Survival at Sea - Oh Lord the ship is on fire/sinking/exploding/disagreeable

So one of the two patreon topics selected for this month is

survival

in World War I and World War II, more particularly, how exactly do you deal with it when a

ship

has been sunk? How do you survive being unceremoniously dumped into the ocean? Let's take a quick look at this now, there are two ways you could find yourself at sea when your

ship

sinks during either world war, one of which would be completely involuntary and the other would be semi-voluntary. I mean, obviously, you wouldn't volunteer to go into the water for any reason other than maybe if you were rescuing a man who fell overboard, but if that happened, you'd rather hope that the rest of your ship would back you up in terms of to catch you again and so most of this advice probably wouldn't apply now in terms of completely unintentional, this would consist of something like there was a massive explosion and then you woke up in the water or everything is on

fire

.

I don't want to burn to death so that the sea looks terribly inviting and I'm going to jump or something, I mean, you've basically been forced to abandon ship by some means or another in a way that you couldn't prepare for. at that point you're already at sea, so we'll look at how to survive once you're at sea a little later, but first let's look at the semi-voluntary nature of things, so this would be, let's say, your boat. You get torpedoed or your ship is lost to

fire

or shells or whatever, but the order has actually been given to abandon ship or the ship is

sinking

and it is blatantly obvious that you have to abandon ship, but in any case you have a few moments to prepare yourself, so what's the first thing you should do and keeping in mind that although this covers the First and Second World Wars, the circumstances are more or less the same when it comes to sailors?

I hope you know how to swim, because I might surprise you. Even in World War II and beyond, many sailors did not know how to swim, so having this knowledge would be beneficial, but you may not have this on hand and, well, they know Donna, they say there is no better time. This is for learning, but you probably won't learn many tips and tricks for swimming in the middle of the cold, dark ocean, but luckily you should have a life jacket with you or nearby, so this is one of the two things you'll need. what to do since you are in the middle of a world war, hopefully you would have been action stations and therefore you probably already have your life jacket, like a life preserver, or if you want to use it if you don't have it, then The first thing you should do to do is check what clothes you are wearing and this is a very good reason, the more clothes you wear, the faster you will drown, because if you are wearing something like, for example, a big long heavy coat can be absolutely wonderful for protecting you against the wind. , rain and cold while you are on deck and yes to some extent it will insulate you a bit when you are in the water but it also floods very quickly and once it floods it will be quite a heavy weight on you dragging you down below, so you should get rid of any heavy clothing that could become a serious impediment for you, although, strangely enough, you don't want that either. go completely with some kind of shirt and pants because well, chances are you're going to get into something very, very cold and you'll come, but the water temperature a little later, but you still don't want to be like a simple a shirt or something like that because then you'll freeze to death very quickly, obviously the finer balance of exactly how much I should use my involuntary ocean immersion today is probably not something you'll focus too much on during this period, so just say that you need to get rid of the heavier equipment.

Great now, if you haven't already, put on your life jacket and head to the relevant part of the form where you can make an exit, now you have to enter. water, this in itself can pose a danger unless of course you have already been thrown into the water and were forced to take a short jump to enter the water. It's difficult for several reasons, first of all, ships really burn. somewhat underwater with some of the older boats where they have torpedo bulges and things like that and also to be honest if your boat is

sinking

it may not necessarily be at a normal angle, a normal keel, so that if your boat is tilted to one side and you're on the side that's leaning more toward the ocean, which simplifies things a bit because you're already suspended over deep water, whereas if the boat is tilted away from you and you're facing toward down a slope, this is not the best time to start jumping because this is the time when you discover that jumping into about two or three feet of water and then hitting the steel on the side of your boat will probably be the curtain for you. at this point, so if I say that if the ship is listing or heading toward port by the bow or stern, you want to identify the area where it is listing toward the sea or sinking toward the sea and if possible , get out of there relatively quickly, unless there are warnings about all this, unless the ship is turning very fast, in which case all the things that are currently above you could very soon fall on top of you, so if that's not an option because you're on the wrong side of the ship, which will probably be more important to you.

