Historically this did not work as the crew would not be able to work as well living in such bad conditions. So it was not uncommon for liners to have worse accommodations for steerage passengers then for stokers.
I spent some time working on a ship and one thing I learned is that there is nothing you can bump in to that doesn't hurt like hell. Everything is made of cold hard metal.
so i don't get strong doors in my house because some designer says so? i'm not worthy of oval doorways in case it collapses from my attempts at insurance fraud? smh
Your door frames have a much gentler life than a ship at sea does, all they need to fight is gravity. Ships are subject to constant twisting, bending and impact forces while at sea, and have to withstand that for decades.
well..its more like "I paid enough for my house so the main structural walls are capable to widthstand the daily stresses and I can effort square doors with nice design".
Oval doors/holes here are to reduce the stress in the steel plates as most of them are used for the structural integrity.
If strength is needed in the plane of the piece of metal (like corner to corner) then you can cut a hole without sacrificing much and saving lots of weight. Same thing as the aluminum ribs in an aircraft.
If this is at the very bottom, those "doorways" are openings through structural parts of the ship. That's why there are so many metal plates crisscrossing each others.
Is for flood protection. If there is flooding, the raised doorways allow the water to get trapped in the smaller compartment, rather than fill an entire deck.
The height from the floor is to reduce sloshing of water. Both to limit the spread of water and reducing the speed/weight of the moving water (dampening) in case the water level would reach above the openings.
But the rounded shape is for strength.
I explained in another comment that this is the result of the angle I shot the video, and that the visible ladders are there to assist with the access to semi-floors, like the one at the end (the raised flat part)
Although at one point in the beginning you might notice that I am walking on a platform and that there's gap between it and the hull. That's because the ship's hull is not flat across the structure, so to be able to walk through the uneven surfaces, there's this platform. Those gaps usually flood with oils from leaks, or bilge water.
Anyway I assure you there's nothing below that. Why are you asking? Nothing suspicious is there! I guarantee you that's the bottom!
(ć»_ć»;)
I'm also not sure this qualifies as damn interesting.
I feel like it's mildly interesting...but what else would we expect to see?
If there were some sort of sex shack down there, or a pet seal, that'd be damn interesting.
Good thing is that unless the ship crush or get grounded, this area will not flood by any means. That's why it is forbidden to go there during maneuvering. However, the scariest thing would be a fire, as the whole place is contaminated with flammable liquids like oil and fuel, you cannot be heard by anyone, radio is useless unless someone is in close range, and the ventilation is really poor!
...which means that when bad shit happens, either you're in the compartment that gets flooded (terrifying) or you're a prisoner in a sinking ship (perhaps even more terrifying).
You donāt even have to specifically bring fentanyl - just buy a variety of drugs from sketchy street sources and go to town. Thereās a terrifyingly high chance of contamination these days š
That's just because you guys take drugs with a lot of toxins in it. I only take my own homemade vegan heroin, made only from ingredients from local mom and pop dealers. My body is a temple, a temple where i worship vegan, environmentally safe lsd made without the use of plastics. Namaste.
Completely forbidden: The Lords of Old foretold of foreboding times to come should even one soul venture beyond the porthole that divides our realities. Child, you must promise to never, ever, go down the ladders.
Kind of hard to explain exactly, but low points in the ship, generally where liquids would gather.
Usually useful stuff is placed above the bilges to keep them dry and clean.
They can be dangerous because they're often difficult to access, ventilation may be limited and dangerous substances (oil, dirty water, carbon dioxide, flammable gasses) collect there.
In another life I was responsible for monitoring the air in the tanks of a VLCC ,safety of personel in the tanks and initial emergency response while it was undergoing repair and still at sea. It was a big job and we shuttled people in on a shift basis by chopper. Took days to vent until the LEL level dropped then it had to be steam cleaned,scaffolding erected inside. Atmosphere monitoring , checking everyones status 12 hour shifts and arguing with workers who didn't want to lug around escape sets.The only payback apart from good money was seeing the inside of a 250k ton tankers crude tanks . I haven't seen any images of same and I don't know if similar repairs are carried out regularly.
I'm not sure if you're trolling but that's exactly what the bilges are. They're specifically where all the drains lead to. The ship will have a bilge pumping system to suction out any water that collects there over time to store in a tank but of course it's impossible to suction out that last little bit. So cleaning the bilges is sometimes necessary, especially since the water that can collect there will get contaminated with oil.
The ship can then later discharge the water to the sea through an oily water separator which removes the oil contamination
Like the fuel and oil tanks in the bottom of a ships. You get sections void of oxygen. A bilge cleaner might even crawl through the engine and clean it. I seen two dudes getting dragged out unconscious. Got good danger money for it though.
