WEBVTT 00:00:01.129 --> 00:00:04.450 Hi, everyone. I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this 00:00:04.450 --> 00:00:18.850 is The Lighthouse Lowdown. Hi. We just stared 00:00:18.850 --> 00:00:22.489 at each other. Oh, I had a long day. Model review, 00:00:22.710 --> 00:00:25.269 you know. Yeah. Our listeners should know that 00:00:25.269 --> 00:00:28.670 every time that intro is playing. it's live for 00:00:28.670 --> 00:00:30.609 us. So it's not, you know, we're just staring 00:00:30.609 --> 00:00:33.289 at each other dancing or something. Yeah. It's 00:00:33.289 --> 00:00:36.429 usually fun. Sometimes I feel the pressure impending 00:00:36.429 --> 00:00:38.710 that I have to say something when it's over. 00:00:38.869 --> 00:00:42.329 So I'm like, Oh no. Oh, Oh, I got to think of 00:00:42.329 --> 00:00:48.729 something. But anyway, I got a good episode coming 00:00:48.729 --> 00:00:52.289 at you today and I had a lot of good ideas that 00:00:52.289 --> 00:00:54.350 I could use for the history buoy that would correspond 00:00:54.350 --> 00:00:57.340 with this episode. Nice. And I went with a light 00:00:57.340 --> 00:00:59.039 ship. So that's what we're going to do for our 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.619 history buoy. A specific light ship? Yes. Great. 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:05.480 And this is a name that's shown up a few times 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.760 while I've been researching or traveling or whatever. 00:01:08.859 --> 00:01:11.819 And I'm like, that's funny. And it's the frying 00:01:11.819 --> 00:01:15.019 pan shoals. So I'm going to talk about that today. 00:01:16.219 --> 00:01:18.359 Which corresponds with our light ship, of course. 00:01:18.819 --> 00:01:21.939 Nice. Yeah. The history buoy is the frying pan 00:01:21.939 --> 00:01:27.030 light ship, specifically LV -115. Because you 00:01:27.030 --> 00:01:30.069 know how any light ship that was assigned, people 00:01:30.069 --> 00:01:32.390 should go listen to our light ship episode. I 00:01:32.390 --> 00:01:34.209 can't remember what it was, like 50 -something? 00:01:34.730 --> 00:01:38.769 Light ships. Yeah. And you can get educated on 00:01:38.769 --> 00:01:43.310 the numbering system. But any light ship that 00:01:43.310 --> 00:01:45.489 was stationed somewhere got the name frying pan. 00:01:45.629 --> 00:01:47.769 So there were several frying pan light ships. 00:01:48.310 --> 00:01:50.310 But the one I'm talking about is the longest 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:53.829 serving one. So first of all, what are the frying 00:01:53.829 --> 00:01:57.420 pan shoals? We're in North Carolina, outside 00:01:57.420 --> 00:02:01.760 of Cape Fear. Oh, cool. So I put a little picture 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.040 up of, you can see the stars of the lighthouses 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.219 that we covered in our Outer Banks episode. The 00:02:08.219 --> 00:02:11.080 Outer Banks. So south of that, almost to whatever 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.599 state is below North Carolina. South Carolina? 00:02:14.659 --> 00:02:16.659 Wait, I didn't get a chance. Whatever state is 00:02:16.659 --> 00:02:21.169 south of North Carolina. I didn't get a chance 00:02:21.169 --> 00:02:23.490 to use my brain before I said that. I was in 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:28.629 auto mode. But yes, so closer to South Carolina, 00:02:28.810 --> 00:02:31.550 we have Cape Fear. And even when you pull up 00:02:31.550 --> 00:02:36.210 Google Maps, you can see this dark spot in the 00:02:36.210 --> 00:02:40.330 ocean. And that is our frying pan shoals. And 00:02:40.330 --> 00:02:41.669 they said that it was called that because it 00:02:41.669 --> 00:02:45.759 looks like a frying pan. And I disagree. Is there 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.819 a different view where maybe it looks like a 00:02:47.819 --> 00:02:51.300 frying pan? No. Maybe like a frying pan held 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:55.659 sideways. Yeah. But that's... Well, even like 00:02:55.659 --> 00:03:00.919 the panhandle of Oklahoma. Yeah. Oh. Panhandle 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.520 of Texas. Frying panhandle. I don't know. I kind 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:06.919 of get that. It kind of looks like a lodge cast 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:12.259 iron. Okay. Sponsored by. Like North Carolina 00:03:12.259 --> 00:03:14.979 is a big weird shaped pan and that's the handle. 00:03:16.300 --> 00:03:20.719 Who knows? That's what I'm thinking. Okay, so 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:22.400 that's what's coming up in my brain. Anyway, 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.800 it's about 18 miles long and it's like a shifting 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.080 shoal. So like the sands move, which is what 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.219 makes it so dangerous is that you can't really 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:34.939 like predict where the edges are going to be. 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.539 Okay. And it's southeast of Cape Fear, North 00:03:37.539 --> 00:03:39.939 Carolina. And it's made of silt and sand deposited 00:03:39.939 --> 00:03:42.620 from the Cape Fear River. So that's what we have 00:03:42.620 --> 00:03:46.240 up. This area was, quote, dreaded by shipmasters 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:48.460 only a little less than those at Cape Hatteras. 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:51.960 And we know that Cape Hatteras, outside of Cape 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:53.699 Hatteras, was considered the graveyard of the 00:03:53.699 --> 00:03:57.219 Atlantic. So this was obviously a high contender 00:03:57.219 --> 00:03:59.340 for places you've got to worry about when you're 00:03:59.340 --> 00:04:02.120 sailing around North Carolina. Or, you know, 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.659 on the east coast of the U .S. So two lighthouses 00:04:05.659 --> 00:04:09.860 were built in the area in 1794 and 1817, but 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:12.360 both were not good enough to mark the outer edges 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.319 of the shoal because you'd have to have a pretty 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:17.459 powerful light to make it 18 miles. Yeah, it's 00:04:17.459 --> 00:04:19.660 a big panhandle. Yeah, so if you go anything 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:22.589 less than all out, it's not going to work. So 00:04:22.589 --> 00:04:24.610 that's kind of what happened. These lighthouses 00:04:24.610 --> 00:04:28.310 that were made to mark were the first of baldhead 00:04:28.310 --> 00:04:31.050 lighthouses, which I briefly mentioned, but we'll 00:04:31.050 --> 00:04:32.610 have to do an episode on them some other time. 00:04:33.089 --> 00:04:35.310 Because of that, because these lighthouses weren't 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:39.329 good enough, they added on top of that a light 00:04:39.329 --> 00:04:42.550 ship to be placed in 1854. Did I say ordered? 