Be honest or the boat is tipping over pretty quickly, you want to be on the side that is most up because here you can slide or descend to the waterline if possible and out to sea this way, although again keep in mind if Whether a ship's antifouling paint or not, it could have picked up some pretty interesting green life along the way, barnacles and such, or since your ship is sinking, there's a good chance there are shell or torpedo holes or bullet holes. pompoms with etcetera on the side of the ship and that will mean lots of jagged pieces of metal and possibly even big holes that you could fall through and then end up inside the sinking ship, which again is not good for your long term

survival

, as you can see.

We've just put on our life jackets and we're trying to get off the boat and there are already so many potential ways to do it that could end very, very horribly and badly, so you really don't want to be in a sinking. boat first, but still let's say you've made a short jump or slid down or potentially if your boats went down nice and neatly by the bow, maybe the stern just slipped off the boat, let's continue from this point now . At this point, some of you may be wondering, well, why didn't they get into a lifeboat?

Well, two very good reasons, one of them, ships probably wouldn't have survived whatever caused their ship to sink if they have been bombed. by the enemy chances are your fragile wooden ships are probably splintered and on fire and if you've been bombed by the enemy probably the same and if your ship is listing or sinking at some kind of crazy angle it can also be very First of all, it's hard to launch boats if you're really lucky, a boat might have drifted away from the ship, but I wouldn't necessarily count it. There are also other forms of flotation devices that look vaguely boat-shaped and we will do that.

We'll get to that a little later, but we'll do our initial sweep since I won't be available to you at least until you get away from the ship, so you entered the water and hopefully avoided hitting things. on the way down, including parts of the ship, debris from the ship and/or the banks of your ship, all of which would be hazards and none of which you really want to hit, you are now in approximately the same position as someone who ends up of having to do it. jumps randomly or flew over the side of the ship, so now all our line narratives are great, what's the next step?

Now you want to get away from the ship as quickly as possible and to do so you have even more dangers to avoid. Isn't that fun, plus your shipmates and the random debris you'll have to avoid? There can still be explosions and such, but there's not much you can do to avoid them while you're in the water. We'll have to avoid it, as a major danger is patches of sea that are on fire, isn't that so much fun? The reason the sea is on fire, strange as it may seem, is because ships that are hit tend to start leaking. fuel, this is more dangerous in World War II, when virtually all ships use oil, unlike World War I, when only a small number of them use it, so in World War I you may have than dodge patches of floatation. coal because trying to swim through the coal, it's not a good idea, it hurts a lot, also unburned oil slicks are things you should try to avoid because a well going through an unburned oil slick will make you very flammable, which It means that if you find another burning oil slick, you're in trouble.

Additionally, humans are not known for their ability to breathe oil. Oil is a little less dense than water, so you'll have more trouble floating in it, and it also tends to stick to everything, so it doesn't burn. avoid at all costs if possible burning oil definitely avoid and if you are covered in our burning oil especially definitely avoid burning oil but these are all things you can find near the boat now why We say get away from the ship as quickly as possible, there is a big reason for this and a smaller one, the smaller one is that you were recently aboard a warship, and if you were aboard a warship, but there are many possibilities as it goes down, that the magazines could detonate or water. could enter the engineering room and the boilers could explode which could also activate the chargers and if you are on a merchant ship there could still be an ocean of boilers of some kind, neither of these things are very beneficial for your health . nearby and therefore it is advisable to get away from going to the boat as quickly as possible.

Now what is the most important reason and the most important reason that can be summed up in one word and that is suction? You see a ship displaces a lot of water in the case of a battleship this could be anything from 20,000 to, in the case of a few unlucky Japanese sailors, 70,000 tons, but let's say we're looking at more or less a treaty-type battleship, so that 30 somewhere between 30 and 40,000 tons in displacement, this thing is going down and when it comes down displacing all that water, then a similar mass of water that was previously on the sides of the ship now has to flow into the void where the ship was , which will sweep a lot of things back to where the ship used to be.

