goes all the way to 6th degree burns, but past 3rd its basically a death sentence and non treatable

Warspite was the top five 💫 sortie. Captain 👩‍✈️ baddie

You did your father proud. Total respect buddy

Can your Dad remember who the Chiefs name was.

@@karinborschman1619 Well, dad died in 2007, so that's going to be a tad difficult. But I do have a picture of my dad and a few other shipboard Marine officers standing in front of the Italian liner Andrea Doria.

Of all the words you could have chosen... you chose "oppressive"... interesting... :P

@@andersjjensen you’d understand if you’d ever been at a military base at night when everything is turned off and it’s SILENT

@@tokyosmash I have. I've walked the guard round under those circumstances many many times. /əˈpreʃn/ [uncountable] ​cruel and unfair treatment of people, especially by not giving them the same freedom, rights, etc. as other people. The silence may be invasive, unnerving, bone chilling, frightening or whatever else you want to describe it as, but it can never be oppressive as oppression is active and silence is passive.

@@andersjjensen oppressive adjective (FEELINGS) causing people to feel worried and uncomfortable: an oppressive silence Source: The Cambridge Dictionary.

When my ship was at Philadelphia I snuck onboard the America and a few other ships. On the America I felt like I was being hunted. I even whiteness a armored hatch slam shut on its own.

Dude they seriously have an office for ghost investigators on the ship. I sat there and talk to the director for 15 mins. Was one of the most insane, moronic conversations of my life. I just let him keep saying words and supporting his wild statements. It was NUTS!!! Yes Simon would totally be the first to die in a horror movie, no question. Unless he was the smartest person to dip out before the killing began.

Simon comes across as an asshole when he makes fun of people who believe in stuff he doesn't I don't really believe in ghosts either but I'm not an asshole about it like him

Well if that horror movie scenario involves ghosts, he'll be just fine

In a horror movie scenario the ghosts aren't real.

@@EricDKaufman it's the same story with aliens

Yeah, very strange, and somewhat disconcerting. Also, I didn't realize men's voices keep getting lower this long out of puberty.

Same thing happened with me a few days ago...All I could think was, "Oh my god; He looks so YOUNG!"

I used to watch those videos with my old roomies. It wasn't until recently when it occured to me that was THIS Simon.

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@@SotonSam ah beat me to it lol. funny how we switched to the S, the I and dropped the U in anything with "-our" in it and called it good.

@@TheInfidel_SlavaUA I can't tell if you're joking or serious.

My grandfather was a frogman too, but in WWII! Props to him and service.

@@TheInfidel_SlavaUA I mean covert landing operations conducted by frogmen generally result in fighting on land. Most don't just stay on ships or in the water you know.

Yeah, but how he keeps them all straight is beyond me.

I think Simon has been the world's first human to be cloned, how else can he have time. YT must be throwing money at him for content.

Battleships with particularly heavy broadsides (i.e. the Yamato class and the three U.S. fast battleship classes) could put up similar or slightly better numbers if they achieved their best-case rates of fire. But the Des Moines could put up the same throw weight with the guns at any elevation and with less crew fatigue.

Shut your yap ... If Simon gets that kinda info we will see 5-8 hour vids. I bet he was like 'sure give me 5 mins to explain'. Stuck for days I bet. More or less.

glad he made it to the salem, saw him on the battleship new jersey channel a few weeks back so I knew he finally made his trip he was taking about

@@MrFlatagethen hush up bro!

@@starshipmechanic Yeah! and they refloated The Sullivans!

@@EricDKaufman I saw and I was so happy, I love museum ships and The Sullivans and Little Rock are on my list still, I've been to one fletcher so far and theres only 3 left (in America, I think there's one in the Hellenic navy too) so I'm glad that they are trying to keep it preserved even in the face of such a disaster.

I just looked it up as well. Apparently, for those interested, it's all about how far into your body has been destroyed, essentially. 1st degree stops at or in your epidermis, 2nd at your dermis (right under the epidermis), 3rd destroys at least down to your hair follicles and sweat glands. 4th degree is burning down into your fat layers. 5th into your muscles, and ending with 6th degree being you've had damage and destruction from the burn all the way down to your bones. Most people only have to worry about 3rd degree burns because that's usually the ones people will get if they survive severe burns. However the worst burns, in my opinion, are steam burns. Unlike "traditional" burns, steam burns don't destroy your nerves, so you feel everything. If you so happen to get a 4th degree steam burn, you feel all of that.

Thanks for posting this, beat a lot of us to it, I'm sure. A grim topic indeed and a natural for the "didja know" type of channel.

I wasn't actually screaming about it. But it is slightly annoying.

At least he didn't pronounce the "s" in Des as well. But I was like, how do you know to say Des correctly but not Moines?

that's still better than being called 'the which?'

