Algoma Scrap Yard

[@Iowaclass65]

Thanks for the great video! This is International Marine Salvage. They might as well be known as Algoma Salvage. Algoma Central has been their best customer lately with the Algoma Enterprise (shown), Algorail and Algoway in the past 18 months. The remains of the Paul H. Townsend are immediately in front of the Algoma Enterprise. Before them the Algoma Process, Algoma Transfer, Algoma Quebecois and AlgoSoo were scrapped in 2014-16. Sad to see the classic Lakers go!

[@Wilhelm-Von-Hohenzollern]

I have seen the algoma enterprise several times when she was operational

[@Chuck59ish]

Looks safer and more organized than the one in Bangladesh.

[@WootTootZoot]

Better paid employee's as well.

[@maxnikolenko2302]

Ahahahahahahahahhahaahaaaaaa.... as soon as I read your comment the image of skinny dudes in squat positions up on a ship 5 stories high with nothing but a blowtorch and sometimes sunglasses. No safety lines, no hard hats, to nets to at least catch you incase you slip and fall because all them ship breaker dudes are wearing slipers and flip flops, 😆 🤣. No one wears a uniform or any protective gear of any kind. A raggedy button down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, pants or shorts, and every body....and I do mean every single ship breaker wears flip flops. I bet the Bangladeshi ship scraper looks at the western workers with all their fancy steel toed boots, leather aprons, hard hats, protective ear and eye wear, uniformity of some kind with at least the salvage yards name is found on every 👕 , or ⛑ 👷‍♂️ (hard hat or head covering of some sort) at the very least, and think of them as weak, soft, mandatory over the top daily safety meetings, and most importantly.....lacking raw manliness IDGAF attitude. The west looks at Bangladeshi and Indian and Pakistani scrap yard workers and are appalled how at the very least simple steeltoed boots are not mandatory. You would think that the one thing you need to be able to do is move around. If you or someone else drops some hot, or sharp razor edge 200 pound piece of metal on your foot, you would Walk away from the accident and continue with work. Losing a limb of any kind in this type of work will most likely result in job termination.

[@ripperace]

Those breaking yards over seas are a shitshow. They just drive the ships in as far as they can get them on the beach, and start ripping. Contamination of the environment be damned.

[@comradeyuri8492]

Most of the Algoma ships I see on steam time look like they are next here ?

[@jontoronto2272]

Theyre taking a break from cracking up Collingwood boats are they? I think Enterprise was Port Weller

[@robertbate5790]

Sad sight, yes. But at least we know where it is going. I am surprised not to see rail lines to take away scrap metal, how does it go out?? Perhaps by barge?? Thanks for the video. 🙂🙂🙂

[@danbasta3677]

Yes, it is a sad sight to see, very hurtful. Yet we all know that all these ore carrying vessels will one day sooner or later, will eventually meet this fate.

[@theinterestbox8608]

most likely just by truck

[@jayhopkins6990]

Goes about 45 minutes by truck,toDofasco in Hamilton .steel mill. There are rail infrastructure very close. About .5hrs driving till Buffalo Ft.Erie border crossing.

[@robertbate5790]

@@jayhopkins6990 Thanks for that 👍👍 🇬🇧

[@chrisguerra2341]

Wow, excellent video! What's the music group? Super calming

[@oldrustycars]

When they scrap a boat similar to the Edmund Fitzgerald, I wonder if they have investigators checking to look for cracks or stresses that might have caused the sinking. Maybe a flaw in that style of vessel that you couldn't detect without cutting one apart?

[@joecombs7468]

The Edmund Fitzgerald broke when the bow hit the bottom with the stern still on the surface in that storm. If it had broken apart on the surface the two halves would have been further apart. There have been ships the same style as the Fitzgerald that broke apart on the surface though. But in those cases the ships broke apart because of lost rivets in the hull plates. You can find the accident reports of the NTSB & the Coast Guard online (not all but many). It can be kinda stale reading the way they write the reports, but as you work it out it gets more interesting.

[@danbasta3677]

@@joecombs7468 Still, a very sad story on how she went down, yet still remains a deep mystery as to how, why and what caused her to be lost at sea and within the Great Lakes of Superior.

[@joecombs7468]

@@danbasta3677 no doubt Dan. I can still remember watching the evening news as a kid the night they announced the Edmund Fitzgerald was missing.

[@benishborogove2692]

@@joecombs7468 It's an awesome realization that these ships are so huge that the bow is hitting the bottom while the stern is still at a 45° angle on the surface of 500 foot deep water.

[@joecombs7468]

@@benishborogove2692 my exact same thoughts. But like you point out the water was 500 feet deep. That's about 200 feet shorter than the length of the Fitzgerald. They have one of those old bulk carriers in Toledo as a museum. I don't remember the name but it was built in 1912. If you have not seen it, it is well worth a visit.