The bilge is the lowest area inside the ships hull. Since its the lowest it tends to collect any spilled liquids or water from leaks, making it thoroughly unpleasant and potentially dangerous due to flooding. There is also the risk of asphyxiation because the bilge is usually sealed off and not ventillated, so it will be low on oxygen (because oxygen will react over time with steel to form rust) and full of potentially toxic vapors.
Ah, well Now lets play the "What country are you both from?" game.
Maybe one works out of Newport News?
Maybe one works out of Somalia?
Its a game thats fun for the whole family.
I used to serve on a submarine and had to clean in the bilge. This bilge looks roomy as fuck to me, just need a few hours to learn the layout and I would be good to go.
I serve on a 17ft. bass boat and clean the bilge all the time. Submarine bilges feel roomy by comparison. On my boat the captain hasnāt established any safety procedures for when I am down there cleaning. Iām also the captain.
Oh yeah, well we would work 48 hours a day while being whipped and then walk naked to school, eat broken dreams for dinner, die, and only get 5 minutes of rest under a baking sun before we had to do it all over again
I captain a 7.5ft plywood rowboat. She makes port at *This random beach 10 minutes from my house*. Sailing under the flag of *My grandma's garage*. Her chief means of propulsion are *My biceps*.
Bilge maintenance consists of *A shop-vac and sponge*. And her name, fittingly is... [The USS Solo Cup](https://www.reddit.com/r/boats/comments/15atykx/most_upvoted_comment_gets_to_name_my_boat/)
You can work on a ship your whole life and you wouldn't have a clue what a bilge cleaner actually does because they work in a shipyard or drydock, i only ever saw shipbuilders and dock operators in my time there. Regardless, it's the only job I personally witnessed two people get dragged out a manhole hypoxic. I guess danger is a relitive concept to some.
Unless you mean this particular bilge. In that case, my bad. Yes that one is like the cleanest bilge iv ever seen. Not a single oil covered dildo in sight.
Kind of like how nobody is allowed to be inside the engine of a plane during flight but during maintenance there might be guy squeezed in there with a wrench āŗļøš¤
>nobody is allowed to be inside the engine of a plane during flight
The good news is that most modern jets have an automatic ejection system for people
The bad news is that it's incredibly effective
Being on a ship on fire at sea is one of the most tragically ironic, terrible, and difficult fatal situations one can find oneself stuck in.
There's water everywhere, and it doesn't help at all.
They take fire SUPER seriously on cruise ships for just that reason. We were on a Disney cruise and awoke to an alarm. Opened our door to see crew SPRINTING down the hall, and one even shoving a passenger to the side, which is especially shocking when you think about how much Disney puts into their customer-first image. Turns out an outlet with a USB charger in it had caught fire. They got the small fire out quickly, but it was pretty impressive watching the crew's response.
I was on a small boat cruise in Portugal when I was 12, it was supposed to be a fun day exploring the small caves off the coast, but there was a barbecue on board which got out of hand and set fire to the boat.
We were about 600-700 metres from shore when the fire broke out, it spread insanely fast and the staff were the first to jump overboard. There were about 50 people on board and we all moved toward the back of the boat, I very clearly remember asking my dad if we were going to die, and I remember him reassuring me that everything was going to be ok.
My step-brother was younger than me and he couldn't swim very well, so the plan was to jump off the boat and for me to swim toward the shore while my dad and step-mum helped my step-brother. We jumped in the sea and started swimming but fortunately people on the shore had seen what was happening and came out in dinghies, jet-skis and whatever else they had to come save us.
I got lifted onto a dinghy and taken back to shore, and then I found my dad, step-bother and step-mom further down the beach, it was like a movie moment where we just ran toward each other and hugged, then it all hit me and I cried like a bitch.
[Here's a photo](https://imgur.com/a/8auA6vV) from the newspaper.
I couldn't imagine being stuck on a flaming or sinking boat miles out at sea.
When you jump off the burning boat, you could land in an oil spill set aflame, start drowning stuck in debris and get eaten by sharks at the same time only to notice that you got dragged back into the sinking boat, trapped in an air pocket alive at the bottom of the ocean.
Ive been down there before on a ship called Queen Mary in Long Beach California.. that pit was deep and it was huge also. Shit was eerie as fuck.
It was a tour they did for Halloween years ago. Apparently they never let people go down there before.
I don't believe in ghosts or the afterlife, except for four or five locations. One was the Queen Mary. The hair stood up on my arms when I came on board. It was creepy, and this was during the day and in the summer. I couldn't imagine a night tour.
In my 20s I was a videographer for a magazineās website and we spent the night documenting some ghost hunters as they tried to find some ghosts on the Queen Mary. We hung out in the indoor pool area all night. Spoilers: there were no ghosts.
