shot'. The Warning shot is all yellow and is literally the "run away" warning. The danger shot is all red and is just what it says, because at that point if you're close to the windlass you're in extreme danger - hence why you saw the people running away in the one video(the one where the flames were coming out of the windlass). Sometimes the plate it's bolted to will hit the end of the spill pipe, thus the thud we heard in one of the videos. IN short, it's one of the potentially most dangerous operations that happen on a ship, fueling and docking being the other two big ones in my opinion. Very easy for something to go wrong. Hope this explaination gave a little insight to you folks.

Why do you have to add music when there's action going on? We want to hear how they break apart

nobody: KZfaq at 1am: "Bruh, wanna see some failed anchor drops?"

This is why I don't use anchors and choose just to drift around like an idiot when I'm out sailing the high seas with my giant ships!

I can't imagine anything more scary than standing next to a runaway anchor and chain. As a former squid, if I'm not mistaken, just one of my ship's chain links weighs approximately 310 lbs. You get caught in that moving mass, you are a red mist through the hawsepipe!

I used to enjoy spending time with my children now I just watch anchor drop fail videos 24 hours a day.

Imagine how bored you must be to scroll down to read my comment.

I once had this happening with a roll of toilet paper. Completely unwinded itself from the pull of gravity. Quite fascinating. :)

Me watching this video: wow yeah they really messed that up Also me: *never seen an anchor dropped properly in my life before*

This is just incredible how much force and weight the anchor and chain weigh while flying uncontrollably

Q: What do sailors use to blow their noses? A: Anchor-chiefs.

I had no idea it was so dangerous. I completely underestimated this video when I clicked on it, having never seen an anchor drop.

Love this narrators descriptive ability. " here are 5 armchair drops that go wrong. Number five, this anchor job goes wrong. Number four, this anchor drop doesn't go right. Number three, this anchor drop didn't go too well..." like, he just had a thesaurus out in front of him and glanced down at it once or twice.

The physics here is just crazy. Massive metal things just flying

Only a sailor can appreciate these videos.....they're AWESOME! I was a brakeman/nozzleman during anchoring ops. Had smoke a few times, NEVER a fire.

"We wanted to add a few successful anchor drops" I think you mean. "We didn't have enough to draw it out to 10 minutes so here's some more stuff to look at."

seems like there isn't that much difference between "gets a little out of hand" and "goes terribly wrong"

Why the music. Not necessary. Ruins the video.

dang, I wonder how deep the ocean on the first clip was...

08:54 Golden Anchor... I'd forgotten about that. Ships with the highest crew retention received the Golden Anchor award :) I'm glad to see that runaway anchors have happened on other ships. In the late 80's we were doing a runaway anchor drill off the South Carolina coast.... yep, lost the anchor and chain, tore the padeye right out of the chain locker. U.S. Navy ships lose their anchors more than people know. We had a Dive Salvage ship come and recovered the anchor and chain... pretty darn embarrassing. I think the USS Sunbird did the anchor recovery...

Anchor Management classes

You know shit's got real when steel starts to burst out flames :D

1:41 I don't know why but it looks like a meme when it goes so fast.

Good you included some succesfull drops in the video, I had no idea how that must have looked.

Surly something you don't think about unless that's your job. Kinda makes you wander how many of those chains are on the bottom of the ocean floor. Hats off to the brave people who do this for a living.

Tugboat captain: look, there is the anchor, let's park right under it.

Those are some heavy ass chains. Amazing machinery. I learnt a lot here, thanks!

_Drop the anchor _Completely done captain

When you're walking your dog and suddenly he spots a cat somewhere, that's almost exactly whats happening lol

Stunned....you mean on billion dollar ships the anchors are braked by a couple of guys turning a fancy handbrake.......!

Good to see the seamen trying to fix the situation and not panicking while anybody else would.

Hey! You scratched my anchor! - R. Dangerfield.

I had problems with a few bike chains...

GREAT! this is what my life is about, watching Anchor drop failure videos at 1 am

I don't live near the sea and the largest boat I've ever been on was 79ft long. But still I enjoyed watching this and found it interesting :-).

You need some better explanations of what we're seeing. Most viewers have never been on a ship and have no idea what is happening vs what is SUPPOSED to be happening.

The ex-Tarawa lost her chain due to a failure of the brake assembly on the anchor windlass not because they turned it too many times. During my time on board, we anchored 4 times (Guam, Phuket, Kuwait City and Eritrea); it's not like the system got a ton of use to begin with, so I'm not surprised it failed. My guess is that the PMS schedule had a replacement pad thickness that hadn't passed that so A-gang had no reason to fuss with it. The stopping and starting of the chain is meant to allow propulsion to draw the chain out across the bottom; this prevents fouling when weighing anchor as well as preventing drift dragging. And the rigging was later recovered by navy divers, if any wonder about that.

That must have been some deep water!! lol

6:43 its a pinoy " Halaka! no more anchor" hahaha

"Before this video ends, we wanted to include a few successful anchor drops as well to get the video to the 10 minute mark" There you go, fixed that sentence for you ;) But in all seriousness, why not just say it how it is? It's blatantly obvious that that is the reason for the successful drops, to stretch the video to the 10 minute mark.

