Ships and Shipwrecks | Great Lakes Now Full Episode

On this week's episode of Great Lakes Now:
Shipwrecks
We travel to Lake Huron off the coast of Alpena, MI to examine the peaceful and majestic underwater beauty of shipwrecks at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary with Scuba Diver & Videographer, Andy Morrison.
Life on a Freighter
As you see the giant cargo freighters traveling along the Great Lakes, have you ever wondered what life is like on board? Join Captain Wilson Wallers and his crew aboard the CSL Welland to discover what goes on behind the scenes of a cargo freighter.
J.W. Westcott
Host Ward Detwiler visits the J.W. Westcott Co., the most reliable marine delivery service on the Great Lakes, and home of the countries only floating zip code. Ward and the Great Lakes Now crew spend the day on the J.W. Westcott II delivering everything from mail to pizza to the cargo freighters that travel up and down the Detroit River.

[@TOTALCAMARO]

I’m very envious of you 😊

[@SmilingCave-mg7xq]

Up the river here in sarnia/port Huron. We see the pilot boat go out on to Lake Huron doing the same thing. People don’t realize how much work and how much these freighters are needed!! The Great Lakes aren’t the ocean but they’re nothing to snicker at!

[@miapdx503]

The shipping industry is so viable, so important to our economy and they don't get the respect they deserve. God bless those who put out to sea! A brave lot. I keep you all in my prayers. I wish you calm seas and good fortune 🌹⚓

[@andrewspence8100]

Amazing company and its history,here’s to many more years for you.

[@ackack612]

Yet another example of why public tv stations/broadcasting are so important to the markets they serve. No matter where in this country one ventures to we're more than likely to find a public broadcasting outlet that adds so much to that region. Nicely done!

[@jeffpotipco736]

Stuff like this is great. Unfortunately, public broadcasting is starting to go woke too.

[@miapdx503]

​@@jeffpotipco736"go woke?" As opposed to awake, informed, and open minded? Cultspeak betrays your mindset. Wake up. Don't fear the truth. Embrace it. You will be happier and more at peace. I've never seen cult folk who are happy. All are paranoid, fearful, angry and hateful. That isn't living.

[@jackclingenpeel5020]

Too cool! I drove tractor trailers for most of my life. I retired from Roadway! “There’s a right way a wrong way and a Roadway” by G”

[@dragonclaws9367]

What an amazing job with the mail!!! Incredible!

[@aprylrittenhouse4562]

Thank you for uploading this program. This is what you tube is all about. Learning

[@jeffpotipco736]

Should be anyway.

[@jeffpotipco736]

Should be anyway.

[@miapdx503]

Yes, you can learn about *anything* these days. Being autodidactic, finding information at my fingertips is a joy.

[@privatepilot4064]

Some Great Lakes heritage. No doubt.

[@hollymartins6913]

It's wonderful to watch a television journalist who sincerely enjoys his job as opposed to network hosts feigning interest in anything other than themselves. One of many reasons that I fell in love with PBS as a young boy and continue that affection as an adult. A national treasure and resource!❤

[@Tyrfingr]

Some guys have the best jobs you never thought of.

[@eileenflora]

I grew up in st. clair shores, right down the block from Lake st. clair and I remember hearing those freighters horns. I miss that.

[@ronimiller397]

Me too

[@miapdx503]

I live in Portland Oregon, and used to hear those horns. But for some reason they've stopped ship traffic this far up the Willamette. I miss it too. 😓🌹⚓

[@davidjsouth231]

I watch videos like this and think, wow! Why didn’t I know about jobs like this when I was younger

[@cobrasvt347]

I keep these big girls going, fresh and salt water vessels all around the world. Wouldn’t want to be doing anything else than engineering and repairing ships. I love my job

[@Jay-vr9ir]

So true , I am from Port Colborne and my late father worked for Marsh Engineering .

[@aaronanderson4533]

Who do you work with ?

[@miapdx503]

Awesome. You don't get the credit you deserve. Without you the big beautiful vessels would have a short life span. Thank you sir. Salute! 🌹⚓

[@shermangriffin4668]

I was a US Sailor for 13 years and I will tell you, you miss being out there. The Captain is so right about doing what you love is not like work. I moved into Law Enforcement after the Navy and that was 25 years ago and it went by like a midnight rain. I miss it too now that I am medically retired.

