K-19: Hiroshima of the Seas

Way better than expected. I knew about the K-19, but this documentary goes well beyond what I would have ever expected. Brilliant work!

Thanks for this, after the video imma go watch "K19 The Widowmaker" :D

Great Movie

Thank you for covering my favorite sub

Amazing documentary thank you ! By the way, if you're still interested by submarines stories, I found the accident of the K-278 Komsomolets fascinating. That kind of sub could go really deep. During its final moment, the conning tower was ejected in a attempt to save the last crew onboard, but partially succeed.

Just saying, sailors are superstitious for a reason. The sub got a taste for blood during construction AND they tempted fate by not having a woman christen it.

Say what you will about the USSR. Vis-a-vis their navy, there were countless heroic sailors who sacrificed everything to preserve the lives of their comrades. Heroes, every last one. Respect 👊🏽✊🏽

This 1 month of no content felt like decades. But was the time waiting for it worth it? Yes. 55 minutes of pure disaster (the content of the video) was mastered to a masterpiece of a video. Keep up this great work!

If there ever was one ship telling her crew to stay away, it probably was K19. Superb content, always loved this story that I got to know after reading an article on cinema special effects and how they replicated the Cherenkov effect glow for the movie.

Hey!

I’m pretty sure one of those beetles ended up being worshipped by the underground people of Seatopia. Before being sent to destroy Tokyo to protest underground nuclear testing. The Beetle would eventually be stopped by Godzilla and Ultraman’s flamingly gay cousin, Jet jaGuar.

In fairness, dying for nothing is a common occupational hazard in any country and military branch. It's sort of what the job is all about in the end.

Great video

Everything is iconic.

That things crew were as cowboy as cowboy gets

Your editing is off -the beginning segment describes the George Washington, then segues directly to construction of the K19 with no segue. ???

Night on Bald Mountain? Nice.

Perfect viewing while im not playing Stalker

I think by "diving rudders" you mean the diving planes?

god is watching, vsauce

communication that's submarine was a death trap

The surviving crew of K-19 saw the movie and, apparently, they liked it. They acknowledged that some liberties were taken with actual events, but it was mostly faithful to what happened...that and they found Harrison Ford's attempt at a Russian accent amusing.

thank you

There's a special place for the beetles in my heart now

Very well put together documentary covering so many details often omitted. Absolutely heartbreaking to read the list at end of those on Eternal Patrol due to systemic failures and heroism trying to fix it.

My man.

The conning tower/sail sitting on it's concrete base will go to sea again. 70 metres of sea level rise with climate warming will surely get to it. Always find Soviet lack of fail-safe astounding. They seem to go from cock up to cock up, learning just a little each time. Was this rewarding doco made after the special Ukraine operation/invasion?

A question has been on my mind lately—simple in nature but seemingly without a clear answer. Where did all the wastewater and sewage in Pripyat go? Did the city have a dedicated water treatment plant? If so, what state is it in today? I'd be glad to hear more about this, thank you.

Honestly I know it's a Hollywood nickname, but 'Widowmaker' is highly appropriate for this blood thirsty leviathan.

Hiro shima (kaze)

Why exactly was it called Hiroshima of the Sea? It never exploded or wiped out a city? The death tolls were not close either? If it was because of the nuclear nature of the deaths, surely it would be more appropriate to name it after the bomb that did the damage, not the city? Even its potential to continue being a nuclear hazard makes no sense either as Hiroshima is once again an inhabited city, so lingering radiation is not it either. It was neither American as the bomb was, nor Japanese as the city is, and Hiroshima is not in the news for anything nuclear after that one event. Very confusing.

Wow. Only the Soviets could out-soviet the Soviets.

What a bloodthirsty boat.

What a waste of a museum peice, imagine being able to visit K19, the sub that refused to die and had a decorated and impressive career.

Nice to know russia has a long history of being totally inept in warfare.

I still don't really understand why it's called Hiroshima, the first target of a nuclear attack in human history. Shouldn't Bikini Atoll be the Hiroshima of the Seas? Or maybe the USS Independence CVL-22?

Slightly related yet totally unrelated topic:
You should do a video on the Japanese emergency response to the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. How did whomever conducted the immediate recovery efforts go about orchestrating the emergency response to the attack and how were recovery efforts conducted in both the short and long term?

You should've added "Chernobyl" in the title... Or "horrific"...

You know how the algo work...

The Music is czech not Soviet or russian and specifically is an extreme Nationalist symphony

Best detailed story of the k-19 I've ever seen! Great job on all your research. With anything about the Soviets complicated to accurately obtain, info compiled over decades of research finally gives the "real story" of how history should record events that paint a totally different picture of how the sequence of real events set up a recipe for a real catastrophic tragedy! Thankyou for putting this story we had never heard, together.🤔😲👍

I was a Navy nuke on a 608 Class US submarine with an S5W propulsion plant design. Seeing the photographs and listening to your detailed analysis I cannot imagine what thought process resulted in the design of K-19.

Fascinating story
Have seen the film
Good research
Good video

A cursed boat

IGNORING the fact that water was streaming into the reactor compartment.... and that daft captain STILL ordered the dive to continue?!?! WOW

So glad you made a new Video ❤

Don't know who let the Russian have submarines, let alone nuclear reactors. To this day they still cant get it right.