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The photographer of all these needs to learn the first rule of taking pics: put the sun behind you so the light is on the subject! Most of these are too dark to see any real details. If you're going to fight the lighting, open up the lens and let the background wash out enough to get some detail in the foreground--or come back another day when the light is at the proper angle for taking decent photos with some detail showing!
Plus its dangerous to be giving people who have no common sense the idea of going out there and actually climbing onto this junk. Someone will get badly injured or killed very quickly! You need to think about how you'll feel if that happens, knowing the person might not have done it except that you gave him/her a public-posted idea that this is okey to be doing!

szlyczne :)

fighting ninja's? thats some other dude's site!!! ;-)

I think these are in a scrapyard. With the far east getting into the steel business and the cost of oil going up, it's not worth the energy it would take to melt these into usable steel again. I believe this is a place off of Arthur Kill Rd, Staten Island called "Wiite Marine". Nearby are two gargantuan LNG tanks rotting away as well. An interesting place to visit. Thank you for the photos.

This is in one of the most polluted waterways in the world. The bottom is probably a muddy muck of PCB's, oil spill residue, and unprocessed sewerage. Remember, Staten Island only recently got hooked up with public sewers. For quite a while the south shore was dumping untreated waste into the Arthur Kill. yum yum...

I think this stuff is outside of a scrap metal place on arthur Kill Rd. ?Witte marine. My friend and I snuck in there once and went on a half sunken ship. It was scary as hell. I remember walking into a room with wooden floors and looking toward the bow as the floor sunk into the depths. It was indoors yet in the sea at the same time. Very spooky.

" It's hard to tell through the Fog, Sir, But KONG ISLAND Must be DEAD AHEAD."

Thanks, Rich! Now, Motts, when you look at the aircraft boneyards, doncha wanna go take some pictures? PUHLEEEEZE! (still waiting on the Dixmont photos, too!!!!)

Errr....wouldn't all that stuff be getting in the water anyway?

I can't understand why these boats werent cut up and sold for scrap? At least its more dignified than just dumping the vessel. Scrap steel must not have been worth much in 1958?

tell ya the truth many of these ships were meant to serve as reserves or extra parts. Ever since WWII the US has been savin decomishoned naval and civilian boats here just incase we need em.

For some odd reason this picture reminds me of the Titanic...

It's an 8 cylinder diesel & by looking at the exhaust & other parts & also being around log trucks(6cyl. diesels) all my life, the engine dimensions ar going to be approx 5-6' long by approx 4' high by approx 2' wide

tell me about it lynne, I live in Bothell, but i work at
Overlake hospital in Bellevue. Talk about nightmare *shudders*