That's called an arctic kaisson they build a berm underwater with dredging ships then they float those kaissons over the berm then sink it on the berm then fill the center with sand and build the drill floor and living accommodations on the top and add cranes on the corners and the Derrick in the center and then just drill through the sand the beauty of those is that heir so secure and with drilling technology as it is hey could drill there then just directional drill to where the oil is, and they knew that through the use of survey ships in the summer time. I worked offshore Tuktoyaktuk and Alaska when I lived in tuk in the eighties. What an experience that was. You should of stopped at the place of man in Inuvik and got a university of Tuktoyaktuk sweatshirt.
That net on the helipad is actually a Helideck Landing Net, an anti-skid net for landing helicopters! It provides extra friction as opposed to just a bare steel platform for wheeled and skid landing gear helicopters, especially since there could be oil residue on the platform that could cause even more loss of friction, which would let a helicopter slide in winds and naturally, that wouldn't be ideal. You'll see those nets on navy vessels, yachts, and oil platforms with helipads, wild to see that it's survived those years of abandonment. Love the work you do, thanks for bringing us on these adventures!
It’s also designed for safety from rotor wash and if someone was to fall on the pad they would have something to hold onto and not get blown off the pad.
I was thinking more like "Waterworld" with KevinCosnter. Anyways , these are MAIs or Mobile Arctic Islands. They were going to mass produce them at Duke Point here in Nanaimo back in the 1980's but it did not happen. The ideal was to build a structure to shield the drillers from the moving sea ice. Obviously here the sea ice won! I thought the idea was to fill the centre with something to set the drill rigs on. Anyways, classic Canadian corporate culture to just leave this unit abandoned because it costs to much to dispose a bad idea!
Loved the oil rig and the Pingos, fascinating that they are ice at the core. But that makes sense, people have been digging holes and filling them with ice and sawdust to preserve food all through the summer. So the fact there's ice in the middle doesn't surprise me at all. This video was a nice contrast to the rest of the trip.
Just stumbled across this video, and wow! What a blast from the past… Me and a buddy explored that rig in ~2002 when we worked in Tuk. We snuck away from the camp and took snow machines out to the rig and climbed it. We explored the platform, buildings, helipad, etc in December. Was very cold (-45c) but was a great adventure and provided lifelong memories. I lost all my pictures and haven’t seen it since - thanks for sharing!
A bit more info on the ESSO Caisson Retained Island (CRI) for those interested. I worked with people that designed it back in the late 70's early 80's and did some design studies on it. You are correct, its 8 different sections held together with two massive steel cables, pulled taught with hydraulic jacks. They would level the site and/or build a berm for it to sit on. They would float out to the wellsite in sections. They then fill the ballast tanks with water to sit on the seafloor, they would tension the cables to pull it together. Then with floating dredges they fill the inside up with sand/gravel. They would then place the drill derrick on the island. It managed to drill for three seasons at three wellsites. They used it for shallow water drillsites where ice action made it difficult for standard islands. Other structures like the SSDC, CIDS and Molipak were much more successful. "Fun" fact, sometimes instead of making gravel islands they would simply spray water on the ice until it became thick and heavy enough to sit on the seafloor and resist latteral ice loads, they would just sit the derrick ontop and drill.
Good evening from the tropics in the Philippines. I live beside 2 active volcanoes and my first thought was a Pingo was a small volcano. That was fascinating to see one up close and to be educated on it being a piece of ice upheaved. Wikipedia: Pingos are intrapermafrost ice-cored hills, 3-70 m (10-230 ft) high and 30-1,000 m (98-3,281 ft) in diameter.[1] They are typically conical in shape and grow and persist only in permafrost environments, such as the Arctic and subarctic.[2] A pingo is a periglacial landform, which is defined as a non-glacial landform or process linked to colder climates.[3] It is estimated that there are more than 11,000 pingos on Earth,[4] with the Tuktoyaktuk peninsula area having the greatest concentration at a total of 1,350.[5] There is currently remarkably limited data on pingos. That is until Dustin flew his drone overhead. AWESOME videography and the sunset was amazing and fascinating to see it at 10 pm still above the horizon.
