The Witte Marine Scrap Yard, also know as the Arthur Kill Boat Yard, or colloquially the Staten Island Boat Graveyard is a region of the channel between Staten Island and New Jersey harboring the scuttled and deteriorating remains of hundreds of marine vessels from the early 1900s to the present. Destined for repurpose, salvage, or destruction, the ships sit marooned in the mud of the harbor until they are bought and refurbished, dismantled for parts and scrap, or deteriorate and sink
Having visited
previously, but only sampled a small fraction of the site, another trip (in what is hoped to be a whole series of sorties) was made; this time with better equipment, and more preparation and experience.
Even this episode was for from comprehensive, and cut short by technical difficulties (inflatable boat puncture.) Stay tuned for Episode 3.
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