How a World War Two Submarine Works

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  @animagraffs · 3 years ago · pinned

  VIDEO CORRECTIONS (Compiled from viewer comments) <br>Feel free to add your knowledge, with patience and a civil tone so it&apos;s easier to digest, if you please.

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  @bobhydro913 · 3 years ago

  Can we have a round of applause to the engineer who came up with the idea to put a dedicated ice cream storage container in the crew quarters?

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  @stephenhill1716 · 1 year ago

  And just imagine…when this was designed there were no computers…no 3D modeling or AR…nothing. Just brilliant minds, pencils, pens, caffeine and nicotine.

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  @harryrobertson6749 · 1 year ago

  &quot;First they take the dingle bop and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches...&quot;

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  @CAPNGRIZZ · 3 years ago

  Insane the amount science and technology put into these submarines and this is what we had during WW2. Fantastic video!

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  @DuckAllMighty · 3 years ago

  Submarines are truly one of humanities most advanced and interesting inventions. Truly, for it&apos;s time, packed with technologies the civilian World wouldn&apos;t see for another 20-30 years, the same with WW 1 and military submarines of today. Submarines are just incredible, but it must also have been some of the scariest fighting conditions of the World Wars. This was an incredible video, I knew in general how they worked, but this is just amazing.

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  @rvrrunner · 1 year ago (edited)

  My dad made 8 war patrols in the Gato SS 222 Bluefish during WWII. I heard many stories from him before he passed in 2015. Great video and thank you for the exceptional effort making it! BTW several years before he passed, I obtained the log from the Bluefish with all its daily details, location, attack info even torpedo serial numbers. I plotted out his 8 war patrols and made a book for him with all the maps and details. He was thrilled! Most of all he rarely knew where he actually was, and it was great to show him what he participated in as a young sailor in the war.

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  @stephenwest6738 · 2 years ago

  The master gyrocompass <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FctRpaleRFc&amp;t=448">7:28</a> is one of the most elegantly designed things ive ever seen in any setting, ever. The first watch makes it a bit difficult to truly take in how perfect it is.

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  @cobberpete1 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m amazed at the detail you go into, and doubly so the work involved in rendering and producing such a fantastic animation

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  @CapitaineNautilus · 2 years ago

  I can&apos;t fathom the amount of work and dedication that was needed to research and produce this amazing video.

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  @billwilber9089 · 3 years ago

  I earned my dolphins in 1970 on USS Hardhead SS-365, a WWII submarine similar to the one in the video. Hardhead was in the improved, deeper diving Balao class and was retrofitted/upgraded in the 50’s and again in the 60’s from the one in the video. We didn’t have a deck gun and our bow was more rounded like modern “nuke boats”. We had a tall “North Atlantic sail” over the conning tower and mast area. The sail was made of a steel frame with a fiberglass covering and was free flooding. The tall sail was to protect the guys on watch when on the surface in the stormy North Atlantic. There were many changes inside the boat as well including electronics that I worked on. All of these changes made it an HK (hunter killer) “Guppy IIA” submarine. Guppy stands for “greater underwater propulsion”. One key point in the video… We flooded tanks when diving to subtract buoyancy, not to add weight. We’d “drive” down with bow and stern planes then level off by pumping water back out. <br>We trained often, stalking anything that came across our path. <br>We believed …. Convinced, we were bad-ass hunters.

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  @biasedaudio · 3 years ago

  As someone that does some computer animation, I respect the insane amount of work that goes into a video like this. I&apos;ve watched dozens of submarine videos and learned so much ! I shows a lot of research. Excellent content!

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