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They say the city moves when no one is watching. Rust groans in the wind. A bridge collapses into the sea, and no one hears it but the ghosts. In winter, entire buildings vanish in the night, torn away by storms with workers still inside. It doesn’t show up on Google Maps. It’s hidden from modern satellite imagery.
And yet, 34 miles off the coast of Azerbaijan in the middle of the Caspian Sea, something built to last forever is slowly being devoured by the waves. Its name is Neft Daşları. Oil Rocks. It was Stalin’s floating dream, and its end is coming.
In 1949, engineers struck oil 3,600 feet beneath a black reef sailors once called Chornye Kamni. That night, no one slept. They smeared the slick black gold across their faces like warpaint. Soon, the Soviets sunk the Zoroaster—the world’s first oil tanker—along with six other ships, and built the world’s first offshore drilling platform atop their hulls. Then they kept building.
By the 1960s, Oil Rocks had morphed into a 17-acre labyrinth of steel, concrete, and timber. Over 2,000 rigs dotted a 19-mile circle. Roads—nearly 200 miles of them—linked bridges to nine-story dormitories, cinemas, bakeries, even a tree-lined park. Soil was barged in. Lemons grew. Movies played.
At its height, Neft Daşları was home to 5,000 workers, who lived for weeks at sea in a self-contained Stalinist utopia, thundering with the sounds of trucks and drills. In 1971, the Soviets placed the dream onto a commemorative postage stamp, represented by a road over water racing toward a red sun.
But no utopia lasts forever, especially not one built on water and oil…
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sounds like the oil worker saw something he wasnt meant to see that night.
A gigantic Rogue Wave I think would be my worst fear on a rig. A wave dwarfs the structure.
What a brilliant video. Loved it!
4:24
If you're looking for me,
You better check under the sea,
'cause that is where you'll find me,
Underneath the sea, lab,
Underneath the water,
Sealab, at the bottom of the sea.
I heard about this event for the first time, it’s truly unbelievable! Do you think the details mentioned here could be true?
Some of these videos are absolutely brilliant
You should narrarate your old videos
4:25 Back in 1972, Hanna Barbera aired a Saturday Morning Cartoon called SEALAB 2020. It had Beautiful Animation, similar to Jonny Quest's animation.
SEALAB 2020 was also more Serious than most Hanna Barbera cartoons were, ALSO like Jonny Quest.
I see now what HB based SEALAB 2020 off of.
Hanna Barbera LOVED Latching onto whatever New Thing happened to be In Vogue at the time. They'd capitalize and make a Cartoon about it.
For instance, the HB Cartoon DEVLIN was based off Evel Knievel. It's another EXCELLENT Serious Cartoon that Hanna Barbera Studios made in the 1970's.
mh370 should tell you right there the governments had something to do with it especially after targeting him
3:23 That is a Stunning Image.
The Enshadowed Foreground, Contrasted by the Vibrance of the Background Sky.
What an INCREDIBLE Picture!!
2:04 I wonder what that Postage Stamp goes for on the Collector's Market?
It would make a NIFTY Collector's Item.
I Want One!!
14:00 HORROR OF HUMANITY ++
4:30 many videos of your are things that do not exist…THIS DOES FOR SURE MEHHH…AT THIS POINT I DO NOT KNOW WHATS NEXT (VIDEO) BUT YOU GET A LIEK NOW
One of the great disasters of Sealab was when the Mingus Dew drink dispenser fell over, crushing Sealab's captain.
We all know that plane crashed. Pieces of it have washed up on shore in various places. How it crashed is the mystery.
What's the creepiest thing I can imagine seeing on an offshore oil rig? Harry Stamper taking shots at me for banging his daughter.
Can anyone explain, and I enjoy this channel, how the 1st story is a "deep sea mystery"?
Very fascinating video. Never heard of any of these besides MH370 airliner. I’m pretty sure I heard speculation from sources that the plane was shot down – being a mistake, it was covered up. This explains the oil rig worker seeing a big flame coming down from the sky.
So many of these offshore relics are vanishing before we even get a chance to study or remember them. What else is out there beneath the waves?
This is more than a mystery — it’s a ghost story written in steel and saltwater. A true masterpiece of forgotten history.
EXCELLENT EPISODE!!!!
The music playing during the lighthouse section is really creepy.
MH370 was part of a gold heist involving 3 separate airplanes.
This dude's voice is like forensic files I could fall asleep to it and makes you want to kill somebody at the same time😂
I miss your voiceless videos tbh
that first one is literaly motherbase
Why do titles always change after being uploaded?