Is there still any lighthouse keepers working now?

What happens when huge waves slam a lighthouse? Is it very loud, does the lighthouse shudder and shake? What keeps the lighthouse from getting slammed down?

I was a boiler tender for 11 years its kind of similar in one way working by myself but only for 8 hours a day and then you Go home and start all over again the next day I think I could have worked in a light house

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My dad was a Coast Guard (american) Lighthouse keeper for 23yrs retired I have a tattoo on my left forearm of his last tour at Browns Head Lighthouse on an island called Vinalhaven off the coast of Maine

Automation turns your brains to mush, long live the working man.

Many moons ago i worked as a lighthouse keeper in Preston from 1952 to 1955/56 and have to admit it was a tough job but a fun and unique one too

Oh my God we all know that couldn't happen lol f****** stupid people that don't have no lighthouse knowledge all right isn't inside a lighthouse joke

Yetore jobs gone courtesy of damn technology

can't imagine what it's like Being a keeper and the sacrifices they made.

A GREAT Video, thanks. It's all very well going automated - but who makes the brews? ;o)

Wonderful documentary.👍

Hello all. I was wondering. Why did some lighthouses have curtains? Mercury related?

Another question: If Wolf Rock is a single rock, would it have been easier just to explode the lava rock with the WWII surplus bombs..?

Great stuff! Always wondered what is the benefit of fog horns in the era of motorized vessels? The bigger boats certainly have radars, GPSes. What is the scenario for horn to save the (gray) day?

But lighthouse is immortal and it's function can't be diminished......

I would love a copy of that scrapbook.

Brilliant

Brave men I’d say

I visited Cornwall in 1995 went to The Lizard lighthouse and met the last keeper. What a shame they automated them .

I love listening to Bill ( Pendeen ) he an his lovely wife Di! Two of the nicest most genuine people you’d ever care to meet

Just fascinating...

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Ive seen the guy in the timberland sweater in a few videos. One in particular on Peter Hills’s channel where he was younger on The Needles lighthouse. I hope he’s still around.

This is amazing

CREEPY LIFE STYLE, THE SEA IS SO ERIE AND TO LIVE IN A LIGHT HOUSE SURROUNDED BY WATER, AND SOME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN IS RIGHT DOWN STUPID. MANY A KEEPER HAS GONE MAD COMMITTING MURDER AND SUICIDE! YOU CAN HAVE IT, I'LL TKAE MY CHANCES ON LAND!

Old is GOLD

Why dya spill your beans....

I'm lucky enough to live in Pendeen and have been in the light house on a few tours. It was amazing and the light used to shine in my bedroom at night. The lense used to spin on a tonne of mercury. The fog horn was the loudest thing I've ever heard. Used to go right underneath it when it was going off. A bit stupid I guess, but you could feel your insides vibrating. Amazing times, such a shame that it's all automated now.

What crap of pronunciation in this video. Vulgar and crass. Don't upload such garbage videos again.

One job I would love to have, working in a lighthouse

That mercury spill story could be the most interesting thing I've ever heard.

Also Lightvessels, automation changed a way of life.

These people are as rare as bell ringers have now become... Well done Government, well done. Tossers.

10:45 if I were a lighthouse keeper, I'd love to hang with that guy on a shift.

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Thanks, beautiful and very informative.They are in a way a form of art.A light in the darkness.

I know I'm watching this on my phone but I'll be 51 soon and I have absolutely no doubt that technology is not the answer and I'm seeing such a difference in humanity and it's not a good thing... We are loosing so much of who we are and what we can do to computers and each generation is worse than the last. I think this is just another example of humans losing their identity.. God help Us.. I hate what we are becoming as a race.

I would love to read these log journals, and the scrap books.

Very interesting to hear the stories of these very articulate gentlemen

What a wonderful video insight Lindsay. I have been watching the also wonderful videos of a shipmate ( keeper) , Peter Halil. It is all fantastic footage of our British maritime history that should never be forgotten. It does really sadden me the way automation has destroyed many way of life’s, & in particular, the way man was taught to look after his equipment of the job. I find it very sad, but thankfully, to you guys, you have caught what is (and mine), a job that I have dreamt about...probably more romantically judging by the endless work involved. For me, solitude & inclement weather do it for me...so hats off to all you gentlemen, god bless & thank you for a wonderful video, Simon.

I totally agree it is very sacred also a lot like the watch towers in the forest in Arkansas I always wanted that job too

Living in a giant candle winking at god

Bet his arse went when the second wave hit......no hope of a rescue.....from that...

A lifetime of solitude and reading would be a very good life.

People always forget that the world resets itself eventually these keepers will be prevalent again

Touching to see them tell their stories. Also the one guy seemed so happy hearing the fog horn. Something really is lost with automation.

"Replaced by a microchip" summed it up. Very sad and it's a lifestyle gone forever now. The Wolf Rock keeper whose hobby was CB radio made me smile though as i was up to the same in the late 70's.....but we were forever dodging and outrunning the DTi guy who used to chase us around in a van. I don't think they'd bother with a CB user on Wolf Rock though!!!

Einstein said it was a job he'd like.

Oh to have had the chance just once to experience life in a lighthouse during the worst of nature.....