@SinghBros24 Why would I call the cops. The police, coast guard, the entire town knew about the shipwreck. But, because of the storm and the size of the shipwreck there wasn't much they could do about it. Eventually, I believe, they had to cut it up to get rid of it.
I'm standing there watching because I made a special trip to see it. I had heard about the shipwreck and wanted to photograph it and video it.
@yvettegr The point of the vid? How many shipwrecks do you see in a lifetime? I've only seen one. I'm a photographer. Of course I'm going to photograph it and take video of it. Why wouldn't I?
Have you no artistic soul? Can't you see the beauty, power, terror, of those waves crashing over that shipwrecked vessel. I feel sorry for you if you don't understand what was happening on that beach.
I have pictures, don't know how to make a video of them, just tried to upload them as pictures, no dice. The tug was salvaged almost immediately because of the possible pollution from fuel ect. the barge was there for most of the winter I believe. The photos were taken on Jan 24, 2003
@artman601 PM me and I'll send you my email address. You can email me jpegs of the pictures, I'll make a quick video for you to upload on your channel.
@artman601 You can also use onetruemedia (put a dot come after that) to do it yourself online. And if you have powerpoint you can save powerpoint presentations in .mov format to upload to youtube.
@artman601 You should make a video with them. I'd love to see them. I had been told they were moving the barge a few days after I was there. So, I never went back. I should have checked further and followed its progress.
I remember this. These Guys were trying to Come in the mouth of the river in a storm. They hit one of the Jetties Coming in. Manged to get back out of the mouth of the river and then got a tow line wrapped around both Props. My Mothers Boss Owned Sea Tow Newburyport And they Tried to call him out to come tow them in. By this time it was too late and he Said call the USCG. He then called us and asked if we wanted to see this as we had been listening in on the radio.
forgot to say they punched a hole in the side of the barge when they hit the jetty.
We rushed over and watched as they airlifted the crew off of the barge. We then Drove over the the CG station & watched the Helicopter land and off load the Crew. They had one of their guys (one of the ones who was airlifted off) doing day security & and my mothers boss doing night security for a little bit. My Mothers Boss, My mother, My brothers and I ended up Taking over security until it was cut up.
@Milisabelle This is the Plum Island with a landbridge to Newburyport, MA. It's not the one near Long Island used by the military for experimentation, and which is currently for sale.
@ktface123 It's a common mistake. BTW the army has put Plum Island NY up for sale. The promise they've made it environmentally safe and cleaned up all the biohazards, and super secret potent nerve gas and biowarfare materiels.
@yvettegr well, the 'government' and armed forces of the US has SUCH a good track record , especially recently (from a 20 year victim of Plum Island super enhanced borrelia Burgdorferi (Lyme)
@yvettegr and take a guess where they're moving that one to ? right in the agricultural heartland of America right in Tornado Alley in Kansas. The future facility goes by the name of National Bio and Agro Defense Facility and if you actually believe that they had made that place environmentally safe, I have a bridge in the New York area that I'll sell to you. It's called the Brooklyn, you may have heard of it ?...lol...
this island is a truly confidentiality covered up by plum island/ lab 257 workers. thank you, this caught my eye and now i have something new too study about the secrets of plum island. 5 stars
What a video Thanks for posting I had cousins in Newburyport my cousin Susan Conte would take me to Plum Isd for a beach day when I was a young kid in the 60s. Her older bro David used to drive us there on his way to work, pick us up on his way home late aftn. One day I was on P.I. with my Mom, Dad & bro. I wanted to swim so bad but P.I. has a wicked-Really WICKED undertow it got me but my dad grabbed me and held on to my arm and pulled me out! He saved my life that day.
I grew up in Amesbury, Mass, and we also used to go to Plum Island around the same time (late '60s, we must be about the same age), I recall being 8 or 9 years old and getting caught in the undertow. My father had once told me that if I ever get caught in an undertow, to swim parallel to the shoreline, and I did and it worked. (We spent our beach day at Sailsbury Beach after that!). But that was SCARY. I still remember feeling like I was being sucked down by the ocean, even 40 years later!
