Where do boats go when they ’re no longer set for the gamey sea ? As it happens , they go to Staten Island .
For instance : theArthur Kill ship graveyard , site just across from New Jersey ’s Tuft ’s Point .
The ship cemetery has a storied history reaching back to World War 2 , when the nearby scrapyard bought disused boats to scrap for division . The influx of vessels outpace the shipbreaker ’s power to take anything utile off of them , especially since — as Wiredpointed out — hoi polloi started ditch busted out dory there . A few decades ago , ships rotting in Arthur Killnumbered in the hundreds .
On body politic the graveyard is n’t much to look at . So videographerGeorge Ivanoffdecided to shoot the scene from the skies using a Phantom 3 . The combination of rusting metal and toxic chemicals leach into the water is , well , a lot more beautiful than it ought to be .
[ PopSci ]
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