Stop putting music on this stuff. Or at least get better at editing it so its really quiet. Nobody is watching this for the music anyways.

The girl at 2:53 is like wtf am I doing here??? 🤣😂

What do the shots and # of fathoms mean on the 3rd one? I can only guess fathoms are links or a metric used at sea?

Needs the drop anchor scene from Caddy Shack at the end !

2:27 They´ve got helmets on their hed, but i got a watermelone insted!

Now I'm watching a recap of the series of anchor videos KZfaq already had me watch

Heat is the enemy when paying out anchor chain. When the brakes start smoking, it's time to lock them and let them cool.(before it's too late) If not- this is what can happen.

in the next episode! top five mouse pad fails

#2: I like how the cameraman took a few steps back - the first indication it was about to go all wrong.

They need good airflow and ventilation to keep all of the rusty dust to a minimum. They also need a small mist of castor oil on the chain to reduce the friction.

After intense research I can personally guarantee you that these are the top 5 anchor fails.

I guess it's down to how good your brake linings are on the control drum. You can see the smoke from the hot linings that turn to flames when operators try to rescue situations by locking the brake as hard on as possible.

Humans, we can build planes that can fly themselves but seemingly not a fully automated anchor system.

you forgot the one from Caddyshack!!! - "Hey, you scratched my anchor!"

When there's action going on and a ad shows up 😖

The fish are like 'OMG ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES' 👀😱

Gives new meaning to the term "iron lung"

Why am I obsessed with these nautical failure vids 🤣

The chains are so cool. Single links look big enough to use as workout equipment

if the seas could be drained, what treasures would we find, or what collection of debris would be discovered

How many anchor's will be on the ocean floor, today? I think thousands world wide....

Its crazy, I was literally just thinking about big ship anchors, and then this popped into my feed.

Love the guy in yellow at 6:25 still holding it down while the wheel is on fire.

6:44 "Malaka no more anchor" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I can only imagine how deafening that is. I can imagine just one link of chain, weighs as much as I do. Well I guess maybe 1 3/4.

That's violent ! I bet these guys could feel those loud sounds in their chests .

Is there any video available of ROV or such recovering anchors/chain lost at sea?

30 sec. in and the music sucks, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

US Navy. Lost our anchor chain in 2014 after we ran aground and were trying to hook our anchor chain up to the back of a ship to get towed, one of the most aggressive things I've ever witnessed. Pure uncontrolled destruction.

I'm no physicist, but don't fast moving metal gears and chains generate enormous amounts of heat? I can only assume that's dangerous.

"Its lucky no one was injured here. An anchor drop goes terribly wrong" Thanks for the info there buddy lol

Is this a reupload?

Imagine how heavy the anchor is then how heavy it is with 1200’ of huge chain. It just keeps getting heavier the more you pay out.

So much momentum and friction, wow, thanks for showing successful deployment part, good video

captain: anchor lowered? crew: something like that

2018, you would think that they would have a better way of dropping anchors.

Nothing to see here... everything looks perfectly normal to me. The only fail here is this video's ability to deliver it's promise.

Anchor going down while moving ? strange ----great video thank you

Anchor lowering needs a total rethink.

things got a little out of hand

6:20 "Hey Pa, what is friction?"

Navy officer on the phone to the supply office: - Do you have an XXL anchor and chain, please? - I need one for my carrier. - Seems to have misplaced the one I had. Can't find it anywhere. 🤣🤣🤣

every video gets interesting the night before exam. Tommorrow I have exam on data structure and I find this video interesting though I know nothing about big ships or anchors

2nd (#4) might have been a bit faster than intended, but from my layman's perspective, and comparing to other anchor drop fails, not anywhere close to out of control.

In the original video of the US NAVY (lost) one, the chain was hug up on the "lip" i'm sure you NAVY guys have the right word for it, the sailors let pressure off and it slipped off, but the shock-load caused a runaway. Apparently divers were sent in to get it, but it had gone too deep in "muck". As reported by someone on the ship at the time.

Hello, could i ask you which segments are listed under creative commons

I don’t think people realize how much those camera men deserve kudos, huge walnuts.

Ill admit i know jack about ships or boats ......but seems like this could be done much more efficiently with a different design

One way of making a coral reef!

WOW a few of those were absolutely terrifying

A chain is only as strong as it`s weakest link! That tug captain getting tossed in the water was hysterical!

This is one task that should be automatized. Weight deployed, torque sensors, amps and breaking system temperature are easier to integrate for a circuit board. I can't see how an operator can keep track of all these while keeping the animal on its leash.

How did I end up here

Hey man, don't be pulling my chain!

"No more shakles on deck, sir! All in the water, sir!

When did I become so boring that this is how I decided to spend 10 minutes

If someone asked me how strong I want to be, I would say I want to be strong enough to stop that chain 1:27

Why they drop that anchor on that tug boat like that?! 😂

This is new to me. Was the sea deeper than they thought? I thoughts ships had some kind of sonar sensor to say how deep the sea was underneath.