Billy Connolly - Submarine Crash REACTION | Live in London

Billy Connolly is one of the best story tellers of our day. 😂

Billy’s gotta be in the top 5 stand ups of all time

Billy is a gift to humanity, if he's in something I watch it, whether its his stand up, acting or one of his travel shows.

Oh Billy, you are a joy in our lives.

I've always thought that if Captain Smith of the Titanic was blindfolded and told to sail at full speed and hit an iceberg in two days, he wouldn't have been able to do it!

Lets just forget about the US sub that hit an underwater mountain head on eh....... 😁

Love the post!😀Must have been one hell of an insurance claim (so you were in the middle of the Atlantic and 'accidentally' bumped into each other🤔). Keep them coming

I don't think anyone could top Billy and the way he can tell a story. I think from one comment on another video I saw someone said he doesn't script his act he just goes out to talk about a few topics and just does it off the cuff? I applied for the Royal Australian Navy as a Submariner Officer after high school in the 2000s. Couldn't do it being very slightly colourblind but I found out it was a good thing. When I was in Sydney for work I had the morning off so went to the Maritime Museum and among other things took a tour through the submarine there with the guide who had served onboard before it was decommissioned in the early 90s. I came out of that very glad I got knocked back from Subs! 40 men, 2 toilets, 0 showers and if someone farts in the torpedo room the whole boat knows about it.

All of Billy Connolly's stories are true. It's the way he tells them and his conclusions are hilarious. He's an observational comedian. The best for me.

the submarine story is true it was in the news a lot at the time, ultimately any signal used to identify yourself to allies would also make you identifiable by enemies. from what i remember of the story both submarines were conducting search operations looking for hidden subs at the time, generally for subs to avoid land based detection they need to travel as deep as possible and through certain channels when the seafloor is much higher. both subs were checking the same natural bottleneck area that Russian subs like to use to avoid detection so its not as unlikely as you would think, though predictable enough both navies were mocked publicly for not foreseeing it.

On the night between 3–4 February 2009, the two submarines collided in the Atlantic true story 😂👍🏻😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

What it was I believe is one of the crew men high-ranking had to get off the ship at the last moment and he took the keys with him for the binoculars that’s why the two watches where domed 👍

It did happen HMS Vigilant and Le Triumphe in 2009. Both subs were on active patrols using their passive sonar used to detect other vessels by picking up noise from engine, propulsion systems.

I love your channel, just saying ❤

Wildebeest next please 🙏 will have you in stitches 😂

I worked on Britain’s nuclear deterrent (UK Vanguard Class HK Submarines) here in Scotland at the time this happened If Billy thought this was bad, they used to hit the bottom CONSTANTLY I used to dig at the Navy all the time! “That’s like driving your car into the road” As for detection, the idea is to be more invisible than able to detect other subs. How it works is subs can run almost completely silent these days. The faster they go, the more noise they produce so they either slow down or shut engines of completely, called ‘running silent’. At that point a sub is virtually undetectable. If the operator makes an error in judgement with speed or movement, the prop blades produce bubbles called ‘cavitation’ and this can be heard by sonarmen. The best can tell you exactly which type of sub they can hear by the sound, due to size and number of props. Submarines, in order to detect their surroundings, including subs and ships, use what’s called a ‘sonar ping’. This is a loud ping which relies on the sound of the ping reflecting back to the sub. The problem with that is, no matter what you do to a sonar ping to improve it, what it will always, always do is give away your position as you’ve effectively just yelled at 140 decibels as much as 300 miles away This is why subs run silent and can’t detect each other

Submarines sonar detects the machine plant noise and most of the time, nothing else. This is the noise surrounding the reactor vessel, water wooshing through pipes. Submariners practice something called 'quick quiet', where they turned down all of that to its lowest setting and move on battery power. Everything about being on a submarine is about controlling noise, rubber soled shoes, corrugated decks. There was a story that one time a Los Angeles class left Norfolk Harbour and the moment they began their dive, their sonar picked up the equivalent of a heavy metal band's drum kit being used by the Muppet Animal. They searched the whole boat and couldn't find anything out of place. They asked another sub, an Ohio to try and pinpoint the noise, they couldn't. So, the Los Angeles had to go back into port and get checked out by the Yard officers. Who after seven hours searching found a stepladder inside one of the ballast tanks. The skipper was not happy and he did try to throttle the guy who owned it!

The Titanic damage was a lot of popped rivets that were faulty and buckled plates there wasn't a big hole, but even so a radar scan of the hull estimated that the area of damage amounted to one square metre... and she took on 8,000 tons of water in about 20 mins. ouch !!!

They were both so hidden they couldn't see each other

in deep water you have varying layers of water through which sonar will not penetrate, that's why the most dangerous time for a boat is when it surfaces, that is why fishing boats were often nudged off the coast.