[@pfaffdaddy169]

The st.clair a rather wide boat, to wide for canal , had a fire on it recently and is a total right off and will be scraped there this fall so very soon

[@insertnamehere313]

Time laps would have be AWSOME way to say goodbye ole girl.

[@xjeepmanx]

Hey ...I lost my wrench under the lower engine room grating...if ya find it could ya mail it back to me 🙂

[@jeffpotipco736]

Where is this exactly? I lived in the soo 5 years and dont see anything I recognize.

[@mikerafone4736]

Geeze, WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND HOW.

[@bruker8013]

How do they get those huge ships so far out of the water?

[@gullreefclub]

Can’t say how this yard does it but the breaking yards in Pakistan, and India pump the bilges dry, wait for high tide and get a “running start” and run the ship onto the beach at which point they hook bulldozers and winches to the hull of the ship and pull onto the beach as far as they can and then start cutting the hull up and as the remove a section of the hull they continue to winch the what is left of the ship onto the beach. Think of it like the story/joke of the missionary in Africa comes upon a Bushman who just killed a big bull elephant. The missionary asks the Bushman what are you going to do with that elephant you just killed? The Bushman replies I am going to eat it for dinner. The missionary looks a the Bushman who is 5 foot nothing and can’t weigh more than 139 pounds soaking wet with a 20 pound sack of rice on his shoulder and says you mean you and everyone in your village is going to eat that enormous beast for dinner as well as breakfast and lunch for the next week. The Bushman replies no just me and I am really hungry because I haven’t eaten in two days. The missionary replies hungry or not just how in the heck are you going to eat that elephant? The Bushman replies, Simple one bite at a time.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

The last video I watched The white boat was complete and now half gone I bet is there is an up to date video It’s completely gone 👍👍👍

[@Tipp_Of_The_Mitt]

Is there a reason why they keep some of the pilot houses, other than maybe posterity reasons?

[@jamesbraun9842]

It's kind of a tradition to keep a part of the boat.

[@jimzeirke1127]

One of them would make a dandy summer cottage somewhere.

[@TOTALCAMARO]

I watched a video where a billionaire bought the ship that Henry Ford had and turned the pilot house into a house for himself on the lake front. It was fascinating to see all the original wood work on it. Too bad more of them don’t get saved that way and used for that purpose. Unfortunately not everyone can afford to buy one. I have to say that he had a beautiful view of the sunset.

[@alexandersinclair9006]

@@TOTALCAMARO stop your lies. It wasnt a billionaire that did it moron

[@papabits5721]

The Upper Lakes Shipping scrap yard and cemetery.

[@robdangripp9406]

Where's this located

[@leftseat30]

Port colborne Ontario

[@TheMNrailfan227]

The times when it seriously hurts is to see a ship with a forward pilothouse and fantail go to the scrapper

[@doughouston4741]

The Old Girl will go down with Flag still flying......

[@NickFortier]

I think I saw this ship leave port in owen sound in the spring. It was real ugly, and fairly short compared to the ones I've seen. It was probably here for a year before it drove off, but I could be wrong

[@CDNVeteran97]

We used to have our boat in the Marina on the west back of the Welland Canal. My Father and I would go out past the breakwall's to go fishing decades ago now. Sweet memories.

[@madison9582]

So sad to see the Algoma Enterprise like this.

[@phillipgarrow2297]

It's the end of there lively hood they are being recycled in a environmentally friendly way

[@kgindustries2937]

Can’t be making much with this production.

[@jofreddy8643]

Rip Enterprise

[@MainMezzer]

Why am I not surprised that I found you here but yea rip the enterprise

[@jofreddy8643]

@@MainMezzer i am wherever enterprize is lol

[@MainMezzer]

@@jofreddy8643 ofc lol

[@historiclakefreighters7442]

@@MainMezzer well I’ve arrived late to the party . Ps this is nolfi lol

[@epistte]

I'd have thought that the Canadians would be more environmentally aware and scrap ships in some sort of an enclosed dry dock. This isn't much better than what happens in India, Turkey, or Bangladesh.

[@7891ph]

Umm... No. This is cleaner than most of the inland scrap yards I've delivered to for various employers in the past. This isn't some third world toxic hell hole.

[@dw-bn5ex]

Like that mess in Brownsville?

[@gailgrove]

Just because the work looks similar, doesn't mean they don't have a ton of safety and environmental regulations to follow...

[@arturojimenez2477]

dry dock of land earth, very Good but very Cheap, only Mud, Few Environmental, Here One 1, Same in River Isabela Sto Domingo City, SDN Metal Antillanian Company, CXA.

[@arturojimenez2477]

Is Very Toxics For Water River, is very Near River, Outside Half Only Hull Vessel

[@janecarlson2978]

How sad

[@TheMNrailfan227]

The times when it seriously hurts is to see a ship with a forward pilothouse and fantail go to the scrapper