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Uploaded by on Aug 25, 2007

Unique video showing the explosion and sinking of the vessel Gran Roque. Shot by Underwater cameraman Carlos Vilkerman

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  • Thanks..... I guess I should go and collect from my participation in the movie....

    This is the actual sinking of a well prepared ship in order to create an "Artificial Reef" ..... 5 years later is full of fish and small coral polyps.... but I guess you would not understand what a FAD is....

  • I think this is a waste of good scrap metal.

  • Its a good point.... but in some countries or actually in most countries.... they don't have a guillotine in order to cut the metal inside of a dry dock.... so if you were to cut the ship into pieces with acetylene torches... the pollution would be greater for many reasons.

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  • when they sink ships like this they strip them of everything un-ecological like plastic, oil, chemicals etc.

    when they sink it they crate artificial corals for fish and octopus and other sea creatures.

  • i know but people here just talk and don't think

    on the other similar video where they sunk an old warship someone commented : "It would be wise to sink them with nukes and get rid of both"

    and he actually had thumbs up given...

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  • @CarlosVilkerman On You Tube, invariably there are going to be attention seeking idiots like this patd2k7 who allegedly 'knows what really happened'. You could have posted a vid just showing puppies playing, and some fool would invariably make some sort of negative comment about it. Nice vid, CV

  • O_O cool

  • @skeilak Grandma, 7/11 called. They don't want you back in their store because you shat you Depends while standing in line to buy your gin and cigs.

  • interesting method for defusing seamines

  • @bogomir67 yes they do. earlier they did it with old tires but that went horribly wrong: corals didn't want to live on tires and the tires are now floating around at the coast haha :)

  • Didn't the U.S. Navy do that with an old aircraft carrier too, for the same rason (starting a reef)?

    I wonder if they still do that - what with the scrap metal prices so high...

  • @nomad1187 plus it creates a great habitat for wildlife

  • yea hotel for fish!  extended stay.lol

  • Making artificial coral reefs..

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