00:04:43.370 --> 00:04:45.889 Ordered a light ship? I don't know. Placed an 00:04:45.889 --> 00:04:50.170 order for a light ship. Overstock .com. Just 00:04:50.170 --> 00:04:53.079 like ordering a new car. I mean, you do have 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.319 to order it from a shipbuilder. Yeah. Oh, and 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.540 I actually have a picture. I'll show you of it 00:04:58.540 --> 00:05:01.540 in production. Oh, cool. Eight light ships served 00:05:01.540 --> 00:05:06.439 this location from 1854 to 1930. And 1930 is 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.800 when LV -115 took over at the Shoal. And that's 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:12.939 the one that I'm covering today. So there was 00:05:12.939 --> 00:05:15.339 this long chunk of history in which there were 00:05:15.339 --> 00:05:18.519 light ships, but none of them had quite an extensive 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:23.680 history as... our LV -115. So that's what I'm 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:25.500 going to refer to from here on out as the frying 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:31.480 pan lighthouse. Cool. Lightship. Hold. So here 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.220 I pulled up a picture of when it was being built. 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.379 So they build the hole first and then they put 00:05:37.379 --> 00:05:39.040 it in the water and then they finish building 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.699 the rest of the lightship, which is interesting. 00:05:41.899 --> 00:05:43.379 It's a cool photo. Yeah, so there's a couple 00:05:43.379 --> 00:05:45.639 cool ones of it being built and mainly this is 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:50.170 just to show like it's... Double -masted, had 00:05:50.170 --> 00:05:52.629 lights on top of each one. Oops. We love that. 00:05:53.470 --> 00:05:56.389 So it was built in 1929, as we can see from our 00:05:56.389 --> 00:06:01.230 screen. And it had the classic bright red hole 00:06:01.230 --> 00:06:03.769 with the large white letters that says frying 00:06:03.769 --> 00:06:06.629 pan. That's awesome. Yeah, so we saw a lot of 00:06:06.629 --> 00:06:08.949 those, and it's kind of the staple for light 00:06:08.949 --> 00:06:12.370 chips, especially in the U .S. It had a crew 00:06:12.370 --> 00:06:14.990 of 15 people, but only 10 would serve at a time. 00:06:15.050 --> 00:06:18.029 So they'd serve for 28 days and then get 14 days 00:06:18.029 --> 00:06:21.209 off is usually how it went. Nice. The light ship 00:06:21.209 --> 00:06:24.069 was active from 1930 until World War II when 00:06:24.069 --> 00:06:26.610 it served as an examination vessel, which I don't 00:06:26.610 --> 00:06:30.750 know what that is. I forgot to look it up. Examination 00:06:30.750 --> 00:06:35.110 vessel in World War II? Yeah. I would guess like 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:38.089 approaching ships. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. 00:06:38.509 --> 00:06:42.449 But that was from 1942 to 1945. And after this, 00:06:42.449 --> 00:06:44.889 it was placed back on the shoals until 1964. 00:06:45.370 --> 00:06:51.029 So it's a solid 30 years of it being out on the 00:06:51.029 --> 00:06:52.970 water, which if you listen to our light ships 00:06:52.970 --> 00:06:55.970 episode, you'll hear that it was actually very 00:06:55.970 --> 00:06:58.889 hard on a ship to be out in open water like that. 00:06:59.069 --> 00:07:02.589 And especially anchored. There was a lot of stories 00:07:02.589 --> 00:07:05.350 about this ship in like hurricanes and whatnot. 00:07:06.670 --> 00:07:09.750 It's difficult for a ship to be more down during 00:07:09.750 --> 00:07:12.949 a storm because it wears it. Like, it's not a... 00:07:12.949 --> 00:07:15.189 So much stress on the anchor chain. Yes. And 00:07:15.189 --> 00:07:17.470 the ship being jerked around. It's all attached. 00:07:17.589 --> 00:07:22.170 Yeah. So, that's a long time to be out on the 00:07:22.170 --> 00:07:23.649 shoals. And, of course, it would come in every, 00:07:23.709 --> 00:07:25.329 like, two years for maintenance or something. 00:07:25.410 --> 00:07:31.680 So, they were keeping it together. 1964. Picture 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.639 there. A light tower resembling an oil drilling 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:36.860 platform was built, which is also called the 00:07:36.860 --> 00:07:39.319 Texas Tower. So this is a specific type of lighthouse 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:42.180 that was built. I think that it said that there 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:45.060 was like 10 or something. I think, I think, I 00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:47.740 think. I think. I think that we have seen one 00:07:47.740 --> 00:07:51.540 of these before. I can't remember the term Texas 00:07:51.540 --> 00:07:55.240 Tower, but I swear maybe an explosion or a research 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:58.699 station, some story associated with a tower that 00:07:58.699 --> 00:08:00.610 looked just like this. Yeah, we've had a few 00:08:00.610 --> 00:08:01.990 out on the water, but I don't know if we've had 00:08:01.990 --> 00:08:05.050 a Texas tower before. Or maybe we've just come 00:08:05.050 --> 00:08:07.209 across them but not done an episode on it. Yeah. 00:08:07.610 --> 00:08:11.170 But yeah, it's a cool picture. The light ship 00:08:11.170 --> 00:08:13.589 circled it and blasted its whistle three times 00:08:13.589 --> 00:08:15.910 before departing for good. A little goodbye. 00:08:16.350 --> 00:08:20.209 Shame. So that's a cool picture of this light 00:08:20.209 --> 00:08:22.699 tower officially relieving. Frying pan light 00:08:22.699 --> 00:08:26.139 ship of its duties. 1965, the light ship was 00:08:26.139 --> 00:08:29.160 decommissioned and donated to a museum in Southport, 00:08:29.220 --> 00:08:32.779 North Carolina. This is where it all goes downhill. 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.299 Budget issues killed this museum and the ship 00:08:38.299 --> 00:08:40.860 sank before anyone could figure out what to do 00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:44.639 with it. Wait, what? Yes. Like where they had 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:46.379 the museum because people were like, what are 00:08:46.379 --> 00:08:48.980 we going to do with it? At a port? Or like wherever 00:08:48.980 --> 00:08:51.379 the... Like, it was a maritime museum, so wherever 00:08:51.379 --> 00:08:55.340 it was floating just went down. Oh, man. I know. 00:08:56.019 --> 00:08:57.919 At some point, and it wasn't clear when, the 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:00.639 light ship was refloated and drained before sinking 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:06.059 again in Whitehaven, Maryland in 1983. So that's 00:09:06.059 --> 00:09:09.909 the double sinker. All this time, it survives. 00:09:09.929 --> 00:09:12.230 Tale of the frying pan. Never gets sunk during 00:09:12.230 --> 00:09:15.169 service. And then afterwards, in its retirement, 00:09:15.389 --> 00:09:19.070 it gets sunk twice. After three years of staying 00:09:19.070 --> 00:09:23.409 underwater, it was righted, which, doing so, 00:09:23.509 --> 00:09:27.210 tore off one of its masts. Oh, man. Old age is 00:09:27.210 --> 00:09:33.080 a bitch. Terrible. And it was sold to a John 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.580 Crevy, I think it's pronounced, for $8 ,000, 00:09:35.740 --> 00:09:38.220 who spent weekends with his friends shoveling 00:09:38.220 --> 00:09:41.419 crap out of the ship, like muck and barnacles 00:09:41.419 --> 00:09:44.059 and whatnot. And once it was all cleaned up, 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:45.980 they sailed it to New York, where it served as 00:09:45.980 --> 00:09:49.399 a restaurant, bar, dance club. That's awesome. 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:51.480 The frying pan. Yeah, and they said they left 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:55.879 a bunch of the barnacles and some stuff on the 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.240 inside. Cool. and filled it with all kinds of 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.179 eclectic things. So it was like this whole experience. 