Salvage Hunters | Transylvanian Chamber Pot
Drew is in Caterham to visit a family run antique business. To Drew's surprise, a blue and white pot catches his eye, which happens to be a Transylvanian chamber pot!
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Only surviving German WWII plane discovered in the English Channel, salvage works begin
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Work has begun on the salvage of a rare WWII German Dornier Do 17 bomber from a watery grave on the seabed of the English channel.
According to Reuters, project managers said the plane, lying 16 meters (52 feet) deep, remains in surprisingly good condition and will be raised using a purpose-built cradle later this month in the biggest recovery of its kind in British waters.
It was first noticed when a fisherman caught his net in the aircraft almost 10 years ago and it was identified as a bomber by divers in 2008.
The plane will be packed in gel and plastic sheeting to shield it from the air before it can be transported to hydration tunnels where the crust created by 70 years underwater will be washed away over the next two years.
Eventually, the bomber will be exhibited in the Royal Air Force Museum in London, the city Adolf Hitler had hoped to bring to its knees, said Peter Dye, the director general of the museum, which is leading the project.
These aircraft were nicknamed the Luftwaffe's flying pencil bombers because of their narrow fuselage.
Research by the museum showed the plane was shot down on August 26 1940 during a series of air attacks by the Germans known as the Battle of Britain, the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces.
Moving aboard a boat - Wooden boat restoration - Boat refit - Travels With Geordie #32
This week is a big change. I bought a boat, A 1953 38 foot Monk cruiser and yes, it will be my home. Stay tuned for lots of boat maintenance episodes.
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Some viewers may be interested in some previous videos about Land Rovers. They're at my previous channel, Riverport Rovers.
Here is the build series about my truck. A rather modified Series II Land Rover.
I rather silly build and road trip to the famous Land Rover Winter Romp in Maine.
A slightly less silly road trip to Cape Breton that does involve painting flames on a Land Rover.
The series that started it all. A crazy plan to build a Land Rover in one day from assorted bits lying around.
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200kg Blue Whale Heart The First To Be Preserved At Museum In Toronto
It is known as the largest animal on our planet, so it's no wonder that the heart of the blue whale is also record-breaking.
Researchers have retrieved an enormous heart from a blue whale carcass in Newfoundland, and discovered that it weighs a staggering 440lbs (200kg), and is the same size as a Smartcar.
The gigantic heart is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
The heart was retrieved from a whale carcass that washed up on the shore of Newfoundland in 2014.
The whale was one of nine blue whales that died in the area when they became trapped in ice - an astonishing three percent of the wild population.
When these 300,000-pound creatures die, they almost always sink.
But in a rare event, two washed up on the shores of Trout River in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Scientists were then able to salvage some of the whale's organs to conduct never-before-done research.
The heart, which measures 5x4x4ft and pumps out 220 litres of blood per beat, was in such good condition that it was a perfect candidate for preservation using a technique called plastination.
During this process, researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto pumped the heart with fomaldehyde, stiffening the muscles as stopping decomposition.
They then soaked the heart in acetone to remove all the water from the tissue, down to the cellular level.
Next, they had to put it in a synthetic plastic, or polymer, bath.
Lastly, scientists put the whole tank of polymer in a vacuum chamber so that the existing acetone would bubble and boil away.
'Fat is very hard to plastinate,' explained Jacqueline Miller, one of the researchers who worked on the plastination.
The heart remained in this vacuum for more than four months.
Ms Miller referred to the heart as 'Frankenheart' and compared the unveiling to the birth of a child because of how long the team worked on it.
'We're very, very proud,' she said, adding that the preserved heart could last for as long as 1,000 years.
The resulting specimen can be displayed and touched, while not decaying or smelling and retaining most of its properties.
The gigantic heart is now being displayed as part of the museum's Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story, which runs until September 4th this year.
Eleanor McMahon, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, said: 'The ROM's new Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story is a must-see on your list of things to do in Ontario this year.
'Unique experiences like this exhibition attract tourists and build on our province's reputation as a top travel destination, especially as we celebrate our 150th anniversary.
'I'm delighted that the Ontario 1 50 program is supporting this rare experience, helping us all learn a little more about the mysterious blue whale.'
