Staying Above the Waterline

It would be so neat to go diving around this area, and explore the part of the boat underwater.

Now isn't it funny how different people are - I could walk around in any MR or MI facility at all hours of the day or night and not have a care in the world - but you couldn't get me on one of these for multiple bags of unmarked bills delivered after midnight and left by the old oak tree stump, nosirree Bob!

About how deep is this water, I wonder?

Lynne,
I'm with you on that completely!
Really beautiful and powerful photos , but I like viewing them right from the comfort of my computer chair!

And THAT'S 'cos there's monsters down there! :-)

I can just imagine being there, hearing all the creaks and groans. The splashing of the water on the sides of the ships, totally cool, thanks motts

all aboard next stop deep sea fishing cool pics

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...

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... ;-)

for those of you not familiar with Staten Island. The "boneyard" as we know it lies just south of the now closed Fresh Kills landfill, which at one time was the larges landfill in the world. The ships were here before the landfill....I just think it is an interesting coincidence that they lie so close to each other...and you can't see most of the ships because there is a huge junkyard with steel fencing blocking the view. On a happier note..over the past few years Ospreys have been using the ships in the boneyard as nesting sites.

Nature always finds a way.

They are washing the main deck.........

There is something about ship-wrecks and sunken vessels that really fascinate me; so much history here.

Not to mention all the oils and chemicles that leaked from the ships as they decayed and settle on the bottom.. Looks out for three headed ospreys the size of busses..

Imagine though, years ago, some crusty old captain navigating through a nasty storm from that very bridge, bringing the ship safely home and thanking it for holding together...makes me feel all nostalgic. Tis what I get for listening to "the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" this morning.

I used to see this when I was a kid and it always seemed kind of spooky to me. I imagined great shipwrecks.

Been a while since Lynne made the comment but will reply anyway.
I'm the opposite, I would love to get into one of these ships, but you'll have to drag me around before getting into an abandoned hospital.

looks cool I would like to go inside it because I wounder what it looks like inside.

Wrecks are ship or boats that sink and have gold and other treasures.

hello, i wonder if they will close the gates to the shipyard at 2883 richmond terrace, we feel vibrations under the ground, burning of ship oil and rubber and contamination of pesticides and oil dumping to my property. me and my very old mother are tired of the harassment and if they dont close there gates once and for all we will have no choice but to file charges, they are causing tractor trailers to go on our property harass us and damage the sewer line that belogns to the city on our sidewalk, and the house is over 150 years old and is a city land mark. i have lived here my whole life and iam a true native of staten island and these companyies across the street on mariners harbor waterfront are all illegally dumping parts, oil, and contaminating our land and air we breathe and even thought the are is idustrial it is very much residential as it is commercial with many people working across the street. if you feel staten island needs a change tell 2883 to stop harassing people and stop the chemials and all there pollutants in the air or sereve changes will occur.

Elizabeth 4 President!

All for one, and one for all.Those are the words I live by.

Anything around water is interesting and lovely-and sometimes a little scary.I consider myself a hydromaniac.

I swear, in a previous life, I died on a ship.
I cant look at one without literally freaking out.

must of been hard to navigate through that place.

I'm with Lynne and Silkster. But again, Mr. Motts, really great shot. It's so sad, the poor thing is trying to stay up but it's just gonna fall into that nasty water.

What about a kayak launch? Is there anywhere to get close to the river? Friends wanting to take a peak were chased out of the huge junkyard blocking the view. They were probably not the first. Can you help me, native Staten Islanders? I visited your lovely Chinese Scholars Garden just yesterday.