Time-lapse - down the Mississippi from New Orleans to Gulf of Mexico [4K]

Morning departure from New Orleans, down the Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico via Southwest Pass channel.
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[@CaptainChris69]

I've made this trip many times as a tugboat Captain. I've pushed barges ahead, towlined behind, pulled drilling rigs, and serviced them in the lower Mississippi. Had more than a few close calls and near misses. Wouldn't trade my career for any job out there! Retired at 68, I miss it more than I can express.

[@pastorjan7104]

I'm a disabled senior. I soo enjoyed the journey! Thank you very much!

[@SeaTube]

You're welcome! Glad to see these videos are appreciated in more ways than I have imagined!

[@kg1966]

I watch these cargo ships all the time and wondered what the view might be going down the Mississippi. Great video.

[@AllanEvansOfficial]

It’s insane how quickly those low level clouds begin to form the split second the sun comes up and starts warming the atmosphere

[@Handler777]

How beautiful to watch a gaint ship sail through a river squeezing its way through the shipping channel dodging other ships perfectly navigating it's way out in the Mississippi River alongside the amazing natural environment. Great work sir , My only regret is that a very few people make such videos.

[@w.allencaddell6421]

It makes you feel like an explorer. You're the Captain. In your mind you hear the CCR song "run through the jungle".

[@MultiPurposeReviewer]

This was beautiful and relaxing and well-made. I specifically searched for MS river journey timelapses, and this was a perfect result.

[@charlesbyrd1957]

Beautiful .....I used to own freighters ...brought back memories...worlds largest port tonnage wise....easy to see why May southwest pass continue to feed and energize the world Thanks

[@AmericasParks]

This was fascinating to watch! Would love to tour the Mississippi one day. Thanks for sharing!

[@tweston315]

One of the best videos I've ever seen on KZbin by far! The music was a perfect blend with the movement of the clouds at timelapse speed! Thank you so very much for the awesome journey! Great job!

[@JPW558]

So beautiful at night!

[@jawstheproducer1593]

:59-1:02 the deepest point in the entire Mississippi River, over 250’ deep!

[@TreyJ_Mollo]

Wow really never knew that. That’s cool

[@jamesfrommanitoba6363]

I just did this via cruise ship last week, nice to see the whole thing during daylight hours, we miss so much at night. Thank you!!

[@lejonfo]

Omg thank you so much for posting. Every time I go down the Mississippi it gets dark so you just see nothing. The video was breathtaking and I also loved the music.

[@chipgeron6753]

I visited Destin, Florida acouple of weeks ago and loved it. The Gulf is incredible. I live in Louisville, Ky where some of the Ohio river is. I always heard how it converts to the Mississippi river and then the Gulf Of Mexico. I wanted to see the actual connection spot into the Gulf and here it is. I love it :)

[@escapewithjay]

my first time watching this video again since i paddled the entire mississippi, awesome to see it from this vantage point and to see the areas i remember passing!

[@TheTpowell]

Really liked this video. Went on cruise out of New Orleans a couple weeks ago on this same route. Thank you for posting.

[@flashedwheat6783]

Thank you so much for sharping this. I really enjoyed it. I really wanted someone to go down the Mississippi River and travel to the Gulf of Mexico cause I wanted to see how it looks like when they meet. Thank You 🙏🏼 I liked this video in reward

[@tontoace7]

Beautiful

[@Clickumentary]

very cool.. ships are so mesmerizing.. nice edit work!

[@khwaac]

Amazing thank you very much.

[@andrewdavid5928]

It's like being on a cargo jet boat! Too cool!

[@SeaTube]

You got that right!

[@accountingstepbystep2229]

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

[@PaddlingIowa]

So cool, thanks for sharing.

[@jamesroberts2115]

Drove right past my house at 3:20.

[@freebird7057]

That is really one to video man

[@allenreding1533]

Excellent video. Very professional.

[@Highland_Moo]

Gorgeous footage! I’m from the Isle of Skye in Scotland and the waters round here are so quiet in comparison.

[@davidstronach3261]

Nice timelapse not to fast but very enjoyable

[@54markl]

Singing elves of the Mississippi.

