Brick Immortar - Your Safety Matters.

[Preacher ✝]

Brick Immortar makes high quality, well researched, videos about major accidents with a focus on those occurring at sea. There wasn't a thread for this top tier channel so I figured I'd make one.

Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/@BrickImmortar

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Discuss.

 

[satorrotas]

Maritime accidents are almost worth a thread because you can write some interesting and thoughtful stuff about them. The sinking of the Essex is a pretty crazy one and it doesn't look like he has a video on it. A real-world event that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. Cool channel, thanks for sharing.

 

[Leylon Sneed]

He does good videos, fairly long form, he usually gets OSHA or NTSB reports (always one or the other). He's a little dry in delivery but the content is interesting..

I may be misremembering, but hasn't he mentioned a couple times that he was a former NTSB inspector or something?

I think he's done a couple collabs too, I know he did one with attorney Tom, and I think he did one with. Nope that other one was someone else.

 

[Preacher ✝]

He's a little dry in delivery but the content is interesting.

He mentions in the newest video that he's going for a very neutral audio book narration delivery. Based on his tagline about the importance of safety I would speculate thst he doesnt want to distract from the data with a flashy delivery.

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

I distinctly remember him inferring once or twice that he does maritime safety lectures of some sort. Perhaps he's part of a marine safety training organization? Either way, based decision to make a thread. I wish he made more railroad-related content, but rail's all private corporation and not necessarily easy to get material for.

 

[Leylon Sneed]

He mentions in the newest video that he's going for a very neutral audio book narration delivery. Based on his tagline about the importance of safety I would speculate thst he doesnt want to distract from the data with a flashy delivery.

His delivery doesn't detract from the content at all. He covers serious incidents where people lost their lives, and goes into detail on what was done wrong, how some simple safety procedures could have changed the outcome. The only thing that I don't always like is his solution section at the end. He always talks about regulation that could change to make things not happen, but it's not regulation so much as workplace culture. I am in an industry that I have deal with OSHA, and the regulation (the things they make you do, like safety meetings) doesn't make anyone take things seriously. I don't really have a solution other than do more training, let the guys who don't know see what can happen when you get careless, or try cutting too many corners.

I didn't see he put a new video out until today, I'll be watching that after work.

 

[Preacher ✝]

The only thing that I don't always like is his solution section at the end.

Unless I am mistaken the solution section is taken verbatim from whichever organization source documents he's using like the NTSB or Coast Guard. It's not his personal solutions but those officially put forward by the relevant authority.

That said I agree with your sentiment, regulations based solutions are suboptimal for dealing with problems that are caused by not only work place culture but industry greed.

In the case of the newest video I imagine that if the fishermen hadn't been beholden to a very demanding quota the Captain might have thought twice about setting off into the heavy freezing spray storm or at the very least the crew wouldn't have been too overworked and haggard to deal with the severe weather effectively.

The same could be said about the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald. If they hadn't been trying so hard to meet demanding industry quotas they might have made the prudent decision to wait for the storm to pass before sailing out.

Regulations help hold these companies accountable after the fact, but are less than adequate at preventing tragedies.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

It's the wrong time of year for it now, but every year in late spring I think about that condiment ship getting its hull breached and going down with all hands off of Baja.

I will never forget the sinko de mayo.

 

[KMFDM Sucks]

I may be misremembering, but hasn't he mentioned a couple times that he was a former NTSB inspector or something?

I don't recall him mentioning he was in the NTSB, but I think he was either in the coast guard or a merchant mariner. He likely has spent real time at sea.

 

[Scout Trooper]

His delivery doesn't detract from the content at all. He covers serious incidents where people lost their lives, and goes into detail on what was done wrong, how some simple safety procedures could have changed the outcome.

Agreed, it serves as a reminder of how seriously and solemnly these events should be discussed.

For me, the deadpan style of relating the events as they spiral out of control increases the horror.

 

[Leylon Sneed]

In the case of the newest video I

Agreed, it serves as a reminder of how seriously and solemnly these events should be discussed.

For me, the deadpan style of relating the events as they spiral out of control increases the horror.

So I'm watching his last video right now, and yet again, it's modifications done without cert that lead to the problem.

Off the top of my head, the Faro, the duck boats, the Sewol, and a couple of the fishing boats.. were all modified without getting a cert before being put back out to Sea. And the Arctic Sea is the especially unforgiving.

ETA
Bering Sea, not Arctic Sea

 

[Preacher ✝]

were all modified without getting a cert before being put back out to Sea.

I re-watched the Scandies Rose video earlier and in that case the calculations used for the stability protocols were flawed.

 

[Dfackt0]

Ive Re listened to El faro a dozen times or more, he does an expert job at chaining together all the small things that led to her sinking
I ruminate on the horrors of those final moments, being ~10 miles away from the Eye of a category 4 hurricane, doomed and hopelessly adrift, i know its unlikely considering the contents of the VDR but i like to think that the bridge crew were able to tear captain davidson to pieces in the madness before the waves rolled them all to sleep
The horror though was that it wasnt just davidson who signed their death warrants, Tote wanted to suck just a few more years of profit out of the 50 year old Ponce Fleet and they were able to skirt inspections by throwing their weight around
a prime example of what the channel is about, when profit takes precedent over the lives of the people who make it happen, it will cost you more when tragedy strikes