1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,520 What do I say again? 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,000 Say hi everyone, I'm Vince. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,600 You're listening to, yeah, okay. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,040 I am ready. 5 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:11,860 Okay. 6 00:00:11,860 --> 00:00:12,700 Oh, it's on. 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,480 Hi everybody, I'm Vince. 8 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:20,320 And I'm Emily. 9 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,120 And you're listening to The Lighthouse Lowdown. 10 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:30,120 Welcome to the show. 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,800 It's like, it's almost like you'd last did this yesterday 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,240 and not in July. 13 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:39,080 I know. 14 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,160 Well, I was, yeah, thanks. 15 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:42,440 I was just gonna say, I remember my last one. 16 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,200 My last one was blank and now here we are. 17 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,560 And now that we're recording, 18 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,240 I can't remember what my last one was. 19 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,880 What do you mean your, oh, the last. 20 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:50,800 The last, the Herford Inlet, I think. 21 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,200 Oh yeah, Herford Inlet light. 22 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,080 Oh, was it New Jersey? 23 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:54,920 No idea. 24 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,040 It was the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge. 25 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:56,880 Okay yeah, that's what we talked about. 26 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,080 But see how agreeable I am? 27 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,920 I'm just like, oh yeah, false. 28 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:01,440 Thank you for saying words. 29 00:01:03,860 --> 00:01:06,600 Thank you for supporting me with your English. 30 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,440 So. 31 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:08,280 You're welcome. 32 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:09,720 Do you know where we're going today? 33 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:10,920 No, why would I know? 34 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,660 I don't know, sometimes you get the scoop over my shoulder. 35 00:01:13,660 --> 00:01:14,500 We're going over to. 36 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:16,440 That is false. 37 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,280 That is falsified rumors. 38 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,280 We're going over to, it's frozen. 39 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:31,320 Oh, well, the Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse. 40 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:32,400 This one's cool. 41 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,960 Yeah. 42 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:35,080 Is that a case in? 43 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,580 The history of the day. 44 00:01:41,940 --> 00:01:43,640 What is a case in? 45 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,320 I swear I didn't see that beforehand. 46 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,240 I would have said case on. 47 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,500 So I tried to look up videos 48 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:55,320 and they're all electronic speakers, like AI. 49 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,640 So case in? 50 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,840 I'm pretty sure when I looked it up, it was case in. 51 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,960 Sounds like a Kansas, Missouri type of pronunciation. 52 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:04,480 So we'll go with case in. 53 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,160 But first, that's gonna be our history before we do that. 54 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,840 You've got all kinds of clip art and stuff going on. 55 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,760 I worked hard on this this last hour. 56 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,560 So first thing. 57 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,880 You have three months to get ready. 58 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:17,880 Yeah. 59 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,240 We're gonna talk maps, because I love maps. 60 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,520 So here's the Google map. 61 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:24,720 It's only a thousand feet. 62 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,280 I'm looking for my mouse. 63 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,400 Oh, so a thousand foot is a scale right now. 64 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,240 We're gonna go out. 65 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,760 You're gonna see that we are in the area near Baltimore. 66 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:37,920 Maryland. 67 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,480 This lighthouse, Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse, 68 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,880 was actually one of the last 69 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,720 that was built in the Chesapeake Bay. 70 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,700 And Baltimore, we'll talk about it, obviously. 71 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:52,700 But Baltimore was a growing, burgeoning business hub 72 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:54,740 with water transit. 73 00:02:54,740 --> 00:02:58,900 So back in the 1800s, it was really taken off. 74 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:01,340 And it got kind of out of hand, of course. 75 00:03:01,340 --> 00:03:03,240 Same story we've heard a couple times. 76 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,700 Lots of shipwrecks, things not going well. 77 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:09,180 So there was clearly a need for a lighthouse. 