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What do I say again?
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Say hi everyone, I'm Vince.
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You're listening to, yeah, okay.
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I am ready.
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Okay.
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Oh, it's on.
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Hi everybody, I'm Vince.
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And I'm Emily.
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And you're listening to The Lighthouse Lowdown.
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Welcome to the show.
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It's like, it's almost like you'd last did this yesterday
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and not in July.
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I know.
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Well, I was, yeah, thanks.
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I was just gonna say, I remember my last one.
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My last one was blank and now here we are.
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And now that we're recording,
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I can't remember what my last one was.
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What do you mean your, oh, the last.
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The last, the Herford Inlet, I think.
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Oh yeah, Herford Inlet light.
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Oh, was it New Jersey?
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No idea.
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It was the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge.
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Okay yeah, that's what we talked about.
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But see how agreeable I am?
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I'm just like, oh yeah, false.
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Thank you for saying words.
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Thank you for supporting me with your English.
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So.
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You're welcome.
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Do you know where we're going today?
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No, why would I know?
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I don't know, sometimes you get the scoop over my shoulder.
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We're going over to.
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That is false.
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That is falsified rumors.
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We're going over to, it's frozen.
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Oh, well, the Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse.
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This one's cool.
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Yeah.
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Is that a case in?
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The history of the day.
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What is a case in?
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I swear I didn't see that beforehand.
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I would have said case on.
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So I tried to look up videos
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and they're all electronic speakers, like AI.
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So case in?
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I'm pretty sure when I looked it up, it was case in.
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Sounds like a Kansas, Missouri type of pronunciation.
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So we'll go with case in.
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But first, that's gonna be our history before we do that.
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You've got all kinds of clip art and stuff going on.
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I worked hard on this this last hour.
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So first thing.
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You have three months to get ready.
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Yeah.
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We're gonna talk maps, because I love maps.
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So here's the Google map.
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It's only a thousand feet.
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I'm looking for my mouse.
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Oh, so a thousand foot is a scale right now.
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We're gonna go out.
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You're gonna see that we are in the area near Baltimore.
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Maryland.
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This lighthouse, Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse,
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was actually one of the last
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that was built in the Chesapeake Bay.
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And Baltimore, we'll talk about it, obviously.
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But Baltimore was a growing, burgeoning business hub
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with water transit.
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So back in the 1800s, it was really taken off.
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And it got kind of out of hand, of course.
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Same story we've heard a couple times.
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Lots of shipwrecks, things not going well.
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So there was clearly a need for a lighthouse.
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One of the reasons that Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse
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is one of the last Chesapeake Bay
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is because it's really hard to build in this area.
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We're gonna talk about some geographical
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and geological challenges
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that made this construction very interesting.
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So that's the map.
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And then if you don't know,
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it's over on the East Coast of the United States.
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Look at that.
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Very nice.
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Tucked up in there.
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It's not even ocean-like.
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It's like a bay.
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It was a bay.
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So the history of buoy for the day.
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What is a caisson?
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And yeah, clip art of our buoy,
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because it's a history buoy.
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And then I put the waves there.
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Isn't that nice?
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More imagery than usual.
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Yeah, so caissons are used in the construction of docks,
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marine infrastructure in general,
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bridges, lift stations, and lighthouses.
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Lift stations are not marine infrastructure.
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They're inland.
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You have water that you need to lift to keep it going
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because piping, gravity.
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So most often they're concrete sections
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that are prefabricated.
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So overall, it's a watertight chamber
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or large hollow cylinder that's used in construction
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to create a foundation of work underwater.
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So they're made of concrete, steel, wood in the old days.
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They're sunk into the ground
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through each bedrock or stable soil.
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After they're sunk in, after they're made to the depth,
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then they're filled with concrete
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and they make up the foundation.
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Oh, filled with concrete so it's not hollow
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once they're done with it?
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When they're done, it has to be filled with concrete.
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And before that, it often has to be weighted with ballasts,
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which are weights to hold it down
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because the empty void would float due to the buoyancy.
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So like on the left, this is a lift station,
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just a snip from a video.
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I'm not actually gonna show the video,
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but the front piece is the bottom is put in first.
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So that's several sections of concrete.
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The first one has that beveled edge on it.
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That's actually called the shoe.
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And it's beveled so it can help to cut through the earth
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as it's forced down.
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And then as soon as it's down,
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you put the second section on and then third,
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and then so on, so on.
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The whole time on an inland project when you're using this,
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you actually have to be pumping out the groundwater,
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which is what's shown in that blue line on the left.
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So they're constantly pumping out water
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as they do this construction.
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And then once it's complete, once the concrete's poured
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and this becomes a stable structure on the bedrock,
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then at that time they can stop pumping water.
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So the challenges of,
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I've asked this question to myself before,
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how do they build bridges
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when there's already water there?
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How do you build a dam when there's already water there?
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Well, a lot of these structures are caissons.
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So on the right, if you were to simplify it
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and just look at it as an open basket,
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that's kind of a typical old-fashioned caisson.
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You could work in there, you can dig things out of it,
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fill it with concrete.
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We can weigh it down in the meantime.
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This is actually an enclosed caisson,
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which they need to be pressurized with air
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and have ballast weights on them to hold them down.
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And the reason that they're pressurized with air
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is so that you can evacuate mud and rocks and debris
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that's actually in the base.
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So you can put this down and then work in it.
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These actually lower men inside.
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So the personnel access tube, I should say.
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They'd put people down in these things
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and they would have shovels and tools
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and they would dig and work items towards the center here,
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towards this muck tube, which would suck up and out
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materials, mud, and then often they have cranes and stuff
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to take care of boulders and whatnot.
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People used to get sick from going in here
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from decompression sickness.
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So they would be under these pressurized conditions
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working for a while and then they'd come out
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and a lot of people have died through history
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from working in here.
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I forget there's some name,
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that's the reference I didn't write down.
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Is it like whenever you're scuba diving
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and you come up too fast?
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Exactly.
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Like nitrogen in your brain?
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Yeah, it's inert.
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I think mostly inert gases
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that are just within your cell structures,
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that your whole body, that they don't have
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the capability to get out, to permeate quickly enough
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if you jump from high pressure to low pressure.
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So if you're at depth as a scuba diver
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or in a pressure chamber,
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you come out of that pressure chamber too quickly
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or if you ascend too quickly.
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And a lot of people get sick from it,
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they feel nauseous, they have days long of symptoms
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or hours long of symptoms,
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but there have been a lot of people that have died
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and they didn't know really how to deal with it.
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So now we do.
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It's a common thing.
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We handle it very well.
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There's lots of occupations that have high pressures now.
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So would they would, if there's not a bottom on it,
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in that case would they put down concrete walls
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and like pump out water or something?
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Okay.
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Yeah, they'd put down the concrete shell, if you will,
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with an open, it's like an open cylinder
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and they would seat it against the bottom of the floor
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as much as you could,
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which would also make for interesting circumstances
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if that seal were to ever fail.
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Yeah.
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Because it, and it did, water would rush in
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and mud would rush in until it would stop.
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So your ballast weights are super important.
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And yeah, casein.
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So you're always looking, you're looking for bedrock.
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So you want to get down to a stable structure
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that you can support your material from,
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otherwise it will sink and shift and it won't last.
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The reason that we're talking about caseins
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is because a very impressive story comes
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from the construction of Baltimore Harbor Light
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in the casein that they had to use there.
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So.
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Overturned.
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There's a lot.
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We're gonna get to it.
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So Baltimore Lighthouse proved to be
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one of the most difficult lighthouses to construct
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in all of the United States history.