[@gayprepperz6862]

Enjoy your retirement sir, you've earned it.

[@miapdx503]

Bless those who put out to sea! It must be a calling, it takes courage and hard work. Bless you for all you've done. Much appreciated 🌹⚓

[@davidwadsworth8982]

Worked and played on these lakes,Great lakes are the worlds best bodies of water on the planet. Clear clean seas. And yes we do surf them.

[@thebucketbus9370]

Lake Erie was breaking at 12' off Cleveland a few days ago. Love the lakes.

[@miapdx503]

I grew up in Lorain Ohio. My father took us fishing on Lake Erie. He was in the Navy, and he bought a scrap boat for pennies, stripped it down to the bones and rebuilt it. Always a sailor at heart, he taught me a lot about boats, navigation, and fishing. I live in the Pacific Northwest now, and enjoy some of the best fishing in the world. 🌹⚓

[@jeffpotipco736]

That would be an awesome job. I'd love that.

[@badgimp4577]

I used to watch these guys as a kid! It's definitely something to see in person.

[@BroskiTheGreat]

So cool

[@lorigarza9971]

That diving program at the highschool is fantastic!! I wish more schools would do different stuff like this for our kids.

[@detroit8v715]

One of the cool things of living in Detroit is seeing the ore ships slowly pass by and seeing Canada on the other side.

[@johncholmes643]

About the only thing ...... Detroit is the armpit of America

[@scotti.6433]

There`s a guy from Cleveland who works as an ABS for Interlake who has his own KZbin channel, and when he was doing videos about working on the boats he showed how dangerous from neglect the Detroit docks could be to work around, the worst on the lakes he said due to broken concrete and rebar sticking out everywhere that one can easily trip over when handling the ship`s hawsers.

[@miapdx503]

Awesome 🌹⚓

[@trainroomgary]

Well done • Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

[@thesketchydude1315]

the fact that the Bucket on the Manitowoc even has the ships company colors is just amazing

[@rickrobinson3854]

I was offered a ride on the westcott while down at the co. making a delivery. It was awesome getting right up next to the freighters while moving. Got awesome videos

[@Grandpanfun]

Great program thank you for sharing

[@LakeFreightersBoats]

Love From Lake Freighters

[@williamstamper442]

I worked as a deckhand on the Westcott from 1988-1991. Miss it alot.

[@miapdx503]

Awesome. Salute! 🌹⚓

[@LadyOaksNZ]

Got me totally absorbed 💯💯💯 Maybe it's cos I live on an island - North Is. New Zealand 🇳🇿 - that I'm fascinated with the oceans and the Great Lakes. For my first class speech at age 10 I chose the topic the Freighters of the Great Lakes... (40 odd yrs ago)... been fascinated ever since. Thanks for posting! 💯🚢🚢 ...PS I'm terrified of the big waters.

[@miapdx503]

Lol, I'm pretty much the same! I love ships, I love all things ocean but I can't swim and I'm terrified of deep water...😏🌹⚓

[@menosbbgirl]

This is so cool. I’d love to go there someday. What a beautiful country we all have. 💙🇺🇸❤️ Canada is beautiful too!💞💋

[@aaronhrynyk]

These guys saved me when my jet ski broke down directly under the ambassador bridge

[@miapdx503]

Thank God! When it comes to saving lives on the water, the international code is stop everything and save lives! Sailors will move heaven and earth to get people out of danger, putting their own lives at risk. 🌹⚓

[@mjc11a]

Very impressive upload. Must say I'm somewhat envious of you guys! Makes me homesick for Michigan. Thanks for posting and stay safe 🙏

[@felixcat9318]

What an absolutely fascinating topic! Subscribed! Even in the age of instant communications, cell-phones, text and video messaging, Skype, internet, etc, there's nothing like personal mail from loved ones, real tangible letters to keep close to one's heart, to brighten the day! Likewise, buying books or other goodies that require direct delivery! This is an aspect of international marine freight that I've never seen covered by any other outlet, very well done for bringing it to people's attention.

[@peterlahti989]

My father was on the James E. McAlpine, JJH Brown, and the Shasta in the 40s and 50s.

[@miapdx503]

Awesome 🌹⚓

[@livenfree]

Wow awesome show! Love learning about the frieghters and their crew! Sharing with all my friends and family!