78 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:12,180 One of the reasons that Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse 79 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:14,360 is one of the last Chesapeake Bay 80 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,300 is because it's really hard to build in this area. 81 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:20,740 We're gonna talk about some geographical 82 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:25,740 and geological challenges 83 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,620 that made this construction very interesting. 84 00:03:30,620 --> 00:03:32,060 So that's the map. 85 00:03:32,060 --> 00:03:32,880 And then if you don't know, 86 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,460 it's over on the East Coast of the United States. 87 00:03:34,460 --> 00:03:35,580 Look at that. 88 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:36,740 Very nice. 89 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:38,140 Tucked up in there. 90 00:03:38,140 --> 00:03:40,700 It's not even ocean-like. 91 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:43,140 It's like a bay. 92 00:03:43,140 --> 00:03:45,460 It was a bay. 93 00:03:45,460 --> 00:03:47,500 So the history of buoy for the day. 94 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,400 What is a caisson? 95 00:03:50,660 --> 00:03:52,620 And yeah, clip art of our buoy, 96 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:53,980 because it's a history buoy. 97 00:03:53,980 --> 00:03:56,100 And then I put the waves there. 98 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:56,940 Isn't that nice? 99 00:03:58,260 --> 00:04:00,020 More imagery than usual. 100 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:04,940 Yeah, so caissons are used in the construction of docks, 101 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:06,540 marine infrastructure in general, 102 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:09,280 bridges, lift stations, and lighthouses. 103 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,220 Lift stations are not marine infrastructure. 104 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:14,860 They're inland. 105 00:04:14,860 --> 00:04:17,420 You have water that you need to lift to keep it going 106 00:04:17,420 --> 00:04:19,620 because piping, gravity. 107 00:04:19,620 --> 00:04:22,580 So most often they're concrete sections 108 00:04:22,580 --> 00:04:23,900 that are prefabricated. 109 00:04:25,180 --> 00:04:27,440 So overall, it's a watertight chamber 110 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,400 or large hollow cylinder that's used in construction 111 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,140 to create a foundation of work underwater. 112 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:38,020 So they're made of concrete, steel, wood in the old days. 113 00:04:38,020 --> 00:04:39,700 They're sunk into the ground 114 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:42,280 through each bedrock or stable soil. 115 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,700 After they're sunk in, after they're made to the depth, 116 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:47,660 then they're filled with concrete 117 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:49,580 and they make up the foundation. 118 00:04:49,580 --> 00:04:51,620 Oh, filled with concrete so it's not hollow 119 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:52,620 once they're done with it? 120 00:04:52,620 --> 00:04:54,420 When they're done, it has to be filled with concrete. 121 00:04:54,420 --> 00:04:59,020 And before that, it often has to be weighted with ballasts, 122 00:04:59,020 --> 00:05:00,980 which are weights to hold it down 123 00:05:00,980 --> 00:05:04,440 because the empty void would float due to the buoyancy. 124 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,480 So like on the left, this is a lift station, 125 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:09,920 just a snip from a video. 126 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,340 I'm not actually gonna show the video, 127 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:16,340 but the front piece is the bottom is put in first. 128 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,640 So that's several sections of concrete. 129 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,920 The first one has that beveled edge on it. 130 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,600 That's actually called the shoe. 131 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,960 And it's beveled so it can help to cut through the earth 132 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,400 as it's forced down. 133 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,880 And then as soon as it's down, 134 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,720 you put the second section on and then third, 135 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,640 and then so on, so on. 136 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,680 The whole time on an inland project when you're using this, 137 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,400 you actually have to be pumping out the groundwater, 138 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,080 which is what's shown in that blue line on the left. 139 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,640 So they're constantly pumping out water 140 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:44,760 as they do this construction. 141 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,480 And then once it's complete, once the concrete's poured 142 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,120 and this becomes a stable structure on the bedrock, 143 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,960 then at that time they can stop pumping water. 144 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,200 So the challenges of, 145 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,760 I've asked this question to myself before, 146 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,640 how do they build bridges 147 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,360 when there's already water there? 148 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,000 How do you build a dam when there's already water there? 149 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,760 Well, a lot of these structures are caissons. 150 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,000 So on the right, if you were to simplify it 151 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,760 and just look at it as an open basket, 152 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,080 that's kind of a typical old-fashioned caisson. 153 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,320 You could work in there, you can dig things out of it, 154 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,160 fill it with concrete. 155 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,280 We can weigh it down in the meantime. 