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Whoa.
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And very expensive.
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How expensive?
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Big expensive.
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Like millions?
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Lots of millions.
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So it was 1890 was when the lighthouse board
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first requested money to build the lighthouse.
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They requested $60,000,
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which they thought was a lot of money.
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So that's in the new cutoff channel
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near the mouth of the Magothi River.
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I think it's Magothi, Magothi.
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And the quote from them on this request was,
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on the account of the impressible character of the Shoal
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and the liability to damage or destruction
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by means of moving ice,
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no lighthouse other than an expensive one can be permanent.
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So.
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Yeah.
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So we're gonna talk about the,
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I don't think I wrote them down,
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but one of the forces that this lighthouse
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has to be designed to withstand
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is a force in pounds per square foot of ice shifting.
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The force designed is 30,000 pounds per square foot.
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Oh my.
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So 100 mile an hour winds,
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three mile hour water currents, which are a lot,
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but 30,000 pounds per square foot
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is what the ice can press on the outside of the structure.
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I mean, if you think about it,
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I think of a body of water and a solid sheet of ice,
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and it just bumps the lighthouse all at once
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over and over again.
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That's what icy lighthouses have to go through.
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I mean, if you, even today,
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this is over 100 years ago.
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Yeah.
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100 years.
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What year was this?
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1890.
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Over 100 years before I was born, this conversation.
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And today, if you had asked me,
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hey, can we build this under these conditions out here?
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I'd be like.
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Come on.
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It's gonna be.
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Maybe.
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I mean, we've been to the moon.
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That's pretty cool, but this.
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Can't do anything.
284
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Right.
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So the board understood
286
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that this is gonna be a difficult task,
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but they didn't understand quite how difficult.
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So.
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They needed one because there was a shoal in the harbor
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that was like.
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There's just so much traffic.
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There wasn't a particular hazard,
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but this lighthouse,
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we'll go over the dimensions later on.
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Okay.
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It's not that tall, including its structure
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all the way through the nastiness under the water.
298
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So it's not, it's a shallow area coming to harbor,
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which makes sense.
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Okay.
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But I think it just had a massive amount of traffic
302
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as it was getting out of hand.
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So from the time of the first request
304
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to the time of completing the lighthouse was 18 years.
305
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Whoa.
306
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Which is a long time.
307
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That's crazy.
308
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Yeah.
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I think there's more, there's, you know,
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there's longer timeframes out there that we've talked about,
311
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but thinking it's almost 1900.
312
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So that's kind of late in the game.
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We know how lighthouses are built already.
314
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Right.
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You'd think it would get done quicker.
316
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So the first request, 1890,
317
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they spent a lot of that money by boring into the shoal
318
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at the selected site that they had chose.
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And it revealed that there was a soft layer of mud
320
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that was 55 feet thick.
321
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What?
322
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Yeah.
323
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That's before they got to soft sand
324
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and then solid sand and then soft sand and then bedrock.
325
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So a ton of muck.
326
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Yeah.
327
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A lot.
328
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So-
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It's like almost a six story building
330
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and that's not including the water.
331
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Yeah.
332
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So they thought maybe they could use screw pile
333
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type foundation, which is a pile.
334
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So it's a vertical column of concrete alone
335
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instead of digging through all that stuff.
336
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And they thought maybe not.
337
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So they looked at a different site
338
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and we're 60 grand in at the time.
339
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The new site said, oh, there's less depth here.
340
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It's not as deep in this new location,
341
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which is not too far away.
342
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They made an attempt, this is 1898 now,
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an attempt to plant an experimental disc pile
344
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with two hours of boring,
345
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the disc reached just three and a half feet in the mud.
346
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And so the conclusion was, quote,
347
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that the expense of the building a light station
348
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in the 55 feet of semi-fluid mud,
349
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which overlays the sandy bottom,
350
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would cost twice as much as the original request.
351
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So then we talked about our three design criteria.
352
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So a hundred mile per hour winds,
353
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30,000 pounds of ice pressure per square foot
354
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and a three mile per hour water current,
355
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which is not insignificant.
356
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Yeah.
357
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So they made an additional request to Congress
358
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three times in a row until the additional 60,000
359
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was approved, that was 1902.
360
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So three years of requesting more finances,
361
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we needed to double the budget before Congress said, okay.
362
00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,040
The final design for Baltimore Lighthouse
363
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was approved in 1902 and the bidding for the job
364
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was opened the next spring.
365
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Somewhat ominously, only one bid came in
366
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for the erection of the lighthouse.
367
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And that one bid was $80,000 over the entire budget.
368
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So the sole bid was rejected.
369
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Congress approved another $60,000
370
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to make the project feasible,
371
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bringing the grand total of allocated money
372
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to $180,000 in 1902.
373
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And the next round of bidding,
374
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a man named William Flaherty was the only participant.
375
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Oh God.
376
00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,720
And he won the job because he was the only participant.
377
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Oh no.
378
00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,320
So just for reference, this is a little off script.
379
00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,320
A lot of this comes from lighthousefriends.com.
380
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Shout out to them.
381
00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:06,980
Yeah.
382
00:15:06,980 --> 00:15:08,360
If you want to kind of follow along
383
00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,480
and a lot of these bullet points are on there.
384
00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,720
So this is one that's not.
385
00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,440
So in 1902, $180,000, I wanted to scale that
386
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to today's finances.
387
00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,240
There's different ways to do that projection.
388
00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,600
I selected for a construction project today.
389
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So it's in the relative share of GDP.
390
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Today, $213 million, $421,783.20.
391
00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,360
What?
392
00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,640
$213 million lighthouse.
393
00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:38,480
Really?
394
00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,600
If you were to construct the same project today.
395
00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:41,480
Wow.
396
00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:42,760
As far as finances go.
397
00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:43,960
Yeah.
398
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So.
399
00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:45,620
That's insane.
400
00:15:45,620 --> 00:15:46,640
Nobody would ever do that.
401
00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,800
They tripled their budget.
402
00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,280
I mean, if you told me you had a big project,
403
00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,980
it was really important.
404
00:15:51,980 --> 00:15:52,820
What is it?
405
00:15:52,820 --> 00:15:55,600
213 divided by 30, 70.
406
00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,600
So 70 and change, million dollars.
407
00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,000
I'd be like, wow, that's crazy.
408
00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,380
200, it's pretty wild.
409
00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,000
Yeah, so that's, if anyone wants to look that up,
410
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,000
it's economy cost, measured as the cost of the project
411
00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,900
as a percent of the output of the economy.
412
00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:18,600
So the metalwork started its construction in 1904
413
00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,060
in Atlanta, Georgia.
414
00:16:20,060 --> 00:16:22,000
Started sending things to the job site.
415
00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:22,840
We're getting ready.
416
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:23,800
Here we go.
417
00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,600
Two days after its arrival at site.
418
00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,420
So they built this huge, it was actually made out of wood,
419
00:16:29,420 --> 00:16:30,760
huge case in.
420
00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,680
Enormous, one of the biggest ever made.
421
00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,740
And that's its own side story we won't get into.
422
00:16:34,740 --> 00:16:36,680
But a lot of lumber was used.
423
00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,920
They had trouble finding trees big enough to do this.
424
00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:40,040
Oh my gosh.
425
00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:41,960
Two days after it arrived to the site,
426
00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,920
heavy seas filled the cylinder
427
00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,720
and knocked it off kilter by seven feet.
428
00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,360
Hence the image on screen.
429
00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,100
Totally knocked out of place.
430
00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,320
Not level anymore, which means they have to fix it.
431
00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:56,960
They have to figure out what to do.