You visited ESSO’s CRI - caisson retained Island. Yes - floating segments pinned together. It was used in Beaufort Sea oil explorations. They would dredge up a sand berm on the shallow ocean floor, set down the CRI then fill the interior with sand. A drilling rig was set up for oil exploration. It was massive enough to resist the pack ice during a winter drilling program. Yeah the found oil, but it was never developed.
@@samholdsworth420Still, it should be mediatory to clean it up. I believe there is a loophole though. They say they are coming back at a later time to continue operations, not abandoning it. There should be a statute of limitations though on returning to operations. When they don’t return by x number of years they should be required to clean it up.
Another awesome video into the wilds of this planet that most of us would never see in our lifetime. Thank you, Dustin. I thoroughly enjoyed this video
Yeah but then he took the rocks. So take nothing but rocks and pictures, leave nothing but spaces where rocks used to be and footprints. Much love from Quebec Canada
@@deborahjoy6107 Agreed. I grew up in Toronto, but don't regret moving here for a minute, Deborah. I've been to Quebec City and Montreal for St. Jean Baptiste, but never further east than that. Quebec is awesome!
@@CrystalAbrahamsI'm sure Edmonton is more scenic than Toronto. Quebecers love to party. Hope you had a great time while you were here. I was in Calgary in March, it was beautiful and the people were very friendly.
Beautiful day out on the water with some interesting things to see. That drilling platform sure looks like an old fort made out of iron, and those seagulls were not to happy to say the least to see you. I was guessing the pingos had to be volcanos, but who could have even imagined they are ice. Thanks Dustin for taking us out on the Arctic ocean for a little tour today! Keep doing what your doing, enjoy every minute and every adventure that you get to share on this trip. See you next time!
Almost looks like a old fort. Some will say man made abandonment's are a blight, but I 100% disagree. I find such things fascinating. So many dreams and hopes are tied into such places when they start. These places are left because it was a finished success, or from failure. Trying to piece together the mystery is infinity fun, and serves as a tombstone that says "I was here".
What a treat to beable to see so glad you guys got out in the swellfish and tried a hand at some white fish. See ya in another week. Thank you for what you do!
I enjoy your videos a little more when you have interactions with Emi. Thanks for sharing a video of a place I probably will never visit. You made the world just a little smaller!
Another super video, Dustin! We now know about pingos and so much about the Arctic Ocean and the landscape. We’re very pleased that you re-thought the idea of climbing up the drilling platform…I had already said that you should just fly your drone 😂. You’ve certainly been the best spokesperson for tourism in the area!! Cheers!
Those pingos are insane I'm loading up the canoe right now! (And fishing gear!) To some it might look like a normal hill but that landscape is actually so unique! Camp out on a floating platform!
That's Canadian mining law, you just go for it and when you run out of money you can just leave everything and the taxpayer will clean it up for you. But not right now, because the taxpayer is broke. We'll clean it up eventually (probably).
What would be your solution to getting that platform out of there? I’d love to hear one that is ecological and environmentally friendly. Did you ever stop to think that’s why it was left there? If this sickens you wait until you hear what the for government does either their unneeded stuff.
I look forward to watching your latest adventure every Sunday morning with some breakfast and hot cup of coffee. Sets my whole day off on the right foot -thanks!
That’s so wild. I thought I was the only one who brought rocks home from interesting trips. For me, I’m literally bringing a small piece of where I was with me. Best souvenir ever.
It was a sweet treat to catch a glimpse of the washed up sled. I have my dads thet he made when he was 14...he was born in 1918. Love the rock ideal...I hope you sell some for a fund raiser. Pulling for you every time you fish...oh well.
