The World’s Most Powerful Helicopter Found on the Ocean Floor | Boeing CH-47 Chinook Restoration

I never imagined that one of the most powerful helicopters ever built would be resting on the ocean floor. The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a machine designed to lift the impossible—tanks, artillery, entire units—flying since the early 1960s as a backbone of military heavy-lift operations around the world. Built for warzones and disasters, it was never meant to disappear beneath the sea.

In this video, I follow the shocking discovery of a sunken Chinook, found corroded, silent, and forgotten in deep water. From subsea exploration and recovery to the painstaking restoration of engines, rotors, and structure, this is the story of bringing a fallen giant back to life—and watching it fly again after the ocean tried to erase it.

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I dive where history fell silent.

On Sunken War Machines, I uncover the world’s most powerful military machines that were lost to the ocean, buried by time, and written off by history. From battleships and submarines to aircraft and armored wrecks, I follow their journey from the moment they vanished to the moment they are found—rusted, broken, and frozen in time beneath the waves.

This channel is about more than wrecks. I take you with me through deep-sea discovery, sonar detection, and extreme salvage operations, and then into the painstaking process of restoration and preservation. Every corroded plate, shattered hull, and seized engine tells a story of war, engineering ambition, and the cost of conflict.

I don’t glorify war—I document its machines. I show what time, pressure, and saltwater do to steel, and what it takes for modern engineering to recover and restore relics that were never meant to be seen again. These are the machines history tried to forget, and the ocean tried to erase.

If you’re drawn to lost warships, sunken aircraft, deep-sea recovery missions, and the resurrection of legendary military engineering, this channel is where those stories surface.

Welcome to Sunken War Machines—where the past rises from the deep.