City of Houston

Video of the shipwrecked passenger/cargo steamliner City of Houston. She wrecked in a storm near Frying Pan Shoals in 1878. She was carrying a load of cargo and passengers from New York to Galveston, TX. They were part of the western settlement. Visit my shipwreck page at http://members.aol.com/fpsndiver/FPSN3.html
for more information.

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[bigtown]

This place is nothing like NY. This place is exactly what it is, an extremely conservative city and one of the blandest. This city has the personality of a pet rock.

[fpsndiver]

@bigtown Hey there Bigtown...this is a Shipwreck video. The wrecked ship, which sank in 1878 was called the "City of Houston". It was a passenger liner. The passenger liner that now lies 90 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean on the South Side of Frying Pan Shoals just offshore from Wilmington, NC doesn't have the personality of a "pet rock". Maybe you got my video confused with something else?

[teamausten]

@fpsndiver lol that is so amazing did u go to school for that job

[fpsndiver]

@teamausten ...well, my job is not diving, it is my hobby. I did go to college for Marine Biology up until my junior year. I'm actually a govt. employee, and spend my days off underwater.

[teamausten]

@fpsndiver what is the craziest thing u have seen on one of your dives? Oh and i love enya great choice!

[fpsndiver]

@teamausten Besides what I wrote below, another crazy thing that I've seen. Dolphin, the mammalian ones. I was descending on the Shipwreck John D. Gill, and was a little nervous. It was cold, bad vis, and I was in mid-water still couldn't see the wreck below me, and a dolphin came whizzing down the line behind me and chirped when he got near me. It scared the crap out of me. I think the dolphin could sense that I was uneasy that day, and I could hear it laughing in chirps as it kept on.

[teamausten]

@fpsndiver Oh cool that is one fun hobby

[fpsndiver]

@teamausten : The craziest thing I've seen is spearfishermen getting in fights with sharks over their speared fish. The craziest natural thing I've seen was a Great Hammerhead shark cruising by us while we were stopped at 15ft. He just went on by, never bothered to look at us or nothing, he just cruised right by us as if we were hitchhikers standing on the side of the road,and he was a tractor trailer late to a delivery.

[fpsndiver]

@A9900960

No bodies. Everyone on the Houston survived the sinking, and were rescued.

[A9900960]

@fpsndiver did u find any dead bodys there