the captain of such a huge vessel must have perfect navigational skills to pass such a narrow place under the bridge at Duluth MN Thank you for this video 🙂 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Talk about a flashback!!! I lived in Duluth in the mid 70s when my dad worked for the DM&IR.....My mom would bring me and my 3 brothers down to watch the ships all of the time. Hell....I even remember the night/morning The Fitz sank.......Such a tragic loss. Great video.......and some great memories of my childhood.
This is one of the most spectacular sights in the United States. That ship went through a VERY narrow passage. Watching a big Superlaker at close range is a real thrill - and in a place like this, you're likely to get very wet. I grew up in Wisconsin and always wanted to go to Duluth-Superior, but didn't get there until I was 68 years old and had lived in California for almost half a century. This ship is the longest ship on the Great Lakes, at 1,013 feet long. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Paul_R._Tregurtha
And to think less than four hundred years ago the Americans were torturing and burning the single women mature ladies and aged spinsters at the stake for heresy, witchcraft, curing and advising their peers and others!!
Hi joe from New York. Greetings from Winnipeg. It’s a dead boring place, in other words?? But seriously if you could add a musical score for this clip using anything recorded during the 1960’s or popular when you had this sort of ambitious hankering, what music would you pick? Just curious, I will give it a ponder also!! Dec.9 posting by not mardon.
@@Laurencemardon - well, the first one that came to mind was Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." Fits, doesn't it? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xeRwBiu4wfQ.html
As someone who’s lived in Duluth my entire life, I’m shocked to see this video has 35 million views when I see these ships enter the harbor every single day. Makes me realize I take it for granted. This really is cool, I guess.
Jock Marais ASMR Not only 35 millions views, but more than 50 millions by now, January 2020. There is something magic in this apparently simple scene. Probably something universal, Superior, magnificent that appeals to common people. Duluth, please, call me back .
Jock Marais ASMR >>>THIS MAGIC VIDEO (5:55) is not only cool : hear the sounds, the guys laugh in background, the JOY in the air, the sky . There is lots of life !
So many never stop to think about the skill level of the professional people that do this work for a living. Literally like threading a needle but with unbelievable consequences if you mess up. Thank you for sharing the video, quite an interesting bit of footage!
Two things people do not understand: 1) the "hole" in the side is just the top coat of paint scrubbed off because of passing through locks. There is no hole. 2) the "dirty water" is just the sediment mixed up with the water because of rough waters and it being forced through the narrow pass.
Thank you those were the 2 actual thoughts that crossed my mind as I was watching this video. You read my mind. And to that last comment you are A ASS HOLE WIPE. YA RUDE ASS BITCH. SHAME ON YOU
Being from the Niagara region I have many memories of the Welland ship canal and the lakers who have navigated its waters but this is sensational and thank you for the video!
it’s crazy to see how many people have seen this video vs. how many people live here 😂 this is an everyday thing for us in duluth so i guess it’s not that exciting but still cool to see how many people enjoy it here.
Kudos to the camera person. You have a steady hand. Also great framing of the relevant action. Thanks for sharing this video 😊 Noticed how the ship doesn't even budge as the "waves" hits it. Amazing sight. 😊
MV Paul R. Tregurtha is a Great Lakes-based bulk carrier freighter. She is the current Queen of the Lakes, an unofficial but widely-recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes. Wikipedia Length: 309 m Capacity: Iron ore: 68,000 long tons (69,000 t); Coal: 63,616 long tons (64,637 t) Speed: 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) Tonnage: 14,497 net register tonnage; 36,360 GT Port of registry: Wilmington, Delaware, United States Installed power: 2 × MaK M43C 6-cylinder inline four-stroke diesel engines 8,560 bhp (6,380 kW) each
Very cool, my grandpa used to sail the great lakes before the Korean war. He was the engineer for the coal boilers that powered the steam engines. He says that the entire boat used to go under water, but that they never were scared because they new the boats were made to handle the waves. Still amazed by his stories!
I've always wanted to be one of the guys on those 1000' vessels. Coming out of the harbor to literally spend a few weeks at sea. But usually I'm just watching from the old Arrowhead Bridge while I hook up walleye, cats, and sturgeon. I've been in AZ for a year too, I'm looking forward to the cold, the wind, the woods, and especially fish.