Plum Island (Gloucester) is still there. Maybe you're confusing it with Plum Island (Orient Point, NY) which was previously Ft. Terry and was an animal lab, biolevel 5? Many people (particularly those living nearby) want it shut down. Biolevel 5 means it can study diseases not allowed on the Continental US (remember, it's an island). It has had several safety violations with escaped dead lab birds found nearby. Plum Island denied they did research with birds. They lied.
Have you looked at it lately (Plum ISalnd) ? The whole beach area is eroding...they got a lot of heavy equipment trying to save what they can there. I remember this incident you filmed pretty well..that barge had floated down there i believe from what is now the Hines Bridge connecting Newburyport and Amesbury. Quite a sight and great filming on this!!!!
No, I haven't been there lately. I hope to go back soon. This spring or summer. That's sad it's eroding. I wish I'd taken more video. If I were doing it now I'd take at least an hour from every angle and get closer . . . and wear a much warmer coat.
I actually go to Long Island quite a bit, and went to Montauk to video the Montauk Monster, but it had been taken away by the time I got to it. It has since been discovered through DNA analysis to have been a bloated, decomposing dead dog with a good bit of the snout bit off. I had hoped for something more dramatic.
Wrong Plum Island. You drive across a bridge from Newburyport, Massachusetts to get to this one. The one you're thinking of with the supposed "research" at Fort Terry (eugenics, lyme disease, anthrax, etc.,) is near Orient Point on Long Island. In Silence of the Lambs it is mentioned as a vacation spot for Hannibal Lecter who refers to it as Anthrax Island. Thomas Harris, the author of the book lives near Plum Island.
Great video and excellent description! Thank you for taking the time to film this and for adding the story and details of your experience. I think that your words had a greater impact even that the video! Sorry your camera was ruined. Sincerely, -Kurt :-)
Wow Yvette, this is awesome. You look like you're pretty close to the action. Is the red thing a piece of the ship broken off into the sand? The waves are sure beating it at will. You'd think something as dangerous as this would have guards posted around it to keep people at a safe distance or did it just happen as you watched? Sorry about your camera, did the local news get your video?
The first 27 seconds I was too close. The tide had come in so rapidly it reached where I was standing, about knocking me over with the pull. moved further away. You can see the tide in the lower left of the screen in the frames after I moved, and that's where I was originally standing. It was too dangerous, I thought I'd be pulled out to the ocean.l
Part 2: The tallest waves are 3 1/2-4 stories high. The lowest are about a story high. The droplets of spray pelting me felt like BB's and left little tiny bruises.
There are a few guy wires. The ship had been more on the beach, but the tide was pulling it back out. It moved about 6 inches while I was there. The ocean tides have unbelievable power.
Part 3: No need to post guards because no one in their right mind would go out in such weather. Well, no one except a landscape/documentary photographer. It really was quite dangerous and stupid. The winds were about 60 mph. Had this storm been in August there probably would have been a hurricane associated with it. If I had stayed in my original position I'm sure I would have been swept out to sea. As it was the tide eventually reached me again.
It's a good thing that a few people like you and me have a left mind also. I enjoy a good adventure that more timid souls would pass on. I'm no fool, I believe in safety first but life is all a matter of weighing the risk in what you do.
Part 4: And after I decided it was getting too dangerous (high tide coming in) I had to slosh the miles back to my car. Drowned rats looked better than I did (maybe not -- see below).
And, oh, did I mention it was cold and I wasn't wearing a parka, just an ineffectual Donna Karan black raincoat. At least I looked stylish.
You braved a 60MPH storm walking for miles down a beach to see if you could find a wreck to film. My kinda woman. So you were a styling drowned rat, Ha Ha. I'm sure that if I was there I would have thought you looked beautiful.
I bet there's humans walking around on that boat with 4 nipples and 8 arms...
iRHAPEzombiies 1 week ago
why ru standing there and just watching why don u try to help or call the cops? and whats the point of the vid
SinghBros24 8 months ago
@SinghBros24 Why would I call the cops. The police, coast guard, the entire town knew about the shipwreck. But, because of the storm and the size of the shipwreck there wasn't much they could do about it. Eventually, I believe, they had to cut it up to get rid of it.