[@jasonfalcon7821]

That was pretty cool I was born in Baton Rouge Louisiana next to the Mississippi River which to show of to girls we used to climb the bridge in Baton Rouge Louisiana by going up the trusels and up a 80 foot ladder with 5 feet taking out and had to fall and catch the ladder the last 29 feet at 160 feet high and would get on the catwalk and have so much fun! One thing that was scary was if you were on the ladder and 2 semi 18 wheelers driving over the bridge all loaded down would make the ladder shake real bad but I've gone to the top and touched the red light a good 300 feet high which had quite a view we loved watching the ships go by as they were under us all ship's big cargo ships like on this video shows boats all kinds of them was an amazing feeling. 😎 ⛰️

[@onestuck5169]

Amazing

[@alessaaaaaandro]

Nice video

[@diegosauda9596]

i did it for 5 yrs on carnival cruise lines ship Sensation from 95 to 2000 thursday night at 10 pm we enter the river and get to NOLA at the river walk pier at 6 am,,we would stay til 10 pm friday and reach the gulf at 5 am on route to Tampa Florida.

[@SeaTube]

Thanks for sharing!

[@andyjung9787]

Darn, I was hoping you would show where the muddy Gulf abruptly become blue about 25 miles South of the Mouth.

[@SeaTube]

Unfortunately, the stormy weather wouldn't allow it to be clearly visible, even if going further South.

[@patriklindqvist1562]

Thank you very much for posting this :)

[@spukduk5632]

What's with all the moored ships on the sides?

[@Ivegotwormsinme]

There's a grain elevator as well as a coal terminal, followed by an oil and gas refinery that load/unload thousands of ships a year.

[@Ivegotwormsinme]

2:06 - Oil/Gas Refinery 1 (Belle Chasse Refinery) 2:30 - Oil/Gas Refinery 2 (Alliance Refinery) 2:30 - Grain Elevator 2:44 - Coal Terminal (You have to look hard, but you can see the mounds of coal being sprayed with water to keep the dust to a minimum) 3:23 - Tennessee Gas (Natural gas refinery) - I got to see this place go on lock-down once because they thought it was about to explode. 3:49 - Empire Marina/Daybrook Fisheries - If you look up "Boats on bridge Hurricane Katrina" on google images, you can see Daybrook's boats hanging out on the Empire Bridge due to the storm surge from Katrina. 4:11 - MSRC (Oil Spill Response) and Fort Jackson (Civil War fort) on the West Bank and Fort St. Philip (Civil War fort) on the East Bank That's it, really. After that you head out of Main Pass and into the gulf. Unless you want to go fishing, then there's a whole hell of a lot more to see of note.

[@eadecamp]

Thank you for posting this. I've cruised out of NOLA twice, but the ships don't leave until around 4 pm and we don't get out into international waters until around midnight.

[@chrislittler1246]

Interesting!

[@SeaTube]

It is!

[@maulanwong3841]

Nice!

[@SeaTube]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@xxtryhardxx1620]

When he passed that navy ship I used to swim there

[@eustatic3832]

2:48 site of new LNG terminal and beginning of NVIC 01-11 safety zone

[@marlongarciagulfo5486]

Hi. I from Colombia

[@SeaTube]

Hi! I do have some beautiful footage with maneuvers in and out of Buenaventura. Plan to post them on this channel sometime soon.

[@eadecamp]

Unfortunately on the first night of our cruise we didn't know that our drinks, while free, would be taxed because the Mississippi River is still US waters.

[@eustatic3832]

4:49 West Bay Crevasse, river restoration project

[@eustatic3832]

2:29 Phillips66 Alliance Refinery (now defunct since Ida)

[@karlmarx7333]

Me and the boys chasing the British down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

[@natarajanthangavelu9509]

Superrrrrr

[@eustatic3832]

4:12 Fort Jackson and the Louisiana Responder OSRO Vessel

[@WeldinMike27]

Fantastic video. Why are some ships passed on the left and others on the right? Is there no specific rule?

[@SeaTube]

Hi! There is no compulsory rule on this aspect. The side chosen for passing inbound traffic is mutually agreed via radio between the vessels and is a matter of many factors (tide, ships' drafts and their speeds, available water on a particular point of meeting, etc).

[@WeldinMike27]

Cool, thanks for the reply.