Thanks, Dustin & Emmy. I would love to see you do a vid of the sun setting & coming back up. Maybe show how clear(edit clear) the sky is at night & the stars. I think that would be awesome, I know that it would be breaking into your beauty sleep, Dustin. But it's just once. Thanks, stay safe, peace out!
I love the rock idea. We are big rock collector’s. Which has turned into a career for my daughter. She is at University to become a Geologist. She has been working as a Geo Tech in the Stewart area the last few summers.
I'm really enjoying your channel; bringing to light all the history in the areas. The unsettling side is the refuse left behind, on the landscape. Lax laws of earlier times. Keep em coming.
Habitation creates trash, always has and always will. Current communities are the largest generators of trash. Ants do it too - look at an ant hill. Want a pristine earth?... enjoy being cave people --- and you'll still generate trash. Ignorance of history leads to disaster.
I saw that episode on outdoor boys..that waz an awsome find..we don't see those here in n.s 🇨🇦..still waiting fr the adventure to come here..never kno🫣
That's such a trip looking up there, a Lil to remote for me to wanna live yet definitely a cool find! My family ,parents were all Rock hounds and still do tumbling and it's cool the stuff you can find ! Thanks for the show my friend and Emmy ❤ You both have alotta fun 😁! Aloha Nui loa 🌴 ⛱️
The Oil Rig man! I wouldn’t have left it! Great composition and camera work..Should do a camp out/overnight on something like that. Great stuff and see you on the dusty trail👋
Thank you once again for sharing God's magnificent creation with us and showing us things we would never in our lifetime see in person. God bless you both. Looking forward to next week already.
You did have great weather for that visit. The two week 'summer' season. Well, not really, but I can't imagine being there in January. That is one reason they choose to live there. It is a part on their environment that they have learned to survive in. I had a guy in Fairbanks tell me it was not the cold as much as the winter darkness. For me it would be both.
Another great video Dustin! I learn something new every time I watch one of your adventures. The Far North is much more beautiful than I could imagine!
Love you bro, I've had a real hard week after losing my mom this past Monday, work was horrible but I'm blessed to have what I have, my girls are keeping me together, be safe bro, keeping up with you, or tryin to lol
I was flying to Herschel island back then and the erosion was so bad that the cliffs were over 100' tall and the twin Otter we were flying in was flying very close to the top of the edge so that when we looked out the window the cliff was maybe 100' away so that the aircraft could use the updraft from the ocean to save fuel and fly faster. Was pretty crazy. I also remember opening a camp up in November In a place called Horton river and the twin Otter was on skis and it was basically white out conditions and the pilots would fly over the camp and drop flagging with weights for some kind of definition to where the ground was. Then when we landed it was so uneven that the aircraft was jumping drifts and the generator we had was flying up and down. That's Ings were quite different back then.
@@Destination_Adventure yes for sure it was, we were constructing the north warning system in Horton river, croaker river, stormy hills, Herschel island and two more in the zone we worked in. Safety wasn't as big as it is now I remember being on top of one of those towers you see there in tuk and trying to fit a prefab wall piece into a hole at the top and stopping dead in my tracks this king I must be close to the edge and then moving the piece I was moving and looking down at my heels between my legs and having my heels an inch over the edge without a safety line. We had gear flown in within 3 days after that. Those were the days when big paychecks were available if you wanted to work.
That platform reminds me movie Waterworld with Kevin Costner. Land is flat, so is sea bed flooring. Surprise that with no growing trres up there, so much good timber house was left abandoned. Simply build houses that looks pretty strong. Unhappy seagulls in nesting season. Thanks for the ride.
Pretty interesting sights. I seem to remember those cargo nets on a landing platform are for people to hang on to so as not to get blown off into the ocean by the chopper. 👍🤙
Another great episode, how great is it to see that most interesting place. Gotta say I’m 71 and had I been with you at that platform my inner youngster would have been wanting to scale up that wall to check things out. 😎🍺☮️🇨🇦
Thanks for showing us another beautiful part of Canada. The old drilling platform was neat but it should have been abandoned. It should have to be removed.