[@ernstvanstangl1048]

I think this brings Ohioans and Michiganders together💪

[@Deftonesdsm]

I need to get my captains licences such a cool job.

[@sheilagravely5621]

Oh no no no no. No way.

[@ineedlamp9935]

I miss seeing the Detroit River I lived in Windsor majority my life now I just live 30 minutes away from the river on a farm

[@dsnodgrass4843]

Some years ago, a Westcott mail boat got swamped and sunk by the wake of a massive oil tanker under that bridge, costing the captain and a deckhand their lives. Even in calm waters, that's a dangerous job. RIP Capt. Nasiatka.

[@79tazman]

Fast currents in that river that will spit you right out into lake Erie we use to go out on the boat in the river around fighting Island River Canard area on the Canadian side and if your not anchored or have your engine running you go for a trip right down the river quick so imagine a swimmer getting caught in that river will drag you down stream fast

[@Blrtech77]

Awesome Video 🎉

[@gerrymcgregor6401]

a awesome video i have the luck to help load some big great lake,s like the first one we have loaded it many time i work at the salt mine in Goodrich Ontario and we two big algoma boats coming in tonight i love watching them come and head out never gets boring

[@merlinmonson2133]

Very cool

[@907goose]

Bwahahaha ... I skippered the pilot boat in the eastern Aleutian Islands and Bristol Bay for a couple years. 6-8 foot swells are nothing! But we, and the pilots, were set up for 10--15 foot seas. It was thrilling and the pilot boating aspect of this video is 100%! Thanks.

[@miapdx503]

How cool!

[@briancaldwell283]

One of my managers at Bell Canada was Patricia Hookey, daughter of Capt. Hookey of one of the Great Lakers.

[@jorgemolinaherrera5463]

Great audiovisual report!! I missed an interview with the engine room crew and a couple of views from their propulsion engines and ancillary equipments. Maybe next time?

[@jameswillis1742]

I actually have a pic of the manitowoc, but in my pic the laker boat has seen better days, I dont know when this video was shot, but the boat looks alot better now

[@Sicktrickintuner]

Never knew that happened right there at the Detroit/Windsor border

[@ken7875]

It’s amazing it’s that solid but a hard wave can crack her in two. It seems ships can’t be hard or strong enough when winter hits.

[@miapdx503]

That's a thing about ships...the powerful forces at play...mighty iron ships, powerful waves and winds, they have been dancing their dance for hundreds of years. The ocean is the most powerful...no one can tame her.

[@blkcat1254]

I live in sarnia ontario, as taxi driver we have the contracts to pick up the pilot and run him to the u.s. side to catch a boat going to and from

[@cjhopkins7128]

I would love to work on the Great Lakes!

[@XGRIMYONEX]

They got barges like that here in ny

[@davidfoster7725]

Manitowoc was laid up in Port Weller dry doc over the winter for refitting

[@GhanYt]

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[@Maxislithium]

I should have been a lake freighter man.

[@arapahoetactical7749]

I dove the wrecks of Alpena a couple of decades ago on a TDY to the Air Guard base there. Just beautiful.

[@granskare]

I read the soft-cover books by Fred Stonehouse. Shelter Bay was a great place. I felt an earthquake which was confirmed by the paper the next day, about 4.0 level.

[@miapdx503]

Fred Stonehouse...I'm not familiar with his work, I'll have to check it out. Thank you 🌹⚓

[@richkeeshan9757]

In my youth I wanted to work on a Great Lakes freighter, now at age 55 it's too late.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

I better get my resume handed in...i"m only 54! lol

[@supercpy7472]

Pilot does not take over the Navigation of the ship. The Master and OOW still have full control over the pilot. The pilot is just there because of their knowledge of the area so they can have input on you decisions if it poses a risk the ship and ket you know about navigation hazards.

[@jeffreykielwasser3637]

The american valor, and I believe the manistee are moored by the 280 bridge in toledo. Been sitting there for almost 2 years, wonder why?

[@daddyrabbit835]

19:45 The E.B. Allen

[@kidsperspectivefamilytrave9184]

Cool shipwrecks! I am curious what the water temperature is where they are diving near Thunder Bay ... it must be really cold!