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:04.299 I'd be so excited to go to a bar that was a sunken 00:10:04.299 --> 00:10:06.340 ship. It'd be kind of difficult to get drunk 00:10:06.340 --> 00:10:09.940 on a ship. No, it wouldn't. Well, I'm thinking 00:10:09.940 --> 00:10:14.159 of Vertigo. History suggests that is not true. 00:10:14.299 --> 00:10:18.960 Oh, true. Yeah, I guess true. It was floating, 00:10:18.980 --> 00:10:21.639 though, as a bar? I think so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.830 for sure. Then after that, it was forced to move 00:10:24.830 --> 00:10:26.929 to another pier in New York City. So it was in 00:10:26.929 --> 00:10:31.529 a pier. I'm not gonna be able to remember what 00:10:31.529 --> 00:10:34.250 number pier it was, but then it got moved to 00:10:34.250 --> 00:10:38.690 66A, Pier 66A, because they were doing construction 00:10:38.690 --> 00:10:43.009 on Hudson Park or something. I didn't make notes. 00:10:43.350 --> 00:10:46.149 I don't know. But anyway, so they had to move 00:10:46.149 --> 00:10:48.610 it, but it reopened in 2008 and remains today 00:10:48.610 --> 00:10:51.789 as the Pier 66 Maritime Bar and Grill. And you 00:10:51.789 --> 00:10:53.950 can sit on the deck and have cocktails and fancy 00:10:53.950 --> 00:10:57.370 seafood. Like I attached the website for this 00:10:57.370 --> 00:11:00.830 place and it looks so good. No chance you're 00:11:00.830 --> 00:11:08.370 going to show it to me. No. Okay. Pier 66. Maritime 00:11:08.370 --> 00:11:12.090 Bar and Grill. Okay. Noting. Well, the website 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:17.120 is just called. fryingpan .com. What? Yes. Hold 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.799 on. I would pull it up, but it's too difficult 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.139 with how we project our screen now. Yeah, fryingpan 00:11:23.139 --> 00:11:28.980 .com. Cool logo, I must say. Mm -hmm. I'll probably 00:11:28.980 --> 00:11:32.639 just put that on our cover. Okay. Without asking 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.279 anybody. Oh. Look at that. Yeah, it's pretty. 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:38.259 Little red outline. It only has the one mast. 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.860 The one mast. Which is accurate. Mm -hmm. Wow. 00:11:41.059 --> 00:11:46.500 Lore accurate. I wonder if this is valued by 00:11:46.500 --> 00:11:50.080 the patrons. Yeah, like if you're interested. 00:11:50.379 --> 00:11:52.899 Because I noticed there's no tab on that website 00:11:52.899 --> 00:11:55.799 for the history of the light ship. So I'm wondering 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.139 if it's just very food forward. Like it's more 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:01.639 of a, like, oh, it's on a ship. How cool is that? 00:12:01.740 --> 00:12:05.519 Without it being, tell me all about it. There's 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.740 an art history. Oh, there is. Okay, good. Yeah, 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.139 shows the frying pan image. Oh, yeah. That was 00:12:11.139 --> 00:12:13.039 a long description. Okay, good. I don't want 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:14.820 to go too crazy on here, but that's awesome. 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.200 I'd love to go. Yeah, see, it's on our list now. 00:12:17.419 --> 00:12:20.259 Yeah, but we can't. What, what? New York in the 00:12:20.259 --> 00:12:23.320 wintertime. I bet we can't sit on the deck. It's 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.580 got teak furniture. Why do you say wintertime? 00:12:26.059 --> 00:12:27.360 Well, because we're talking about going to New 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.720 York in the wintertime, potentially. I sent you 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:32.379 a video of Canada in the wintertime. In Banff. 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:38.899 I don't know what that is. It's not near New 00:12:38.899 --> 00:12:41.769 York. It's West. I'm not talking about New York. 00:12:42.389 --> 00:12:44.470 What is going on? You're talking about New York 00:12:44.470 --> 00:12:49.070 for Christmas. No. Yes. When? We're talking about 00:12:49.070 --> 00:12:55.669 an option for after our wedding. Oh. Wow. That 00:12:55.669 --> 00:12:57.289 must have been vetoed in my head or something 00:12:57.289 --> 00:13:02.970 because I have no memory of that. We talked about 00:13:02.970 --> 00:13:06.370 Branson, Missouri. And so I was like, oh, well, 00:13:06.429 --> 00:13:09.620 something. big like new york is probably out 00:13:09.620 --> 00:13:13.480 of the question anyway um i pulled up a picture 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:17.840 of uh the frying pan light ship this was in 2006 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.860 so it was before it opened in the other pier 00:13:20.860 --> 00:13:23.899 and as a part of the restaurant that's available 00:13:23.899 --> 00:13:27.559 now so but just for you to see the the lettering 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.639 the bright color the single mast it's pretty 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.840 cool that's crazy i can't believe they broke 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:38.490 the mast riding the ship and then What does it 00:13:38.490 --> 00:13:40.429 take to weld that thing back on? Well, it was 00:13:40.429 --> 00:13:42.929 owned by a guy, you know, at that point. So, 00:13:43.049 --> 00:13:46.429 yeah, he's probably not like, oh, I better make 00:13:46.429 --> 00:13:48.049 this historically accurate. He's probably just 00:13:48.049 --> 00:13:50.789 like, it was a sunken ship. I might as well just 00:13:50.789 --> 00:13:52.529 get it as close as I can. And then there was 00:13:52.529 --> 00:13:56.110 one. Yeah. Pretty cool, though. It's probably 00:13:56.110 --> 00:13:58.950 in someone's house. The other mast? Yeah, it's 00:13:58.950 --> 00:14:02.570 probably a staircase. The center of a spiral 00:14:02.570 --> 00:14:06.740 staircase. yeah so that's um we come across this 00:14:06.740 --> 00:14:09.879 uh light ship again in this episode so it was 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.279 either that i covered the shoals in depth or 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.320 the light ship or i forgot this was the buoy 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.679 i'm having a great time oh good yeah it's a double 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.759 whammy because now we are heading into our lighthouse 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.840 for the day and so don't forget we're in north 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.720 carolina cape fear And the first lighthouse ever 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:31.019 built in North Carolina was to mark this frying 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:33.360 pan shoals because we heard about how dangerous 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.539 it is. Of course. Pulled up another photo just 00:14:35.539 --> 00:14:38.659 of all the marked shipwrecks we have. There's 00:14:38.659 --> 00:14:42.799 a lot of them. Along here. It's very clear where 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:45.539 the shoal lies. Yeah, it's a nice map. If you 00:14:45.539 --> 00:14:47.460 ever want a map of a shoal, just let all the 00:14:47.460 --> 00:14:48.759 ships wreck and then show where those are. Yeah, 