Won't hurt the environment but will help the wildlife - as most boat wrecks do. As you say though I hope the dangerous chemicals etc have been removed. Probably one of Dustin's reasons to want to get inside the platform. The drone seemed to indicate hazardous materials had indeed been taken off... worry more about the base though... bury pits etc. Hope they were properly cleared out.
The oil platform was more like an island, Sanddredging ships would pump sand on the seabottom almost up to the sealevel and then this large pontoon would be towed ontop and then ballasted down onto the large underwater sand pile, extra anchors were attached but obviously this wasnt enough
That oil platform was something very unique, never seen like this before as I myself have sailed for more then 25 yrs on VLCCs (very large crude carrier) as an engineer.
Another fantastic video with my morning coffee...tks agn , I've been out of ser6for 2 weeks nice to catch up .. Cloud berry's I'm originally from Newfoundland and there we call them Bake Apples we make jam from them omg soooo good. Keep up the great work bud.
Great video Dustin, we love watching your videos. The second you mentioned the Japanese balls I knew you were talking about The Outdoor Boys, my 4yo loves watching thier adventures. A pingo is intrapermafrost hill.
The sad thing is that due to the climate changing, parts of the coastline are eroding away quicker, and the sea ice isn't as stable as it used to be. The residents of Tuk may have to eventually move more inland.
What's up Dustin n Emmy Loved this adventure, interesting.destination. I too am a rock hound, have always looked for interesting rocks since I learned how to walk. I'm now disabled n can't walk to much don't really get out much either. So appreciate ur videos, destinations, n adventures. Y'all r #1 in my 👀
In the early 1980s, Dome's base camp was called (Tuk Tech). During the winter months, programs such as education upgrading, sports programs, first aid, basic welding and pipefitting, housecleaning, sports, and general supportive activities and counselling were available. Tuk Tech was operated by Dome/Canmar with the full support of the other oil and gas companies and governments and was considered a great success.I was in Tuk in 1979, our ship was doing Hydrographic Surveys in the Beaufort Sea. At that time the oil and gas companies were thinking of more offshore Arctic Oil and Gas Exploration in deeper water, with Tuk Harbour as a Base
Hey Dustin- i started your videos seeing the road to Tuk- thought it would be nice to see- wow, i'm taking note of your boat name, what you guys see, what's needed- it is prob dif for me as im indigenous (guessing?) all the same ready to search for the right hoops, plan a go and see when it happens. I've camped 90 miles north of Nain with my cousin- saw a humpback breaching (very impressive) found a flint arrowhead in the sandpit of an establishment- oh annnnnnd !!!!! i caught arctic char and ate it- omg soooo good !Every trip just a sentence or paragraph of life, compare notes and make life better ! :)
Rock polishing/tumbling is harder than it seems. You can not polish every kind of rock, and you can not polish a wide variety at the same time. Some rocks are harder than others and the harder ones will break down the softer ones. As the softer rocks break down, they become an abrasive material that will mess up the polishing of the harder rocks such that they never get really smooth and shiny. Sorry. Its a bummer, but I learned that the hard way too! That was an amazing trip! Thanks for taking us along for the ride! 😊😊😊
The more I see this part of the Arctic the more I am pulled in. At first I thought that Pingo looked like a dead Volcano but that would be a lot of them! :) That abandoned oil platform was cool too, so wild to think it all used to be active including that camp and now it's quiet.
Well I learned something today! Never heard of a Pingo before so thank you for that! Great video as always! Loved your beer shirt at the beginning of the video! Cheers! 🍻
I've built small buildings on skids in the past to enable easy movement of said shack to various locations if needed. EG: moveable outhouse; once the first one gets too full. Move the house over a new pit and fill in/cover over the old one
The net is to stop a helicopter from rolling off the landing pad, I'm no expert but that setup looks to me like it is towed to a location, sunk, water pumped out and the drill rig assembled within the casing. Tape an empty water bottle to your drone in case of uninitiated landings in water, drone will float then.