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Wreckage of a WWII plane that crashed 70 years ago is found in the Sahara Desert
Wreckage of a WWII plane that crashed 70 years ago is found in the Sahara Desert. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Blue Whale: From Guts to Glory
In May 2014, a small ROM team travelled to Newfoundland to salvage a Blue Whale that had washed ashore for the ROM's collections. This unfortunate event presents an unprecedented opportunity to study one of the more endangered species of marine mammals.
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Fire Ants Take on a Swarm of Maggots | WARNING: Extremely Gross Footage (Halloween Special Pt. 1)
Fire Ants vs. Maggots: What happens when a swarm of seething maggots take over a turkey carcass that a colony of fire ants (The Fire Nation) have been working on? Well, this is truly one of the grossest videos I've ever had to film on this channel, and as a scoleciphobe (fear of worms), there were points of screaming! But in the end, it made for a very interesting and educational video about one of the most important processes of nature. Hope you enjoy this week's episode! Ant love forever! This video was shot in 4K Ultra HD resolution. #FireAnts #Maggots #Halloween
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World of Warplanes: Dornier 17 Project
Wargaming teamed up with the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum in England to pull the only recovered Dornier 17 (Do17) bomber out of the ocean. Tune in for more exciting details about this project! wgdornier.com
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Pt 3 of 5 US Sub Rescue of Australian and British POW's The Crossing
This video, The Crossing, explains the details involving the Sept 15, 1944 rescue of over 150 Australian and British POW's in the South China Sea, by US Submarines after the sinking of a couple of Japanese POW HellShips.
Unfortunately, these ships had not been properly marked with any Red Cross flags, and had been sunk by the American Submarines 3 days before. The American Submarine Sailors were totally unaware of the precious cargo that they had sunk 3 days previous.
This Video has two of the rescued POW's reuniting with some of the Sub Sailors that pulled them from the ocean that day.
The dramatic video from the rescue was shot by the Communication Officer of the USS Sealion II, Lt (jg) (ss) Joe (Shorty) Bates.
Special thanks to Joes son Bob Bates
Unfortunately, out of a total of 2,200 men on the two un-marked tansports that were sunk, 1,400 Perished.
Most of the survivors were unfortunately picked up by the Japanese and remained prisoners/slaves on the Mainland untill being rescued by the American Occupation Forces at Karasaki POW camp, in Sept 1945.
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This Mighty US Warship is now a US Maritime Museum in San Francisco teaching future Bubbleheads the perils, dangers, excitement and satisfaction of being a US Sub Sailor.
West Sea: Your Source for Museum Quality Nautical Antiques
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Britannia Heritage Shipyard 2010 - Iona and Mukai Boat Restoration, Richmond BC
At the Britannia Heritage Shipyard in Richmond, BC Canada, Jim McMillan and his friends are busy restoring two Steveston area historic boats, Iona and Mukai. The stern of Iona, a 38 feet long fishing boat, is being completely rebuilt with new planks and timber. Mukai, a smaller boat is also being restored to its original condition. The boats should be re-launched by the end of July 2010. Video produced by Ray van eng. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
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'Finding History in Our Own Back Yard' - 3/4/2008
Western Washington University Professor Chris Friday will present Finding History in Our Own Backyard: Georgia Pacific, Your House, Your Neighborhood and Public History at WWU from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at the Bellingham City Council chambers, Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is offered as the second event of the annual WWU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.
Writer Maxing Hong Kingston once noted that America and especially the American West was a place devoid of history because it was a land without ghosts. As true as that may have been from her Chinese American perspective growing up in the 1950s, Kingston missed an opportunity to understand that the landscape around us is filled with many ghostscapes - the layered meanings and perspectives we create about places across cultures and times. What happens when we consider our own local, familiar landscape in historical perspective? What happens when we disagree on the meaning of familiar places, especially because we see them through lenses we create out of our own peculiar understandings of history and place? How do Western students, the University, and the community benefit from thinking about the local landscape historically?
This lecture will attempt to answer these questions. Friday will also present the Georgia Pacific/Waterfront Oral History project and the current Bellingham Historic Neighborhood project that connect WWU students with the local community in the exploration of history outside the classroom.
