Latest on sinking ship leaking oil into San Joaquin Delta

Madisen Keavy reports.

[@alanh1406]

This will sadly end with the lawyers and the scrappers.

[@lowandslow3939]

Correction. The yellow boom contained the leaked fuel. The white boom is there to absorb it.

[@davidanalyst671]

The government uses this stupid shtt to scream that they need more money from you in the form of taxes so they can keep the environment safe for all the homeless people they promised to get rid of.

[@pamt7740]

Heartbreaking news. Been watching Chris work on the restoration of that ship - till politics interfered. Many subscribers to her channel are heartbroken!

[@benzproducts]

chris is a guy.. christopher

[@colinklang]

​​@@benzproducts ships are often referred to with female pronouns. OP wasn't talking about the former owner. They were talking about the ship.

[@MrDarcykampe]

Politics had nothing to do with it. He was in way over his head and didn't have the money. When rebuilding/ restoring a vessel, you start from the bottom up. Not the top-down like he did. He never put it into drydock because he didn't have the money to do it. Unfortunately, it's a wasted effort for those who gave their time or money.

[@benzproducts]

@@MrDarcykampe Where is Chris? He owes us an explanation, how does the Aurura KZbin channel just shut down, what about the volunteers that he had working on this ship?

[@danfiorini785]

I’m sure he had every intention of finishing the ship. However, he was in way over his head and his knowledge. He was fixing things on top of the boat while the bottom was rotting.

[@irwinisidro]

I visited the ship somewhat recently, and I knew she was in need of a proper dry dock refit. The ship had holes from corrosion right above the waterline. It was sooner or later, until someone brings her into a shipyard and replace the hull plates.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

They were in the middle of restoring her when this happened

[@K2teknik.]

@@sirboomsalot4902 Restoration like in "buy a house, starting the "restoring" by fixing kitchen and bathroom without paying any attention to the leaking. and rotten roof".

[@marvindebot3264]

A desperately sad day, she was a rare bird, the last of her kind in fact, the product of the post-war cruise boom.

[@christianbottger493]

It was the first ship of that size buildt in Germany after WW2, Blohm&Voss should buy it back and restore it to be displayed in the Hamburg Museum harbour (the original Name was "Wappen von Hamburg")

[@drscopeify]

@@christianbottger493 Someone needs to reach out to them, maybe they could afford it.

[@HingleMacCringleberry]

Flex Tape to the rescue

[@dcdanger6151]

Shame to see all that time, work and effort go to waste. Suspicious how it sank so soon after the ownership transfer. Seems the previous owner would not have made the restoration attempt if the hull wasn't sound to start with.

[@MrJuvefrank]

Suspicious how it sank so long after it was built! Hahahaha!

[@rsinclair689]

I doubt anyone would write a policy in it.

[@christianbottger493]

Well, He restored parts of the inside and the Deck, but never bothered about the underwater hull during the 15 years He owned the ship, should have gone to drydock long ago

[@dcdanger6151]

@@christianbottger493 I didn't follow the restoration from the beginning but I would think that's the first thing to do on this type of project

[@christianbottger493]

@@dcdanger6151 yeah, but as far as I remember, that wasn't done

[@K2teknik.]

It is a bit sad, the old owner could not fix/repair/restore as fast as the ship decayed and finally ran out of finances and motivation, a new owner without any understanding about the state of the ship jumped into buying it and apparently did not take measures to 24/7 surveillance regarding water intrusion and a way to remove eventually water, you even need this on brand new boats. The ship needed at dry dock, sand blasting, and then an thorough investigation of the state of the hull, and the result may very well be that it is too expensive to fix the hull, and to come to this conclusion will cost a lot of money. I would not be surprised if it would had turned out to be cheaper to build a new hull than to repair the existing one, sorry.

[@philbuell6657]

Why are they talking to the past owner? where is the new owner? they bought it, now it's their responsibility?

[@MrJuvefrank]

When you buy a used car, you have to be sure you aren't buying someone else's problem. This is something ships and cars have in common.

[@christianbottger493]

Because they can't get hold of the new owner ...

[@darthgrundle2349]

It's not the love boat! The original Pacific Princess, the love boat used on TV was scrapped in 2013 in Turkey.

[@Brandis13]

Apparently, it was the inspiration for Love Boat. And it was used in filming of the James Bond movie "From Russia with love".

[@samfromportadown]

Well, I guess that's the end of the line. She was a fixer-upper before, but now presumably all of her machinery spaces are full of water, engines ruined, electronics ruined, pretty much a death sentence.