You do a lot of catch and release when fishing, I hope your cute travel companion stay a catch. Oh and thanks for sharing another fantastic adventure, absolutely my favorite thing to watch while having my breakfast
Awsome tuk videos man. I was ine of the workers on the dempster highway extension to tuk. it was awaome up there, glad to see an updated video of the place so awaome
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That's called an arctic kaisson they build a berm underwater with dredging ships then they float those kaissons over the berm then sink it on the berm then fill the center with sand and build the drill floor and living accommodations on the top and add cranes on the corners and the Derrick in the center and then just drill through the sand the beauty of those is that heir so secure and with drilling technology as it is hey could drill there then just directional drill to where the oil is, and they knew that through the use of survey ships in the summer time. I worked offshore Tuktoyaktuk and Alaska when I lived in tuk in the eighties. What an experience that was. You should of stopped at the place of man in Inuvik and got a university of Tuktoyaktuk sweatshirt.
Thanks for that explanation. I thought is had a kaisson feel, but couldn't figure out why the heck you would need a massive kaisson out in the arctic!
The cabin on the island a buddy lived in it for a winter. Early 1980s.
I lived in a cabin in town.
@@michaud399 Caisson
That net on the helipad is actually a Helideck Landing Net, an anti-skid net for landing helicopters! It provides extra friction as opposed to just a bare steel platform for wheeled and skid landing gear helicopters, especially since there could be oil residue on the platform that could cause even more loss of friction, which would let a helicopter slide in winds and naturally, that wouldn't be ideal. You'll see those nets on navy vessels, yachts, and oil platforms with helipads, wild to see that it's survived those years of abandonment. Love the work you do, thanks for bringing us on these adventures!
ty i always wondered thought it was a sling to haul below choppers..
It’s also designed for safety from rotor wash and if someone was to fall on the pad they would have something to hold onto and not get blown off the pad.
@@charlesel5983 then use some #COMMONSENSE my god does Poilievre need to hold your hand for you MAGGOT 🤣🤣
What a good start to Saturday morning, also that part of an oil platform reminds me of the movie Waterworld
Really? I was a kid when that movie came out. I have to go watch it again.
Definitely, a Mad Max vibe to the drilling platform.😆
Waterworld, smoker base :)
I was thinking water world.
@@tarn1135 That was actually what I was thinking. LOL. Thank you.
100%
I was thinking more like "Waterworld" with KevinCosnter. Anyways , these are MAIs or Mobile Arctic Islands. They were going to mass produce them at Duke Point here in Nanaimo back in the 1980's but it did not happen. The ideal was to build a structure to shield the drillers from the moving sea ice. Obviously here the sea ice won! I thought the idea was to fill the centre with something to set the drill rigs on. Anyways, classic Canadian corporate culture to just leave this unit abandoned because it costs to much to dispose a bad idea!
Loved the oil rig and the Pingos, fascinating that they are ice at the core. But that makes sense, people have been digging holes and filling them with ice and sawdust to preserve food all through the summer. So the fact there's ice in the middle doesn't surprise me at all. This video was a nice contrast to the rest of the trip.
Just stumbled across this video, and wow! What a blast from the past… Me and a buddy explored that rig in ~2002 when we worked in Tuk. We snuck away from the camp and took snow machines out to the rig and climbed it. We explored the platform, buildings, helipad, etc in December. Was very cold (-45c) but was a great adventure and provided lifelong memories. I lost all my pictures and haven’t seen it since - thanks for sharing!
A bit more info on the ESSO Caisson Retained Island (CRI) for those interested. I worked with people that designed it back in the late 70's early 80's and did some design studies on it. You are correct, its 8 different sections held together with two massive steel cables, pulled taught with hydraulic jacks. They would level the site and/or build a berm for it to sit on. They would float out to the wellsite in sections. They then fill the ballast tanks with water to sit on the seafloor, they would tension the cables to pull it together. Then with floating dredges they fill the inside up with sand/gravel. They would then place the drill derrick on the island. It managed to drill for three seasons at three wellsites. They used it for shallow water drillsites where ice action made it difficult for standard islands. Other structures like the SSDC, CIDS and Molipak were much more successful.