156 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,840 This is actually an enclosed caisson, 157 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:27,960 which they need to be pressurized with air 158 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,600 and have ballast weights on them to hold them down. 159 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,520 And the reason that they're pressurized with air 160 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,280 is so that you can evacuate mud and rocks and debris 161 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:38,680 that's actually in the base. 162 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,200 So you can put this down and then work in it. 163 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,560 These actually lower men inside. 164 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,120 So the personnel access tube, I should say. 165 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,400 They'd put people down in these things 166 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,440 and they would have shovels and tools 167 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,040 and they would dig and work items towards the center here, 168 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,360 towards this muck tube, which would suck up and out 169 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,840 materials, mud, and then often they have cranes and stuff 170 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:07,040 to take care of boulders and whatnot. 171 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,760 People used to get sick from going in here 172 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,600 from decompression sickness. 173 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,800 So they would be under these pressurized conditions 174 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,680 working for a while and then they'd come out 175 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,680 and a lot of people have died through history 176 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:20,680 from working in here. 177 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:21,840 I forget there's some name, 178 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,920 that's the reference I didn't write down. 179 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,880 Is it like whenever you're scuba diving 180 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:27,920 and you come up too fast? 181 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:28,880 Exactly. 182 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,760 Like nitrogen in your brain? 183 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,560 Yeah, it's inert. 184 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:33,920 I think mostly inert gases 185 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,440 that are just within your cell structures, 186 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,800 that your whole body, that they don't have 187 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,600 the capability to get out, to permeate quickly enough 188 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,420 if you jump from high pressure to low pressure. 189 00:07:46,420 --> 00:07:48,720 So if you're at depth as a scuba diver 190 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,040 or in a pressure chamber, 191 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,680 you come out of that pressure chamber too quickly 192 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,560 or if you ascend too quickly. 193 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,720 And a lot of people get sick from it, 194 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,960 they feel nauseous, they have days long of symptoms 195 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:01,880 or hours long of symptoms, 196 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,040 but there have been a lot of people that have died 197 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,880 and they didn't know really how to deal with it. 198 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,960 So now we do. 199 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,280 It's a common thing. 200 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,640 We handle it very well. 201 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,160 There's lots of occupations that have high pressures now. 202 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,760 So would they would, if there's not a bottom on it, 203 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,620 in that case would they put down concrete walls 204 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:23,280 and like pump out water or something? 205 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:24,120 Okay. 206 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,800 Yeah, they'd put down the concrete shell, if you will, 207 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,560 with an open, it's like an open cylinder 208 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,620 and they would seat it against the bottom of the floor 209 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:34,040 as much as you could, 210 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,000 which would also make for interesting circumstances 211 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,680 if that seal were to ever fail. 212 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:39,520 Yeah. 213 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,420 Because it, and it did, water would rush in 214 00:08:41,420 --> 00:08:44,200 and mud would rush in until it would stop. 215 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,800 So your ballast weights are super important. 216 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,920 And yeah, casein. 217 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:52,800 So you're always looking, you're looking for bedrock. 218 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,000 So you want to get down to a stable structure 219 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,920 that you can support your material from, 220 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,920 otherwise it will sink and shift and it won't last. 221 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,440 The reason that we're talking about caseins 222 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,520 is because a very impressive story comes 223 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,160 from the construction of Baltimore Harbor Light 224 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,640 in the casein that they had to use there. 225 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:14,720 So. 226 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,600 Overturned. 227 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,720 There's a lot. 228 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,000 We're gonna get to it. 229 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,760 So Baltimore Lighthouse proved to be 230 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,000 one of the most difficult lighthouses to construct 231 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,760 in all of the United States history. 