[@davidanalyst671]

there were no electronics, and they never fired up the engines, so nobody knows how it was. If I was being honest, its in the same shape it was in.... just 6 feet deeper in the water. Just tryna give you some encouragement............

[@61Slughi]

Unless you're a multi millionaire/billionaire, nobody should be buying and "fixing up" big boats like these. There's 2 rotting ferry boats in Puget Sound, a huge barge from Expo '86 falling apart in Vancouver, BC and the sad ending of the ferry Kalakala all bought by people with "big plans".

[@ldwankenobi5618]

as long as its no ones fault should be fine.

[@davidanalyst671]

You really shouldn't be posting comments that alliterate this well with led zeppelin songs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/opKQq5loicx2oNk

[@blaydCA]

Time to get some air bladders to lift it up some then get it to a dry dock.

[@713devereux]

Scrap yard

[@charlieruppert1423]

Pretty sure the slough has silted in enough that the ship cannot even exit unless they dredge. It would seem the PO made a genius move with that sale.

[@davidanalyst671]

@@713devereux unfortunately

[@pforce9]

You do not use lift bags on something this big. You patch the holes and wait until low tide to pump it out.

[@blaydCA]

@@pforce9 It's a small vessel, so air bladders would be the efficient way to go. Pumping it out would require all the pumped water to be filtered, if the hull only has a few bad spots and is not swiss cheese.

[@JohnJohnson-od5oz]

They should’ve took it out into land and let the homeless people live in there😂😂😂

[@SegoMan]

Same with the old subway cars, NYC throws them away in the ocean..

[@DucknCoverin]

They’d just slowly scrap it and fight over the scraps to finance their addictions. Any real dwelling you give them, they will destroy. Being terminally (not temporarily) homeless is a lifestyle that’s chosen. Those who don’t want that situation will pull themselves out of it. I know it’s hard to believe, but this is how some people prefer to live. They don’t want any part of society or rules and obligations that come with homeless shelters or government programs.

[@DucknCoverin]

Also. It would cost tens of millions of dollars to make this ship tenable on land. You’d have to dig a permanent graving dock and fix the hull. You have to remove the asbestos that’s probably everywhere in this ship. Then you’d have to brace the hull from all directions to help prevent pancaking of the structure. Ships don’t like to be permanently out of the water. The equal forces of the water on the hull are what prevents ships from slowly collapsing on themselves over time. Point being you can’t just take an old ship and stick it on land as a long term housing solution.

[@benzproducts]

Just watched helicopter footage, there is another ship, not the tug - that's sunken right next to it.. What is this, don't they have a bilge alarm system? It doesn't freeze there and they were just working on it a few months ago.. Doesn't make sense..

[@bnln1939]

If you go back in the restoration videos that large sunken ship along side is still there. I ask the same question what is the name of the ship? Seems to be such a waste.

[@benzproducts]

@@bnln1939 the other question is why chris wilson would have sold this after starting a whole movement to restore it and youtube channel.. wasn't he living on the ship, using it as his home before?

[@K2teknik.]

@@benzproducts Money is the answer, Chris was running out of money/time/motivation/enthusiasm/etc. He had properly been told many times, over the years, by people that understand old ships, that the condition of his ship was "bad" or as a minimum "questionable" and that he need dry dock, sand blasting, and a thorough investigation of the state of the hull just to get a realistic estimate about the state of the ships hull, that is very expensive, and it is money you will not be able to get back if the condition turns out to be bad. The line of car/ship owners that had done a thorough investigation of the state of their thing and then realized that it was way more bad than they had hoped for is long, very long, the line of those that just hoped "it will be ok, I will just go on fixing it step by step" and then suddenly the thing breaks into pieces, is even longer. Old used cars is bad, old used ships is even more bad, the numbers of dreamers is endless, unscrupulous used car/ship salesmen's make a damn good living from these dreamers.

[@christianbottger493]

​@@benzproductsHe was living on the boat. I suggest He just ran out of money and motivation after 15 years, saw the holes in the hull just above the waterline from corrosion and sold the ship ...

[@armageddonready4071]

Um ……….the PACIFIC PRINCESS was the name on the love boat. Great fallacy your promoting there.

[@76TomD]

It was touted as the inspiration for the show. She misspoke

[@allaboutboats]

IIRC the author of the book that inspired the creation of the TV show wrote the book just after taking a trip on this ship.

[@davidanalyst671]

Chris was great. the news coverage here didn't do a good job of taking care of Chris's reputation, by confusing everyone about ownership.

[@Kaidhicksii]

That's just tragic. I was hoping Chris would somehow actually manage to restore her completely: he made some big progress along the way. Hope this isn't the end of it.