"Fun" fact, sometimes instead of making gravel islands they would simply spray water on the ice until it became thick and heavy enough to sit on the seafloor and resist latteral ice loads, they would just sit the derrick ontop and drill.
Good evening from the tropics in the Philippines.
I live beside 2 active volcanoes and my first thought was a Pingo was a small volcano.
That was fascinating to see one up close and to be educated on it being a piece of ice upheaved.
Wikipedia:
Pingos are intrapermafrost ice-cored hills, 3-70 m (10-230 ft) high and 30-1,000 m (98-3,281 ft) in diameter.[1] They are typically conical in shape and grow and persist only in permafrost environments, such as the Arctic and subarctic.[2] A pingo is a periglacial landform, which is defined as a non-glacial landform or process linked to colder climates.[3] It is estimated that there are more than 11,000 pingos on Earth,[4] with the Tuktoyaktuk peninsula area having the greatest concentration at a total of 1,350.[5] There is currently remarkably limited data on pingos.
That is until Dustin flew his drone overhead.
AWESOME videography and the sunset was amazing and fascinating to see it at 10 pm still above the horizon.
You visited ESSO’s CRI - caisson retained Island. Yes - floating segments pinned together. It was used in Beaufort Sea oil explorations. They would dredge up a sand berm on the shallow ocean floor, set down the CRI then fill the interior with sand. A drilling rig was set up for oil exploration. It was massive enough to resist the pack ice during a winter drilling program. Yeah the found oil, but it was never developed.
With the amount of profits that oil companies make, they should be obligated to clean up their mess even when unsuccessful. What a shame.
There's no money in cleaning up your mess...
There was no profit or else they would still be there
@@samholdsworth420Still, it should be mediatory to clean it up. I believe there is a loophole though. They say they are coming back at a later time to continue operations, not abandoning it. There should be a statute of limitations though on returning to operations. When they don’t return by x number of years they should be required to clean it up.
Another awesome video into the wilds of this planet that most of us would never see in our lifetime. Thank you, Dustin. I thoroughly enjoyed this video
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Also for Prime Rain Maker !!!
Take nothing but 📷 pictures.
Leave nothing but 👣 footprints.
You reminded me of one of my favorites! 🇨🇦
Yeah but then he took the rocks. So take nothing but rocks and pictures, leave nothing but spaces where rocks used to be and footprints. Much love from Quebec Canada
@@deborahjoy6107 Much love from Edmonton, Deborah! ☺
@@CrystalAbrahamsEdmonton is beautiful!
@@deborahjoy6107 Agreed. I grew up in Toronto, but don't regret moving here for a minute, Deborah. I've been to Quebec City and Montreal for St. Jean Baptiste, but never further east than that. Quebec is awesome!
@@CrystalAbrahamsI'm sure Edmonton is more scenic than Toronto. Quebecers love to party. Hope you had a great time while you were here. I was in Calgary in March, it was beautiful and the people were very friendly.
Another great adventure. I look at things such as that abandoned oil rig and think about how much steel could be salvaged.
That company camp seems like a prime place for the locals to move into if that erosion gets too bad.
Beautiful day out on the water with some interesting things to see. That drilling platform sure looks like an old fort made out of iron, and those seagulls were not to happy to say the least to see you. I was guessing the pingos had to be volcanos, but who could have even imagined they are ice. Thanks Dustin for taking us out on the Arctic ocean for a little tour today! Keep doing what your doing, enjoy every minute and every adventure that you get to share on this trip. See you next time!
Morning all! Great adventure Emi & Dustin. I'm glad you didn't climb up that huge oil platform! 🥰
Almost looks like a old fort. Some will say man made abandonment's are a blight, but I 100% disagree. I find such things fascinating. So many dreams and hopes are tied into such places when they start. These places are left because it was a finished success, or from failure. Trying to piece together the mystery is infinity fun, and serves as a tombstone that says "I was here".