232 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:26,720 Whoa. 233 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,720 And very expensive. 234 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,560 How expensive? 235 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:30,380 Big expensive. 236 00:09:30,380 --> 00:09:32,120 Like millions? 237 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,800 Lots of millions. 238 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,000 So it was 1890 was when the lighthouse board 239 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,680 first requested money to build the lighthouse. 240 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:42,240 They requested $60,000, 241 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,180 which they thought was a lot of money. 242 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:47,880 So that's in the new cutoff channel 243 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,560 near the mouth of the Magothi River. 244 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:52,840 I think it's Magothi, Magothi. 245 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,480 And the quote from them on this request was, 246 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,520 on the account of the impressible character of the Shoal 247 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,800 and the liability to damage or destruction 248 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,760 by means of moving ice, 249 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,100 no lighthouse other than an expensive one can be permanent. 250 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,560 So. 251 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:10,400 Yeah. 252 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,320 So we're gonna talk about the, 253 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,840 I don't think I wrote them down, 254 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,440 but one of the forces that this lighthouse 255 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,000 has to be designed to withstand 256 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 is a force in pounds per square foot of ice shifting. 257 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:29,320 The force designed is 30,000 pounds per square foot. 258 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,320 Oh my. 259 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,240 So 100 mile an hour winds, 260 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,880 three mile hour water currents, which are a lot, 261 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,520 but 30,000 pounds per square foot 262 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,040 is what the ice can press on the outside of the structure. 263 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:43,440 I mean, if you think about it, 264 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,420 I think of a body of water and a solid sheet of ice, 265 00:10:46,420 --> 00:10:51,080 and it just bumps the lighthouse all at once 266 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,840 over and over again. 267 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,440 That's what icy lighthouses have to go through. 268 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,360 I mean, if you, even today, 269 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,880 this is over 100 years ago. 270 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,040 Yeah. 271 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:02,880 100 years. 272 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:03,700 What year was this? 273 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:04,640 1890. 274 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,280 Over 100 years before I was born, this conversation. 275 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,240 And today, if you had asked me, 276 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,440 hey, can we build this under these conditions out here? 277 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:14,280 I'd be like. 278 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,120 Come on. 279 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:16,160 It's gonna be. 280 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:17,080 Maybe. 281 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:18,060 I mean, we've been to the moon. 282 00:11:18,060 --> 00:11:20,080 That's pretty cool, but this. 283 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,720 Can't do anything. 284 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:22,880 Right. 285 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,720 So the board understood 286 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,600 that this is gonna be a difficult task, 287 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,680 but they didn't understand quite how difficult. 288 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:30,520 So. 289 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,180 They needed one because there was a shoal in the harbor 290 00:11:34,180 --> 00:11:35,020 that was like. 291 00:11:35,020 --> 00:11:36,680 There's just so much traffic. 292 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:40,640 There wasn't a particular hazard, 293 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,600 but this lighthouse, 294 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,060 we'll go over the dimensions later on. 295 00:11:44,060 --> 00:11:44,900 Okay. 296 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:47,240 It's not that tall, including its structure 297 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,080 all the way through the nastiness under the water. 298 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,320 So it's not, it's a shallow area coming to harbor, 299 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:54,160 which makes sense. 300 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:55,000 Okay. 301 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,440 But I think it just had a massive amount of traffic 302 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,000 as it was getting out of hand. 303 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,720 So from the time of the first request 304 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,160 to the time of completing the lighthouse was 18 years. 305 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:07,620 Whoa. 306 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:08,680 Which is a long time. 307 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:09,580 That's crazy. 308 00:12:09,580 --> 00:12:10,420 Yeah. 309 00:12:10,420 --> 00:12:11,320 I think there's more, there's, you know, 310 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,740 there's longer timeframes out there that we've talked about, 311 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:16,720 but thinking it's almost 1900. 312 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,400 So that's kind of late in the game. 313 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:19,960 We know how lighthouses are built already. 