[@charlesbyrd1957]

WeldinMike27 The motor vessel to starboard or right of any vessel has the right of way This is piloted waterway and one pilot association and they all know one another ....and communicated who goes where to one another via ships radio or their own handhelds I think if I remember right from my old freighter ownership years From Baton Rouge to the bar at southwest pass it’s 3 pilots you have to hire..... One takes you from out beyond the outer marker where ships anchor in the Gulf to Pilot Town which is not far up River above the pass branches Another goes from there to New Orleans And yet another from New Orleans to points north to Baton Rouge and on occasion some go a bit further north No offense to pilots enjoying the huge money they make but it is a bonafide RACKET ....I MEAN ITS CRAZY ..and needs to be reeled in And when pilots screw up they always blame the captain ...always Sorry pilots but man...New Orleans area pilots are the absolute most expensive in America....it’s disgusting.... I think in the Late 80s pilot cost was 15,000 to 20,000 to get a 500 foot break bulk 20,000 DWT freighter from the bar to Burnside for bagged sugar Comparable to the Panama Canal transit Now that was just pilot fees...not port and dockage and agency fees etc It’s a pricey stop

[@bradysmith5604]

charlesbyrd1957 you are pretty much right, in the river there is no “given” right of way. Usually it’s the vessel headed downstream bc it’s harder to control a vessel with a current at its back but all the pilots on the MS river handle communications, not the crews. There are no miscommunications and they all know and trust each other, they make the best decisions for each other.

[@MS-37]

Great video. Does the harbor pilot ride the entire time? Until you enter the gulf

[@SeaTube]

Thanks! Yes, we have river piltos on-board during the entire transit. There is a change of pilots, though, around minute 4:36 in the video.

[@kathyburrell6103]

Watch is cargo ships all the time

[@Mr.KINITO]

I say we should

[@shanatrahan9239]

Are u on all these cargo ships in all ur videos?

[@SeaTube]

Yes, I was on all those cargo ships at the moment when the pictures for the videos were shot. All the videos on this channel are actually based on my own material. Still have dozens pending videos from many other different places, waiting to be synchronized with sound and to be posted here.

[@Ivegotwormsinme]

You're passing my house around 4:00 in.

[@kessenkessen180]

is life just like tom sawyer there??

[@Ivegotwormsinme]

@@kessenkessen180 Nah. Although we do a lot of fishing to pass the time, I have never white-washed a fence or had to fake my own death.

[@eustatic3832]

2:05 Chevron Oronite and midstreamer

[@imsosorry1417]

Bro what your job ???

[@IllinoisCitizen]

Had to mute the music

[@The-KP]

Nice time-lapse, but man that music was awful, had to mute.

[@SeaTube]

Thanks! Impossible to please everybody 😀. Very difficult to find quality royalty free soundtracks these days. I have more than 100 time-lapses waiting for a decent soundtrack... Synchronizing the video with a soundtrack its the most difficult part. If you could suggest some good copyright free soundtracks, will use them for sure.

[@eustatic3832]

4:32 venice

[@octans8]

We fired our guns but the British kept a-coming!

[@johncurcio3621]

Great video and definitely muted that music.

[@SeaTube]

Noted!

[@muzikmind77]

There is no earth curvature

[@G.Harley.Davidson]

Think how sail boats in the 1800s would bring slaves from Africa the opposite direction to the port of New Orleans for auction…

[@CrystalHotSauce1]

My grandmother used to work for the Bar Pilots Association of New Orleans as a secretary, they are like family. These Pilots get on ships that are entering the gulf and vice versa, and drive them from the gulf to the port or from the port to the gulf, they are either air lifted onto the ship or by rescue boat and climb a ladder onto these large container ships, to properly, by experience & licensed & insured, to keep all goods safe upon arrival. Due to the miraculous mystical ways of the great Mississippi River that constantly changes throughout the year due to seasons. Shallow parts here and there. Our pilots usually come from generations of family that have proudly grown up on this river as their own backyard, no matter how many times it's flooded their homes. You will never chase a river rat outta their home, esp anyone from the deep Louisiana. This was absolutely beautiful to watch. My grandmother was the secretary of the bar pilots, esp a fav of Macky Lincoln. His son Tmac is now a River Pilot & a plane pilot, his son Timmy is an entrepreneur & Dora is an esquite real estate owner and & crafty artsy girl. All very successful and kind. He didn't raise brats. That was his biggest fear. He did good for himself. If only they could hear him say that themselves 💜

[@bryanmittner6100]

Sucks hate the music