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:50.820 and then it just outlines it perfectly. Yeah, 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:55.490 so they show where the light ship. was on here 00:14:55.490 --> 00:14:58.529 and also where the tower is now so oh cool yeah 00:14:58.529 --> 00:15:01.529 that's it's a very cool map lots lots of good 00:15:01.529 --> 00:15:04.450 stuff in there but as i was saying baldhead lighthouse 00:15:04.450 --> 00:15:06.769 did a poor job and so then the light ship was 00:15:06.769 --> 00:15:10.350 anchored on the far edge to market in 1854 and 00:15:10.350 --> 00:15:12.690 the annual report of the lighthouse board of 00:15:12.690 --> 00:15:16.549 1889 said in part that while the light ship was 00:15:16.549 --> 00:15:18.289 indispensable and they weren't planning on getting 00:15:18.289 --> 00:15:21.389 rid of it it also was frequently torn from its 00:15:21.389 --> 00:15:23.789 mooring during storms and had a small range for 00:15:23.789 --> 00:15:26.149 lighting the shoals because obviously it's just 00:15:26.149 --> 00:15:28.970 the end and so it's just like they didn't have 00:15:28.970 --> 00:15:33.789 any way to reliably have this one object that 00:15:33.789 --> 00:15:36.309 marked the shoals it was like a combination like 00:15:36.309 --> 00:15:39.080 i read a little bit on baldhead and it For a 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.299 while it was by itself, and then they got a new 00:15:41.299 --> 00:15:43.480 one, and then they made it a range light, and 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.259 also there's a light ship in there, so it just 00:15:46.259 --> 00:15:49.840 kind of got too convoluted. And so they requested 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.480 a lighthouse on the tip of Cape Fear, and you 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.919 can see from this map as well that really this 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.269 is all a bunch of little islands. I can't remember. 00:15:59.370 --> 00:16:01.149 I think it's called Smith Islands or something. 00:16:01.549 --> 00:16:04.070 Okay. So towards the end there, that's not like 00:16:04.070 --> 00:16:07.669 the end of land. It's like just a bunch of little 00:16:07.669 --> 00:16:10.490 broken up islands, which can be said for a lot 00:16:10.490 --> 00:16:13.250 of the Outer Banks too. Yeah. Oh, Vince is looking 00:16:13.250 --> 00:16:15.450 something up. I'm sorry. No. I don't mean to 00:16:15.450 --> 00:16:21.690 go off track. There's a gulf island. What's it 00:16:21.690 --> 00:16:25.929 called? Frick? What the frick? Something like 00:16:25.929 --> 00:16:27.990 that. Every time I go to the maps when we're 00:16:27.990 --> 00:16:34.110 on here, it just doesn't work. Forget about it. 00:16:34.210 --> 00:16:36.490 Okay. It might be out there. Golf is on your 00:16:36.490 --> 00:16:38.190 mind. Yeah, there's always a golf course nearby. 00:16:39.509 --> 00:16:42.970 They wanted a lighthouse out here with a range 00:16:42.970 --> 00:16:45.009 that would fully encompass the shoals instead 00:16:45.009 --> 00:16:47.289 of it being like, I'm pretty sure Bald Head started 00:16:47.289 --> 00:16:49.649 as a third order light and then switched to a 00:16:49.649 --> 00:16:52.299 fourth order light. Neither of those are going 00:16:52.299 --> 00:16:55.519 to reach 18 miles out. And even more, because 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.419 you have to be warned in advance. Yeah, hopefully. 00:16:57.740 --> 00:17:03.039 Yeah. Like, I see the light now that we're stationary. 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:06.200 And in this report, it's also noted that there's 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:08.700 no first order lights between Cape Lookout and 00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:12.339 Cape Romaine, which is about 170 nautical miles 00:17:12.339 --> 00:17:16.579 apart. Pretty significant. They suggested a 150 00:17:16.579 --> 00:17:20.079 -foot masonry tower and requested $150 ,000. 00:17:21.210 --> 00:17:24.029 And the board repeated this request from 1890 00:17:24.029 --> 00:17:29.150 to 1897. But Congress didn't bite until they 00:17:29.150 --> 00:17:32.630 more than halved the request to $70 ,000 instead 00:17:32.630 --> 00:17:36.089 of $150 ,000. And then they approved it. They 00:17:36.089 --> 00:17:38.769 sent half, $35 ,000, to begin the project in 00:17:38.769 --> 00:17:42.589 1898. And then the other half was in 1901. And 00:17:42.589 --> 00:17:44.509 so while they could still make this lighthouse 00:17:44.509 --> 00:17:48.509 150 feet tall because of the cut in budget, it 00:17:48.509 --> 00:17:50.109 meant that they had to go with a different look. 00:17:50.779 --> 00:17:54.220 So in 1903, Cape Fear Lighthouse was completed 00:17:54.220 --> 00:17:58.119 as an octagonal iron skeletal lighthouse equipped 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:01.660 with a first order Fresnel lens. Pulled up a 00:18:01.660 --> 00:18:06.019 really nice picture. Bungalows. This Fresnel 00:18:06.019 --> 00:18:08.140 lens was the one that we talked about in our 00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:10.700 Mercury floats episode as like the heaviest, 00:18:10.700 --> 00:18:13.240 biggest Mercury float system they've ever made. 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.759 And it was like 6 ,000 pounds altogether. So 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:20.440 the lens was over six feet in diameter. and had 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.440 24 flash panels and produced a white flash every 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.900 10 seconds. So that's a lot. Think about 24 panels. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.240 It's like a lot more than your average. Very 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:33.200 complex piece. Brunel, yeah. The tower was painted 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.079 white. So this picture that I have pulled up, 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:36.940 there's a little bit of black up top. That happened 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:40.380 later. Originally, it was all white, which you 00:18:40.380 --> 00:18:43.279 can imagine is difficult to see against blue 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.460 sky. So that's why they added that in there. 00:18:46.990 --> 00:18:48.769 They had three keepers' houses that were built 00:18:48.769 --> 00:18:51.029 in a row, and they were all white as well. I 00:18:51.029 --> 00:18:53.069 think I read that they had green shutters or 00:18:53.069 --> 00:18:56.450 something. Cool. I like it when they're all neat 00:18:56.450 --> 00:18:58.349 like that. Yeah, it's a really nice construction. 00:18:58.750 --> 00:19:02.049 Lined up cute. Little porches. I wonder what 00:19:02.049 --> 00:19:03.750 those two other buildings are. Do you know if 00:19:03.750 --> 00:19:07.230 those are additions or other offices? I didn't 00:19:07.230 --> 00:19:13.170 make a note. Outhouses? They're probably outhouses. 00:19:13.309 --> 00:19:17.460 They look pretty big. Yeah, they look... I can't 00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:18.980 make any guesses. I don't know. The fact that 00:19:18.980 --> 00:19:21.680 there's two identical ones makes it complicated. 