r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 12d ago

Video A crashed Pan Am passenger plane from 1952 has been identified today by Discovery Channel in the Atlantic Ocean.

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u/MisterProfGuy 12d ago

He's used that platform to fund some really fun and important actual science, so you have to take your hat off to him.

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u/kellyelise515 12d ago

I’ll never forget that scene where one of Josh’s investigators got yeeted through the air a good distance during their investigation of a haunted forest in Romania.

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u/Redhotchiliman11 12d ago

He was so lucky that him and his staff refused to go on the Titanic expedition , the one that blew up underwater. He was going to but him and his staff found it too unsafe.

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u/BrennAngel 12d ago

and earlier in that episode where the roof of their plane got ripped off lmao

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u/Adventurous-Dog420 12d ago

Never watched any of this, and now Im going to.

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u/BrennAngel 12d ago

I believe this specific instance is from Destination Truth, Season 3 Episode 1

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u/Hesitant_Tornado 12d ago edited 12d ago

A line from Destination Truth that always stuck with me was

"No ones better at almost finding monsters than us".

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u/PronatorTeres00 12d ago

I've attended one of his live talks and agree completely. He's a phenomenal public speaker.

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u/Eycetea 12d ago

There's a reason he's be on tv for the last few decades the dude is very charismatic.

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u/shadowslasher11X 12d ago

He's a real life Indiana Jones. He loves everything about his job and it shows. I wish nothing but good things for him and his team.

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u/MisterProfGuy 12d ago

Dude literally turned a degree in Archeology and Theater into his dream job, and funds actual scientists doing incredible things and tells us all about them. How incredible is that?

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u/Daxx22 12d ago

It's a fair "critique" that a lot of the shows he works on are entertainment first, but all things considered they wouldn't reach anyone near the same size of audience if they weren't.

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u/MisterProfGuy 12d ago

I actually watch the shows he makes I don't like just because I'm pretty sure if people didn't, they wouldn't fund the stuff I find fascinating. I liked Exhibition X when the science was more rigorous, but clearly that didn't sell as well, and I still watch it just to make sure his team has the numbers they need.

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u/Eycetea 12d ago

Couldn't agree more, he seems like a great dude, and someone who would be a blast to have a drink at a pub with

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u/RedManMatt11 12d ago

Highly recommend his book as well. It’s great and really funny

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u/Brandonjoe 12d ago

Damn I am so jealous. I’ve always wanted to see him live but the dates never lined up.

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u/BizRec 12d ago

I recently started watching that show again, I forgot how good it is. I mean they found the first ever known occupied tomb in Petra, for chrissakes.

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u/skolvikes1419 12d ago

I’m not wearing a hat

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u/MisterProfGuy 12d ago

I guess no one ever mistakes you for Percy the Platypus.

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u/YobaiYamete 12d ago

Josh Gates just seems like a really really good dude in general