This is a great video! I have been to Duluth a lot of times and those Superior waves can be real big. You captured the reality of being on a lake freighter. When I was eighteen, I boarded the John G. Munson from the mailboat(Westcott) in the Detroit river. I wish that someone could have made a video of that.
Love Duluth. Grew up going there, spent a few years there at school too. The lift bridge is always a cool place to just go and hang out around in the summer time.
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Reminiscent of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Thanks for sharing. BTW Why does everyone demand such high quality of a video? I think the quality here is excellent.
Dave Dennis Yes, but the Fitzgerald was a much older vessel with the wheelhouse located at the bow. The Arthur M. Anderson was following the Fitzgerald when the Fitz went down. The Anderson is still sailing the Great Lakes.
Dave Dennis **Would say it was and I enjoyed seeing the Captain bring her under with a single tug boat to assist, and there wasn't a crash, just moderate good navigation, while so much water was displaced, some youngsters got soaking wet, they too will have long memories of watching this Paul R T's, during their youthful .
Can you imagine the responsibility of the captain. The years of training. I can my husband is a tug boat captain. Years of training experience. You have no idea of the many different licences they have to have. I do I spent many hours helping him study to go to the coast guard for the tests. Radar training it just goes on and on. I have been on his tug boat many times. I have went on trips with him. It astonishing to me after 40 years what he does. A sail boat crossed over in front of him. He didn't see it anymore. He was pushing a barge full of gasoline. When he did see it again is when it rolled up along side the tug. He could tell you the name of the cigarettes the man had in his shirt pocket. Why they think these things can stop on a dime is beyond me. You can bet a piolet was on board. They take them in and out then a boat will come along side so they can disembark off the ship. Those license to be a pilot is another thing all together. I commented each and everyone of those people. Deck hands it's amazing. The time on board the sacrifice they make away from home for long periods of time. My hubby is out two sometimes three weeks. Yeah it's good money. We figured in a year we will of only been six months. Married forty not really it's only been twenty because of time away.
@@meerkarshau289 it's a tough job. A lot of time away from home and family. My husband said it takes a strong man to be out there. But it takes a much stronger woman at home 🏠
Behemoth of a ship.. wonder struck at the following 1. Size of the ship 2. Power of the engines to push dat Behemoth 3. The Depth at dat part of the channel for a ship of dat size to pass 4. The skill of the crew to get dat beast through a narrow lane.. 5. Some beautiful people waving to dat ship n crew..a morale booster for the crew for choppy days ahed 👌 respect 🙌 👏 🙏
You should see the lake when it's really rough out there- scary huge waves that can sink a ship like that. I love the harbor at Duluth, always a stop on my way home from the Boundary Waters along with the nearby maritime museum.
The MV Paul Tregurtha was the last ship built by the American Shipbuilding Company in Lorain OH. After that the yard was closed and worked moved to Florida to avoid paying union wages. That decision was made by George Steinbrenner of NY Yankees fame.
My wife and I just returned from visit o Duluth. We stayed at Fitger's and could watch the ships come and go from the hotel. Very nice lake front in that area.
I don't know what has been loaded in her hold, but there a serious hole in her side not far back from the bow. I'm surprised that nobody else seems to have noticed it.
@@dcnelsons No, you can see the hawseholes for the anchor chains at the bow of the ship. What I'm talking about is the gash in her side, that you can see as she goes past . It's above the waterline, but even so, it looks as if some serious damage has been done.
when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago used to see ora boats almost every day as wee had the south works steel mill 4 blocks from my house 1940,s to 1970 .
I'm looking at it ..its 2019 August 29th ....the ship is awesome its so so huge ..its a beautiful site ..amazing but I'm very much afraid of water. .since i was little growing up or as far as I knows ..especially the big waves. .very very much afraid. ..when i look at it ...it seems so strong like its gonna wrap you around and just take you down or away
Lynne Ralston. Ciao. How ya doin? Now can you tell me what is unusual about this video in this day and time? Well here is a little hint. Just look at the crowd.
@@davidfrehlini5430 Nothing unusual that I can detect from a nor'easter in Duluth in June... There's 400 miles of cold water behind that wind! A clear lack of understanding about hydrodynamics, though.
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I would like to be there to see this. I'm 74 now and far away. I was a young officer at the forward Safefy Refueling post in the '70s and I didn't like didn't getting splashed then. I was on a WWII destroyer.Taking fuel from an aircraft carrier was impressive. This would be as well. RT sends/envia, Colonia Centro Histórico, Puebla, México