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.599 Maybe they're work sheds. I've read some places 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:28.980 have work sheds. I would say oil houses, but 00:19:28.980 --> 00:19:32.059 you'd only need one. Yeah. I don't know. Don't 00:19:32.059 --> 00:19:36.140 know. Questions out there. So once this lighthouse 00:19:36.140 --> 00:19:39.579 was established, the bald head lighthouse was 00:19:39.579 --> 00:19:41.660 changed to a fixed fourth order light because 00:19:41.660 --> 00:19:44.220 they were both flashing. So make it less complicated 00:19:44.220 --> 00:19:46.789 by changing the other one. There were only three 00:19:46.789 --> 00:19:49.569 head keepers in this lighthouse's history. Wow. 00:19:49.730 --> 00:19:51.950 I know. Well, also because it didn't last like 00:19:51.950 --> 00:19:56.789 super long. It's just, yeah, pretty quick. But 00:19:56.789 --> 00:19:59.710 the first was Captain Charles Swan. Awesome name. 00:20:00.069 --> 00:20:02.829 The son of the captain of the frying pan light 00:20:02.829 --> 00:20:06.349 ship. So it runs in the family. Incredible. And 00:20:06.349 --> 00:20:08.789 he served from 1903, which was the beginning 00:20:08.789 --> 00:20:12.750 of the lighthouse, to 1933. So 30 -year service 00:20:12.750 --> 00:20:15.099 at this lighthouse. Long time. Especially for 00:20:15.099 --> 00:20:21.440 a son. What? I just, I don't know. Like someone 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.400 who's like, I'll do what my dad did. And five 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:27.200 years later. But on land, yeah. But this guy 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.940 did a full career. Yeah. And these are some things 00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:34.140 that happened during his service. The lantern 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:37.259 room was painted black in 1906. So it was a pretty 00:20:37.259 --> 00:20:40.779 quick turnaround from, you know how slow things 00:20:40.779 --> 00:20:43.569 move in the lighthouse world. Yes. And so only 00:20:43.569 --> 00:20:46.710 three years after beginning service to change 00:20:46.710 --> 00:20:48.529 the day mark of a lighthouse is pretty quick. 00:20:49.910 --> 00:20:53.349 1915, the board requested $35 ,000 to move the 00:20:53.349 --> 00:20:56.289 lighthouse, which was denied and never requested 00:20:56.289 --> 00:21:00.369 again. So I think that they must have seen, they 00:21:00.369 --> 00:21:02.309 must have been worried about erosion or something 00:21:02.309 --> 00:21:05.609 and then was like, oh, never mind. I wonder where 00:21:05.609 --> 00:21:07.549 they're going to move it. I don't know. Like 00:21:07.549 --> 00:21:09.930 you're on an island, maybe just a little more 00:21:09.930 --> 00:21:12.009 inland or something. I don't know. Because, you 00:21:12.009 --> 00:21:14.089 know, the beach is right here. It appears, yeah, 00:21:14.130 --> 00:21:17.829 well, from this perspective, moving out. It is, 00:21:17.849 --> 00:21:19.589 I mean, yeah, the water's right there. Yeah, 00:21:19.609 --> 00:21:22.809 I don't know. But, and if you look at it today, 00:21:22.910 --> 00:21:26.650 then, you know, that erosion never came to be, 00:21:26.730 --> 00:21:29.369 so they weren't, it's a good thing that it wasn't 00:21:29.369 --> 00:21:30.710 approved because it would have been for nothing. 00:21:30.890 --> 00:21:34.470 In 1920, a three -ton Mercury float was installed 00:21:34.470 --> 00:21:36.529 in place of the chariot that was there already 00:21:36.529 --> 00:21:39.750 for our first -order lens, so. For anyone that 00:21:39.750 --> 00:21:42.450 wants to hear more about that, go to our Mercury 00:21:42.450 --> 00:21:44.950 Floats episode. That wasn't that long ago, right? 00:21:45.009 --> 00:21:47.009 No. Okay. Maybe a month. That was a more recent 00:21:47.009 --> 00:21:51.569 one. Captain Charles Swan retired after his assistant 00:21:51.569 --> 00:21:55.190 keeper of over a decade had a heart attack while 00:21:55.190 --> 00:21:57.730 relieving him in the lantern room and died. Damn. 00:21:57.829 --> 00:22:00.170 I know. And they said that he had been having 00:22:00.170 --> 00:22:02.869 chest pains while climbing the lighthouse for 00:22:02.869 --> 00:22:05.890 the past year and was just like, he just stopped, 00:22:05.930 --> 00:22:09.200 would stop halfway up to rest. And then go the 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:10.759 rest of the way. Like, oh, I wanted to avoid 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:13.920 having the heart pains. His heart was trying 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:17.220 to tell him for so long. That's why you can't 00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:20.619 tough it out. Gotta get help. But these men were 00:22:20.619 --> 00:22:23.460 like hardcore. You gotta tough it out sometimes. 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.000 Not when you have chest, never when you have 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.480 heart pains. Never when you have heart pains 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:33.440 that make you stop. Noted. So that was the end 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:35.559 of our first head keeper. And there was only 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:39.069 two after this. There was two. I mean, obviously, 00:22:39.089 --> 00:22:41.309 there's three keepers' houses. So there's a first 00:22:41.309 --> 00:22:44.210 assistant and a second assistant keeper. And 00:22:44.210 --> 00:22:46.869 there was a lot higher of a turnover in those 00:22:46.869 --> 00:22:49.950 than the head keepers, of which there was only 00:22:49.950 --> 00:22:53.990 three, like I said. So 1958, Oak Island Lighthouse 00:22:53.990 --> 00:22:56.970 was lit, which was really powerful. And also, 00:22:57.029 --> 00:22:59.930 I think it looks like a cigarette. Do you have 00:22:59.930 --> 00:23:02.769 a photo? I'd love to see it. No. What? I know 00:23:02.769 --> 00:23:05.940 I don't. I don't know. I think... My realization 00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:09.279 is that I really like lighthouses that are dynamic 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:14.420 and or, you know, like conical. Like, I like 00:23:14.420 --> 00:23:16.900 it when they're tapered edges. When they're straight 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:20.140 up and down, I don't like them. Yeah. Looks like 00:23:20.140 --> 00:23:22.160 a cigarette. Oak Island Lighthouses. Yeah, you're 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.359 right. It's a cylinder. And it's got black top, 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:31.579 white middle, and then tan, bare gray, tan base, 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:33.990 all of equal length. So it looks a lot like a 00:23:33.990 --> 00:23:37.950 cigarette. Yeah. Like a lit cigarette. Not to... 00:23:37.950 --> 00:23:41.789 I mean... Obviously there's beauty in every lighthouse, 00:23:41.910 --> 00:23:45.150 but it's... Every lighthouse is beautiful. Every 00:23:45.150 --> 00:23:49.470 lighthouse is beautiful. Except for some. Yeah, 00:23:49.490 --> 00:23:51.990 but I can have my preferences. I mean, some people 00:23:51.990 --> 00:23:53.970 really don't like skeleton towers. Oh, really? 00:23:54.109 --> 00:23:57.849 Yeah. I like them. I do too. Some people really 00:23:57.849 --> 00:24:00.130 don't like integral towers. I disagree with that. 00:24:00.349 --> 00:24:02.430 You can disagree, but it's what some people feel. 00:24:03.650 --> 00:24:05.809 Am I telling you that they're wrong or right? 00:24:05.890 --> 00:24:11.710 Is this therapy? This is uncomfortable. So anyway, 00:24:11.869 --> 00:24:15.609 the building of Oak Island meant that Cape Fear 00:24:15.609 --> 00:24:17.369 was kind of unnecessary because it was less powerful 00:24:17.369 --> 00:24:21.049 and everything. And on top of that, they felt 00:24:21.049 --> 00:24:24.789 that the tower, even being up, would confuse 00:24:24.789 --> 00:24:27.210 mariners during the daytime. So you know what 00:24:27.210 --> 00:24:29.170 they did? They made it into a Christmas tree? 00:24:29.309 --> 00:24:34.309 They blew it up with dynamite. I love that that's 00:24:34.309 --> 00:24:37.410 a thing that we've done throughout history. It's 00:24:37.410 --> 00:24:38.690 just like, let's just bring it to the ground. 