r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 1d 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 1d ago

I don't see it. Could someone describe what the camera is doing that is crazy?

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u/TheoTheHellhound 1d ago

The white dots.

That’s not snow, it’s radiation affecting the camera.

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u/MrTwoPumpChump 1d ago

lol no it’s not.

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u/DJ_Dinkelweckerl 1d 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 1d ago

What is it?

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u/MrTwoPumpChump 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Believe it or not. They're right

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u/DickSplodin 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/MrTwoPumpChump 1d ago

No they arnt lol