314 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:21,280 Right. 315 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,440 You'd think it would get done quicker. 316 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,180 So the first request, 1890, 317 00:12:27,740 --> 00:12:30,660 they spent a lot of that money by boring into the shoal 318 00:12:30,660 --> 00:12:33,560 at the selected site that they had chose. 319 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:36,920 And it revealed that there was a soft layer of mud 320 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,880 that was 55 feet thick. 321 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:40,800 What? 322 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:41,640 Yeah. 323 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,140 That's before they got to soft sand 324 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:48,080 and then solid sand and then soft sand and then bedrock. 325 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,920 So a ton of muck. 326 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,760 Yeah. 327 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,600 A lot. 328 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:54,420 So- 329 00:12:54,420 --> 00:12:56,700 It's like almost a six story building 330 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,720 and that's not including the water. 331 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:00,640 Yeah. 332 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,860 So they thought maybe they could use screw pile 333 00:13:03,860 --> 00:13:06,240 type foundation, which is a pile. 334 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,520 So it's a vertical column of concrete alone 335 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,680 instead of digging through all that stuff. 336 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,000 And they thought maybe not. 337 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,840 So they looked at a different site 338 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,920 and we're 60 grand in at the time. 339 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,480 The new site said, oh, there's less depth here. 340 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,080 It's not as deep in this new location, 341 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:26,680 which is not too far away. 342 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,840 They made an attempt, this is 1898 now, 343 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,360 an attempt to plant an experimental disc pile 344 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,820 with two hours of boring, 345 00:13:35,820 --> 00:13:38,840 the disc reached just three and a half feet in the mud. 346 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,080 And so the conclusion was, quote, 347 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,680 that the expense of the building a light station 348 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,760 in the 55 feet of semi-fluid mud, 349 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,200 which overlays the sandy bottom, 350 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,120 would cost twice as much as the original request. 351 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,400 So then we talked about our three design criteria. 352 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:56,900 So a hundred mile per hour winds, 353 00:13:56,900 --> 00:14:00,080 30,000 pounds of ice pressure per square foot 354 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,040 and a three mile per hour water current, 355 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,360 which is not insignificant. 356 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,200 Yeah. 357 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,360 So they made an additional request to Congress 358 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,160 three times in a row until the additional 60,000 359 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,960 was approved, that was 1902. 360 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,720 So three years of requesting more finances, 361 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,200 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 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,720 was approved in 1902 and the bidding for the job 364 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,080 was opened the next spring. 365 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,480 Somewhat ominously, only one bid came in 366 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,520 for the erection of the lighthouse. 367 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,740 And that one bid was $80,000 over the entire budget. 368 00:14:36,740 --> 00:14:39,240 So the sole bid was rejected. 369 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,840 Congress approved another $60,000 370 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,440 to make the project feasible, 371 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,160 bringing the grand total of allocated money 372 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,200 to $180,000 in 1902. 373 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:50,640 And the next round of bidding, 374 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:55,640 a man named William Flaherty was the only participant. 375 00:14:55,980 --> 00:14:57,360 Oh God. 376 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,720 And he won the job because he was the only participant. 377 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,800 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 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:06,160 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 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,640 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 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,700 So it's in the relative share of GDP. 390 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:32,680 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 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:44,800 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 Check out our website, thelighthouselowdown.com 1316 00:49:25,380 --> 00:49:27,340 where you can leave us a review. 1317 00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:29,460 You can send us lighthouses to cover. 1318 00:49:29,460 --> 00:49:31,580 I'm about to do a few in a row 1319 00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:34,900 of listener lighthouses. 1320 00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:36,860 And you can check out our YouTube, 1321 00:49:37,780 --> 00:49:39,060 also on our website, 1322 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:43,260 and our Instagram at the Lighthouse Lowdown. 1323 00:49:43,260 --> 00:49:48,260 And we hope you catch us next time on 1324 00:49:48,420 --> 00:49:50,420 The Lighthouse Lowdown. 1325 00:49:50,420 --> 00:49:55,420 Bye.