432
00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,920
So the case in had been sunk a mere eight feet
433
00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,880
into the shoal and it was seven feet offset.
434
00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,280
So the contractor left the site
435
00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:05,880
to gather additional materials
436
00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,920
and returned in October.
437
00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,680
Two more courses of iron plates were added to the case in
438
00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,520
and concrete was poured on the high side of the cylinder
439
00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,600
in an attempt to level the foundation.
440
00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,080
But all this work was for naught.
441
00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:19,960
As a severe storm on October 12th
442
00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,600
caused the cylinder to turn over on its side.
443
00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:23,720
No.
444
00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,040
Flaherty left the scene once more
445
00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,000
and this time he did not come back.
446
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:28,920
Oh my gosh.
447
00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,200
Yeah, I'd be like, you're done.
448
00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,020
He gave up.
449
00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:31,860
This is stupid.
450
00:17:31,860 --> 00:17:34,200
He was under contract from the government.
451
00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,280
And he just gave, they sued him.
452
00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,000
The government had to sue a contractor
453
00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,640
because I don't know how much money
454
00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,640
he'd put in at this point, but he spent it all.
455
00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,640
Had to have been significant.
456
00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:46,480
Shoot.
457
00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,680
So they sued him.
458
00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,120
And the insurance company which had bonded Flaherty
459
00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:53,000
was forced to step in and complete the job.
460
00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000
So are you familiar with construction bonds?
461
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:55,840
No.
462
00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:59,280
So my first job, we would have to talk about
463
00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,440
if we're gonna have a job that's been bonded or not.
464
00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:06,440
So a bond is an insurance claim on a project
465
00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,440
so that if the contractor's unable to perform,
466
00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,240
if they say, hey, I'm gonna come put all your windows,
467
00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,560
it's the glazer, and they don't come or they can't do it
468
00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,840
or they are delayed so far that it's gonna ruin
469
00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,240
your schedule, you claim bond.
470
00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,320
So a bond is a financial backup that then is used
471
00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,920
to have somebody else come in and finish the job.
472
00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,640
Okay, so basically they give you the money
473
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,240
to hire somebody else to finish it.
474
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:33,080
Right.
475
00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:33,920
Okay.
476
00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,080
But it costs extra because you're purchasing a bond.
477
00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:36,920
Yeah.
478
00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:37,740
Agreement, so.
479
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,960
Luckily this was bonded.
480
00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,080
Oh, they're probably so thankful for that.
481
00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,600
Yeah, so that was the United States Fidelity
482
00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,280
and Guarantee Company funded the workmen
483
00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,440
so they didn't do the work themselves,
484
00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,480
but they lit up their bond.
485
00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:58,320
In 1905, they were moved over half of the 120 iron plates
486
00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,440
attached to the structure and then the following spring,
487
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,160
they built a U-shaped pier around the caisson
488
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,960
and brought in counterbalancing equipment
489
00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,520
which consisted of a steam engine, air compressors,
490
00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,680
water tanks, a hoisting machine, A-frames,
491
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,760
and a temporary quarter, sleeping quarters for the workers.
492
00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,120
This U-shape was supposed to protect it.
493
00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,560
Just a construction site.
494
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:21,760
It's basically a construction site.
495
00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,960
So they built a rig, if you will,
496
00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,520
around this thing to work on it, which is crazy.
497
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:27,360
That is crazy.
498
00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,560
It'd be kind of fun.
499
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,920
Yeah, so during the summer of 1906,
500
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,080
which is the image on screen,
501
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,800
heavy weights were suspended by wire cables
502
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,960
from those A-frames placed on the overturned caisson
503
00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,000
and as shown in the diagram,
504
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,080
by the end of September, the caisson protruded
505
00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,400
from the shul at an angle of 45 degrees.
506
00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,980
Pumps were then used to remove mud
507
00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:50,120
from under the high side of the cylinder.
508
00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,800
When the work was stopped in late November,
509
00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,880
the caisson was just 17 degrees from vertical.
510
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,880
The following spring, additional courses were set
511
00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,960
and added to the cylinder.
512
00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:02,240
80 tons of stone were placed in the compartment
513
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,440
on the high side and mud was pumped out from below.
514
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:06,720
Over the course of several months,
515
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,720
the caisson was gradually straightened
516
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,560
and it sunk to a depth of 82 feet below high water.
517
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,400
Whoa.
518
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,960
So well over a year, construction crews
519
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,280
were working full-time to get this thing
520
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,680
from on its side to on its top.
521
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,680
And then fell over once very quickly.
522
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:26,520
Yep.
523
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,480
And then start evacuating the mud from below.
524
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,440
So it'll keep sinking as that, you know,
525
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,780
we talked about before, just madness.
526
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,300
The crazy thing is like none of that is forward progress.
527
00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:42,320
It's all just like redoing or like having to do something
528
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,260
that you wouldn't have had to do in the first place.
529
00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:45,100
Yeah.
530
00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:48,360
Here's some images that show the final construction.
531
00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:50,620
So on the right, you have the caisson,
532
00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,960
which eventually was filled with concrete
533
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,640
and had lots of reinforcements added to it.
534
00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,120
So that whole structure is below high water is that top line.
535
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,760
And then the lighthouse is on top of that.
536
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:03,600
Okay.
537
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,520
So that's a massive feat.
538
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,720
If you notice, there's actually a void in the top,
539
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,320
those two empty slots.
540
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,720
They left those intentionally.
541
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,080
One of them stores clean water, it's a cistern.
542
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,400
And the other one, fuel?
543
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,380
I can't remember, it might be fuel.
544
00:21:18,380 --> 00:21:21,920
And then on the left, you can see the lighthouse concept
545
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,200
on top of the caisson.
546
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:24,320
So pretty.
547
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,760
And then below it are also piers that were drilled.
548
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,560
So that center image is actually part of the left image.
549
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,560
It shows these, I don't know what that length is
550
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,220
because I can't see it that well.
551
00:21:34,220 --> 00:21:35,120
40 feet.
552
00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:39,600
40 feet drilled piers that extend into the bedrock below.
553
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,440
And there's the grid pattern of the layout.
554
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:42,260
That's crazy.
555
00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:45,440
Wait, so if they can only drill like three feet
556
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,840
in whatever it was, two hours of drilling?
557
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,220
Over a year.
558
00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:51,440
Oh.
559
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,320
Drill, drill.
560
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,840
That thing's not going anywhere now.
561
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,040
It's like an oil field.
562
00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,000
So it's not going anywhere, slap the hood, right?
563
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,320
It looks good.
564
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,260
So I'm gonna just describe the light.
565
00:22:03,260 --> 00:22:05,520
So it's in 23 feet of water,
566
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,000
located westward and southerly
567
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,400
at the entrance of Craighill Channel, Baltimore Harbor.
568
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,000
The structure is a brown cylindrical foundation pier
569
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,400
expanding in a trumpet shape to form the gallery.
570
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,760
Surmounted by a white octagonal two-story brick dwelling.
571
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,440
Has a mansard roof, I don't know what that is,
572
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:25,920
and a black lantern.
573
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,120
The lower part of the structure
574
00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,920
consists of a square wooden caisson,
575
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,300
48 feet wide at the bottom, 46 at the top, 21 feet high,
576
00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:35,160
provided with a working chamber
577
00:22:36,420 --> 00:22:38,400
and air and dredging shafts.
578
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,840
So they filled those in,
579
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,640
but that was the shafts that were included.
580
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,800
On the roof of the caisson is a solidical cast iron shell
581
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,940
that has a diameter of 45 feet.