Also says 'look what we can do', what an amazing species each of us is an integral part of.
That drilling platform looks like the Moliqpak. I was on it in 1988. Awesome vid, thanks
'Tis indeed.
What a wonderful sight to see the sun up at that time of day….thank you for taking me with you both. ❤. See you next week…!
Amazing journey. Thanks for taking us along. Beautiful world out there.
The arctic has never looked more beautiful
Another fantastic arctic adventure. Can't wait to see next weeks episode. Loved the pingos. It's a shame you weren't able to climb them!!
Cloud berries are delicious! And pretty much gold in berry form since they are very hard to pick! They usually grow in swampy areas.
Wonderful adventure thank you for sharing. Everyone stay safe, happy and healthy
What a treat to beable to see so glad you guys got out in the swellfish and tried a hand at some white fish. See ya in another week. Thank you for what you do!
What a great video. I’ll never get there to see this beautiful place so thank you for this wonderful adventure. Keep up the awesomeness. ❤
I enjoy your videos a little more when you have interactions with Emi. Thanks for sharing a video of a place I probably will never visit. You made the world just a little smaller!
Another super video, Dustin! We now know about pingos and so much about the Arctic Ocean and the landscape. We’re very pleased that you re-thought the idea of climbing up the drilling platform…I had already said that you should just fly your drone 😂. You’ve certainly been the best spokesperson for tourism in the area!! Cheers!
Awesomes video.
Thank you for taking us with you on a one of a kind trip.
Better luck next time friend with the fishing please keep the great videos coming 😊. From Scotland
What an amazing place,thanks Dustin
Yeah! Wow great video. Thanks you rock Dustin ❤
Thanks that place was awesome I enjoyed watching
Those pingos are insane I'm loading up the canoe right now! (And fishing gear!) To some it might look like a normal hill but that landscape is actually so unique! Camp out on a floating platform!
Tuktoytuk tide swing is the third Thursday of the month at the dance hall.
Great video
It’s a shame that the oil companies are allowed to leave that abandoned camp and platform there, great video as always!
Wait until you hear what the government does with their unneeded stuff.
That's Canadian mining law, you just go for it and when you run out of money you can just leave everything and the taxpayer will clean it up for you. But not right now, because the taxpayer is broke. We'll clean it up eventually (probably).
What would be your solution to getting that platform out of there? I’d love to hear one that is ecological and environmentally friendly.
Did you ever stop to think that’s why it was left there?
If this sickens you wait until you hear what the for government does either their unneeded stuff.
@@justincowen441 I'm sorry but that's a dumb question. Take it out the same way it got there. Probably on barges. Better than leaving it there.
It’s when they get allowed to drill again and get back production of oil once Trudeau gets out of office
Great video and such an interesting place! I will never get to see it so thanks so much for sharing all your adventures with us!
I look forward to watching your latest adventure every Sunday morning with some breakfast and hot cup of coffee. Sets my whole day off on the right foot -thanks!
That’s so wild. I thought I was the only one who brought rocks home from interesting trips. For me, I’m literally bringing a small piece of where I was with me. Best souvenir ever.
another wonderful exploration of Canada's north on the Arctic Ocean
It was a sweet treat to catch a glimpse of the washed up sled. I have my dads thet he made when he was 14...he was born in 1918. Love the rock ideal...I hope you sell some for a fund raiser. Pulling for you every time you fish...oh well.
Thanks, Dustin & Emmy. I would love to see you do a vid of the sun setting & coming back up. Maybe show how clear(edit clear) the sky is at night & the stars. I think that would be awesome, I know that it would be breaking into your beauty sleep, Dustin. But it's just once. Thanks, stay safe, peace out!
I was in Tuk for the longest day of the year. The sun lowered to just above the sea then started coming back up. What a kick!
