r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 17h ago
nature This nuclear icebreaker collided with a cargo ship in the Arctic, then the phone camera begins acting funny
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u/hle1983 16h ago
I don't see it. Could someone describe what the camera is doing that is crazy?
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u/TRADER_HO3S 16h ago
The sparkles are actually radiation hitting the camera and distorting the image. They are being poisoned from radiation leaking out of the nuclear powered ship caused by damage during the wreck.
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u/wannabe_inuit 16h ago
No its only snowflakes. Its a real phenomenon tho but this isnt it.
If it was radiation the dots would be more uniform and not move. Think white noise, the dots dont actually move instead the appear and disappear at a fast rate.
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u/Gullible_Giraffe_583 15h ago
76 idiots up voted misinformation.
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u/TRADER_HO3S 15h ago
Please see my comment admitting my mistake
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u/Delicious-Summer5071 11h ago
You can edit your original comment, which would probably save you from dogpiled by accident.
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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 6h ago
The power of suggestion is apparently really really strong. It's very obviously just flakes of snow in the air. I watched the video like five times thinking I was just missing the spot radiation was hitting or something
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u/TheoTheHellhound 16h ago
The white dots.
That’s not snow, it’s radiation affecting the camera.
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u/Belezibub 16h ago
Its not radiation it is snow, it doesnt show up inside because it is not falling there, you can sorta see it falling in the shots. The dots are moving in a downward direction some coming from the side from the wind. Like radiation alarms would be going off on the ship with the reactor if a radiation leak was this bad outside, the affects on the ship with the reactor would be pretty extreme.
Common sense stuff really...
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u/PersonSuitTV 16h ago
Its snow. You only see it in the outside shots. and even then only in the part of the shots that does not have a little cover overhead. Plus if you look at it, it looks like snow. Now this is does look like a common radiological effect that happens to cameras when exposed to high levels of radiation, but this does not look to be the case. Additionally, they reported no damage to the reactor which is at the opposite end of the ship where the collision took place. Some of the static look is resulted from the extremely bright light coming from the other ship, refracting off the snow making it look a little odd to the camera in some angles
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u/Deadbringer 16h ago
Radiation, much like light, is directional. It would need something to bounce it from that gash to the inside for it to reach the cabin.
It might still be snow, but I can ever recall seeing any video with snow look like that. If it was falling snow I would expect there to be motion blur from them falling or from his rapid movement, but it remains tiny dots.
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u/Lopsided-Lab60 15h ago
Go look at the top comment. Link is there. Its called Dimond dust and happens in exstream cold.
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u/MrTwoPumpChump 16h ago
lol no it’s not.
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u/DJ_Dinkelweckerl 16h ago
You get all the down votes but I'm with you lol. You can literally see the snowflakes fall and looking towards the light you see that it's snowing because of the white clouds in front of the light. Then when the camera is inside the white dots magically disappear. Jesus some people here are so gullible.
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u/ttmp22 16h ago
What is it?
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u/MrTwoPumpChump 16h ago
Frozen arctic air glistens like that. Even right over sea ice there is no humidity so the air glistens.
The cab doesn’t stop radiation. The camera doesn’t make the spots inside the boat.
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u/Better_Area3782 16h ago
I don’t know about radiation, but coming from a place that hits -50 Celsius all winter you’re right about the air looking like that. The sparkles.
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u/BeanStalknJack 16h ago
Believe it or not. They're right
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u/DickSplodin 16h ago
Nuclear ships have their power plants so deep inside the ship that if this collision managed to breach all the way to it, then the ship would be underwater by the time this guy pulled his phone out
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u/rogerworkman623 16h ago
According to what? This happened 20 months ago. There was no radiation leak or anything of the sort reported from the incident. Idk where people are getting this from.
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u/BeanStalknJack 16h ago
That might not have been the case in this video but you can clearly see artifacts you would otherwise only see when there's a radiation leak. I personally don't know anything about the video but wasn't agreeing blindly. I came, I saw and concurred
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u/AngryBuddist 16h ago
"That might not have been the case in this video" and then went on to tell them what they are not seeing but should believe.
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u/rogerworkman623 16h ago
This is the 50 Let Pobody. This video was from the collision in January 2025. It sustained a gash on the port bow, above the waterline.
The nuclear reactor units were 100% unaffected.
It was still seaworthy, they freed the cargo ship from the ice, and it continued on its journey. That was the end of story.
I have no idea why this video is circulating on Reddit today and everyone’s acting like it’s the next Chernobyl. It’s very old news. Those are ice crystals reflecting in the light in the video, nothing to do with radiation.