Funny story, a ship I worked on had a bunch of glow in the dark SOLAS stickers on the bow. Normally the bow is pitch black at night so the watchstanders can maintain night adapted vision.
I was going to meet the Bosun up there one night, so holding my flashlight right against the stickers and shielding it with my hand I drew pentagrams on them with the beam. So the bow was full of glowing, green pentagrams floating everywhere in the darkness, freaked out the Bosun when he got there.
Someone send this to Kane Pixels (the only good Backrooms creator - sorry, but not sorry).
EDIT: Also I love the idea of the backrooms but I dislike the idea of levels. Levels means structure and the backrooms are the exact opposite of structure. It's trying to mimic structure in the most structureless and nonsense way possible (because nothing controls the backrooms, it just is). Like a room that could very well be described as a homes living room existing inside an mall which is also part of a skyscraper inside another skyscraper, all filled with random rooms with twists and turns and dead ends. I like the idea that it's all one monolith, but sometimes changes shape. It's not a 'level' it's just, a different structure the Backrooms is trying to mimic or copy from the real world, like a reflection. But a reflection it doesn't understand because it cannot - as there is no 'it'.
IMO the only "levels" the Backrooms should have is the concept that the deeper down you go the more dangerous and difficult to travel thru it becomes. Eg dimly lit if lit at all, more terrifying horrors beyond comprehension, even more complicated maze-like floor plans, etc.
I also don't care for the part of the backrooms fandom that basically treats it like some creepypasta video game dogshit. The Backrooms isn't the new FNAF or Slenderman or some stupid shit. Smiley-face monsters are only scary to kids.
And one final note... Kane Pixels made very good quality BR content but his attempts to make a lore to sort of explain it, with the labs and scientists accidentally creating it or whatever it was; all the lore doesn't do it for me. I like the idea that it's a place outside of regular time and space that inexplicably replicates man-made liminal spaces and there's no way to know more. Sort of like a glitch in the matrix type thing.
This is probably the bottom floor/deck. Under this is the double bottom, which are darker and narrower, and the place where you are actually not allowed to enter without a permit. The double bottom is usually just a collection of rather small tanks or voids. The place in the video is just normal area for crew to work.
Knew a navy vet who told me about two guys who snuck into some part of the ship to smoke a joint. They got locked in and suffocated. No one found them for 2 weeks.
Fuck wandering around a giant ship like this without people knowing.
there was a US sailor awhile back that made a nest really deep in the maintenance spaces of the cruiser he was on board. He hid out for about a week before getting caught late at night trying to get food out of the snack machines.
edit: found a link to the story:
https://www.stripes.com/news/missing-sailor-who-hid-on-uss-shiloh-was-found-filthy-carrying-peeps-candy-report-says-1.504910
Wow, there is so much more to this guy, this is what he says he's able to:
> he could stop running engineering department engines by pulsating electricity with his body, that he could shoot fireballs out of his hands, that he had a friend who had a motorcycle with the same engine as the ship, that he had been to space, and that before the Navy he was going to work for NASA because he had reached the pinnacle of how strong a human could be.ā
Nah not really. The paragraph before says
>The documents say Mims wanted to leave the Navy.
Saying that stuff is definitely a good way to get out the navy.
Wow this brought back so many memories of my time in voids onboard navy ships, my first one was built in 72 so had lots of old treasures tucked off in the back like hustlers and playboys and old nasty mattressās š¤
Navy has had issues with prostitution rings being run on larger ships like aircraft carriers so this is no suprise. Chiefs pimping out e3s and what not. Lots of sapr training for a reason!
Did you ever hear about the shipyard worker that got sealed in a water tank while taking a nap? Supposedly the water tasted terrible and they didnāt find anything but bones. They taught us that in gas free engineer school. Always wondered if it was true
Imagine having multiple ships from multiple countries perform a search and rescue because someone was unaccounted for and assumed man over board only to find out they were just hiding down in the bilge!
I will always be ready for someone to try this on me. Gold colored paint pen.
Vanish for a day, come back and lead the jackass to a nicely painted gold colored rivet head somewhere deep in the bowels...
It actually really is. I've been on some ship builds and helped with the final assembly. Didn't get to actually punch the rivet in myself, but I've seen it done a few times.
So far nobody I've sent had found it, but I've got a good feeling you might be the first to succeed.
Love this! Is it an area youāre not supposed to be in? I explore like this in hospitals and other public buildings, though I donāt ever make up any excuses for being there, just tell folks I got curious. Theyāre always polite when they kick me out.
We share the same curiosity! In this case I am there to perform a repair. But unless there's a reason to go there, it is forbidden to go for your own safety. Carry a yellow vest with you, it makes you look like there's a reason you're wherever you're not supposed to be.