You might think it's not that bad, however remember that the ship is still descending and as it descends it creates a vacuum behind it above itself in the water and the water will flow down to fill that space and when the Water flows downward, whatever is in the water at the time in that vicinity sinks with it, and of course, since the descending water has created another empty space on the surface, more water from both sides of the previous location of the ship is going to flow downward. flows and takes its place so you will end up underwater with a lot more water coming in above you, this is not a good thing because the boat will go to the bottom so if you are caught in this descending column water over the boat too You will go to the bottom because the suction created by a large sinking ship is significantly stronger than the buoyancy of the average human lifeguard or not, the only good news is that as the ship continues to descend there is obviously a much greater volume of water. up, which can contribute to the water column moving downward, meaning that you do get sucked into the ship as it descends, but you wouldn't be able to get sucked in the first few dozen, say.

Seconds after the boat disappears beneath the waves, the suction present at the surface will likely dissipate relatively quickly and you should be fine now. I know that some tests have been done with small boats to try to replicate this effect and it has been concluded that this is not the case. Unfortunately, there is a major problem with those tests and it is simply the scale, because if a ship weighing a few tons is sunk artificially, deliberately or accidentally, then the amount of water that must flow over it is a few tons and spreads over the surface of the ship that has just disappeared, the suction effect is not that great, the suction effect is magnified the faster the ship sinks and the larger the ship is, and since it is a warship and it has a more sporty look, there are holes on its side.

It's probably going to go down pretty quickly and there's a lot of mass, as we just said, so suction is definitely a thing, too many survivors of shipwrecks and warship losses report it and their loss of large civilian vessels, especially considering isYou may be in a mashup that has been torpedoed, so definitely get away from the ship as quickly as possible. The other factor that contributes to this whole phenomenon is aeration or foaming and that is good, the boat used to have air and to some extent there can still be significant releases of air as the compartments expel everything, there can be gradual releases of air as the air comes out of the windows and doors and this will create in certain areas a kind of foam effect, basically like a bubble bath or something, except a little more gloomy and obviously within that foam there is a lot less water and a lot more air, humans don't float in the air amazingly enough, so if you get caught and run through these patches of aerated water or foam, you're not being sucked in but you're falling through a column of mostly air, but unfortunately the calm of most air will end up with you several dozen or 100 feet underwater, which again is not good for your health.

In any case, the net effect is very similar, but what to do if you are sucked into the ship at that moment? Basically, your best hope is to pray to whatever deity you believe in to be particularly merciful that day because you have It's a matter of a few seconds at most, about a dozen, before you're hopelessly dead and this is because in By that time the ship will probably have sunk well below the kind of safe depth for humans to submerge in, at which point you are simply going to be blown up by the pressure which your lungs will collapse from the pressure and then you will drown horribly.

It will be inadequate. be quite a bit faster than the depths, isn't this a gloomy topic? But anyway, if you have the smile of a benevolent deity or a streak of luck so long that you should probably immediately fill your lottery ticket draw when you return to land you could get caught up in a number of things you could be close to the edge of the suction zone, in which case you could somehow be battered or kicking randomly because you most likely don't know what's going on, you could end up outside the main column of falling water and then your buoyancy, hopefully, I did a life jacket that could bring you to the surface. or as in the case of some of the survivors of HMS Hood, some part of the ship as she sinks could explode.

Now we said surface explosions, magazine explosions and things like that are bad and good if your ship's magazine explodes while you're sinking. and you're in her suction column, this will probably be bad for your long-term survival, but at least it'll be a quick end. However, if it's something like a boiler or a collapsing compartment, it's basically something that releases some type of air. then you may be lucky because the rising air bubble, which is buoyant enough to overcome the suction water column, will push a small amount of water above it as it rises in the same way the boat drags lots of water. fall with it and that upward momentum could push you up or out of the main suction column and then you'll float up being carried by the air bubble, not really something that's going to happen unless it's really massive, but To be completely honest, it will probably rise too fast for your body to keep up, but you may seem carried in the general sense by it, as in its own little ascending column it could take you with it and this is what What happened to several of the survivors?

Well there were only three of them but some, at least two, possibly all on board HMS Hood and he had several other ships, this effect was also observed so if you are unlucky enough to get it. absorbed and you haven't managed to die there, this is probably the main way you're going to get back to the surface, so great, we're back on the surface again, still trying to avoid oil, bird watching and that kind of things. of things once ships have sunk, there may also be random pieces of the ship breaking loose and rising to the surface again.