Chris Friday is a professor of History at Western Washington University. Friday grew up near Mount St. Helens, got his bachelor's degree at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, then received his master's degree and doctorate in American History from UCLA. He lived in China for nearly two years in the early 1980s and taught in the Boston area prior to coming to WWU in 1992. At WWU, Friday's teaching and research/publication areas are Pacific Northwest History, American Indian History, and Asian American History. For most of the last decade, Friday has also been director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies at Western Washington University (an archives and small research institute). Most recently, Friday started a Public History minor at WWU, which is designed to help students see the connections between their interest in history as an academic subject and history as a discipline practiced in settings well beyond teaching in any classroom.
The purpose of the Dean's Community Lecture Series is to foster connections between the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the local community. What better way to make such connections than learning about our city from our own historians, such as Chris Friday, said Ron Kleinknecht, CHSS dean.
Friday's presentation will also be taped and rebroadcast on Bellingham BTV 10.
West Sea Company - Nautical Antiques
Nautical antiques from West Sea Company. Located in San Diego, California
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Thro' Ice To Sea (1962)
Title reads: Thro' Ice to Sea.
St. Lawrence, Canada and Philadelphia, United States of America (USA).
Various shots iron ore transport ship Monrovia being loaded at Port Cartier. Various shots ore dust pouring from conveyor into hold of the ship. L/S Monrovia at the quay, the sea round the boat is frozen. Various shots hatches being closed over the hold. L/S ship at the quay. C/U ice formed on ship's railings. Various C/Us man chipping the ice away.
Aerial shot ship at sea breaking through the ice. Aerial shot tugboat Salvage Monarch. Aerial shot Montrovia breaking through ice. Top shot ice breaking as the ship moves through it. L/S ice breaker D'Iberville ploughing through ice. Aerial view ice breaker going through the ice. L/S Monrovia breaking through the ice.
Interior. M/S engine rooms of the Monrovia. M/S engineers checking instruments. L/S crewmen pouring oil into screw driver shaft. M/S from Monrovia of another boat following in its wake up the Delaware River. L/S Philadelphia skyline. Various shots ore unloaded from hold using scoops and dumped into trucks on quay. L/S Philadelphia skyline.
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Florida Family Finds $1M in Treasure From Sunken Spanish Armada
A Florida family who has hunted treasure for years found more than $1 million worth of gold artifacts this summer from the wreckage of a 1715 Spanish fleet that sank in the Atlantic, according to a salvage company’s estimate.
The find included 51 gold coins of various denominations and 40 feet (12 meters) of ornate gold chain, said Brent Brisben, whose company, 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC, owns the rights to the wreckage.
The Schmitt family, parents Rick and Lisa and their two children and daughter-in-law, who hunt for treasure off their salvage vessel Aarrr Booty, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Brisben said Rick and Lisa’s 27-year-old son, Eric, found and recovered the pieces in June.
Brisben said he timed the announcement to coincide with Friday’s 300th anniversary of the sinking of 11 galleons brought down by a hurricane off the coast of Florida as the convoy was sailing from Havana to Spain.
Eric Schmitt found the artifacts in 15 feet (4-1/2 meters) of water off Fort Pierce, approximately 130 miles (210 km) north of Miami.
The Spanish convoy’s manifests indicated the ships carried cargo valued today at about $400 million, of which $175 million has been recovered, Brisben said.
His company bought the rights to the site in 2010 from heirs of the legendary treasure hunter Mel Fisher and the firm allows others, including the Schmitts, to search under subcontract agreements.
The centerpiece of the Schmitt’s latest find is a perfect specimen of a coin called a royal made for Spain’s King Phillip V and dated 1715. Only a few royals were known to exist, according to a news release from Brisben’s company.
The gold chains are made of small, handcrafted, two-sided links of six-petaled olive blossoms. They were called money chains and are believed to have been used as a tax-free coinage, the news release said.
Under federal and state law, Florida will take possession of up to 20 percent of the find for display in a state museum. Brisben’s company and the Schmitt family will split the reminder, Brisben said.
factory repair of BT tanks. WWII
spring 1942
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Anavyssos Dive - Underwater Car Junk Yard
I am not sure if these are stolen cars, evidence of insurance fraud, or part of the Greek crisis since cars are a tax liability (LOL). Regardless these cars are now forming a small artificial reef for the little sea life left in the Greek waters. Lying at around 30m (90 ft) and a place with excellent visibility (about 70 ft). Diving with Serhat Bekdemir and Christos from Aqua Divers Club