582
00:22:48,940 --> 00:22:50,580
For the five lower courses,
583
00:22:50,580 --> 00:22:53,540
each six feet, three inches in height.
584
00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:56,620
So they made up rings of steel, cast iron,
585
00:22:57,620 --> 00:23:00,920
not steel, cast iron around to build their final form
586
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:01,800
and then filled those in.
587
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,000
So that's what's going on with the shapes there.
588
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:04,840
Okay.
589
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,240
After sinking to the proper level
590
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,040
below the bottom of the bay,
591
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,680
the working chamber and parts of the shafts
592
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:11,800
were filled with concrete
593
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,800
and the entire shell of concrete and large stones,
594
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,720
except for the spaces for cistern and the cellar.
595
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,200
That was the other one, food cellar.
596
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,400
What do you think the volume of concrete
597
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,780
they had to use was?
598
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,160
Like, this thing is.
599
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,920
Thousands of cubic yards.
600
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,920
Kind of crazy.
601
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,400
And to do that, to be fair,
602
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,660
I've seen images of how concrete is poured into caissons,
603
00:23:35,660 --> 00:23:36,680
even today.
604
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,040
There's barges.
605
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,800
So barges make the concrete
606
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,080
and pour the concrete on the water into the caisson,
607
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,800
which is madness.
608
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,760
There was one video,
609
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,240
I've dove into some stuff for this episode.
610
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,920
One video is this company out of Europe,
611
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,640
I can't remember exactly where,
612
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,600
but they build, effectively they're caissons
613
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,880
that are modular.
614
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,440
So they're like a large rectangle
615
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,840
that you put into the water
616
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,740
and then you can build piers out of it,
617
00:24:03,740 --> 00:24:07,840
water support structures, docks, dams, whatever.
618
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,400
And so they, you know, you put them together
619
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,080
and it basically 3D prints them out of concrete
620
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,840
and rebar on the water.
621
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:20,560
And so you put a floating platform down
622
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,080
and then this thing goes up.
623
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,100
And as it goes up, more concrete is extracted
624
00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:27,440
like a giant 3D printer, but on the water.
625
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,840
So they can do this, I think it's like 10 days
626
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,800
is what it takes to make one unit.
627
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,280
And they can make enormous sets of units.
628
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,480
And they sink them, they fill them with concrete.
629
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,560
So there's a modern technique out there.
630
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,760
I'm sure it's hundreds of millions of dollars,
631
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,080
but this company only has three of these ships
632
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,280
that build them today.
633
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,120
Crazy.
634
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,520
The illuminating apparatus on top
635
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,360
is a fourth order lens showing a flashing white
636
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,640
every 10 seconds.
637
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,480
Nice.
638
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,400
Shown initially for the first time in 1908.
639
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,560
That was long.
640
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:01,960
Oh, cool.
641
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,280
Is it this, the construction site?
642
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,240
Yep, this is nearing the end of construction.
643
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,240
This is a US Coast Guard image.
644
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,360
It's so funny looking at the lighthouse.
645
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:16,360
It's just like, we went all through that for this.
646
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,200
It's beautiful and it's so cute.
647
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,560
But it's the same, it's not like a skyscraper.
648
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,920
Yeah.
649
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,360
Just like a little dude.
650
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,100
It's that dang ocean making things hard.
651
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,680
Inside the first floor is a main living space for keepers.
652
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,080
Included a sitting room and a kitchen.
653
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,800
It's equipped with a hand pump to bring up water
654
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,920
from the cistern.
655
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:39,800
Nice.
656
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,440
Just outside the gallery,
657
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,800
there's a cast iron structure on the left.
658
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,620
See that thing?
659
00:25:44,620 --> 00:25:46,000
Yeah, is that a toilet?
660
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000
It is a pooper.
661
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,520
The way that it's hanging over the edge of the pier,
662
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,280
I'm like, it's gotta be where you poop.
663
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:57,280
It is quote, cantilevered over the edge of the water.
664
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,520
And I'll tell you, I know it is still there today.
665
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,360
Really?
666
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,600
You can still dump out there.
667
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:03,640
You.
668
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,040
Two bedrooms were located on the second floor
669
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,480
with a small watch room directly beneath the manzo roof,
670
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,360
originally covered with colorful shale tiles.
671
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,200
Oh, that's cute.
672
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,360
Okay, so they, yeah.
673
00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:17,200
Pretty cool.
674
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,020
Yeah.
675
00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:21,280
Oh, I bet it was cold out there in that crapper.
676
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,120
Yeah.
677
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:23,840
So the, and that's funny enough,
678
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,760
I don't remember his name, so I can't give him credit.
679
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,880
There's some influencer that pops up time to time.
680
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,000
He lives near Baltimore and he's a crabber.
681
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,080
He catches crabs, like for his work.
682
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,120
Yeah.
683
00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:41,200
And he's probably young 20s,
684
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,760
influencer type personality.
685
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:45,600
Right.
686
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,420
He's recording all the time.
687
00:26:46,420 --> 00:26:47,880
I think maybe his girlfriend is, I don't know.
688
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,520
But either way, he spent a night at this lighthouse.
689
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:52,560
He was invited to do so,
690
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,480
and we'll talk about how you could maybe do that yourself.
691
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:55,960
Excellent.
692
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,600
And he took a couple of videos
693
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,000
and kind of talked about what was there.
694
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,120
He showed what was there.
695
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,840
And one of the things he showed was that cast iron privy.
696
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,040
It's still there.
697
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,160
I believe that you can use it.
698
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,000
I don't know.
699
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,200
Maybe they ask you not to.
700
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,640
I don't know the details of that.
701
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:13,480
So it's still there.
702
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,200
So you sit down and it's just like, asked to air.
703
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,320
It's an outhouse and below the seat
704
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,320
is the ocean's down there.
705
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,160
Yeah.
706
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,160
Can you imagine the cold air shooting up that thing?
707
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,120
Like, imagine when it's icy, or when it's winter
708
00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:27,980
and it's dark and you got there and it's just like,
709
00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:30,880
you lift the lid and it's like, ooh.
710
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:31,720
You just gotta look at your butt.
711
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,120
In a metal box, a cold metal box.
712
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:35,520
You know there's no heater out there.
713
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,760
Everything's cold.
714
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,400
Unfortunately, the lighthouse had a short life
715
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,800
as a staffed life station.
716
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:43,760
No.
717
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,320
It was one of the earliest that I've seen
718
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,240
in the United States that was automated.
719
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,800
It's probably because of the toilet.
720
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,040
Well, it's right, yeah.
721
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,040
So in 1923, they spent an additional $1,280.
722
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,280
Oh, chump change.
723
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,000
They changed the lumenate to an acetylene fuel.
724
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:03,840
Okay.
725
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:04,680
So it kind of runs more on it.
726
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,120
It's less fuel oil, right?
727
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:07,960
More pressurized gas.
728
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,820
Not pressurized, you know, liquid gas.
729
00:28:12,820 --> 00:28:16,120
And the fog bell was discontinued, unfortunately.
730
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,120
Even to today, there's still light.
731
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:20,320
There is no fog bell, no fog signal out there.
732
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,360
Makes no noise.
733
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,280
Is it not foggy?
734
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,720
Time to time.
735
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,720
Don't run into it.
736
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,360
Is this one of those places where they,
737
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:31,040
it's not, where when it was manned,
738
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,520
it wasn't manned when it was winter?
739
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,040
I didn't read anything like that.
740
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:35,960
Okay.
741
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:40,160
I don't remember if Standard Rock was the one that,
742
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,400
no, it was manned because.
743
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,560
Yeah, they froze inside.