I'm standing there watching because I made a special trip to see it. I had heard about the shipwreck and wanted to photograph it and video it.
yvettegr 8 months ago
@yvettegr The point of the vid? How many shipwrecks do you see in a lifetime? I've only seen one. I'm a photographer. Of course I'm going to photograph it and take video of it. Why wouldn't I?
Have you no artistic soul? Can't you see the beauty, power, terror, of those waves crashing over that shipwrecked vessel. I feel sorry for you if you don't understand what was happening on that beach.
yvettegr 8 months ago
cool
spamstoper3 10 months ago
I have pictures, don't know how to make a video of them, just tried to upload them as pictures, no dice. The tug was salvaged almost immediately because of the possible pollution from fuel ect. the barge was there for most of the winter I believe. The photos were taken on Jan 24, 2003
artman601 1 year ago
@artman601 PM me and I'll send you my email address. You can email me jpegs of the pictures, I'll make a quick video for you to upload on your channel.
yvettegr 1 year ago
@artman601 You can also use onetruemedia (put a dot come after that) to do it yourself online. And if you have powerpoint you can save powerpoint presentations in .mov format to upload to youtube.
yvettegr 1 year ago
@artman601 u can use in windows movie maker
CodeCazual 10 months ago
I have pictures of the barge, all iced over, taken about a month after this video
artman601 1 year ago
@artman601 You should make a video with them. I'd love to see them. I had been told they were moving the barge a few days after I was there. So, I never went back. I should have checked further and followed its progress.
yvettegr 1 year ago
"This is the long forgotten light at the end of the world..." -Nightwish, the Islander
GhostDragon10 1 year ago
I remember this. These Guys were trying to Come in the mouth of the river in a storm. They hit one of the Jetties Coming in. Manged to get back out of the mouth of the river and then got a tow line wrapped around both Props. My Mothers Boss Owned Sea Tow Newburyport And they Tried to call him out to come tow them in. By this time it was too late and he Said call the USCG. He then called us and asked if we wanted to see this as we had been listening in on the radio.
Making 2 posts.
hffdkl 1 year ago
forgot to say they punched a hole in the side of the barge when they hit the jetty.
We rushed over and watched as they airlifted the crew off of the barge. We then Drove over the the CG station & watched the Helicopter land and off load the Crew. They had one of their guys (one of the ones who was airlifted off) doing day security & and my mothers boss doing night security for a little bit. My Mothers Boss, My mother, My brothers and I ended up Taking over security until it was cut up.
hffdkl 1 year ago
Hope this isn't THE Plum Island... but then Hurricane Earl is set straight on a path for that one...
Milisabelle 1 year ago
@Milisabelle This is the Plum Island with a landbridge to Newburyport, MA. It's not the one near Long Island used by the military for experimentation, and which is currently for sale.
yvettegr 1 year ago
it that at the point or on the beach
hockeygoalie33333 1 year ago
@hockeygoalie33333 It's on the beach.
yvettegr 1 year ago
great video. Great commentary.
oisaveloy 1 year ago
This nitwit is thinking about plum island new york, which they test bio-weapons on animals. This video is from Massachusetts.
ktface123 1 year ago
@ktface123 It's a common mistake. BTW the army has put Plum Island NY up for sale. The promise they've made it environmentally safe and cleaned up all the biohazards, and super secret potent nerve gas and biowarfare materiels.
yvettegr 1 year ago
@yvettegr well, the 'government' and armed forces of the US has SUCH a good track record , especially recently (from a 20 year victim of Plum Island super enhanced borrelia Burgdorferi (Lyme)
Milisabelle 1 year ago
@yvettegr and take a guess where they're moving that one to ? right in the agricultural heartland of America right in Tornado Alley in Kansas. The future facility goes by the name of National Bio and Agro Defense Facility and if you actually believe that they had made that place environmentally safe, I have a bridge in the New York area that I'll sell to you. It's called the Brooklyn, you may have heard of it ?...lol...
sr71ablackbird 1 year ago
this island is a truly confidentiality covered up by plum island/ lab 257 workers. thank you, this caught my eye and now i have something new too study about the secrets of plum island. 5 stars
thekakashihatake331 2 years ago
Have no idea about anything secret on Plum Island. Tell me more, PM me if you like.