This is another reason why you want to be as far away from the boat as possible very quickly because the force The fact that some of these things come to the surface may not seem like much because they are being held back by the water, but remember that in rough waters times denser than air, the real energy they are generating will increase. be pretty significant, so unless you particularly like having your legs broken from below, get away as quickly as possible again to avoid us sitting down or we've somehow magically escaped and managed not to burn into patches. from burning oil and now we're clear enough of the wreckage, which is kind of cheesy, assuming your former enemies aren't shooting at you, which might be one thing, but they're not remedied, you can do about it, but Suppose they are being vaguely humane and leave you alone, the main dangers you will face will be the weather, the temperature, your other shipmates and your lifeguard, in that order, those last two may be a surprise, but we.

We'll get to them in a minute. The weather will be a major problem for you, depending on how bad it is. Mountainous seas. Really rough seas. Things like this pouring rain, for example, are bad because you're obviously going to get vomited. down that will exhaust you the waves can break over your head and force you to sink because the wave currents are very strong so ideally this is not a situation you want to be in but if you are in that situation then you should try face it in a beautiful way. It's like you are your own miniature boat, that is, determine which direction the waves are coming from and turn towards that direction.

Now, unlike a boat, you don't have a nice thin bow or an extremely long length-to-width ratio. to facilitate movement through the waves, but if you're floating there at least this way you can see them coming and if you can see them coming that means if it looks like the wave is going to rise too fast for your buoyancy. or it's going to break down on you, you can hold your breath and fight your way through it instead of being literally surprised by the weather related weather is temperature and sea temperature will probably be your number one enemy, assuming so be.

We do not rescue planes or rescue boats in the vicinity and that is because cold water absorbs energy in the form of heat from the human body considerably quickly and trying to swim, row, etc. to generate heat will only be of limited use. because well, water will take away your heat much faster than you can generate it, so at best you would be reducing the speed at which you are going to freeze to death, you are not going to stop it and perhaps the most important thing is that you. You will also get more tired which can compromise your ability to survive later, so yes, don't row or move around just to keep warm because you will just waste energy and die sooner, even a little movement can be helpful, now you are on the clock and this is dictated in many ways by the coldness of the water because if you are somewhere like, for example, the Arctic Ocean, you are one of the few who managed to get out. kms Scharnhorst, the German WWII ship, although to be honest, given that it sank near the Falkland Islands, leaving the SMS Shawn Horst is probably in the same situation where the water is incredibly cold, Their survival time is unfortunately measured in minutes.

You have to get out of the water very, very fast, whether it's on a raft or a boat that somehow survives or if you get picked up by another boat, but you have to get out of the water fast because otherwise you'll just freeze. to death if you are in the Atlantic it depends on your condition and when you got into the water and this can happen due to many things if you are very light that's why we said dear guys almost absolutely everything because you lose heat faster and also how much energy you had before get into the water.

If you were fully fed or very hungry because that will affect the easily accessible energy reserve your body has, even things as simple as doing. you have a few extra kilos because if you are very thin your body doesn't have many energy reserves and B your surface to volume ratio is pretty bad for this kind of thing, whereas maybe if you are a little fit On the chubby side of things , you will actually survive a little longer because you will have more body insulation and your body has a little more energy reserves to fuel itself, so once you go down into the still very cold but slightly warmer waters of the sea in general. situation so North Atlantic South Atlantic North Sea none of these oceans sound particularly attractive, but they are better than the Arctic Ocean, put it that way, you have between 15 minutes and half an hour, possibly several days, depending on its condition.

