Joe Franta is a sailor in America's Merchant Marine. He also has a YouTube channel where he documents some of what it is like to be a sailer working in the merchant marine.
The video today doesn't show us anything about that life, it does show us a timelapse of coming into and leaving the Columbia River. The last part of the inbound trip is at night, so in darkness, but the outbound journey is in the morning. It's only a 4 and half minute video, and the outbound trip starts at 2 minutes 30 seconds or so.
I also love that the harbor pilot arrives on the ship and leaves by helicopter. That you see right at the begining of the video and at the end.
If you pay attention, you can see when the blue water, turns to brown water.
American Endurance, the ship in this video, seems to be a coastwise oil tanker. That means it makes its way back and forth between Anchorage, Alaska and the Columbia River.
This is the Joe Franta. Ship video INBOUND & OUTBOUND, COLUMBIA RIVER TIMELAPSE. It is a relaxing couple of minutes.
I found this channel by way of Wirecutter at Knuckledraggin My Life Away, and the post What's Inside a Lifeboat?.
Awesome! Been there, done most of that. But on research ships and small boats chasing radio tagged Chinook smolts down the Willamette river into the Columbia. Cool video.
ReplyDeleteWorking as a fish biologist in downtown Portland was odd.Landing on the beach at Swan Island, there were hypodermic needles washed up on the beach. In 1988.