00:24:38.930 --> 00:24:40.529 You know, I don't know what else to do other 00:24:40.529 --> 00:24:42.750 than use explosives. Yeah, I mean, it's the best 00:24:42.750 --> 00:24:46.109 way to get it down. Just leaves a pile of rubble. 00:24:46.490 --> 00:24:49.509 I guess. Or twisted metal. Did they destroy the 00:24:49.509 --> 00:24:52.670 lantern, you think? No. So I'll talk about that 00:24:52.670 --> 00:24:56.630 in just a second. So I pulled up some pictures 00:24:56.630 --> 00:24:58.589 of its destruction, which they have a pretty 00:24:58.589 --> 00:25:01.529 cool picture of it going down. Not that we like 00:25:01.529 --> 00:25:04.289 it, but it is a cool picture. Yeah. The foundation 00:25:04.289 --> 00:25:08.329 nowadays is still visible on site and the generator 00:25:08.329 --> 00:25:10.289 house and the three keepers houses are still 00:25:10.289 --> 00:25:12.730 there as well. Cool. So here's a picture of the 00:25:12.730 --> 00:25:15.490 foundation. You can see where the central column 00:25:15.490 --> 00:25:18.809 used to be and then each of its connecting legs. 00:25:19.069 --> 00:25:22.970 Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's a bummer. Is it in the 00:25:22.970 --> 00:25:25.720 middle of a roundabout? It appears that it's 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.079 a roundabout. Or it's just like where you park 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:31.259 to see it or something. I don't know. I don't 00:25:31.259 --> 00:25:34.880 think you're going to go see it. What? You wouldn't 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:37.740 go see that? It appears to be a roundabout. They 00:25:37.740 --> 00:25:41.519 do have a sign like it's something you see. So 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:46.279 it's history. Well, yeah. We've seen something 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:48.960 like this before. Yes. Where a foundation is 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.079 still there. And it's like a shrine. Somehow, 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:56.049 yeah, it's turned into visitors. Well, I mean, 00:25:56.069 --> 00:25:58.190 yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Put brick around 00:25:58.190 --> 00:26:03.109 it. No, it's nice. In 2017, the generator house 00:26:03.109 --> 00:26:08.329 was a snack shop called Mike's Bites. I don't 00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:10.369 know what happened to it after that or what it 00:26:10.369 --> 00:26:14.009 was before that, but just in 2017 at least. And 00:26:14.009 --> 00:26:17.630 until 2022, the Keeper's houses were rental properties 00:26:17.630 --> 00:26:20.089 known as Captain Charlie's Station for the first 00:26:20.089 --> 00:26:22.880 Keeper. Cool. and are in excellent shape and 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:25.539 they were put on the market in 2022 as a family 00:26:25.539 --> 00:26:27.720 compound and i think that they're still available 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:31.700 here's from the rental properties uh what's the 00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:34.799 website what's the cost you have to inquire so 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.380 you can't afford it okay many millions of dollars 00:26:37.380 --> 00:26:39.259 you know what they say when you have to inquire 00:26:39.259 --> 00:26:41.900 you can't afford it exactly they say yeah well 00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:43.400 that's actually not true for a lot of wedding 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:45.900 stuff so put that out of your head i have to 00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:50.690 inquire a lot well um But it's really nice. We 00:26:50.690 --> 00:26:53.069 got some greenery. A family compound is such 00:26:53.069 --> 00:26:55.390 a flex. I know. It sounds like such a cool thing. 00:26:55.430 --> 00:26:57.630 I know. And you know those little houses that 00:26:57.630 --> 00:26:59.829 we were discussing earlier are still there. Yeah. 00:27:00.250 --> 00:27:02.750 It must be something. Part of the compound. Is 00:27:02.750 --> 00:27:04.750 there a Zillow listing? I don't know. Probably 00:27:04.750 --> 00:27:08.470 not. You have to inquire. You have to inquire. 00:27:08.529 --> 00:27:13.230 Yeah, it was Intracoastal Realty something company. 00:27:13.490 --> 00:27:15.930 I don't know. But yeah, you guys can look it 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:18.609 up. It's got what looks like private beach access. 00:27:19.420 --> 00:27:22.920 Right out the front door. A little pathway, you 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.319 know. Whoever buys it, let us come visit. Yeah, 00:27:26.339 --> 00:27:28.759 actually you owe us for putting this out there. 00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:36.359 Well, finder's fee. Finder's fee. Oh, man. So 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:38.420 yeah, it's pretty nice and still kicking. Those 00:27:38.420 --> 00:27:40.259 are beautiful homes. It looks like a great area. 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:42.880 So you asked about the Fresnel Lens and what 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:47.200 happened to that in 2009. The old Baldy Foundation. 00:27:49.150 --> 00:27:51.569 which I'll definitely cover that when we get 00:27:51.569 --> 00:27:55.210 to Bald Head Lighthouse, purchased the remnants 00:27:55.210 --> 00:27:57.970 of the Cape Fear Fresnel lens, which was set 00:27:57.970 --> 00:28:00.990 up outside an antique dealer in Wilmington, North 00:28:00.990 --> 00:28:04.170 Carolina. So what happened was the contractor 00:28:04.170 --> 00:28:07.829 that demolished the lighthouse had the good sense 00:28:07.829 --> 00:28:10.769 to save the lens, right? Which, by the way, would 00:28:10.769 --> 00:28:14.150 be an insane amount of work to remove it. Remember, 00:28:14.230 --> 00:28:17.930 you have to take it all apart. Every prism. And 00:28:17.930 --> 00:28:21.670 I'll show you a picture. They had this lens at 00:28:21.670 --> 00:28:25.690 an exhibition or whatever, exposition in 1901. 00:28:26.049 --> 00:28:28.250 So they had a picture of it there. So I'll show 00:28:28.250 --> 00:28:31.730 you how massive it, like if you think about it. 00:28:31.789 --> 00:28:34.670 Anyway, it's crazy. But he had the good sense 00:28:34.670 --> 00:28:37.589 to take it apart and sold it to the antique shop 00:28:37.589 --> 00:28:43.089 owner in 1968. Same guy. Still there. Crazy. 00:28:43.130 --> 00:28:46.410 Oh, I have a picture. of what it looked like 00:28:46.410 --> 00:28:50.269 outside of the antique shop so you'd have to 00:28:50.269 --> 00:28:53.809 know your stuff to realize that this was a fresnel 00:28:53.809 --> 00:28:57.930 lens frame looks like the eye of sauron yes that's 00:28:57.930 --> 00:29:00.549 i was like what does this remind me of the lord 00:29:00.549 --> 00:29:03.109 of the rings that's hilarious the lord of the 00:29:03.109 --> 00:29:05.710 rings like evil eye in the sky i couldn't think 00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:07.809 of it yeah because there's no top like obviously 00:29:07.809 --> 00:29:10.289 it was a fresnel and so like it's missing some 00:29:10.289 --> 00:29:13.289 of its framework but It was outside, just in 00:29:13.289 --> 00:29:15.150 the elements for all that time. I'm surprised 00:29:15.150 --> 00:29:18.910 it's not made of brass. I thought all, I don't 00:29:18.910 --> 00:29:20.470 know why I thought that, but I thought all those 00:29:20.470 --> 00:29:23.670 materials, I mean, cast iron we've seen, but. 00:29:24.269 --> 00:29:28.009 Maybe the parts that were brass are gone. I don't 00:29:28.009 --> 00:29:30.289 know. Because remember how many, you know, how 00:29:30.289 --> 00:29:32.710 many frames. So all the glass is gone. Yes. And 00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:34.690 all the, yeah, probably all the brass that was 00:29:34.690 --> 00:29:37.329 framed around. The prisms he separated and sold 00:29:37.329 --> 00:29:39.630 to customers over time and at various auctions 00:29:39.630 --> 00:29:42.089 and sales. They're in people's houses. Exactly. 