Could climate and, to some extent, simply lack of genetics? There are accounts that when the Bismarck sank in the slightly warmer waters of the southern part of the North Atlantic, some of the men suffering from injuries, previous exhaustion or any number of other factors only lasted 15 to 20 minutes in the water and The survivors gradually decreased as time went on and some of them, believe it or not, were actually losing days in the water, so in those types of environments it's a bit of marijuana. To be honest, luck with some controlling factors, as we covered earlier, this is one of the reasons, actually, while we're on the topic of Bismarck survivors, why you don't want to expend enormous amounts of your energy beyond the need to get away. the boat because unfortunately if a rescue boat shows up the chances are pretty high, they won't be able to send people overboard to rescue you, they will put up ropes and nets and maybe lower some boats but the real goal is to get out of the water and get there to something dry is going to depend a lot on your strength now from time to time, especially if it's a friendly ship that's picking you up, they may be able to send one or two people overboard, but this is generally discouraged because Well, we've just spent the last 25 minutes going over how horrible it is to be at sea and most captains don't want to waste their own crew by putting them in the exact same situation and then potentially losing them and you and of course Of course, if you've wasted a lot of unnecessary energy, you may find yourself in the situation that several Bismarck survivors unfortunately found themselves in by surviving long enough to reach a rescue ship and then discovering that they simply didn't have any. energy. climbing the ladder or holding on to a rope, so yes, try to avoid that particular grim fate.

Now you might be thinking, well, then in this scenario the best place to sink would be in the middle of the Pacific, near the equator, where it's nice and warm, ideally, even in shallower waters where the water is even warmer than the depths. of the ocean and yes, to some extent, being submerged in warmer waters benefits you in terms of your survivability relative to temperature because if temperature is the temperature difference between the water and your body's internal core temperature it is the lower the rate of heat transfer out of your body is, so you will live longer;

However, that comes with two caveats: there is no ocean in the world that even comes close to the temperature of the human body, which means that you will eventually die of hypothermia one way or another, but you won't notice as much in warmer waters. and on another famous ship that sank the USS Indianapolis, this was one of the things that unfortunately happened to several crew members where they would just slowly lose body temperature and then start exhibiting symptoms of hypothermia and fall asleep even though They were in the middle of a scorching sun and relatively warmer waters, so let's say you are on the clock wherever you are, the other problem is being in warmer waters.

The waters are what once again refers to the USS Indianapolis. The waters tend to have the highest proportion of large pelagic predators, i.e. sharks, so in the water you have a slightly longer lifespan depending on your body temperature, you may have a significantly shorter lifespan depending on whether there are a shark or not. decide that it would make a tasty snack and you better not have been hurt during any of the above incidents because yeah, well the saying blood in the water definitely has its applications when it comes to sharks which are now third on our list of dangers.

Your own shipmates might think that they would wait a minute, surely they would all band together and try to survive together, yes as long as they are still in the right state of mind, however, as anyone who has been on any kind of life preservation courselifeguard or anyone. who has served in the Navy or on a merchant ship and has been instilled with sea survival drills, we will meet people who are drowning or believe they are about to drown because of panic and when they panic they will do absolutely anything thing they can. Can that they think will help them keep from drowning and if that means grabbing onto someone and standing on them to pull their head out of the water, that's what they're going to do because they're in a blind panic and have no real idea what's going on.

They are doing? We are going beyond the basic instinct of self-preservation and this has been confirmed even in relatively mundane environments, such as swimming pools, where once panic sets in, even a small child in his panic has accidentally drowned an adult who has caught him. been trying. to save them, so yes, if you see a drowning crew member, as much as it seems incredibly harsh, it's probably best for your own survival to leave them as they are and not get too close, of course, that's not something you can order people to do and There is a small chance that you can help them, but that will be something that will be evaluated on a case by case basis for when you find yourself in that situation and hopefully you never will, except with Leaving aside that slightly shady thing, if you don't run into crew members who are drowning, then your shipmates could be of help to you, since, apart from everything, if you fight together, there is a certain amount of shared body heat that can be had even if you are still. in the water and of course a group of people together can try to think of various strategies or tips and tricks to survive that any person might have forgotten, plus you are also easy to spot in a group from both boats and airplanes, so if you can find a group of relatively sensible shipmates, join them and if you can't, your situation can't get much worse, except for our fourth factor, your life. life jacket or life jacket or life jacket, now you might be thinking, wait a minute, how could this be a danger to me?