744
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,440
Yeah, there are some lighthouses
745
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,280
where they pick you up in December.
746
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,040
Maybe it's White Shoals that I'm thinking of.
747
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:52,880
I can't remember, but.
748
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,120
I thought those were usually on the open ocean
749
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,160
compared to the bay or lake or river.
750
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,000
I don't remember.
751
00:28:59,000 --> 00:28:59,840
Not a river.
752
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:00,660
There's some on rivers.
753
00:29:00,660 --> 00:29:01,760
Maybe I'm thinking of light ships.
754
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,040
I think I'm thinking of light ships.
755
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,680
We talked about light ships moving, for sure.
756
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,640
Yes, when they would tow it in.
757
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,660
Okay, that makes more sense.
758
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,400
I think, speaking of light ships,
759
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,360
I don't know for a fact.
760
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,320
I think there's one in.
761
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,160
Baltimore?
762
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,000
Baltimore.
763
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,200
I think it's one of the Chesapeake light ships.
764
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,080
Interesting.
765
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,800
If you look up Baltimore Lighthouses,
766
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,440
you're gonna see a couple different things.
767
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,040
Which we'll have to cover in other episodes.
768
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,400
But one of them is a light ship.
769
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,960
Okay.
770
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,360
So, like I said, it was automated in 1923.
771
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:30,440
Kind of a shame.
772
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,040
Also kind of neat, because of how early that is.
773
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:33,880
Yeah.
774
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,560
We're talking 30s through 60s and 70s.
775
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,560
We saw a lot of them automated in the US.
776
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,480
But, part of the coolness,
777
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,720
it is technically, it was the world's
778
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,320
first nuclear power lighthouse.
779
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,600
Oh.
780
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,800
So, there are other out there.
781
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,140
How did they do that?
782
00:29:52,140 --> 00:29:52,980
I'll tell you.
783
00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:53,820
Okay.
784
00:29:53,820 --> 00:29:56,840
There are other nuclear powered lighthouses out there
785
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,440
and the Russians had a whole series of them.
786
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,560
Vincent, I watched a video about this online the other day.
787
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,880
And I guess you're stealing it.
788
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,080
Well, I'm not gonna go further into it.
789
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,160
I'm just gonna say we're talking about the future.
790
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,000
I'm just kidding.
791
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,640
But it's a whole long story and it's really interesting.
792
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,600
For the moment, I believe this is the only one
793
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,600
in the United States that was ever powered by a nuclear cell.
794
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,520
Whoa.
795
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,560
There was a buoy that they had done in 1961,
796
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,920
unmanned, just a light source.
797
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:26,760
Yeah.
798
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,760
And the lighthouse was the next concept.
799
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,560
So they wanted to kind of test out some of their gear.
800
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,040
So, I went way off the deep end.
801
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,800
We're gonna talk about SNAPs, S-N-A-P-S.
802
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,500
But here's the little quote from the site.
803
00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,120
So, it was the world's first nuclear powered lighthouse,
804
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,040
May 20th of 1964, five years before we were on the moon.
805
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,800
There was a 60 watt isotropic power generator
806
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,200
called a SNAP 7B.
807
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,280
It was installed to see if such equipment could be used
808
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:58,760
in remote locations.
809
00:30:58,760 --> 00:30:59,580
So.
810
00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:00,420
It was like a test site.
811
00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:01,260
Mm-hmm.
812
00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:03,120
According to the local newspaper,
813
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,520
the generator was quote,
814
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,200
smaller than a 55 gallon oil drum,
815
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,200
because lots of newspaper men had oil drums around.
816
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,040
And it was.
817
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,520
Everybody knows this unit of measurement.
818
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,600
It was reputed to be capable of supplying
819
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,320
an uninterrupted 10 year flow of electricity
820
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,820
without any maintenance or refueling.
821
00:31:20,820 --> 00:31:21,660
Which.
822
00:31:21,660 --> 00:31:22,480
Sounds pretty nice.
823
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,320
Makes sense to me now,
824
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,960
just because I've read these things.
825
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,680
The installation of this thing is 4,600 pounds
826
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:29,920
in such a small package.
827
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,400
It's shown in the photograph.
828
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:33,240
Thanks.
829
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,080
Here.
830
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:34,900
Yeah, there it is.
831
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:35,880
Ooh.
832
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,760
So this thing, radiator fins on the side,
833
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,320
US Coast Guard putting it in.
834
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,120
Very cool.
835
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,380
It was removed two years later,
836
00:31:44,380 --> 00:31:47,160
after having been shown to be completely reliable
837
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,560
and quite stable.
838
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:49,960
Why?
839
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,020
It was an experiment.
840
00:31:51,020 --> 00:31:52,660
I'll tell you why, it's interesting.
841
00:31:52,660 --> 00:31:56,000
So it was later installed in an offshore oil platform
842
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,640
in the Gulf of Mexico for power.
843
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,680
Okay.
844
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,560
We talked about the buoy was in 1961.
845
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,520
It was the only other lighthouse,
846
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,400
light ship buoy that was powered.
847
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,040
Ironically, the vessel,
848
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,460
the first vessel to pass this lighthouse,
849
00:32:12,460 --> 00:32:14,640
while the generator was being installed,
850
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,880
was the NS Savannah,
851
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,880
which is the world's first nuclear powered cargo ship.
852
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:20,800
Oh, cute.
853
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,320
Like cousins.
854
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:23,240
Yeah.
855
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,400
Two ships in the night.
856
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,120
So the SNAP-B.
857
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,760
So a SNAP is a system for nuclear,
858
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,580
nuclear, not nuclear,
859
00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:35,220
nuclear auxiliary power, excuse me.
860
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,400
The United States invested heavily in the SNAP program
861
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,120
from 1951 to 1973.
862
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,960
So 1945, we set off the nukes, right?
863
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:48,800
Okay.
864
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,040
And then this world of new technology opened up
865
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,320
for us and everybody else.
866
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,320
We were ahead of everybody else at the time.
867
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,380
Whole long history.
868
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,820
So roughly 22 years, there was a program
869
00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:02,980
to come up with these systems for nuclear auxiliary power,
870
00:33:02,980 --> 00:33:04,960
mostly for space travel.
871
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,440
Because it was, we were trying to get to space.
872
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,280
We're trying to see how would you have power on a spaceship?
873
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,340
So you have combustible fuels,
874
00:33:13,340 --> 00:33:15,320
but what are you gonna carry?
875
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,800
Combustible oxygen, fuel.
876
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:18,720
Yeah, there's byproducts.
877
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,880
Yeah, it's a whole problem.
878
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,440
So they thought, well, if we could use atomic power,
879
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,480
inevitably you could have a 10 year battery
880
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,000
that produces no waste, it produces some heat,
881
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,080
which you could reject to outer space.
882
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,540
That's kind of the dream.
883
00:33:32,540 --> 00:33:35,760
And this was gonna be the answer.
884
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,480
It was made non-practical near the end of these experiments
885
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,460
and basically mothballed,
886
00:33:42,660 --> 00:33:47,440
specifically for space travel because of solar technology.
887
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,000
Solar.
888
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,080
It came soon after this.
889
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,800
Panels and not so much solar panels
890
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,360
that we have available to us as residents,
891
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,800
as normal people, but the outer space capable solar panels
892
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,180
really took off.
893
00:34:01,180 --> 00:34:03,480
And so we had battery technology and solar panels
894
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,300
and for the reasons listed,
895
00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:11,160
these nuclear high risk things were discontinued.
896
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,520
Well, and think about the cells
897
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,400
without the obstruction of the Earth's atmosphere protecting
898
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,800
how much more UV they would get.