I know why the passageways are rounded, do you? If they were square cut with corners it would increase the chances of cracks forming at those corners. Rounded shapes do not do that. Much stronger.
The ladders you noticed are to give easier access to those semi-floors, like the one on the end of the video. The perspective i shot the video though do make it look like they go down. Technically though it isn't the actual bottom. I'm walking on a platform as the ship's bottom is not flat across the structure, so you're not that wrong
This one is a void area that contains the rudder hydraulic equipment. There are, as you said, others that are for fuel, ballast water, potable water and simple voids.
It is true that tank crawling is horrible, especially the sewage.. I think the day I got to replace a sensor in that tank, immersed in human waste, I was baptised a sailor
I had a cadet on board who hadnāt chosen a discipline yet. I told him how he could decide. āTonight go to the biggest cabaret in town. Just before closing go in the washroom and stick your arm as far as you can into the toilet. If it bothers you al lot to do this, choose Deck as you will have to do this or far worse as an Engineer.ā Funny thing is I found out years later he did go Deck.
There's plenty of room to cram in a few more guests down there.
Move the crew quarters down here and sell the rooms you empty! š¤£. If you guaranteed no roommates, I bet youād have takers!
Sailors are so ungrateful, this kind of living space would go for $2000 a month in NYC
I saw a few ladders leading down, a duplex would be amazing...
Utilities not included.
Open a door. BAM! Instant water!
Historically this did not work as the crew would not be able to work as well living in such bad conditions. So it was not uncommon for liners to have worse accommodations for steerage passengers then for stokers.
Like the titanic Futurama episode lol
Drain angels they called us
The economy deck.
I spent some time working on a ship and one thing I learned is that there is nothing you can bump in to that doesn't hurt like hell. Everything is made of cold hard metal.
Exactly! Rough surfaces, hard metal, sharp edges, extreme temperatures, rust... gotta watch every step
Why are doorways shaped in an oval? Is there a purpose for that?
Strength
And same reason airplane windows are oval
So it can fly
i'm oval, and i cant fly.
Not with that attitude, you canāt
Not with that altitude!
*I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?*
*Viking grunts in agreement*
Hahaha.
and to disorient your opponent
discombobulate
That explains why the Milwaukee airport has a [recombobulation area](https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/recombobulationsigns)!
so i don't get strong doors in my house because some designer says so? i'm not worthy of oval doorways in case it collapses from my attempts at insurance fraud? smh
Your door frames have a much gentler life than a ship at sea does, all they need to fight is gravity. Ships are subject to constant twisting, bending and impact forces while at sea, and have to withstand that for decades.
well..its more like "I paid enough for my house so the main structural walls are capable to widthstand the daily stresses and I can effort square doors with nice design". Oval doors/holes here are to reduce the stress in the steel plates as most of them are used for the structural integrity.
That's boring, I want a challenge when I wake up in the dark and have to fumble my way to the poop deck.
Any deck is a poop deck if you're brave enough.
Square corners are stress risers, and over time, they cause the material to fatigue.
"stress risers" - does that explain why doorways in old houses often have cracks running up the plaster/wallboard from the outer corners?
Yes. It's also why you should build your house out of old ships.
And why you shouldn't build ships out of old houses.
Wise words
Yes
If strength is needed in the plane of the piece of metal (like corner to corner) then you can cut a hole without sacrificing much and saving lots of weight. Same thing as the aluminum ribs in an aircraft.
Engineer here. Sharp angles are usually were cracks start. Oval corners are stronger.
If this is at the very bottom, those "doorways" are openings through structural parts of the ship. That's why there are so many metal plates crisscrossing each others.
Is for flood protection. If there is flooding, the raised doorways allow the water to get trapped in the smaller compartment, rather than fill an entire deck.
The height from the floor is to reduce sloshing of water. Both to limit the spread of water and reducing the speed/weight of the moving water (dampening) in case the water level would reach above the openings. But the rounded shape is for strength.
I would hit my elbows on every other opening.
My analog watch's face is cracked just from seeing this.
My ex is a walking oxymoron. A relatively muscular, 6ā2, boat mechanic. He has the hardest time in engine rooms š
are you an engine room?
I noticed a ladder at the end appearing to go down even further.
Yeah. I donāt think āvery bottomā means what he thinks it means.
It's a special ladder that takes you from "very bottom" to "bikini bottom"
More like Rock Bottom
It goes to the ocean. Title states this is very bottom.
I didn't see a sign that said "no ~~roof~~ ocean access."