Its inherent in the name is a lifesaver, isn't it? Yes, but not really, in the way of our favorite. pirate clay cookie for that reference, the reason that if you're in world war i or world war two, your lifeguard may not end up being your friend for a particularly long period of time is because of the material of the that is made in the First World. In the war, many life jackets were not waterproof, but treated water-resistant canvas or similar with large blocks of cork. This is the famous reason why you see the particular type of life jackets you see on the Titanic in various photographs and cork films.

The course is buoyant and will keep you afloat during the First World War and throughout the interwar period. These cork ones, which were a little awkward to wear because, well, cork is relatively rigid, were replaced by a similar type of lightweight jacket, except they were filled with a natural plant material called kapok, which is equally waterproof and buoyant. but something softer. The problem with these though is that over time they absorb water, they are not waterproof, they are just water resistant and assuming you survive long enough in temperate weather conditions etc, you won't get any more sharks, they will gradually flood and lose its buoyancy.

Obviously they will gradually lose their buoyancy constantly, but at some point they will become neutrally buoyant and the snow will help you and shortly after that they will become negatively buoyant and therefore an active obstacle, meaning you would have to get rid of it. This can have a number of very negative impacts on you, obviously if you continue it becomes negatively buoyant. I'll track you down eventually, but if you get rid of it, especially the cap and the life jackets were actually relatively insulating and that might well be the only thing keeping your core temperature up, which is a problem, but also, obviously, as It floods more, staying afloat depends more and more. more on you, which means expending more and more energy and you will only have a limited supply of that if you are in the water with a life jacket.

There were the inflatable rubber life jackets we might be more familiar with these days. In the Second World War she was often called Mae West, however these were largely the province of aircrew and as a ship's crew you are likely to have a life preserver full of cap and in the First World War, there might be a good chance it could be a cork filled one and if you were on a WW2 merchant ship they might still have some old cork ones but in any case the cork Walker Pok feature the Same long-term risk, assuming you live that long, so all in all, it seems to be a pretty bleak outlook, what are your chances of survival, assuming you somehow managed to make it to the bottom of this list?

Well, your first and best chance of survival will be if your ship has sunk in the middle of friendly ships, let's say it has been bombed or torpedoed, assuming you managed to survive the first few minutes, then your allies will probably shoot down ships and close in on you. themselves in their own boats to try to keep you away, that's all. It's generally good if you are a key player in the middle of the battle, you may have to stay back because there is no other option because the battle is still going on or you would get blown off the side of your ship first. your ship has sunk, your ship may still be drifting away trying to show itself alive, as was the case with some of the survivors of the USS Franklin, or your ship may have sunk in an explosion so spectacular that everyone concludes that everyone must be dead, as was the case with the USS Juneau, so simply having friendly ships in the area is not exactly a guarantee of survival, but hopefully you or other survivors in the water managed to bring with them something of a flare gun, usually made by him, called very pistol. time due to the manufacturer and you can use it to attract attention, obviously, and if you don't have one of those, try doing something else to attract attention, whether it's making splashes, little shiny things that are reflective like mirrors or a whistle. right now you have one, finding the bow support is usually a good idea if you can, so if you don't have friendly ships in the area your next best option is actually the enemy because once your ship has sunk, assuming which is the only one enemy ship in the area most of the time, assuming you're probably not fighting the Japanese, but assuming a fight with almost anyone else most of the time, the enemy ship will actually try to save you because the enemy Every sailor is the sea and there is that in common. kinship bond, even if they were shooting at each other a few moments ago, in addition to more prosaic terms, such as enemy military, they may have information that is valuable to them, so they have a double interest in removing the water and so it is for example how the survivors of hms Glowworm managed to stay alive because Admiral Hipper picked them up and on the other hand when Sean Host sank the few who were lucky enough to survive in arctic waters were picked up by British ships that they had been responsible. for sending sean horse to the bottom, next on your list of things that could save your life would be friendly airplanes now this is a thing that is perhaps more likely in the second world war than the first, but anyway floatplanes and things so if you go out and notice that you can drop supplies and other seaplanes and regular planes can do that or if the sea conditions are calm enough and the plane is not completely overloaded, then very often the captain of a seaplane might well drop it and transport it. your board that way, so things like the Catalina or the little Sunderland or, if you're German, a blonde Madras plane, usually, could be a very welcome sight and even if they're not seaplanes like we said, they could drop your supplies and if they don't have supplies on board to drop you off if they see you, they can at least order another friendly ship to come pick you up and that's where your next best chance of survival comes, which are friendly ships that weren't in your formation. . but you might come looking for your ship or the survivors, to be honest, beyond that you are completely out of luck.