899
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,800
I mean, normal Earth ones would probably burn,
900
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:29,160
but whatever they created to withstand being up in space,
901
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,360
that much closer without any sort of protection
902
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,120
from the sun probably.
903
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,080
I think they have gold foil on them.
904
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:37,920
Oh yeah.
905
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,400
Gold the color, but also the material.
906
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,020
Yeah, whatever the satellite is
907
00:34:41,020 --> 00:34:45,200
that's millions of miles away from the US right now.
908
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,520
The US.
909
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,600
The United States of Earth.
910
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:49,440
America.
911
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:54,440
Oh man, you know what I mean.
912
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,600
So good.
913
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,440
So.
914
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,280
Sorry.
915
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,100
No, it's really interesting.
916
00:34:58,100 --> 00:34:59,900
The Russians, it's a whole side story.
917
00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:01,840
They were following along trying to do their best
918
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,080
to keep up with the United States.
919
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,120
I thought it was interesting.
920
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,120
This image on the right is really captivating.
921
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:08,520
It's in black and white.
922
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,560
It shows this industrial block.
923
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,360
This could be from a movie, right?
924
00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:16,440
On the left, you see a similar scene.
925
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,880
I think this is the same scene,
926
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,160
but one's in black and white and one's in color.
927
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:22,720
So either two different cameras
928
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,760
and the one that's in black and white is much sharper.
929
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,720
So maybe that was, they were still working
930
00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:28,120
on color cameras when this happened.
931
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,080
Or left is the colorized.
932
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,380
You said it was the 60s?
933
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,240
This was installed in 64.
934
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:37,560
Okay, so that'll probably check out.
935
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,840
Two different cameras, one of them's less high quality
936
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:40,760
because it's color.
937
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:41,800
It's the same ship.
938
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,320
W5, I assume.
939
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,000
US Coast Guard signs right there.
940
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,180
Is this, is the lighthouse a different color now?
941
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,080
It's all white in this picture.
942
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,720
I don't know.
943
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:58,420
So you have to remember it was military
944
00:35:58,420 --> 00:36:01,360
all the way up until recently we'll talk about.
945
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,840
And I think it might've gone through some changes.
946
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,440
Like it looks like those windows are boarded up.
947
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,880
So like after it was not manned anymore.
948
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,520
Actually, I know that to be a fact.
949
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,120
There was some ship captain
950
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,640
who thought it was really important that this be preserved.
951
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,040
And we're gonna get to talk about that some too.
952
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,280
But I don't remember the colors if they're changed.
953
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,640
Okay, we'll probably see in pictures.
954
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,280
Yeah, we will see some newer photos.
955
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,040
So Russia, that thing that we watched.
956
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:32,720
Russia saw us do this and then did it to their lighthouses.
957
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:34,560
Yeah. And then they were abandoned.
958
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,480
Well, one of the things with,
959
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,860
so what this is, is you take,
960
00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:40,700
you have to forgive me
961
00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,080
because I really don't understand much of this.
962
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,040
You take a very small amount of radioactive material
963
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,000
and it has a slow reaction continuously.
964
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,760
And that as it breaks down,
965
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,960
as it deteriorates that sample of whatever that material is.
966
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,200
And it generates heat.
967
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,680
And so the heat is used to power a temperature difference.
968
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,880
And the temperature difference can make electricity.
969
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,000
So it's using a really small amount of fuel
970
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,280
to go a long time to provide different amounts
971
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,660
of amperage voltage, electricity,
972
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,080
you have different transformers and whatnot
973
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:16,960
to make that work.
974
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,440
So this is not a bomb,
975
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,960
but it is in the realm of being dangerous
976
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,680
in a radioactive way.
977
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,360
So the reason it was used out in lighthouses,
978
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,680
I think is because no one's there.
979
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,160
And there also need to be really reliable places,
980
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,100
lighthouses.
981
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:38,480
So it's kind of a handshake of trusting the lighthouse
982
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,560
to protect people, keep them away.
983
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,760
And also give this piece of technology a test.
984
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,840
So I think the Russians were probably doing the same thing.
985
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,360
From my impression on history,
986
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,120
they are a little more rapid
987
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,260
with their development of technology.
988
00:37:53,260 --> 00:37:58,260
And we are pretty slow and methodical, it seems like.
989
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,200
I don't know any of that.
990
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,120
That's just what I think.
991
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:01,960
Neat.
992
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,440
So it was only two years that they had it in there?
993
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:06,280
Okay.
994
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:07,320
And they moved it on.
995
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,400
Because it was successful.
996
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,180
So then they sent it somewhere useful.
997
00:38:10,180 --> 00:38:11,020
Yep.
998
00:38:11,020 --> 00:38:13,160
Like most lighthouses, Baltimore Lighthouse
999
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,280
has suffered since automation.
1000
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:16,120
No.
1001
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,320
Removed its live-in caretakers.
1002
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,640
So 1983, yeah, which is before this image.
1003
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,160
That makes sense.
1004
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,520
The Coast Guard wrote a report
1005
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,840
in preparation for the extensive, quote,
1006
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,440
operation spruce up.
1007
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,160
Cute.
1008
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,000
The report. Spruce up.
1009
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,480
The report is pretty bad.
1010
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,240
The damage, unfortunately, people are people.
1011
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:41,880
So besides the near ubiquitous water damage,
1012
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,320
unsealed windows had led to proliferation
1013
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,000
of pigeons and eggs.
1014
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,040
Oh no.
1015
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,160
This is where I was laughing out loud the other day.
1016
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,880
And the accumulation of guano, quote,
1017
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,800
several inches thick on the all decks
1018
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,760
and even in the stairway.
1019
00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,720
Gross.
1020
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:00,540
End quote.
1021
00:39:00,540 --> 00:39:03,680
The lantern glass panes and the lens
1022
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,000
serving as a beautiful beacon
1023
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,720
inevitably attracted their share of bullets.
1024
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,480
People shoot at lighthouses apparently.
1025
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,800
Rude. It's a recurring theme.
1026
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:12,920
Why is that a thing?
1027
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,200
Vandals also left their mark on the station's wooden door
1028
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,120
and even tried to burn the interior of the lighthouse.
1029
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,160
Oh!
1030
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,000
What is happening?
1031
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,560
Why do people feel the need to destroy things?
1032
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:26,480
Don't know.
1033
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,840
Go to a rage room.
1034
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,040
They don't think they had rage rooms in the 60s.
1035
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,240
Well, go to a forest and shoot at trees.
1036
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:36,880
So, yeah, this is where this image comes from.
1037
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,840
To preserve the lighthouse, the windows were bricked up,
1038
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,440
the wooden floor was replaced with a steel one,
1039
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,760
acrylic panes were installed in the lantern
1040
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,440
and the access ladders were raised
1041
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,200
beyond normal human reach.
1042
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,680
I could have gotten them.
1043
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,920
In 1988, Lieutenant Sam Neal,
1044
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,280
commander of the Coast Guard buoy tender Red Birch,
1045
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,600
expressed concern over the condition of the lighthouse.
1046
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,800
While he acknowledged that the boat Davits,
1047
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,840
the boat Davits and the iron outhouse
1048
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,760
no longer had any utility,
1049
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,280
he still recommended painting them
1050
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,720
in the interest of historical significance.
1051
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:12,640
Wonderful.
1052
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,480
Between-
1053
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:14,300
Need more people like that.
1054
00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:15,520
Yes, we do.
1055
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:16,360
Yes, we do.
