Eventually the water cools, becomes denser, sinks and starts flowing south as part of the North Atlantic Deep Water before resurfacing off Florida. The Gulf Stream gyres in the North Atlantic, transporting warm nutrient rich water from the tropics along the East Coast of the U.S. Entering the stream, foulies and boots were quickly exchanged for t-shirts and flip flops. We took advantage of it’s 5 mile per hour northward flow and mild temperatures. NEW YORK, JI got to sail a portion of the Gulf Stream aboard VO70 ‘Maserati’ from Charleston, SC to New York last winter.
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These guys have the responsibility of ensuring that billions of dollars’ worth of global trade arrives to final destinations in the ports of New York and New Jersey.Ĭheck out the full Sandy Hook Pilots article and photo essay in the December issue of New Jersey Monthly - now on newsstands - or read it here at this link. That’s why Pilot personalities are the perfect blend of adventurous and competent. The transfer from the launch to the ladder of a 1,000-foot container ship turns from a fun leap into one of life-or-death: it has to be timed precisely, lest you fall in the drink or get squeezed between two vessels. But change the setting to a freezing winter day with seas kicked up ahead of a nor’easter, and you start having second thoughts. It was a gorgeous day, and could easily make you think the pilot’s life is for you. We’d ride with the launch back and forth between ships, picking up pilots and dropping them off. We watched them scale the Jacob’s ladders of giant oil tankers and container ships to steer these behemoths safely into port. Over the summer, we spent a day at sea with the Sandy Hook Pilots on assignment for New Jersey Monthly. The $4.7-million medium-sized fast-response boat built by MetalCraft Marine in Kingston, Canada will be stationed at MARINE 6 in the East River, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Her crew of five firemen consists of a pilot, an engineer, an officer and two deckhands - safely housed inside the positive-pressure CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives) filtration system equipped bridge. She delivers up to 7,000 gallons of seawater per minute and foam and purple-K additives are also on board if needed. Her 66-foot aluminum hull houses three C-18 Caterpillar engines for propulsion, delivering 1150HP each. Another 450HP Caterpillar C-9 engine drives the water pumps, and for additional pumping power, one of the main C-18 engines can be assigned to the main water canon. The name plates with red letters crafted from I-beam steel collected at ground zero are displayed on each side of the wheelhouse. She is named after Firefighter William M. A massive water salute erupted in New York Harbor, as the newest FDNY fireboat arrived just after 3pm today.
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