If you don't get picked for one of those categories, it will be a case of trying to float around and hopefully find yourself. a random merchant ship or being washed ashore aren't particularly good odds, but they are odds that have saved few people over the course of both conflicts, so that's pretty much what you can do and what you can expect if you are only in the sea. alone or in a small group, but what if you can secure some form of flotation that doesn't depend solely on you? Now that you have a few more options, one of the most obvious things might be some sort of floating debris from your ship, if she floats then you can grab it and hopefully that will keep you at least a little on edge.

I mean a small piece of wooden needle or something that might help you keep floating. I mean, you need to loot, it uses less energy and if the climate is relatively mild, then by keeping more of your body out of the water you allow the Sun to warm you more, which increases your longevity given the temperature of the water and if it's a more substantial piece like a door or something of that nature. If there are wooden doors on your boat or a similarly sized piece of floating debris, then you will obviously be able to stay partially or completely out of the water, which again will help you conserve energy.

The next option is what they call. In the days of the Carly float, now Carly floats or something similar were quite widespread aboard warships. Now these Carly floats are truly wonderful little inventions. They may look like a rubber boat on the outside, but they are actually much more durable and there is a reason why warships tend to carry them, as they are a more likely way to preserve the lives of the crew in the event of a sinking. , unlike ships which, as we mentioned, tended to be in pieces and on fire when a ship sank. A Carly float is much more than a rubber boat: it is actually made from a metal tube which is then surrounded, as you may have heard before, by Hawk cap or cork material which is then wrapped in a tarp and, because of which can afford to be a little bit more rigid, this canvas is usually waterproof, usually by paint or some other similar material, and then inside the float Carly, there will usually be something like wooden slats or maybe a canvas sheet or both and a box of supplies.

It's all very important because it means that the Carly float feels just as comfortable upside down as it does facing the right direction, although how to determine which is the right direction with one of these things remains questionable and they're also broken down into individual sections, basically. , the bulkheads and this makes them practically impossible to sink unless you actively strafe them, which is very useful, obviously, if they were not simple rubber boats they could be punctured very easily, but a Karlie float that was ten a few feet deep distance from an

exploding

projectile may be riddled with shrapnel but it can still work perfectly well as a flotation device and that's because, well, the tarp is completely waterproof like we said and then the Kapaa can Cork floats and assuming it's in some hole in the tarp it will stay like that and of course the steel pipe or the copper pipe or whatever metal they are using inside is hollow and therefore it will also float and be relatively strong, and because of the small bulkheads on the inside, even if it's partially pierced by shrapnel and things like that, then that section could eventually fill up and become a negative point in the same way a period lifebuoy would, but it won't sink the Karlie float unless which, as we said, unless it has been completely plagued because that contamination will remain only in the section that is lucky enough to be on board one of these from the beginning or find one floating afterwards, whether with or without people on board and you managed to get on board, then you're in luck because This supply box will include food, which is obviously pretty useful water, which is vital because yes, you may have been submerged in water, but you're in an ocean, so You don't want to drink any of that and the human body doesn't.

It doesn't usually last that long without water, so fresh water is a definite plus. Survival equipment. First aid kit. Blankets. Tarps, etc. In really hot environments, you can put the canopy over the Carley float and get some sunshade because, ironically, you could end up dying from heatstroke and exposure; Otherwise, you can also use the tarp to collect rain and replenish your water supplies if they startto run out and usually the survival box will also contain something like a flare or a flare gun or a mirror or, if you're really lucky, maybe even a short-range radio with which you can call for help at the right time. and If you manage to run into a flick collie that is already completely full, you can still benefit from some of the things on board, even if you can't get on board because they have ropes surrounding the float, which means that even if you can't be able to get it out of water, at least it can hold and again save energy.

