Oct 19 2009BOOM!: Massive Underwater Mine Detonation
This is an old-ass video of somebody's (the French's?) Navy detonating an underwater mine. The picture quality is pretty poor but the explosion is amazing and I'm not afraid to admit I got aroused. Twice. Plus I love how at the very end they realize their boat's gonna be capsized by the resulting wave and start going apeshit. Talk about poor planning -- that's something I would do! But it's cool because I'm a blogger and not a Navy.
Thanks to Trogdolorian, who plans on traveling back in time to seize and burninate a castle.
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Reader Comments
1. squirl - October 19, 2009 1:02 PM
Ok, at least get your grammar right, it should be 'an navy' for god sake
also: last
2. aquaman - October 19, 2009 1:05 PM
im screwed
3. austinjames - October 19, 2009 1:06 PM
you sunk my battle ship
4. Me - October 19, 2009 1:07 PM
Correct not that which you do not yourself understand
5. Pat - October 19, 2009 1:08 PM
That's like the New Haven Coliseum demolition I went to. Whoops! People shouldn't have been standing on the I-95 onramp. Watch the police officers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPeNyw1VtIA
6. Freddy K - October 19, 2009 1:09 PM
damn firewall....
I really want to see explosions at work. Thats why I went to the taco truck this morning. Now check out this firewall! Woo HOO!
navy twat
7. sean - October 19, 2009 1:14 PM
looks like my junk.
hair and all.
8. Richard McBeef - October 19, 2009 1:20 PM
That is what it looks like when I fart in the bathtub.
9. freckles - October 19, 2009 1:27 PM
It really is the last second of the video that moves it from awesome to hilarious.
10. naas - October 19, 2009 1:29 PM
@1 "an navy"? stupidass - GWs got it right.... quit skipping school
I didn't know France even had A NAVY let alone a battleship. After seeing something like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhriIQs805s - one has to wonder how safe arming France really is
11. Quikeg - October 19, 2009 1:33 PM
Hey look, honestly, do you really think the French army would count down in English ?
Really ?
Come on.
12. Johannest85 - October 19, 2009 1:36 PM
I dont think they are afraid of the wave. I think its a steamwave comming towards them.
They are obviously canadians!
13. kokoshka - October 19, 2009 1:36 PM
I wonder how many fish that obliterated...
14. Ham Bone - October 19, 2009 1:42 PM
"We surrender" -the French
15. ciao - October 19, 2009 1:42 PM
later on corpses of various animal species float to the top.
They should at least test these things in non-occupied spaces, unless this is some spiffy way the navy catches it's meals on the go. :1
16. Microwire - October 19, 2009 1:53 PM
NUKE THE WHALES!
17. David S - October 19, 2009 1:56 PM
I'm pretty sure there are sound waves they can throw in the water to deter fish and other creatures from staying nearby.
18. Bones - October 19, 2009 2:28 PM
The ship is not going to capsize. The last words heard are "fermez les portes !". (Shut the doors !). The camereman is concerned about getting over-wet since a salt water shower is closing in.
19. naas - October 19, 2009 2:44 PM
@17 I'm not so sure they bothered taking the effort or time to do that. Besides fish can be pretty stupid (see: fishing) so emitting sound might attract more of them
20. shellshell - October 19, 2009 3:02 PM
Fish have much better hearing than humans do, so if they did try to deter them with noise I guess it would work. I very much doubt they did though. Fish and chips tonight lads!
21. rwanito - October 19, 2009 3:23 PM
They sure are french, you gotta be stupid to test this kind of ****
22. _me - October 19, 2009 3:37 PM
Dang, I wanted to see the rest of that video. That was a HUGE blast!
23. ace - October 19, 2009 4:15 PM
I was present at a similar mine detonation when I was in the navy. Afterwards there were so much dead fish floating around, you could feed a village.
24. The Baroness - October 19, 2009 4:32 PM
GW :
25. Jaded Icon - October 19, 2009 4:33 PM
Are we sure its a mine. At some point after the explosion it looks like a jet stream passed over the target area. Could be wrong though....
26. The Baroness - October 19, 2009 4:51 PM
Sorry for my previous message : never try to write something while a stupid 12 year old boy is sitting next to you ! (who is actually 24 and wants to have fun with your computer)
Anyway... i was just trying to say that GW's video IS French... but Naas's one is obviously Canadian... that is DIFFERENT ;) They speak French with a funny accent... i love it! ;) J'adore votre accent chers Québécois !
And i don't care if it's a mine or not because as GW said "it's cool" :)
27. yaboooooy - October 19, 2009 5:33 PM
ive taken shits twice as explosive as that.
28. crus - October 19, 2009 8:25 PM
fier d'etre français !
nan je deconne ! ça craint , par contre l'explosion est cool
j'avais un pote poisson là-bas.... j'ai plus aucune nouvelles....
hehe
29. crus - October 19, 2009 8:39 PM
@10 hahahaha
but it's just noobs at training...
30. Geekolojew - October 20, 2009 7:03 AM
Must See!!!
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31. Cyril - October 20, 2009 7:20 AM
Yep it's french.
32. Jacob - October 20, 2009 9:04 AM
E-7?
...Miss
Damn...
33. cheez - October 21, 2009 3:52 PM
French's ... really? With an apostrophe? Really? Not French but French's? Really?
34. JD Temna - October 25, 2009 8:57 PM
Geekologie writer:
I found out the whole story on this a while back. They were detonating a mine, but what they didnt know was that they did it on top of a bunch of WWII unexploded depth charges. That was the black muck at the end of the explosion. They did not intend for it to be that big.