00:29:42.910 --> 00:29:46.130 Meaning the prisons are spread all over North 00:29:46.130 --> 00:29:48.069 Carolina and beyond. Like at this point, who 00:29:48.069 --> 00:29:49.750 knows where they are? I'm sure a lot of them 00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:52.329 are like at the dump. If you have like grandma's 00:29:52.329 --> 00:29:54.690 estate sale and you're like, what is this hunk 00:29:54.690 --> 00:29:57.089 of glass? You throw it in the trash. Yeah, like 00:29:57.089 --> 00:29:59.210 a hundred pound hunk of glass. Yeah, it just 00:29:59.210 --> 00:30:02.650 looks like a hunk of glass. Yeah, grandma's always 00:30:02.650 --> 00:30:05.430 holding on to shit. Yeah. You would never know 00:30:05.430 --> 00:30:07.069 that you had something special. That was the 00:30:07.069 --> 00:30:10.400 lighthouse. Like, how could you do this? So now 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:12.400 that they have the complete framework, the foundation, 00:30:12.660 --> 00:30:17.220 they have gone to work trying to find all approximately 00:30:17.220 --> 00:30:22.460 1 ,000 prisms that made up this lens. And so 00:30:22.460 --> 00:30:25.420 far they have collected around a third. So that's 00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:29.160 significant. And that includes seven bullseyes. 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.200 Wow. Yeah. Pretty good. We're making some excellent 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.819 headway. That's cool. And they mentioned in... 00:30:36.109 --> 00:30:38.009 you know, the articles that they've done that 00:30:38.009 --> 00:30:40.029 it's pretty much a pipe dream to expect to ever 00:30:40.029 --> 00:30:42.410 find the whole thing. But it's kind of fun to 00:30:42.410 --> 00:30:44.670 be like putting it back together. Don't you wonder 00:30:44.670 --> 00:30:48.109 where they're at? Well, they said that some have 00:30:48.109 --> 00:30:50.809 been used as paperweights. Some have just been 00:30:50.809 --> 00:30:53.069 found like in storage or under beds. Like one 00:30:53.069 --> 00:30:55.369 of them was just under somebody's bed. And one 00:30:55.369 --> 00:30:57.910 bullseye was used as a coffee table and had burned 00:30:57.910 --> 00:31:01.410 a hole in their carpet. That's awesome. Like 00:31:01.410 --> 00:31:03.369 what a way to learn that you have something that's... 00:31:03.609 --> 00:31:06.970 Really powerful. That's such a cool discovery. 00:31:07.509 --> 00:31:10.049 Yeah. I know what that is. And I wonder, yeah, 00:31:10.069 --> 00:31:11.849 if you get approached or if you just like put 00:31:11.849 --> 00:31:13.910 it out there. I don't know. Rambo's always had 00:31:13.910 --> 00:31:17.369 this huge ass coffee table. It's heavy. And for 00:31:17.369 --> 00:31:19.769 some reason it burned the ground. What? What? 00:31:21.170 --> 00:31:23.670 So they're planning on building an exhibit near 00:31:23.670 --> 00:31:26.990 Old Bali to house the lens whenever they get 00:31:26.990 --> 00:31:29.369 more pieces. Very cool. Yeah, hopefully before 00:31:29.369 --> 00:31:31.849 like they get too much further. I kind of want 00:31:31.849 --> 00:31:34.069 to see it. As it is right now. I wish they could 00:31:34.069 --> 00:31:36.549 put it together and then the pieces that they 00:31:36.549 --> 00:31:38.509 don't have make those like black glass or something. 00:31:38.730 --> 00:31:41.569 Yeah, like some way to mark what it should look 00:31:41.569 --> 00:31:44.170 like. But here I have a picture of it at the 00:31:44.170 --> 00:31:47.230 exhibition. That's crazy. And at the top you 00:31:47.230 --> 00:31:50.569 can see every single one of those little prisms. 00:31:50.569 --> 00:31:54.730 Just so crazy. And the contractor sold all those? 00:31:55.069 --> 00:31:58.009 Sold the whole thing. In its entirety, yeah, 00:31:58.109 --> 00:32:00.589 to the antique shop. And then the antique shop 00:32:00.589 --> 00:32:03.349 owner were selling, like, pieces off at a time. 00:32:03.670 --> 00:32:06.970 I mean, I get it. Yeah, no, you can't blame him, 00:32:06.990 --> 00:32:09.650 really. It's just, like, if it's not special 00:32:09.650 --> 00:32:11.670 to you, it's not special to you. That's such 00:32:11.670 --> 00:32:14.269 a shame. I know, but it's pretty cool. And I'm 00:32:14.269 --> 00:32:17.049 glad this picture from the exhibition is, like, 00:32:17.049 --> 00:32:18.349 showing what it looks like. And you can see there's 00:32:18.349 --> 00:32:20.970 a tiny replica of a skeleton lighthouse in front 00:32:20.970 --> 00:32:25.599 of it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What a time. It is kind 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:26.880 of funny looking at this picture, too. They have 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:29.140 things just like set up here and there, just 00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:32.000 stuff. Like, take a look at what we've come up 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.420 with over the past year. And people would just 00:32:34.420 --> 00:32:36.579 get together and just take a look. This is when 00:32:36.579 --> 00:32:39.339 engineering was really cool. Yeah. It was just 00:32:39.339 --> 00:32:41.539 like, what can you come up with? Now it's like, 00:32:41.579 --> 00:32:44.740 we draw on computers. I was thinking about that 00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:47.039 today during the model review, like that we just, 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:53.990 we have scans of an entire refinery. Like. It 00:32:53.990 --> 00:32:57.269 just blew my mind. Every inch. Just... Hundreds 00:32:57.269 --> 00:33:00.609 of scans. Between pipes? How? I don't get it. 00:33:00.809 --> 00:33:03.390 It's crazy. Yeah. How can you scroll through 00:33:03.390 --> 00:33:08.410 miles and miles of pipe and just have it all 00:33:08.410 --> 00:33:11.869 there in 3D version? Yeah. I mean, I did like 00:33:11.869 --> 00:33:14.430 a... They have some incredible technology now 00:33:14.430 --> 00:33:16.609 for scanning 3D. I know we're a little off topic, 00:33:16.670 --> 00:33:20.960 but... I got paid to go to Colorado and I used 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.400 a camera. So not even a scanner. Yeah. Just a 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:27.400 360 camera and a tripod and my phone for two 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:31.839 days, two and a half days to map out every inch 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:34.900 inside and outside the roof, everything on this 00:33:34.900 --> 00:33:38.940 facility. I can't say more about it. And it all 00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:42.000 goes together in one big computer model. So they 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.819 sent me to go and then everyone who ever works 00:33:44.819 --> 00:33:47.220 in that project knows what it looks like. Yeah. 00:33:47.299 --> 00:33:49.319 They can like fly through every square inch of 00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:51.599 that place. And that's, you know, there's more 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:53.660 advanced scanners and whatnot. Yeah. Yeah. But, 