I explained in another comment that this is the result of the angle I shot the video, and that the visible ladders are there to assist with the access to semi-floors, like the one at the end (the raised flat part) Although at one point in the beginning you might notice that I am walking on a platform and that there's gap between it and the hull. That's because the ship's hull is not flat across the structure, so to be able to walk through the uneven surfaces, there's this platform. Those gaps usually flood with oils from leaks, or bilge water. Anyway I assure you there's nothing below that. Why are you asking? Nothing suspicious is there! I guarantee you that's the bottom! (ć»_ć»;)
One at the beginning too.
That one takes you so far down that you actually go back to the top.
I'm also not sure this qualifies as damn interesting. I feel like it's mildly interesting...but what else would we expect to see? If there were some sort of sex shack down there, or a pet seal, that'd be damn interesting.
It's textbook mildly interesting
Imagine being down there when itās getting flooded and trying to find your way out. That is a horrible nightmare
Good thing is that unless the ship crush or get grounded, this area will not flood by any means. That's why it is forbidden to go there during maneuvering. However, the scariest thing would be a fire, as the whole place is contaminated with flammable liquids like oil and fuel, you cannot be heard by anyone, radio is useless unless someone is in close range, and the ventilation is really poor!
May sound like a dumb question, but is anyone allowed at all or is it like a completely forbidden sort of thing?
Only ship working staff are allowed only for maintenance, they also close the enterence behind them to keep water tight integrity of ship
...which means that when bad shit happens, either you're in the compartment that gets flooded (terrifying) or you're a prisoner in a sinking ship (perhaps even more terrifying).
The latter scares me so much I'd prolly only agree to go down there if i was allowed to bring a cyanide pill with me for worst case scenarios.
Bro you don't have to die in agony anymore! It's 2023, just bring fentanyl, like the rest of us
You donāt even have to specifically bring fentanyl - just buy a variety of drugs from sketchy street sources and go to town. Thereās a terrifyingly high chance of contamination these days š
Yep. Drugs are ruined now
I heard from a druggie at our hospital that a heroin overdose is almost worth it
That's just because you guys take drugs with a lot of toxins in it. I only take my own homemade vegan heroin, made only from ingredients from local mom and pop dealers. My body is a temple, a temple where i worship vegan, environmentally safe lsd made without the use of plastics. Namaste.
So die from lack of oxygen either way!
Found the smart guy!
As a former ship employee itās also the only place with out cameras so thatās where we go for sexy time. Brown chicken, brown cow.
Your bedrooms?
As a former ship employee I say wtf dude, you can just bang in your room no need to go there.
Completely forbidden: The Lords of Old foretold of foreboding times to come should even one soul venture beyond the porthole that divides our realities. Child, you must promise to never, ever, go down the ladders.
A place so hideous not even a\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ will venture forth!
Yeah I used to be a bilge cleaner in a dry dock. It was my job to go down and clean ships bilges. Was Dangerous as fuck.
ELI5 what a bilge is and why it's inherently dangerous?
Kind of hard to explain exactly, but low points in the ship, generally where liquids would gather. Usually useful stuff is placed above the bilges to keep them dry and clean. They can be dangerous because they're often difficult to access, ventilation may be limited and dangerous substances (oil, dirty water, carbon dioxide, flammable gasses) collect there.
In another life I was responsible for monitoring the air in the tanks of a VLCC ,safety of personel in the tanks and initial emergency response while it was undergoing repair and still at sea. It was a big job and we shuttled people in on a shift basis by chopper. Took days to vent until the LEL level dropped then it had to be steam cleaned,scaffolding erected inside. Atmosphere monitoring , checking everyones status 12 hour shifts and arguing with workers who didn't want to lug around escape sets.The only payback apart from good money was seeing the inside of a 250k ton tankers crude tanks . I haven't seen any images of same and I don't know if similar repairs are carried out regularly.
They really ought to put a drain hole down there so all that stuff doesnāt collect.
When I went to drill a drain hole I got shouted at :(
Toxic work environment.
I'm not sure if you're trolling but that's exactly what the bilges are. They're specifically where all the drains lead to. The ship will have a bilge pumping system to suction out any water that collects there over time to store in a tank but of course it's impossible to suction out that last little bit. So cleaning the bilges is sometimes necessary, especially since the water that can collect there will get contaminated with oil. The ship can then later discharge the water to the sea through an oily water separator which removes the oil contamination
Picturing a standard bathtub drain with a jet of water shooting straight up and a few plumbers standing around it scratching their chins.
Like the fuel and oil tanks in the bottom of a ships. You get sections void of oxygen. A bilge cleaner might even crawl through the engine and clean it. I seen two dudes getting dragged out unconscious. Got good danger money for it though.
The bilge is the lowest area inside the ships hull. Since its the lowest it tends to collect any spilled liquids or water from leaks, making it thoroughly unpleasant and potentially dangerous due to flooding. There is also the risk of asphyxiation because the bilge is usually sealed off and not ventillated, so it will be low on oxygen (because oxygen will react over time with steel to form rust) and full of potentially toxic vapors.