[@Pain-mr2hn]

I am from northern Ontario and you're lucky if the water is above 50 degrees F this time of year lol

[@jeffpotipco736]

I can tell you its really cold at Tobermory. I imagine its about the same.

[@rottenroads1982]

Their is one Great Lakes freighter that is Famous because it was the largest ship to sink, it was The Edmund Fitzgerald. The largest wreck in the Great Lakes, it sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.

[@gregorys6838]

It's the other way a around, you'll get sick if you don't call in.

[@theshipnerd2028]

S.S Edmund Fitzgerald is bigger but it sank in the late 70s

[@scotti.6433]

There are a number of lakers landlocked by their size since they were built after the last new locks were constructed and opened in 1959, so while there are plenty of more modern ships, the reason they don`t make them bigger is they are restricted by the current size of locks if they want to make it back and forth from the lakes to Montreal and points beyond such as ports of the Gulf of St. Lawrence or city of Halifax.

[@robertyoung3992]

mid 70's she sank November 10,1975

[@romulanspy4972]

Do they have Newfie accents? I find them mesmerizing.

[@miapdx503]

There's something eerie about shipwrecks...lying on the seafloor, silent, having carried men to their deaths...

[@FMJIRISH]

The irony of the Manitowoc being on the thumbnail of this video...

[@mikeking134]

Wow half that crew are newfies lol, go figure !

[@justinmyslive4108]

They say if you drained the great lakes it would look like a junkyard because of all the shipwrecks

[@redwolfpiping5701]

So many iron ore boat crews who never came home

[@miapdx503]

Yes, and so many were pushed into making one final run at the end of the season. Greedy men sent brave men to their deaths. The weather plus the great bodies of water combine to take them to bottom of the lakes. Those with sense refused that final run knowing it would be their final run...❤

[@cobrasvt347]

Next time I see a car, train or whatever crash I’m gonna ask em if it was a controlled collision.

[@MicaleAntonio]

this guy looks like a ginger Bob Saget

[@jbrobertson6052]

You show the deck department but nothing of the real sailors onboard a boat the actual workers the ones that makes the ship go The Engineering Department,, what's with that???

[@lynnleigha580]

I think more people know than you realize, just not everyone is into shipwrecks and watery graves

[@0714will]

Even Jerry Young?

[@anthonylawson8185]

Oh mr porter Movie

[@ohioanempire]

I hate how proper freighters are getting cut down and ocean type vessels are taking over. A proper freighters pilothouse is in front

[@jeffpotipco736]

I kind of feel the same way. Built between 1910 and 1950. There were hundreds of them. Not too many now.

[@LORDCHAOSVENOM]

I would not mind landing a job on there, as a Deck cadet

[@RoyceLerwick]

Have a drink on the Fitz.

[@livenfree]

Wow didn't know we had a marine sanctuary! BTW what does NOAA stand for?

[@kam0406]

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[@livenfree]

@@kam0406 thank you!

[@Stalkergames916]

Well theirs a video on Great Lakes shipwrecks theirs tons on it

[@johncholmes643]

*N* eed *O* ral *A* nd *A* nal

[@jayne59brohammer]

@@johncholmes643 😆😆😆😆

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Something tells me buisness has slowed immensely since the 1980s in the mail delivery at sea biz

[@kaikopink7999]

So sad so many wrecks why ?

[@samsngdevice5103]

These people still use mail versus gmail. They said the river got angry? Weird.

[@granskare]

I was born in the UP in 38. I watched the boats tie up the ore docks. Now we use taconite. What are you doing with the corona virus?

[@Dreyden-]

Sorry, but my Consumer's Energy bill is about $30 more a month now. I learned something, alright.

[@canubeleiveit]

That is a tolerable shift, 4 to 8 and 1600 to 2000

[@scotti.6433]

A few years ago it was about $26/hr USD to start, and then after six months, if you qualify you can graduate to able-bodied-seaman and make over 60k/yr with overtime if you`re ambitious.

[@davidwatson4698]

LUCA

[@nocommentarygaming2788]

!

[@davidwatson4698]

CODE

[@D1rtyfr0g]

Seriously what's with the flag on the suit at 21:42 🤦‍♂️

[@pumacat1637]

Captain Wilson Walters is one of the worst captains on the lakes

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

get em Jet's Pizza. the best deep dish Jets 10 they call it. 22 bucks about... 8-corner.