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Rusting Mass

This is half of a large ship that is currently being scrapped; the other half rests on land on the right. It was a tanker that burned just off the coast of Staten Island and towed here for scrap.
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I would like to see a 360 degree of all the wrecks.
R C
Mon 10-10-2005
Why do you keep all these ships in the water? is it because its easier?
Camo
Mon 10-10-2005
To answer your question Camo, it's because the ships can still partialysupport their own weight in the water, it would take a lot of fuel and machenery to pull one of these ships out onto a drydock for scraping.
Art Owens
Mon 10-10-2005
Who do these hulks belong to. Why is there no urgentcy to process them?
ALM
Mon 10-10-2005
I want to see them from inside.
Dimchiks
Fri 10-14-2005
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
igor
Tue 10-18-2005
it Iooks cool. can hardly believe it used to float.
fmkfkkrrrklos
Sun 11-06-2005
Wow, this scenery could form an awesome setting for a movie. "Now and Then Here and There" comes to mind...
Louis
Tue 11-08-2005
it is a good site
alanah saunders
Tue 11-29-2005
Sometimes there are happy endings to these stories, guys:

http://www.fryingpan.com/
Jarett
Wed 01-18-2006
Have a look and see how they break ships in India and the far east. People power like an army of ants crawling ,cutting,hacking,and all the time the great beast is dying...
Paul
Thu 03-30-2006
after seeing alot of your pictures im pretty sure ive been here and i remember that i had to drive down a road and there was a gate and a house next to it and i knock on the door and the guy told me to get outta there at first and then i ask if i could take some pictures for a highschool class nad he agreed after some minupulation man if you think these pictures are amazing you should go there yourself its not hard to find at all and its amazing yet creepy at the same time
mark
Wed 07-12-2006
cool site jerrett, that made me smile seeing that ship out on the water again. too bad nobody cares about these old souls on this site. :-(
joe
Sat 07-22-2006
http://oboylephoto.com/ Has picture of the same boatyard
El Bobbo
Mon 12-11-2006
That part of the remains of the B No. 125?
Bill
Mon 12-18-2006

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