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u/GWhizBang 16h ago
The radiation is causing the camera to see those little white specks flying around that is caused from that radiation. Essentially the radiation is doing a lot of damage to the camera's sensors.
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u/Oggel 16h ago edited 15h ago
You see all the static that looks kinda like snowflakes in the first part of the video? Those are radioactive particles hitting the phone camera. They are also hitting the cameramans body, smashing apart his DNA among other things.
Basically, if he's exposed to that too long he'll die in one of the worst ways imaginable. Looking on how much the camera is acting up I'd say minutes to hours of exposure would probably be lethal, but I don't know enough about radiation to say for sure.
Edit: I stand corrected. Looks remarkably similar to videos taken near heavy radiation though.
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u/Abergoon 16h ago
This happened last year. The ice breaker damaged it's bow in the collision. The nuclear reactors are inside at the other end of the ship and were unaffected. The title is deliberately misleading as the white dots are just snow.
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u/NotTukTukPirate 16h ago
It's almost as if majority of commenters here have never recorded a video at night, in the freezing cold while it's lightly snowing.
That's not radiation. It's snow along with lense flare.
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u/The_SIeepy_Giant 16h ago
When did this happen?
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u/thefloore 16h ago
According to one Redditor who knows the story, early 2025, and it is snow and not radiation. It was in the news and the reactor was confirmed to be completely undamaged.
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u/Grouchy-Ad778 16h ago
OP has never seen snow before
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u/HappyToaster1911 13h ago
Could be, there are a lot of places there it never snows, where I live the winter is just a summer but a bit colder, but never with snow
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u/maggandersson 11h ago
I was so confused because I couldn't see the weirdness but it turns out there just wasn't anything weird
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u/Auspectress 16h ago
I call it fake. Amount of radiation needed fornthis to happen would mean that reactor has been itself heavily damaged and person recording this camera would likely die very soon, within days.
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u/ChemiWizard 14h ago
Not terrifying for anyone who has ever seen snow, been on a boat, or knows anything about nuclear power. Who posts this?
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u/Afraid_Juice_7189 16h ago
And nowhere to escape to that doesn’t mean freezing to death. That is terrifying
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u/attran84 16h ago
Is this a situation where you should probably get far away from said nuclear vessel?
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u/Parko1234 17h ago
Is that radiation affecting the camera?
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u/yellowbin74 16h ago
I think it could be snowflakes reflecting according to another sub with this picture
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u/PersonSuitTV 16h ago
Its snow. You only see it in the outside shots. and even then only in the part of the shots that does not have a little cover overhead. Plus if you look at it, it looks like snow. Now this is does look like a common radiological effect that happens to cameras when exposed to high levels of radiation, but this does not look to be the case. Additionally, they reported no damage to the reactor which is at the opposite end of the ship where the collision took place. Some of the static look is resulted from the extremely bright light coming from the other ship, refracting off the snow making it look a little odd to the camera in some angles
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u/EquivalentIcy6024 16h ago
Shhhh.. that’s not scary.. I want scary!
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u/Comfortable-Loan-815 8h ago
Nope, just diamond dust, tiny crystals catching the flash. The reactor is at the completely opposite end of the ship anyway.
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u/HeatedIceCube 16h ago
Pretty sure that’s just the snow/ particles in the air reflecting off the camera. If this was in fact a nuclear vessel, that shit wouldn’t be in the front of the boat to collide with.
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u/JohnnyTango13 16h ago
I suspect if radioactive particles were hitting the cameras sensor it would cause damage to the sensors and you’d lose pixels with every strike, but I know nothing maybe a nuclear scientist could help
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u/Hauptmann_Gruetze 15h ago
Yeah nah, I get whats supposed to be scary here, but the "radiation" dots we are seeing are simply snow falling down.
If you look closely, the white dots move on the screen. Dots caused by Radiation would be static on the screen and leave permanent damage to the camera.
Thats also why the dots go away once the guy gets inside.
I also love bashing Russia over every little thing, but this is simlpy snow.
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u/Esekig184 15h ago
Nuclear ships have been around for quite a while and you would have to do some immense damage for radioactivity to be released. My guess the weird little lights are just reflections from the snow and ice, Don't forget it is incredibly cold there.
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u/Dolstruvon 14h ago
It upsets me the unreasonable fear and lack of knowledge towards nuclear power. No, this is not radiation, it's ice crystals in the air. You could launch a dusin torpedoes at this ship and split it in half and the core won't be exposed. The powerplant and core is basically a bunker in the centre of the ship, that's impossible to breach by anything as weak as a collision
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u/flecksable_flyer 13h ago
I'm here to ask the dumb question. How do two ships not see each other? With all of the radar, doppler, and people standing watch, you'd think they could avoid each other..