yvettegr 2 years ago
WOW! I remember this! My mom is from Newbury and her grandfather owned what is now called Blue down there! We go back every winter! great place!
neb10404 2 years ago
boring, not worth wrecking a camera for
ebombz1986 2 years ago
Nice sounds too! :)
HuckleberryFlan 2 years ago
What a video Thanks for posting I had cousins in Newburyport my cousin Susan Conte would take me to Plum Isd for a beach day when I was a young kid in the 60s. Her older bro David used to drive us there on his way to work, pick us up on his way home late aftn. One day I was on P.I. with my Mom, Dad & bro. I wanted to swim so bad but P.I. has a wicked-Really WICKED undertow it got me but my dad grabbed me and held on to my arm and pulled me out! He saved my life that day.
R21951 2 years ago
I grew up in Amesbury, Mass, and we also used to go to Plum Island around the same time (late '60s, we must be about the same age), I recall being 8 or 9 years old and getting caught in the undertow. My father had once told me that if I ever get caught in an undertow, to swim parallel to the shoreline, and I did and it worked. (We spent our beach day at Sailsbury Beach after that!). But that was SCARY. I still remember feeling like I was being sucked down by the ocean, even 40 years later!
mthivier 1 year ago
I heard that Plum Island is no longer there, is that true?
TrashyBeauty 2 years ago
Plum Island (Gloucester) is still there. Maybe you're confusing it with Plum Island (Orient Point, NY) which was previously Ft. Terry and was an animal lab, biolevel 5? Many people (particularly those living nearby) want it shut down. Biolevel 5 means it can study diseases not allowed on the Continental US (remember, it's an island). It has had several safety violations with escaped dead lab birds found nearby. Plum Island denied they did research with birds. They lied.
yvettegr 2 years ago
@yvettegr Plum Island, MA is still here. I would know I live here...unless I somehow missed out on hearing we were gone :p
JokerGirlie 1 year ago
@JokerGirlie HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
willmilano 1 year ago
No , i just passed it in the ferry like an hour ago
kitkatkid99 2 years ago
Thanks for the confirmation.
yvettegr 2 years ago
Oh that was really worth wrecking the camera for, That's 3:26 of my life wasted.
Whatthe243 2 years ago
Great Video..!
Love Plum Island...!! Have biked over there on numerous occasions..! =)
TheGoombaChannel 3 years ago
Haven't been there in a few years. But, will probably take a trip there this spring as soon as it warms up.
yvettegr 3 years ago
Have you looked at it lately (Plum ISalnd) ? The whole beach area is eroding...they got a lot of heavy equipment trying to save what they can there. I remember this incident you filmed pretty well..that barge had floated down there i believe from what is now the Hines Bridge connecting Newburyport and Amesbury. Quite a sight and great filming on this!!!!
shupe1907 2 years ago
No, I haven't been there lately. I hope to go back soon. This spring or summer. That's sad it's eroding. I wish I'd taken more video. If I were doing it now I'd take at least an hour from every angle and get closer . . . and wear a much warmer coat.
yvettegr 2 years ago
plum island is wierd
h0meeyVideos 3 years ago
Anything specific, and I'll go video it.
yvettegr 3 years ago
montauk monster
h0meeyVideos 3 years ago
I actually go to Long Island quite a bit, and went to Montauk to video the Montauk Monster, but it had been taken away by the time I got to it. It has since been discovered through DNA analysis to have been a bloated, decomposing dead dog with a good bit of the snout bit off. I had hoped for something more dramatic.
yvettegr 3 years ago
That is pretty freaky.....is that the place they used to do those spooky bio-agent experiments(I think it is).
luddite333 3 years ago
Wrong Plum Island. You drive across a bridge from Newburyport, Massachusetts to get to this one. The one you're thinking of with the supposed "research" at Fort Terry (eugenics, lyme disease, anthrax, etc.,) is near Orient Point on Long Island. In Silence of the Lambs it is mentioned as a vacation spot for Hannibal Lecter who refers to it as Anthrax Island. Thomas Harris, the author of the book lives near Plum Island.