[@Spitfiresammons]

Oh man all that hard restoration work on that ship is a total lost and the ship next to it is also a total lost too.

[@MsMsmak]

Oh man. So sad.

[@waynemerlo7448]

Oh my God the media are so incorrect in their reporting on so many things this ship was never the inspiration for the love boat……….lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Try the Pacific Princess.

[@allaboutboats]

IIRC the author of the book that inspired the creation of the TV show wrote the book just after taking a trip on this ship.

[@reidnolan4456]

I don't believe that was an accident for a second.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

I now know why there has been no videos in the past couple of o months 😢😢

[@SaltimusMaximus]

Aurora Restoration is on YT, it stopped posting new content a few months ago

Insurance fraud...

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Not necessarily, old ships sink all the time even when there is an ongoing effort to restore them. Time always wins

[@davidanalyst671]

what insurance would cover that boat? It hasnt been drydocked and looked over for decades

[@tonyarsenault4256]

Used to follow these clowns on KZbin and would get snarky replies in making a few suggestions. Apparently they where cruise ship restoration experts just be because 1 guy knew how to weld 🙄

[@pm1104]

Shame….! 😢

[@williambarry8015]

That thing looks like it sunk

[@Reaglesracing44_]

hi phil swift here with flex tape

[@johnmortison5763]

I never understood why early on the ship wasn't dry docked for a thorough inspection of the hull and running gear. A lot of money and time was wasted on the above deck work when apparently the hull was not sound.

[@bradleymorris8875]

Because it was a sympathy scam. He never intended to do anything except make money.

[@davidanalyst671]

@@bradleymorris8875 do you have any evidence of this? Sure he was doing cosmetic work, but he said he didn't have enough money to drydock and work on the undercarriage.

[@oppressedspeakeroftruth6558]

California can relate as it is also a sinking ship.

[@deathwishdrang1780]

Do you wake up hating everyday? Come to California, we will love you and and the hate-place you live in will blossom into love, Jesus loves you

[@Igotstaknowit]

California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Not too bad for a "sinking ship." Where are Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida on that list?

[@rewing4880]

Guilty as charged. Cue up the "Going Down" song.

[@TimmyRiversMusic]

@@Igotstaknowitagain sinking ship, that everyone’s jumping off of

[@deathwishdrang1780]

@@TimmyRiversMusic Californias population GREW last year, small fact but very true

[@JohnLaMonte]

Ok sooooo, you don’t know who owns it? Maybe it’s the same guy? Why don’t you do JOURNALISM! That’s your job.

[@brushcrawler8612]

Trains, planes and ships...😂 Way to ruin everything Pete 🌈

[@user-jc7jb3bu5s]

My old fishing spot!...

[@coreycarver9974]

This ship is not the original love boat. The two cruise ship that was used during the filming of the show have been scrapped years ago and the names of the ships are Pacific princess and island princess. If you would of just googled the original love boat you wouldn't of used misleading information in your news video. But wait all news is misleading

[@Viking88Power]

RIP

[@raymondnoya5653]

Omg !

[@ralphcrosby9622]

Rem ER the Valdez

[@MrJuvefrank]

The old goat didn't know how to sail a boat.

[@garyb6219]

Madisen... call a makeup consultant.

[@MrJeep75]

Sounds like insurance fraud

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

Owning a big ship is a disaster!!😂😂😂

[@Jon_Flys_RC]

“Restoring” ships is not for amateurs and shoestring budgets. It should have been turned into razor blades a long time ago. Its foreign built, was never jones act compliant and had no place in domestic work in the USA.

[@charlieruppert1423]

And now it is literally a huge problem. Slough has silted in so it can’t even be floated out.

[@Jon_Flys_RC]

@@charlieruppert1423 the coast guard will follow procedures. When the owner doesn’t come forward or can’t be located they will declare it abandoned and use oil spill funds to at least get the oil pumped off and cleaned up, depending on the long term environmental risk decides if they remove the wreck or not.

[@tundahking]

Really dont care about california and their stupid problems.

[@MrJuvefrank]

That's funny; you commented on them.

[@WillS-qc9mc]

They’re worried about saving a boat while the water is getting poisoned sound about right

[@seeharvester]

Are you kidding? That water has been poisoned since the gold rush.

[@davidanalyst671]

its because the boat is worth something, and the water is fine. It always was fine. Stop believing all your global warming and environmental crap

[@76TomD]

Insurance job

[@MrDarcykampe]

No.

[@davidanalyst671]

in order to get insurance you have to have been pulled out of the water and get paint and hull inspected. That hasnt happened in a decade or two

[@mastaplanna]

Lol 😂