Holy man that son of a gun came outta nowhere! Been in to Great Lakes shipping all my life and this is one of the more impressive videos I’ve seen with a ship! Anyone know what ship it was?
We used to have that happen often to us while diving in the Thousand Islands. It's a real trip seeing that darkness looming overhead and then that deep rhythmic thumping of the diesel engine going by. It kind of overwhelms the senses.
I was thinking recently about how this has gotta be one of the scariest things. Especially if its bigger, like at an actual seaport or something... geez.
That boat is about 20-30ft long, most probably a small canal boat, doing roughly 2knots. The engine sound and extreme shallow water make it look slightly bigger. CERTAINLY not a freighter lol. If it was a sizeable container vessel it would be massively wide, hugely deafening (hear a long time before and after), and the water turbulence would be immense.
Ain’t now way you think a freighter has active sonar. Even a submarine or ship that has actually has active sonar will hardly ever use it, and they definitely aren’t going to use it near the shore
I would love to do these things but money ALWAYS fucks my day up. Everything is so freaking expensive these days and it only will continue to become more and more expensive in the near future. What a Brummer...