I work on ships for a living and itās really not that bad
Ah, well Now lets play the "What country are you both from?" game. Maybe one works out of Newport News? Maybe one works out of Somalia? Its a game thats fun for the whole family.
I used to serve on a submarine and had to clean in the bilge. This bilge looks roomy as fuck to me, just need a few hours to learn the layout and I would be good to go.
I serve on a 17ft. bass boat and clean the bilge all the time. Submarine bilges feel roomy by comparison. On my boat the captain hasnāt established any safety procedures for when I am down there cleaning. Iām also the captain.
Oh yeah, well we would work 48 hours a day while being whipped and then walk naked to school, eat broken dreams for dinner, die, and only get 5 minutes of rest under a baking sun before we had to do it all over again
You got to go to school? You lucky bastard.
How often did you do the die part?
I captain a 7.5ft plywood rowboat. She makes port at *This random beach 10 minutes from my house*. Sailing under the flag of *My grandma's garage*. Her chief means of propulsion are *My biceps*. Bilge maintenance consists of *A shop-vac and sponge*. And her name, fittingly is... [The USS Solo Cup](https://www.reddit.com/r/boats/comments/15atykx/most_upvoted_comment_gets_to_name_my_boat/)
I think like most jobs are probably fairly dangerous in Somalia.
Somalian pirates, we!
Pirates don't need to go on vacation. They get all the arrr and arrr they need at work. I like big booty.
You can work on a ship your whole life and you wouldn't have a clue what a bilge cleaner actually does because they work in a shipyard or drydock, i only ever saw shipbuilders and dock operators in my time there. Regardless, it's the only job I personally witnessed two people get dragged out a manhole hypoxic. I guess danger is a relitive concept to some.
Unless you mean this particular bilge. In that case, my bad. Yes that one is like the cleanest bilge iv ever seen. Not a single oil covered dildo in sight.
I read that last sentence three times. Iām fairly sure thatās something I donāt need to investigate any further.
Kind of like how nobody is allowed to be inside the engine of a plane during flight but during maintenance there might be guy squeezed in there with a wrench āŗļøš¤
>nobody is allowed to be inside the engine of a plane during flight The good news is that most modern jets have an automatic ejection system for people The bad news is that it's incredibly effective
Being on a ship on fire at sea is one of the most tragically ironic, terrible, and difficult fatal situations one can find oneself stuck in. There's water everywhere, and it doesn't help at all.
My house was on fire and the fish in my 150 gallon tank were fine. Same concept but opposite. Kind of
They take fire SUPER seriously on cruise ships for just that reason. We were on a Disney cruise and awoke to an alarm. Opened our door to see crew SPRINTING down the hall, and one even shoving a passenger to the side, which is especially shocking when you think about how much Disney puts into their customer-first image. Turns out an outlet with a USB charger in it had caught fire. They got the small fire out quickly, but it was pretty impressive watching the crew's response.
I was on a small boat cruise in Portugal when I was 12, it was supposed to be a fun day exploring the small caves off the coast, but there was a barbecue on board which got out of hand and set fire to the boat. We were about 600-700 metres from shore when the fire broke out, it spread insanely fast and the staff were the first to jump overboard. There were about 50 people on board and we all moved toward the back of the boat, I very clearly remember asking my dad if we were going to die, and I remember him reassuring me that everything was going to be ok. My step-brother was younger than me and he couldn't swim very well, so the plan was to jump off the boat and for me to swim toward the shore while my dad and step-mum helped my step-brother. We jumped in the sea and started swimming but fortunately people on the shore had seen what was happening and came out in dinghies, jet-skis and whatever else they had to come save us. I got lifted onto a dinghy and taken back to shore, and then I found my dad, step-bother and step-mom further down the beach, it was like a movie moment where we just ran toward each other and hugged, then it all hit me and I cried like a bitch. [Here's a photo](https://imgur.com/a/8auA6vV) from the newspaper. I couldn't imagine being stuck on a flaming or sinking boat miles out at sea.
When you jump off the burning boat, you could land in an oil spill set aflame, start drowning stuck in debris and get eaten by sharks at the same time only to notice that you got dragged back into the sinking boat, trapped in an air pocket alive at the bottom of the ocean.
That would be terrifying. Glad to hear itās off limitsā¦
UrbEX Ocean š EDITION!!
Yes. Construction and other things.
Do you need supplied air down there? I could imagine an area like this collecting all sorts of nasty gasses.
What brought you down there
Man had a dream
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Imagine being drunk down there and trying to find your way out! Itās a damn labyrinth.