What you say may be true for those trucks but Naval ships have used their freezers as temporary morgues many times without replacing the freezers. Think of all the deaths on board during war. The deep freezers are many decks below the main deck and it would take a lot of work to replace them and would have to be during a refit period in a shipyard, in the meantime if what you said was true they would not have the use of that freezer for some times years. This would not be something the ship could afford to do. When it comes down to it human bodies are meat and the walls of the freezer are stainless steel and easy to clean. I was in the USN and made 5 carrier deployments with some deaths.

So the "s" are really silent. Finally its solved. Thanks from a non-american.

There is no evidence that any bodies from the earthquake were stored anywhere on board, never mind in the ship's reefers or freezers. It would make zero sense to bring the dead to the ship, and treating the injured was primarily done on shore where there were, not doing a very time consuming and dangerous transport to the ship. Much easier to bring medical supplies to shore and treat people there. That said, 2-3 babies were born on the Salem, as their mothers were going into labor, and it was safer for them to be shipboard. Those 3 Greek babies can claim US citizenship if they wish, as they were born on US territory!

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they only have 22 volunteers so it is hard and money is very much needed

Little Rock is in Buffalo NY but she has been converted to a missile cruiser.

She has 5"/38's as her secondary armament, The 3"/50's were her third level armament.

@@alanbare8319 Whoops. I mix up secondary and tertiary sometimes XD

both are great museums, the Salem is very open but you can tell they need resources to keep it up, Battleship cove is just so much stuff between the Massachusetts and the other ships there is a ton of stuff there.

@@starshipmechanic That is why it is being planned as 2 days. They actually offer a joint ticket you can purchase to do this. edit: btw, the next trip I am trying to get my dad onboard for is to go see Olympia and New Jersey

@@whyjnot420 I've done they both too, also when you are at the Olympia you should get a tour of the USS Becuna too, it's a Baleo class sub with the post war Guppy conversion and it's a great tour but they only do guided tours, it's moored next to the Olympia.

@@starshipmechanic Just as with linear storytelling in a video game, there are benefits to guided tours (curated in both situations if you think about it). Specifically it gives museum ships a good place for them to focus on. Given the limited resources of a lot of these museums, it probably pays to have a limited area of the ship that people go to. If you are not very familiar with a particular ship/class and do not know precisely what you want to see, they can be a great thing as well. In particular note, in terms of curation, I would love to shell out the money for a curators tour of New Jersey. If I can get my father on board for a trip there, I just need to convince some friends to go along with the trip (though 2 people on a curators tour of that ship would still be pretty awesome, maybe moreso than with a half dozen) Besides getting an awesome tour, the money really does go to a cause I truly feel is very important.... the telling of history and a ship that big needs all the help it can muster (That said, Olympia probably needs it more atm).

No good deed goes unpunished.

Because the "rules" of ghosts are horribly inconsistent from location to location. Sometimes a ghost haunts the exact location they died, other times it is a location they are most attached to, etc. It is stupid.

@@Lowmanification That's because the ghost government is incredibly fractured and incoherent. Some see this as a deficiency in leadership while others think it's the natural consequence of having a parliament with a time-of-death gap of over 5,000 years. But you know, the haunting must still happen; consistency and predictability be damned.

ghost and spirits are not real, so it does not really matter

@Jonathan Matthews people who die suddenly and in violent or tragic ways.... Doesn't matter if the ship was there to help or not. It's where those people lost their life without being ready or prepared for it.

Uh no. I do burn surgery. That's not how burns are classified.

@@droliver A real surgeon would simply state the official classification though ... Would a DSM5 apply to you?

@@MrFlatage wtf are you talking about?

@@droliver Haha any surgeon would know official medical sources. You have no clue. Instead we see a uneducated kid scream profanity and hearing voices. Which is mentioned in DSM5 as I predicted. Shame no one talks on a textbased only comment section, lmao! DSM5 confirmed!

@@droliver Direct from google :)

I have always wondered what further evolution of the guns for the Des Moines class would look like (as in the concept, not the precise gun system used). Reliable automatic loading of guns starts very small, handguns just before the turn of the 1900s. Around 50 years later systems like what we have here are viable, which while not completely automatic are damned close to it. So what happens when they move from heavy cruiser grade to battleship grade..... that would have been awesome, and beyond terrifying (as this is allready terrifying enough). Truly a Des Moines cruiser was able to put a ludicrous amount of firepower on target, something similar but with twice the calibur, or even just 50% more like the guns of an Alaska is just an insane thing to think about.

@@whyjnot420 The problem you would have with such a high rate of fire (about 12 rounds per minute per gun barrel) is that you could burn through your entire supply of ammunition in a short period of time.

