1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

they are all lined up, sleeping, waiting for their working day to begin. It also reminds me of a makeshift morgue, like after terrorist bombings.......such a sad photo

Maybe there is hidden treasure inside :D

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Earlier today a dentist pulled out both halves of my broken number eighteen molar, and the lidocaine has wore off completely now, so I currently feel very much like that myself.

Hey Jeffery, How did you Know this was the "Beacon"? You are sure this is the Becacon, right? Any idea where we might read up on this particular ferry boat?

who says it's on a commercial vessel? from what I gather both commercial vessels and navy are parked here. I may be mistaken though =\

This stuff makes me think of Clive Cussler novels.

Michael, with that shirtless uniform and that hair, I'd guess you were a signalman in the 60s. Funny stuff.

Hey man this photos are great, this boat graveyard... is it located near the Arthur Kill Road, or near the Bethel Cemetery?

Vackra bilder, i svart-vitt blir det mer konst! I love it! It's really art!

Dean, that figures, and I guess it's a good thing for preservationists, because a ship of that size would burn very spectacularly if some teenage arsonist managed to gain entry, or sink very expensively if someone opened the seacocks 'for a laugh'.

It's so sad to see so many of these old liners in such bad shape. They were after all the height of luxury and technology when new and are still probably the biggest moving objects ever built by humans. As with so much, we should show them more respect.

Only the Queen Mary's story seems to have had a happy ending, as the Norway (formerly the France, herself the replacement for the famed Normandie) has just been decommissioned as uneconomic.

It's amazing how people fuss over the Titanic, which lies in bits at the bottom of the North Altlantic, and talk every so often of raising her, when these ships are still living and could have a future if anyone cared enough.

Even if nothing else can be found to do with these liners than turn them into floating hotels or universities, surely that's a better fate than ending up as Coke cans or Toyotas...

This picture is my absolute favorit in this galleri. Its sad to this former Pround ships who ones sailed the sea, and now has been dumped, to die alone.

I agree with alex. reminds me of the space shuttle world in Myst Masterpiece edition

ALM, short answer: beaurocracy
long answer: there probably isn't enough budget to process the ships in a timely manner, so they sit, and sit, and sit some more, decompose slightly, and do more sitting