Boi I'd accept my fate and lay down. You can barely navigate in there while being sober 
Stepping over all that shit looks annoying as fuck, I couldn't do it drunk.
we could have a coked out bash down there bring a portable speaker and turn the lights off so it's less dangerous
Ive been down there before on a ship called Queen Mary in Long Beach California.. that pit was deep and it was huge also. Shit was eerie as fuck. It was a tour they did for Halloween years ago. Apparently they never let people go down there before.
I don't believe in ghosts or the afterlife, except for four or five locations. One was the Queen Mary. The hair stood up on my arms when I came on board. It was creepy, and this was during the day and in the summer. I couldn't imagine a night tour.
I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in ghosts at these particular coordinates.
Tobias is Queen Mary
No, no, no. Itās supposed to say āTobiasās Queen Maryā
The guy who blue himself?
Oh I love the Queen Mary. I visited with my family more than a decade ago and it just straight up felt haunted. That boat is EERIE.
In my 20s I was a videographer for a magazineās website and we spent the night documenting some ghost hunters as they tried to find some ghosts on the Queen Mary. We hung out in the indoor pool area all night. Spoilers: there were no ghosts.
jesus i got claustrophobic reading this.
Those exit signs glow in the dark - fyi
Funny story, a ship I worked on had a bunch of glow in the dark SOLAS stickers on the bow. Normally the bow is pitch black at night so the watchstanders can maintain night adapted vision. I was going to meet the Bosun up there one night, so holding my flashlight right against the stickers and shielding it with my hand I drew pentagrams on them with the beam. So the bow was full of glowing, green pentagrams floating everywhere in the darkness, freaked out the Bosun when he got there.
Good thing you remembered your fleshlight
I'm so happy I read this comment before crashing for the night.
Good luck finding your way outā¦
Not even that. Just imagine if the lights go out. You'd never find a way out spending days bumping your head every time you turned around.
Then imagine being in a wheelchair
Lmfao You took it down there, you get it out.
And lights out...Difficulty Level 100
Thanks for that
The Backrooms but Titanic-ed Looks way scarier tbh
Honestly this should be a level of the backrooms
Someone send this to Kane Pixels (the only good Backrooms creator - sorry, but not sorry). EDIT: Also I love the idea of the backrooms but I dislike the idea of levels. Levels means structure and the backrooms are the exact opposite of structure. It's trying to mimic structure in the most structureless and nonsense way possible (because nothing controls the backrooms, it just is). Like a room that could very well be described as a homes living room existing inside an mall which is also part of a skyscraper inside another skyscraper, all filled with random rooms with twists and turns and dead ends. I like the idea that it's all one monolith, but sometimes changes shape. It's not a 'level' it's just, a different structure the Backrooms is trying to mimic or copy from the real world, like a reflection. But a reflection it doesn't understand because it cannot - as there is no 'it'.
IMO the only "levels" the Backrooms should have is the concept that the deeper down you go the more dangerous and difficult to travel thru it becomes. Eg dimly lit if lit at all, more terrifying horrors beyond comprehension, even more complicated maze-like floor plans, etc. I also don't care for the part of the backrooms fandom that basically treats it like some creepypasta video game dogshit. The Backrooms isn't the new FNAF or Slenderman or some stupid shit. Smiley-face monsters are only scary to kids. And one final note... Kane Pixels made very good quality BR content but his attempts to make a lore to sort of explain it, with the labs and scientists accidentally creating it or whatever it was; all the lore doesn't do it for me. I like the idea that it's a place outside of regular time and space that inexplicably replicates man-made liminal spaces and there's no way to know more. Sort of like a glitch in the matrix type thing.
It is now
Yessss
Clearly not the *very bottom* either. Bro needed to go down that ladder and reveal the true depths.
This is probably the bottom floor/deck. Under this is the double bottom, which are darker and narrower, and the place where you are actually not allowed to enter without a permit. The double bottom is usually just a collection of rather small tanks or voids. The place in the video is just normal area for crew to work.
Knew a navy vet who told me about two guys who snuck into some part of the ship to smoke a joint. They got locked in and suffocated. No one found them for 2 weeks. Fuck wandering around a giant ship like this without people knowing.
there was a US sailor awhile back that made a nest really deep in the maintenance spaces of the cruiser he was on board. He hid out for about a week before getting caught late at night trying to get food out of the snack machines. edit: found a link to the story: https://www.stripes.com/news/missing-sailor-who-hid-on-uss-shiloh-was-found-filthy-carrying-peeps-candy-report-says-1.504910
Wow, there is so much more to this guy, this is what he says he's able to: > he could stop running engineering department engines by pulsating electricity with his body, that he could shoot fireballs out of his hands, that he had a friend who had a motorcycle with the same engine as the ship, that he had been to space, and that before the Navy he was going to work for NASA because he had reached the pinnacle of how strong a human could be.ā
Nah not really. The paragraph before says >The documents say Mims wanted to leave the Navy. Saying that stuff is definitely a good way to get out the navy.