@@lonnyyoung4285 Well, a ship is a weapons platform. Ideally you design the platform for the weaponry you want on it. That includes the ammo. Therefore a ship designed with an autoloading main battery would take this into consideration. Of course it is going to go faster than if the rate of fire was slower or the magazine smaller (or both), but that is the definition of "truism". (meaning that nothing is gained by stating it) Food for thought: Given the range of battleship grade guns by the end of ww2 (20+ miles). One could feasibly sit offshore, with each turret providing firepower for a different location with that rate of fire. (especially if using a spotter to call in corrections) Besides, you do not need the rate of fire of a cruiser grade gun. Iowa had a rate of 2 shots per minute per barrel. Salem has a rate of 10 per min per barrel. Baltimore had a rate of (up to) 4 per min per barrel. (Baltimore had an earlier version of the 8" 55 caliber guns that the Des Moines class used). So what I was envisioning was a maximum rate of perhaps 6 or 7 rounds per min per barrel. If going from 4 to 10 was good for a cruiser, I see going from 2 to 6-7 for a battleship (assuming even more well developed systems, given the later date this would happen in, assuming the same quality/reliability then 5 per min per barrel) would be perfectly acceptable. And if you know the job that is being assigned the ship, you know what kind of ammo should make up the majority of your stores. (you don't go off to do shore bombardment with your magazines 85% full of AP rounds). So running out of the specific kind of ammunition you are supposed to be using the most of, gets mitigated by the logistics side of things. Lastly, just like with a typical speed limit only giving you a maximum speed that is permitted there is nothing saying you cannot reduce your rate of fire when conservation of your ammo is desirable. tldr; Not a problem. edit: For clarity, the earlier guns of the Baltimores were not autoloaders of any kind, but they were earlier marks of the 8"/55 guns that would be developed into the mark 16 system used in the Des Moines class.

There is a weight and physics issue to consider. Automating a 16 inch weapon system isn't as easy as doubling up the Salem's systems. Huge weight difference, can you automatically and safely load powder bags? Fixed cases for 16" is probably not even possible

@@lmo1960 Like I stated from the getgo, evolution of the concept not evolution of the exact same gun system. Not necessarily even talking about the same rate of fire as a Des Moines. Saying there are issues that would have to be overcome when talking about a future evolution of anything, be it pure theory or not, is to say the single most redundant thing that could possibly be said within that context. And since we are not talking about moving from an 8 inch shell to an 800 inch shell, it is not as if we are talking about crazy things, even by the standards of 1945. We can have a nice discussion as to the feasibility of 16"+ or 18"+ guns and how that might effect future developments, as there are far fewer certainties there. BTW, the answer to "can you load powder bags automatically?" is Yes, in fact it is partly automated even in an Iowa (look at the fact that there are hoists which move things up and down, as well as pushed up into the breech itself, those are aspects which would still exist in an automated system much as they are already providing you haven't changed the multistory design of a barbette much that is). Another thing to think of is that part of the reason for breaking up the entire thing into 7 pieces with an Iowa, projectile and 6 bags, is really about restrictions placed on the equipment by the fleshbags running it. A system that does away with said fleshbags, doesn't need to think about their restrictions as much, does it? It is evolution of an entire system afterall and that includes how stuff is stored, how stuff gets stocked, how it is delivered (within the ship) to where it is needed and so on.

that would be good. Do this Simon

now who's a bright spark....

Have him explain how it works. There are arguements right now on that.

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I’m a spark in the uk and love the science behind it , the bbc did a great three part documentary on it a few years ago but I need fact boy to put it in his style . When first discovered they tried to capture static in glass jars , great story that we take for granted every day

Or P-ways

Unfortunately, Ghost Ship Harbor, an independent, totally separate, for-profit company, that rented the Salem for October, has gone out of business.

I believe one of her sister ships was use in Korea, the 8" rapid fire guns may have possibly taken out a mig with an AA shell at one point if I recall correctly

That was Newport News, during the Vietnam War. All 3 Des Moines class ships were Mediterranean and Caribbean based during the Korean War

The Newport News bombarded North Vietnam and had to rearm every other day. They did not maintain maximum rate of fire all day, as it wasn't needed. But the rate of fire did quickly deplete the ammo.

The Salem was originally the lead ship of the class, so early documentation states Salem Class ships. Des Moines ended up being finished first, so transitional documents specified Salem/Des Moines class. The 3 Salem/Des Moines class ships have the largest automatic naval rifles ever deployed by any navy ever.

Not quite, that's 5th and 6th

@@SharpWits2013 man. I'm surprise there is even 5th and 6th degree burns.

@@pancholopez8829 4th-degree burns go through both layers of the skin and underlying tissue as well as deeper tissue, possibly involving muscle and bone. There is no feeling in the area since the nerve endings are destroyed. 5th-degree burn injuries occur when all the skin and subcutaneous tissues are destroyed, exposing muscle. These burns can be fatal due to damage to major arteries and veins. Fifth-degree burn injuries also may require amputation due to damage to muscles. If amputation is not needed, skin grafting will be required. 6th-degree burns are usually diagnosed at the time of autopsy. In these burns, even the bone is charred. It is nearly impossible for humans to suffer one and live.

Nope, cruisers through and through, by design and mission.

Premature shell explosion, killing 20 sailors. Google it for more details