HMHS Britannic at 120m: Diving the Giant Propellers of Titanic's Sister

The HMHS Britannic — Titanic's lesser-known sister ship — lies at 120 metres in the Aegean Sea. In this dive, we go straight to the stern: the site of one of maritime history's most haunting footnotes. When the Britannic sank on 21st November 1916, her massive bronze propellers were still turning. Survivors had already lowered themselves into lifeboats — and those lifeboats drifted straight into them. Thirty people who had survived the initial sinking were killed in minutes. One of those caught in the chaos was Violet Jessop — a nurse who had already survived the Titanic disaster four years earlier. She was pulled under, struck her head on the keel, and surfaced alive. The propellers you see in this video are the same ones that nearly ended her remarkable story. At 120 metres, the HMHS Britannic is the world's largest diveable shipwreck. This is the first of three videos I'm making from this expedition. We start here — at the stern — because to understand what this ship was, and what she cost, you have to start where it ended. Thanks to Henry Castellanos for organising this incredible trip and Dr Jorge Burgueno for some of the video! AP Inspiration overlay courtesy of ‪@EricStott‬   • Video Overlays   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HMHS Britannic Expedition 2026* Dive 2 - Bridge and Bow:    • Reaching the Bow of Britannic: Titanic's F...   Dive 3 - Promenade run:    • HMHS Britannic: Inside the World's Largest...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00:00 HMHS Britannic! 00:02:45 Dropping Onto the Wreck 00:06:30 First Sight of the Stern 00:11:10 The Propellers Up Close 00:16:40 What Happened Here in 1916 00:22:30 Managing a 120m CCR Dive 00:29:15 Leaving the Wreck Behind 00:33:50 Long Decompression and Final Thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Deep Wreck Diver explores shipwrecks, submarines, and sunken aircraft from around the world - combining technical diving with detailed wreck identification and historical storytelling. Every dive uncovers a piece of history lost to the depths. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kit I Use Note, some of these are affiliate links so help support making my videos: Gloves are Ansell Alphatec 87-063 - https://amzn.to/4jDHhX4 Main torch is an Orcatorch D630 - https://amzn.to/4jlT4tA Backup torch is an Orcatorch D710 - https://amzn.to/4jhddRk Drysuit is an O-Three Ri200 - https://www.othree.co.uk/drysuit-rang... CCR is an AP Diving Inspiration (XPD) - https://www.apdiving.com/ Backup computer is a Shearwater Perdix v2 - https://amzn.to/42FXZOW Reels are by Kent Tooling - https://www.divingproducts.co.uk/ Cameras are Paralenz Vaquita Video light is NiteScuba NSV60 - NiteScuba NSV60 - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_onH... Phone housing is Divevolk Seatouch 4 Max - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_omJ... Stickers for gear by Dive Signs - https://www.divesigns.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Strobes I use two different strobes (affiliate links) -- Prozhaozhu 3000 Lumen Diving Strobe -https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c4W... -- Prozhaozhu 4000 Lumen Diving Strobe - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c4K... Hanger is a Jon clip - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c2R... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱Follow My Socials! Instagram 👉   / deepwreckdiver   Facebook 👉 https://www.fb.com/DeepWreckDiver Buy Me A Coffee 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/d33puk Email 👉 [email protected]