1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

lean on me.. when you're not strong .. i'll be your friend.....

its one of those pictures thats awe inspiring in an odd way..

i dont see it

nice, very nice

so thats where my third arm came from...

Actually, the rust line is far above the waterline and looks like it follows the sheerline of the ship. I'm inclined to think the fire theory may be right. The heat of a fire not only removes paint, but kickstarts the oxidation process.

I love this shot. The texture of some of the rusted steel almost looks like wood.

This almost looks like a pier that has deteriorated or what was left after a hurricane storm.

For those of you who want to go diving in this area, I think you'd reconsider if you knew the quality of the water and stuff that's junked around Staten Island... ;-)

the raised areas along the length of the hull are for reinforcement. probably used as some sort of service vessel where it made frequent contact with other boats or docks. just a guess.

What I would do to see smothing so amazing, god....

Yeah zeezyx, a real des-res if you fancy living surrounded by stinking, sludgy water in one of the most polluted places on earth! And I really wouldn't relish the prospect of spending a night surrounded by these dead, decaying hulks looming out of the darkness at every turn! The sounds would scare me silly... the gurgling and groaning as the advancing tide slowly fills the lower decks with water for the thousandth time, the creaking of rotted hulls, cabin doors banging in the wind. Freakier than any haunted house...

That said, there are rumours that a lone hermit lives (or lived) on the Duke of Lancaster, the remains of a beached liner on the Welsh coast. That is what you might call 'extreme squatting'...

But, then again, Nessie COULD be a diplodocus.

Motts, I think the line "The photographer of all these needs to learn the first rule of taking pics..." was what led to all the attacks on Carl. It sounds a little condescending to me. Maybe we're just to sensitive. We are of the opinion that to attack you is to attack us....childish, I guess, defensive for sure... but, you know, you're Motts, the man, after all! You go where no man has gone before, you have been beamed up...you have created the website of art. You bring images to us, that we cannot acquire on our own!!!! And I have a pedestal with your name on it!!!!! It comes with its own light fixture/soap dispenser thingy.

I was born and raised on Staten Island, I never knew these were there!!!