In several cases where ships were sunk, there were systems organized by officers or men on board taking a leadership role in which they rotated people in and out of the water. raft or float depending on what you want to call it to keep the maximum number alive, so you could say a raft or float that holds 30 men and they come in sizes from eight men to fifty men. but let's say you have a raft for thirty men, then if you have 40 men then you could use a system where you have ten men in the water and after four hours the ten freshest men come out and enter the water and so on and so forth to keep the thing afloat, but nobody spends much time in the water, obviously this tends to work much better in the water, where you can actually survive for four hours in a house rather than in more northern or southern latitudes. and thanks to the relatively complex construction of a karlie float with all the metal, canvas, wires and ropes floating inside it, as well as the survival equipment, if you find yourself alone or in a small group in one and you don't have No I have been rescued for many days, possibly many weeks, you can't even cannibalize parts of the float to make things like fishing equipment, which was done by several survivors in certain cases, which could allow you to last weeks, if not months.

If you are lucky and it happens again it is unlikely but it did happen so there is still hope, assuming you achieve some form of flotation your chances of survival have basically increased because you have gained more time but overall your methods rescue are practically the same as those described above, with the only proviso that if you manage to get aboard a large raft, a float or possibly, as we said, some ship that has miraculously survived, there is also a small chance that you will be able to . to steer your own course somewhere by navigating the Sun and the stars maybe by the behavior of the sail, put down the tarp or something, in which case you might make landfall, but that's a pretty rare event, so not would necessarily count on that and, generally, that is A brief summary of the main dangers and problems and the little you can do to try to overcome them that could visit you if you find yourself aboard a sinking ship in the First World War or World War II, as you will be able to appreciate the ability to survive in these circumstances.

It's not particularly good apart from being rescued in the first 10 to 15 minutes or so half an hour or so depending on weather conditions and sea temperature, the survivability is just not very good, it's a hard fact that humans aren't supposed to do it. They spend large amounts of time in the ocean let alone involuntarily and suddenly with minimal supplies and unfortunately a significant number of men who managed to physically get out of their ships when they were sunk succumbed to the elements or an event such as the The ship exploded if it managed do that or any of the other environmental hazards we've described above, including those nasty burning oil patches, so yeah, it's definitely not a walk in the park, definitely not something you want to experience, but yeah that's basically how they'd try to get around it everything and who knows if by pure chance one or more of you find yourself so that you board a ship that is involuntarily heading to the bottom of the ocean, well, I can't.

I hope you remember about fifty minutes of video, but in summary, if you can't get to a boat or raft right away and have to get into the water, make sure you're not too burdened with heavy clothing. make sure you have your life jacket or life jacket on be careful when entering the water to avoid both parts of the boat and remains of people in the water once you are in the water avoid at all costs any stains of liquid fuel or other liquids that could be leaking from the ship, get away from the ship as quickly as humanly possible, but don't overexert yourself once you're clear of the ship, try to signal for help or look for other survivors or another ship or something to join up with if you can't do that try to find some debris and if all else fails try to stay calm as much as possible try to stay as stationary as possible conserve your energy as much as you can and keep an eye out for incoming rescues and hopefully you'll be able to just survive now with all that said As we mentioned during the video, there are sea survival courses that if you have served on a ship, whether merchant or military, at some point you will have been through, so if anyone who has gone through one of those courses and I know that There are a reasonable number of subscribers who are service staff or former service staff on board the ships, if any of you are watching and have any more tips and tricks you would like to offer or any anecdotes you would like to mention, then feel free to do it in the comments because, as much as this is a History Channel, the simple fact of the matter is, like we said, unfortunately, this could be something that any of us ends up somehow. or we form on board a ship, we could meet under very unfortunate circumstances, so the more information that can be shared, the better and I hope to see some of those comments.

That being said, let's conclude this video with a few moments to remember those who did it. Your level is better to abandon a sinking ship, but for whatever reason or we are not lucky enough to return home, that's all for this video, thanks for watching. If you have any comments or suggestions for reviewing a boat, please let us know in the comments below. Don't forget to comment on the pinned post if you have questions about dry docking.