tomscott.com - / tomscott - With many thanks to the South Street Seaport Museum! Visit them at southstreetseap... or at Pier 16 in New York.
These days, if you have dangerous, underwater shoals and you need a lighthouse, you build a big tower and anchor it to the seabed. But a hundred years ago, that technology wasn't there: and so you'd build a lightvessel: a floating lighthouse with a crew of twelve, who's stay out in the dangerous channel in all weathers. At the South Street Seaport Museum, Mike Weiss, the waterfront foreman, gave me a tour around the Lightship Ambrose.
(Apologies for the audio on this one: I was shooting quickly, and it turns out it's windy on the East River in New York!)
9 сен 2024