The GENIUS Canadian Who Wrapped Britain's Ships In Cable — And Made Germany's Mine Useless !

#WorldWarII #NavalHistory #MilitaryEngineering #WW2Documentary #HistoryChannel In the autumn of 1939, German magnetic mines were sinking British ships at seven a week — in Britain's own coastal waters. The Royal Navy had no answer. Then a Canadian physicist named Charles Goodeve proposed wrapping every warship in miles of copper cable and running an electrical current through it. The Admiralty thought it was fantasy. It worked from the first day it was deployed. This documentary tells the complete story of Britain's degaussing campaign — how Goodeve's team at HMS Vernon solved a weapon that was killing the merchant fleet, why the solution was so elegantly simple, and how the same copper-cable principle still protects every naval vessel in the world today, including nuclear submarines. Whether you're a naval history enthusiast, a WWII engineering buff, or simply fascinated by elegant solutions to impossible problems, this is one of the most underappreciated engineering stories of the entire war.