Sinking of the Kraken by Texas Parks & Wildlife
Video shot of the final minutes of the sinking of the Kraken by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Artificial Reef program. Video shot on the M/V Fling, a vessel which was providing support for the sinking. The video shows the final minutes of the sinking, the ship took approximately one hour to sink from the time at which the valves were opened to start the sinking process.
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Why is it that when you have a great view of seeing something about to go under water, there's always something blocking your once in a lifetime shot? Here's your chance to see something great, and a boat blocks your view and about to miss something you'll never see again?
Why are they not covering these things with Go Pro's?! In, on around. I wanna see inside a sinking ship.
The artificial reefs are so essential to saving our oceans.
Seems worse than littering to me. Impossible to remove this junk now.
Next time donate the ship to Gillette so we won’t have to pay $10 for a single razor blade. Just sayin! 🧐
They should have cameras underwater while it’s going down
NEXT TIME have an underwater camera follow the boat to the bottom. .... You'll get 200 MILLION HITS! ... (a few thousand from me alone!).
I'm amazed the ship remained on an even keel as it sank, and didn't capsize with the weight differential caused by the cranes.
To bad under water camera
Real way kraken was Created
I did the decommissioning of a Kerr-McGee 6 pile production platform in 1996 off the coast of Texas. They cut the platform at the plus 12 foot elevation and set it to the south of the jacket. Then cut the jacket at the minus 90 foot elevation and set it to the north of the jacket. They were in 250 foot of water.
There is a lot of work involved with preparing a defunct ship to be an artificial reef. Preparation can take many months to get the ship ready for the final plunge. It is rather a strict process.
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The realization that if that had been a real sinking vessel and I had been on it, my first inclination would have been to run to the bow since that would be the last thing to submerge and cling to the railing not anticipating that random metal plate that shot up and flipped forward landing right on top of where I would have been floating when the vessel finally submerged.
Key Largo at mile marker 100 Oceanside has an organization that is replacing reefs with real coral. I dove the sites. Pretty remarkable.
"RECALL THE KRAKEN!!"
It is almost like whoever filmed this had no intention of having it end up on KZread. Otherwise, I'm sure they would have taken time to make all the experts happy.
How did that boat get in the screen to screw up the video?
Cool 🤘🏼🇧🇷
Excellent work,something positive towards the environment. In Gibraltar this has been done since the early 80s albeit with smaller vessels, tugs, trawlers ,barges and small launches. Nowadays we are seeing the benifits of such practice.