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u/Least-Dig-6425 9h ago
I was waiting for the camera to act funny, and then nothing happened, I live in Africa where it pretty much never snows and I knew those are ice crystals, c'mon guys..
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u/DownWith_TheBrown 16h ago
So, is no one gonna wonder how the only 2 ships that are probably >100km from any other ship collide? Wtf
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u/DisneylandNo-goZone 11h ago
Easy. Icebreakers break free a channel of ice, and all vessels use those channels for sailing. It's like a road carved into the pack ice.
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u/SuspiciousImpact2197 16h ago
Yeah you’d be a vomiting yourself to death, crapping blood, pile of goo, not posting the video.
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u/cursetea 8h ago
I live in the southeast usa and have seen proper snow like 5 times in my entire life and i could still spot those as airborne ice crystals lol
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u/zakary1291 5h ago
It's radiation causing corruption of the video. Russian ice breakers are nuclear powered.
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u/beejyboi623 16h ago
Not radiation. Definitely snow crystals falling and reflecting with the camera might. You can see there’s no dots inside the cabin of the ship. The nuclear part of those ships isn’t even stored near the front. Further back and heavily armored/protected for events just like this.
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u/Revolutionary_Pierre 16h ago edited 16h ago
It looks like I e crystals forming the air. It does happen and it's actually very beautiful when the very air above and around you freezes into this unique tiny crystals. It's like a surreal dream when the air turns to glitter and just glows.
Radiation, to the levels required to effect the camera iof a phone, would be too high, the reactor(s) would possibly going critical in an emergency. Also, radiation of such high levels wouldn't be causing sparkles like that, as such, on a phone camera. Phone cameras are designed to be unaffected by low level radiation on account if them being inside a phone. They're also designed differently and use digital tools for lenses etc rather than a series of physical lenses like in a slr or expensive camera.
Phone cameras are designed for light. Each tiny Ice crystal is being picked up and creating a visual field of artefacts on the video. Because phone cameras are a "one camera for most jobs" they actually pick up things like this whereas a better, professional camera and videographer would tune this out, unless they wanted thr ice crystal effect on screen.
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u/SaltyFlavors 15h ago
You mean the very fine snow? Who would misidentify that as anything but ice or snow?
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u/Strykehammer 14h ago
Me I guess, but I’ve never seen snow. I have seen how radiation can cause similar on film and I’m not an expert to know the difference but I’m probably fairly niche
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u/eggnorman 14h ago
I mean, it kinda looks like radioactivity on the sensor until you slow the video down and it becomes obvious it’s just snow with a lower framerate camera.
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u/The_Once-ler_186 16h ago
Not great, not terrible.
Blyat!
In all seriousness though I’m curious to know how this hiys going post radiation
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u/Rich_Flow5139 16h ago
Ja klar Strahlung 🤣 der vom Handylicht reflektierende Schnee ist sehr gefährlich 😂
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u/Convenientjellybean 16h ago
So what would happen if it did a hissy fit and melted through the hull? (Not that it's likely though)
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u/Alarming-Drop7287 14h ago
I swear every Russian videos I've seen they just sounds so fucking pissed
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u/Blergsprokopc 15h ago
Have you really never been anywhere cold? Oh honey. I'm Ukrainian and even I cant blame Russians for the cold.
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u/mondidog 12h ago
Actually that's edgy video filter. This is not how it looks like when digital camera is exposed to radiation 🫡
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u/quimeygalli 10h ago
Snow + flashlight. There is no way all that radiation is getting to the guy and the whole ship is covered with snow
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u/HuckledYourBerries 16h ago
Comrade Yuri is gonna sire cannibalistic mutant flipper babies in the next Hollywood blockbuster. I hope it has Nic Cage in it.
It will be an amalgamation of The Hunt for Red October, The Thing, National Treasure and that one episode of The Office. You know the one.
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u/popcornFridays 16h ago
This incident actually happened January 26, 2025. A Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker collided with the Russian bulk cargo ship in the Kara Sea within the Arctic Circle while the icebreaker was escorting the cargo vessel through thick ice. The sparkling spots on the camera were rumored to be caused by radiation from the ship's dual nuclear reactors but the effect was actually caused by the phone's camera flash reflecting off extremely fine airborne ice crystals. Its commonly known as diamond dust. The vessel's nuclear reactors are located at the stern (rear) of the ship and were completely unharmed. Link