00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:55.779 but still crazy. That's like all it takes. It's 00:33:55.779 --> 00:33:58.980 so crazy. Yeah. And just have that forever until 00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:00.900 somebody throws it away. Like they're going to 00:34:00.900 --> 00:34:02.779 throw away every single one of these pieces of 00:34:02.779 --> 00:34:06.059 glass. It would be nice to have seen it when 00:34:06.059 --> 00:34:09.400 it was brand new, like fresh out of the system 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:13.980 and set up. Yeah. But it was beautiful. So hopefully 00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:16.179 we'll get to see it again one day, refurbished 00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:20.179 and. Set up in this exhibit. So we saw a first 00:34:20.179 --> 00:34:26.420 order lens in KitKad. Is that one of the only 00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:29.199 ones on display? Are there many? I think there 00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.739 are not many, but I don't think it's... It's 00:34:32.739 --> 00:34:35.139 not common. Yeah, it's not common, but it's also 00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:39.059 not super rare, I think. That one had a little 00:34:39.059 --> 00:34:41.239 bit of damage, if I remember right. Yeah. I think 00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:43.460 the goal for a lot of maritime museums is to 00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:45.280 have something like a First Order Fresnel lens. 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.840 So if you go to a maritime museum, it's likely 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:50.860 that they'll have something. Yeah. Even if it's 00:34:50.860 --> 00:34:52.440 just like a piece or something. I think it was 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:57.820 Gay Headlight. Is that where the museum? In Martha's 00:34:57.820 --> 00:35:01.440 Vineyard. Yeah. It was fantastic. Worth the walk. 00:35:01.539 --> 00:35:04.300 But I remember, I was like, oh my gosh. They 00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:07.429 built three stories of a building. Like as a 00:35:07.429 --> 00:35:10.170 balcony around this thing. It makes sense. I 00:35:10.170 --> 00:35:12.849 mean, it's really special. And it's huge. It's 00:35:12.849 --> 00:35:18.050 crazy. There's no other way to see it. And that's 00:35:18.050 --> 00:35:21.050 what I have for the episode. Nice. A little bit 00:35:21.050 --> 00:35:22.829 of frying pan, a little bit of light shift, a 00:35:22.829 --> 00:35:24.289 little bit of lighthouse. I really enjoyed the 00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:27.389 frying pan. I would like to see it. I'm glad 00:35:27.389 --> 00:35:31.469 to know it now because I was... Oh, I didn't 00:35:31.469 --> 00:35:34.650 include this picture. There was one picture of 00:35:34.650 --> 00:35:36.869 frying pan next to another light ship that said 00:35:36.869 --> 00:35:40.789 hens and chickens on the side. What is the hens 00:35:40.789 --> 00:35:43.730 and chickens light ship? I've got to know. And 00:35:43.730 --> 00:35:46.110 you don't, you didn't look. I don't. Cause I 00:35:46.110 --> 00:35:48.590 was just going to mention like, this is what 00:35:48.590 --> 00:35:50.929 happens is I'm like frying pan. We'll have to 00:35:50.929 --> 00:35:53.650 leave that for a future. Yeah. I'm going to leave. 00:35:53.690 --> 00:35:58.489 I'm not buoy. Yeah. Tie it in. Tie it down. Chickens. 00:35:58.489 --> 00:36:04.699 That's so funny. That's all. Thank you for listening 00:36:04.699 --> 00:36:06.840 to me talk about this one. It was actually fun 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:10.840 because it's like low key, not a ton of information, 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:14.460 but unique history. It's a good story. It's a 00:36:14.460 --> 00:36:17.579 cool lighthouse. Good history. The buoy was nice. 00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:20.920 I wanted to say thanks to our listeners on YouTube, 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.460 which I'm learning. They're not usually the same 00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:27.519 listeners as the podcast to YouTube watchers, 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:29.920 but thanks. Last time I asked for people to go 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.530 follow us and we had quite a spike. Oh, did we? 00:36:32.670 --> 00:36:36.050 Yeah. I mean, biggest ever. That's great. Like 00:36:36.050 --> 00:36:38.190 I said, we usually don't ask for stuff like that. 00:36:38.210 --> 00:36:40.449 I don't want to be annoying, but that was nice, 00:36:40.630 --> 00:36:43.909 so thanks. Very good. And what was I going to 00:36:43.909 --> 00:36:51.070 say? Oh, man, I had something else to say. Do 00:36:51.070 --> 00:36:55.309 we have a listener right now? No, it wasn't listener 00:36:55.309 --> 00:36:57.829 related. I was going to say something else, and 00:36:57.829 --> 00:36:59.210 then you started talking about the YouTube, so 00:36:59.210 --> 00:37:01.760 now I can't remember. Sorry. We got a YouTube 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.780 comment. That we're like fun with flags. Fun 00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:09.260 with flags, which is, I looked it up. I didn't 00:37:09.260 --> 00:37:11.679 know what they were referring to. It was a show. 00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:15.900 Not How I Met Your Mother. Big Bang Theory. Oh, 00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:17.900 yes. Big Bang Theory, Sheldon. Sheldon and Amy. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.380 He has a podcast he starts talking about flags. 00:37:20.619 --> 00:37:22.340 I know. I couldn't tell if it was an insult or 00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:26.420 not. I don't know. That we're like a. Social 00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:29.119 recluse trying to talk about something that most 00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:33.599 people don't find interesting. Right. A couple 00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:36.960 of engineers get together. Dang it. Well, I took 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:38.559 it as a compliment because I smiled when I was 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.280 watching the skit. All right. That's good. Yeah. 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:44.739 I mean, we're kind of that. We're fun with flags. 00:37:44.900 --> 00:37:49.900 Fun with flags. Fun with lighthouses. Yep. So 00:37:49.900 --> 00:37:52.519 what else? That's it. Check out our Instagram. 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.480 Oh, I'm really behind on the Instagram. I'm pretty 00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:57.519 sure like I haven't posted anything for the past 00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:59.960 four episodes or something. I don't know what's, 00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:04.019 I don't know why. What are you doing? It'll be 00:38:04.019 --> 00:38:05.599 okay. I don't know. Just make a couple posts 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:09.460 and catch everybody up. Yeah. I'll just, yeah. 00:38:09.739 --> 00:38:14.480 Yeah. See, but at this point, yeah. Yeah. This 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:16.940 will be episode number five. This is episode 00:38:16.940 --> 00:38:21.739 79. 78. 78. We get to 100, we're going to do 00:38:21.739 --> 00:38:23.699 something special. 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