1056
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,080
Between 89 and 90, the Red Birch's efforts,
1057
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,920
that ship included sandblasting the caisson,
1058
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,600
caulking and painting the masonry
1059
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,240
and replacing the waterlogged timbers of the lantern floor
1060
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:29,120
with tongue and groove boards.
1061
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,480
What is that?
1062
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,640
Tongue and groove, each board fits into another,
1063
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,760
it's like a common flooring now.
1064
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,600
It's tongue and groove.
1065
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:37,760
Like it's a U shape?
1066
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,200
Yeah, one is a tongue or groove rather,
1067
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,280
where the tongue fits inside.
1068
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,120
Okay.
1069
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,720
So they snap into place.
1070
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:44,600
Nice.
1071
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,280
Baltimore Lighthouse was put up for public auction
1072
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,200
and it's sold.
1073
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,120
I'm skipping a section because we talked about
1074
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,880
how US Coast Guard could sell public auction lighthouses
1075
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,740
to preserve them, keep them alive.
1076
00:40:58,740 --> 00:40:59,580
Good idea.
1077
00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:00,420
What year?
1078
00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:01,260
2006.
1079
00:41:01,260 --> 00:41:02,100
Whoa.
1080
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:05,240
The final bid was $260,000.
1081
00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:06,080
That's pretty good.
1082
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:06,900
Not bad.
1083
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:11,340
The new owner, BHL LLC of Annapolis,
1084
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:14,840
is a partnership of private citizens for couples
1085
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,920
who are committed to the preservation and restoration
1086
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,720
of Baltimore Harbor Light.
1087
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:20,560
The terms of sale dictate the Coast Guard
1088
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,320
be granted access to the lighthouse
1089
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,440
for occasional checkups on the still active light.
1090
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:26,280
Kind of cool.
1091
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:27,100
Oh.
1092
00:41:27,100 --> 00:41:29,200
The owners eventually plan on sharing their quote,
1093
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,400
privately owned museum with the public
1094
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,600
through evenings or overnights at the lighthouse.
1095
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:35,600
Overnights.
1096
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,840
Which I think is what they're getting into now.
1097
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:42,040
I think this guy is, he's got like half a million followers.
1098
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,440
This person whose video I saw.
1099
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,440
So he's slightly bigger than our podcast.
1100
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,280
Oh.
1101
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:49,520
Just a little bit more.
1102
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,640
But yeah, so I'm gonna go to their site that they keep now.
1103
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,240
But one more thing I thought was interesting.
1104
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:57,440
This lighthouse only had five headkeepers the whole time.
1105
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,480
Yeah, short span.
1106
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:01,320
Crazy.
1107
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:03,840
So that's an image.
1108
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,600
So they painted the top part black.
1109
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,320
And I think, okay, that's what it used to,
1110
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,760
that's what it looked like originally too.
1111
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,000
So the Coast Guard must have painted it white.
1112
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,840
And then whenever they,
1113
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,800
and then they restored it to original,
1114
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,180
its original look which had a black roof.
1115
00:42:20,180 --> 00:42:21,980
So the red steel below,
1116
00:42:21,980 --> 00:42:24,280
the white building itself and the black roof.
1117
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,720
The black roof had colorful shingles it said.
1118
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:28,200
First direction.
1119
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,300
I don't know exactly how that works.
1120
00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:32,800
So this is their site.
1121
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,240
I just wanted to click around for a minute.
1122
00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:35,880
I won't spend quite as long as we did
1123
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,400
when we were talking about St. Augustine.
1124
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,240
But.
1125
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:40,060
Do you like this website?
1126
00:42:40,060 --> 00:42:41,180
They have a great website, yeah.
1127
00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:44,180
So their work goes sideways.
1128
00:42:44,180 --> 00:42:45,660
So this is their timeline.
1129
00:42:45,660 --> 00:42:46,980
We talked through a lot of these points.
1130
00:42:46,980 --> 00:42:48,920
Great, beautiful images.
1131
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,200
And then 06 it talks about the partnership.
1132
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,080
That would be us, the folks who run this site.
1133
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:54,920
So.
1134
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,360
You know, can support their mission,
1135
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,160
visit the site to learn more.
1136
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,340
One thing I wanted to do, they have the About Us,
1137
00:43:02,340 --> 00:43:03,340
how to visit.
1138
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,160
It's really interesting.
1139
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,080
Because they have different options.
1140
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,840
So first off, they show the weather, which is great.
1141
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,780
But then they show links to private tours
1142
00:43:13,780 --> 00:43:16,100
where you can actually get in the lighthouse.
1143
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:18,620
Private boat is what it is.
1144
00:43:18,620 --> 00:43:22,920
Watermark tours, charts and charters and cruises,
1145
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,400
those are all in the area.
1146
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,800
A schooner woodwind, Annapolis sailing cruises, heck yeah.
1147
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,120
Fish out there, cruise at Chesapeake.
1148
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,320
Photography workshops, looks like a couple options.
1149
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,160
So.
1150
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,540
I've seen a lot of lighthouses do photography packages.
1151
00:43:38,540 --> 00:43:39,380
Really?
1152
00:43:39,380 --> 00:43:40,200
Interesting.
1153
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,200
I mean, this is just, this is nice to me.
1154
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,620
Cause it's like, ah, you know, not everybody's like us
1155
00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:45,320
where they've got to go and climb.
1156
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,160
I got to see the inside.
1157
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,800
Yeah, you got to have a bunch of different options.
1158
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,800
They do all these things.
1159
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,080
Support their mission, get a look.
1160
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,640
So, look at that background, first off.
1161
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,080
This is a lot of the work that they've done themselves
1162
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,160
in restoration recently.
1163
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,740
So I saw some of these images.
1164
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,080
There's a bar upstairs that they built
1165
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,680
from some of the original wood called Splinter's Bar.
1166
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:08,520
Neat.
1167
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:09,360
Pretty cool.
1168
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,040
So I think it's going to be quite the adventure
1169
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,000
if you're able to stay here.
1170
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,280
It looks like a really cool place.
1171
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,960
I think the windows look cool.
1172
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,280
Beautiful doors.
1173
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,800
And beautiful views.
1174
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,640
Yep.
1175
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,240
I just thought it was cool.
1176
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:24,400
I think that's all I have.
1177
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,120
I think we're going to take us home.
1178
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,160
Beautiful photo.
1179
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,400
There's those access.
1180
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,760
That'd be kind of daunting to you to get up there.
1181
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,160
The picture you have as our, the cover screen
1182
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,120
has the toilet.
1183
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:37,960
Oh yeah.
1184
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,160
The toit.
1185
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,560
The toit.
1186
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:41,600
Can you imagine?
1187
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,280
The wood door is cool too.
1188
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,240
It's beautiful.
1189
00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:46,480
Can you imagine getting up those?
1190
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,400
Like do you remember when we went to Cape Cod
1191
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,420
and she took some photos of me getting onto,
1192
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,240
into lantern rooms, like through the stairs.
1193
00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:58,080
Tiny holes.
1194
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,000
I'm kind of a big person and it's a little tight.
1195
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,960
But that would be daunting coming up those stairs and ladder.
1196
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,600
The ladder especially.
1197
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,760
There is no protective anything around that ladder.
1198
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,800
If you fall, you're in the water.
1199
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,640
It's embarrassing.
1200
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:16,720
Yeah, that's bad.
1201
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:20,140
Can you, if it's rough, if it's cold, you just die.
1202
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,920
I don't think they're going to let people die out there.
1203
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,240
Just saying.
1204
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:26,320
What is the current flash pattern?
1205
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:27,720
Is it the same as it used to be?