yvettegr 3 years ago
The crane owner wants WD-40 for christmas
modelleg 3 years ago
LOL
yvettegr 3 years ago
This is freaky, everything is erie! picture swimming in this
TheFoobers 3 years ago
remind me that wherever you are is not a safe place to be!!! post a daily itinerary plz... :-)
sarahlockettstewart 3 years ago
I'll be in Webster, MA tomorrow.
yvettegr 3 years ago
whos gives a shit if its not safe i live cambridge ma
wwkworldwrestlingkid 3 years ago
I go to Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (location info for all the foreigners) all the time. And, yet, the city still stands.
yvettegr 3 years ago
Great video and excellent description! Thank you for taking the time to film this and for adding the story and details of your experience. I think that your words had a greater impact even that the video! Sorry your camera was ruined. Sincerely, -Kurt :-)
theoldtokaido 3 years ago
Thanks for liking my description. And, I got an even better camera. So, it all worked out okay.
yvettegr 3 years ago
Drama queen...
breakmyface 3 years ago
Yep.
yvettegr 3 years ago
that little bitty tug (so small it could be a boom boat) was trying to two that large load in a storm??
Nmemonicus 3 years ago
Tugboats are the underdogs of the sea. And, they look so cute in cartoons.
yvettegr 3 years ago
Wow. This is pretty cool.
- TAE
TheAnimationEmpire 3 years ago
I remember that. I was there and I have pics of huge salt water icicles hanging from the wires.
Pretty cool.
It took them a very long time to remove that barge. They had to cut it up.
That's what you get for trying to go into the mouth of the mighty Merrimack with an outgoing tide .
Thanks for sharing the vid.
Plumcrazy1 4 years ago
merrimack is a tough river, still scares me each time i enter./exit it during an outgoing tide
dinoboy123 3 years ago
Wow Yvette, this is awesome. You look like you're pretty close to the action. Is the red thing a piece of the ship broken off into the sand? The waves are sure beating it at will. You'd think something as dangerous as this would have guards posted around it to keep people at a safe distance or did it just happen as you watched? Sorry about your camera, did the local news get your video?
lloydhofer 4 years ago
The first 27 seconds I was too close. The tide had come in so rapidly it reached where I was standing, about knocking me over with the pull. moved further away. You can see the tide in the lower left of the screen in the frames after I moved, and that's where I was originally standing. It was too dangerous, I thought I'd be pulled out to the ocean.l
yvettegr 4 years ago
Part 2: The tallest waves are 3 1/2-4 stories high. The lowest are about a story high. The droplets of spray pelting me felt like BB's and left little tiny bruises.
There are a few guy wires. The ship had been more on the beach, but the tide was pulling it back out. It moved about 6 inches while I was there. The ocean tides have unbelievable power.
yvettegr 4 years ago
Bet you can still feel the sting of those BB shots even after 5 years. Quite the storm.
lloydhofer 4 years ago
Part 3: No need to post guards because no one in their right mind would go out in such weather. Well, no one except a landscape/documentary photographer. It really was quite dangerous and stupid. The winds were about 60 mph. Had this storm been in August there probably would have been a hurricane associated with it. If I had stayed in my original position I'm sure I would have been swept out to sea. As it was the tide eventually reached me again.
yvettegr 4 years ago
It's a good thing that a few people like you and me have a left mind also. I enjoy a good adventure that more timid souls would pass on. I'm no fool, I believe in safety first but life is all a matter of weighing the risk in what you do.
lloydhofer 4 years ago 3
Part 4: And after I decided it was getting too dangerous (high tide coming in) I had to slosh the miles back to my car. Drowned rats looked better than I did (maybe not -- see below).
And, oh, did I mention it was cold and I wasn't wearing a parka, just an ineffectual Donna Karan black raincoat. At least I looked stylish.
yvettegr 4 years ago
You braved a 60MPH storm walking for miles down a beach to see if you could find a wreck to film. My kinda woman. So you were a styling drowned rat, Ha Ha. I'm sure that if I was there I would have thought you looked beautiful.
lloydhofer 4 years ago