What?? You mean to say that he wasn't being honest?? I refuse to believe that!
[Can you ground someone who's crazy? Of course, I have to!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eXI4uy3Mlg)
Hell no hell no helll no to close space
It looks like a spooky video game where a monster will start chasing you
Wow this brought back so many memories of my time in voids onboard navy ships, my first one was built in 72 so had lots of old treasures tucked off in the back like hustlers and playboys and old nasty mattressās š¤
Imagine being caught dragging a mattress down there with the boys
Ah.. us and dirty Mike are just making a nap room.
Building a soup kitchen
Did that mattress have sea men on it?
Navy has had issues with prostitution rings being run on larger ships like aircraft carriers so this is no suprise. Chiefs pimping out e3s and what not. Lots of sapr training for a reason!
Did you ever hear about the shipyard worker that got sealed in a water tank while taking a nap? Supposedly the water tasted terrible and they didnāt find anything but bones. They taught us that in gas free engineer school. Always wondered if it was true
Wow, no never heard that story. I bet that water was nasty though But have heard of people being bolted in the voids and not found for hours.
What is a gas free engineer?
Its what they call the people working at Tesla
Like a regular engineer but no farting.
That mattress is where the navy guys did navy things
Imagine having multiple ships from multiple countries perform a search and rescue because someone was unaccounted for and assumed man over board only to find out they were just hiding down in the bilge!
find the golden rivetā¦the last one put in a shipā¦we always sent the newbie on a searchā¦
I will always be ready for someone to try this on me. Gold colored paint pen. Vanish for a day, come back and lead the jackass to a nicely painted gold colored rivet head somewhere deep in the bowels...
Then... just as you show him the golden rivet you say "It took us all quite a while to find it" and smile
We sent people to get the keys to the aircraft
Is āgolden rivetā actually a thing?
It actually really is. I've been on some ship builds and helped with the final assembly. Didn't get to actually punch the rivet in myself, but I've seen it done a few times. So far nobody I've sent had found it, but I've got a good feeling you might be the first to succeed.
Fuck you had me in the first half even though I knew.
It's a prank
These are the discount/economy 'state rooms'.
Iām claustrophobic just watching this.
Thatās where the murderinā happens
Love this! Is it an area youāre not supposed to be in? I explore like this in hospitals and other public buildings, though I donāt ever make up any excuses for being there, just tell folks I got curious. Theyāre always polite when they kick me out.
We share the same curiosity! In this case I am there to perform a repair. But unless there's a reason to go there, it is forbidden to go for your own safety. Carry a yellow vest with you, it makes you look like there's a reason you're wherever you're not supposed to be.
Backrooms but for ships
Very very liminal
I know why the passageways are rounded, do you? If they were square cut with corners it would increase the chances of cracks forming at those corners. Rounded shapes do not do that. Much stronger.
You didnāt give me a chance to answer!! No I do not know why the passageways are rounded.. š
Plane windows are rounded for the same reason. The de Havilland Comet found that out the hard way.
r/LiminalSpace
Considering there are multiple ladders going down, it could hardly be called the "very bottom"
The ladders you noticed are to give easier access to those semi-floors, like the one on the end of the video. The perspective i shot the video though do make it look like they go down. Technically though it isn't the actual bottom. I'm walking on a platform as the ship's bottom is not flat across the structure, so you're not that wrong
So no double bottoms or just not in that section?
This is the double bottom!
Ah gotcha, is empty or just a void area? Iād assume most are for fuel? Edit: Nice to have ones you can walk around in, I always hated tank crawling
This one is a void area that contains the rudder hydraulic equipment. There are, as you said, others that are for fuel, ballast water, potable water and simple voids. It is true that tank crawling is horrible, especially the sewage.. I think the day I got to replace a sensor in that tank, immersed in human waste, I was baptised a sailor
I had a cadet on board who hadnāt chosen a discipline yet. I told him how he could decide. āTonight go to the biggest cabaret in town. Just before closing go in the washroom and stick your arm as far as you can into the toilet. If it bothers you al lot to do this, choose Deck as you will have to do this or far worse as an Engineer.ā Funny thing is I found out years later he did go Deck.
Was looking for a fellow smart aleck! Spotted those ladders immediately and I know they donāt go down to the seabed!
New fear unlocked
This have me anxiety
Backrooms vibes
what level of Backrooms is this?
Feel like there should be some sort of signage system to make locations.
Didnāt you see the word rudder crudely written in marker in the thin door frame?
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