1206
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:29,640
You know, I don't know that it's any different.
1207
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,160
I can go back and read the one from earlier.
1208
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:36,560
That would be on the US LHS light lists.
1209
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,600
Flashing white every 10 seconds.
1210
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,920
Yeah, I will say Lighthouse Friends was good.
1211
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,720
The Visitation Site for Modern Information Today was good.
1212
00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:50,120
But there wasn't a ton of information.
1213
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,400
There was no Fitzgerald.
1214
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,360
There was no huge event marking the history
1215
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,520
that I found of this lighthouse.
1216
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:00,400
You covered the case
1217
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,080
and that was probably the biggest thing that could happen.
1218
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,380
Yeah, the construction was a real trick.
1219
00:46:05,380 --> 00:46:06,320
They had to pull off.
1220
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:07,160
Very cool.
1221
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,280
I think I've seen that lighthouse before.
1222
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,240
You know, like when you open lighthousefriends.com
1223
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:18,760
and it scrolls through different lighthouse images up top
1224
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,160
before you type in what you want.
1225
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,240
Yeah.
1226
00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:24,600
I think one time it went by
1227
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:25,800
and I'm like trying to click on it
1228
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,360
because what I want is for my mouse to go over it,
1229
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,680
to hover over it and it tells me what lighthouse it is
1230
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,480
and it doesn't have that capability.
1231
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,160
It's just like a random scrolling of lighthouses.
1232
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:37,480
That's one of these, you think?
1233
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,280
It changes every time you open it,
1234
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,800
which is actually a really cool feature.
1235
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,880
Or at least maybe it uses every image on the website
1236
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,440
and like cycles through them.
1237
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:47,280
Yeah.
1238
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,200
But yeah, see, like those are so cool.
1239
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,040
Anything that's a case in out in the middle of nowhere
1240
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:52,680
is super neat.
1241
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,320
I'm glad we finally got to cover one.
1242
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:55,680
And what's nice about this lighthouse
1243
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:56,860
is it's not just the tower.
1244
00:46:56,860 --> 00:47:01,860
It's like, see, I get distracted by these lighthouses.
1245
00:47:01,860 --> 00:47:06,860
It's like, it's almost like integral
1246
00:47:07,860 --> 00:47:10,780
because it's like a house and a lighthouse.
1247
00:47:10,780 --> 00:47:12,340
Yeah.
1248
00:47:12,340 --> 00:47:14,180
I think the only reason they don't have
1249
00:47:14,180 --> 00:47:16,660
like occupied spaces in the case on
1250
00:47:16,660 --> 00:47:18,620
is because there's no windows.
1251
00:47:18,620 --> 00:47:19,780
Yeah.
1252
00:47:19,780 --> 00:47:22,780
So it's officially the most expensive lighthouse ever made.
1253
00:47:22,780 --> 00:47:23,740
I don't know that.
1254
00:47:23,740 --> 00:47:24,580
Okay.
1255
00:47:24,580 --> 00:47:25,420
I could remember if you said that.
1256
00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:27,300
It was one of the most difficult to construct.
1257
00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:28,540
It's gotta be close.
1258
00:47:28,540 --> 00:47:29,500
Can I look it up really quick?
1259
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:31,060
Sure.
1260
00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:32,620
St. George Reef Lighthouse.
1261
00:47:32,620 --> 00:47:36,740
I remember this was a question on the US LHS
1262
00:47:36,740 --> 00:47:40,180
40th anniversary extravaganza located off the coast
1263
00:47:40,180 --> 00:47:43,740
of Northern California, most expensive lighthouse ever built
1264
00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:48,740
cost $704,000 equivalent to 24 million
1265
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,100
when adjusted for inflation.
1266
00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:52,940
Yeah.
1267
00:47:52,940 --> 00:47:53,780
11 years.
1268
00:47:53,780 --> 00:47:55,860
But I'm telling you, I went down this rabbit hole.
1269
00:47:55,860 --> 00:47:58,620
If you go and explore adjusted for inflation.
1270
00:47:58,620 --> 00:47:59,500
Yeah.
1271
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:01,420
In what terms like.
1272
00:48:01,420 --> 00:48:02,580
Right.
1273
00:48:02,580 --> 00:48:07,580
Cause this one, that influencer said six million something
1274
00:48:09,660 --> 00:48:11,820
was the cost of this one was what he had quoted.
1275
00:48:11,820 --> 00:48:12,660
Yeah.
1276
00:48:12,660 --> 00:48:13,620
That's what I was like looking it up.
1277
00:48:13,620 --> 00:48:15,940
It's different because it's not like,
1278
00:48:15,940 --> 00:48:18,340
that's what it would cost to buy a lighthouse.
1279
00:48:19,620 --> 00:48:22,400
It's like construction costs now are a lot different
1280
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,380
than what money was worth back then.
1281
00:48:25,380 --> 00:48:26,540
So I get what you mean.
1282
00:48:26,540 --> 00:48:30,860
Like if you had, if you were bidding to build a lighthouse
1283
00:48:30,860 --> 00:48:34,300
like this, it would be a lot more than the cost
1284
00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:35,980
of what it was back then.
1285
00:48:35,980 --> 00:48:38,860
The guy's name that I couldn't think of.
1286
00:48:38,860 --> 00:48:42,380
I looked up Maryland crabber influencer.
1287
00:48:42,380 --> 00:48:44,100
See if you recognize this dude.
1288
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:45,980
Luke McFadden, this guy.
1289
00:48:46,820 --> 00:48:48,620
He looks strangely familiar to me.
1290
00:48:49,740 --> 00:48:50,700
Just a little though.
1291
00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:52,620
But shout out to that dude.
1292
00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:53,460
Crabs.
1293
00:48:53,460 --> 00:48:55,460
Bringing this on the map for a lot of people.
1294
00:48:55,460 --> 00:48:56,300
Very good.
1295
00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:57,140
Cool.
1296
00:48:57,140 --> 00:48:58,500
Thank you for covering that.
1297
00:48:58,500 --> 00:48:59,500
You're welcome.
1298
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:00,580
Good case in lighthouse.
1299
00:49:00,580 --> 00:49:02,260
I feel like we haven't talked about those in a long time.
1300
00:49:02,260 --> 00:49:03,500
Have we talked case in before?
1301
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:04,340
I don't know that we have.
1302
00:49:04,340 --> 00:49:05,700
I did talk about case in.
1303
00:49:07,060 --> 00:49:08,020
No, I don't know.
1304
00:49:08,020 --> 00:49:11,180
I was stuck between case in and snap on this one.
1305
00:49:11,180 --> 00:49:12,020
Oh yeah.
1306
00:49:12,020 --> 00:49:12,840
For the lighthouse.
1307
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,680
Both good.
1308
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,120
I think case in is probably more applicable
1309
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:16,340
to more lighthouses.
1310
00:49:16,340 --> 00:49:17,180
True.
1311
00:49:17,180 --> 00:49:18,760
It's been a fun Thursday night.
1312
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,260
We'll see you all next time.
1313
00:49:20,260 --> 00:49:21,420
Ah.
1314
00:49:21,420 --> 00:49:22,380
What?
1315
00:49:22,380 --> 00:49:25,380
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1316
00:49:25,380 --> 00:49:27,340
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1317
00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:29,460
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1318
00:49:29,460 --> 00:49:31,580
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1319
00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:34,900
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1320
00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:36,860
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1321
00:49:37,780 --> 00:49:39,060
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1322
00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:43,260
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1323
00:49:43,260 --> 00:49:48,260
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1324
00:49:48,420 --> 00:49:50,420
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1325
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