Awesome coverage of the Tuk
Can’t wait to explore it myself
I love the rock idea. We are big rock collector’s. Which has turned into a career for my daughter. She is at University to become a Geologist. She has been working as a Geo Tech in the Stewart area the last few summers.
I'm really enjoying your channel; bringing to light all the history in the areas. The unsettling side is the refuse left behind, on the landscape. Lax laws of earlier times. Keep em coming.
Habitation creates trash, always has and always will. Current communities are the largest generators of trash. Ants do it too - look at an ant hill. Want a pristine earth?... enjoy being cave people --- and you'll still generate trash. Ignorance of history leads to disaster.
Another fantastic video from Mr. NG. Thanks for taking us along Dustin and Emi. Stay safe.🍻🍻
Thank you for sharing I bet it was hard to leave. Be safe and make a lot of memories. God bless
I saw that episode on outdoor boys..that waz an awsome find..we don't see those here in n.s 🇨🇦..still waiting fr the adventure to come here..never kno🫣
That's such a trip looking up there, a Lil to remote for me to wanna live yet definitely a cool find! My family ,parents were all Rock hounds and still do tumbling and it's cool the stuff you can find ! Thanks for the show my friend and Emmy ❤ You both have alotta fun 😁! Aloha Nui loa 🌴 ⛱️
The Oil Rig man! I wouldn’t have left it! Great composition and camera work..Should do a camp out/overnight on something like that. Great stuff and see you on the dusty trail👋
Another epic episode! Thank you Dustin & Emi 🤙
I love listening to the original background sounds.
Great video guys! You should get a double rock tumbler, it cuts the process in a shorter time ! Thanks for the journey, stay safe 👍🇨🇦
I ordered one. Hahaha
Thank you once again for sharing God's magnificent creation with us and showing us things we would never in our lifetime see in person. God bless you both. Looking forward to next week already.
You did have great weather for that visit. The two week 'summer' season. Well, not really, but I can't imagine being there in January. That is one reason they choose to live there. It is a part on their environment that they have learned to survive in. I had a guy in Fairbanks tell me it was not the cold as much as the winter darkness. For me it would be both.
Morning Dustin. The sled you found on the beach is a small Qamutiik. Love the videos. Hagd
Another great video Dustin! I learn something new every time I watch one of your adventures. The Far North is much more beautiful than I could imagine!
Love you bro, I've had a real hard week after losing my mom this past Monday, work was horrible but I'm blessed to have what I have, my girls are keeping me together, be safe bro, keeping up with you, or tryin to lol
I was flying to Herschel island back then and the erosion was so bad that the cliffs were over 100' tall and the twin Otter we were flying in was flying very close to the top of the edge so that when we looked out the window the cliff was maybe 100' away so that the aircraft could use the updraft from the ocean to save fuel and fly faster. Was pretty crazy. I also remember opening a camp up in November In a place called Horton river and the twin Otter was on skis and it was basically white out conditions and the pilots would fly over the camp and drop flagging with weights for some kind of definition to where the ground was. Then when we landed it was so uneven that the aircraft was jumping drifts and the generator we had was flying up and down. That's Ings were quite different back then.
What a rad experience that must have been. Exciting for sure.
@@Destination_Adventure yes for sure it was, we were constructing the north warning system in Horton river, croaker river, stormy hills, Herschel island and two more in the zone we worked in. Safety wasn't as big as it is now I remember being on top of one of those towers you see there in tuk and trying to fit a prefab wall piece into a hole at the top and stopping dead in my tracks this king I must be close to the edge and then moving the piece I was moving and looking down at my heels between my legs and having my heels an inch over the edge without a safety line. We had gear flown in within 3 days after that. Those were the days when big paychecks were available if you wanted to work.
That platform reminds me movie Waterworld with Kevin Costner.
Land is flat, so is sea bed flooring.
Surprise that with no growing trres up there, so much good timber house was left abandoned. Simply build houses that looks pretty strong.
Unhappy seagulls in nesting season.
Thanks for the ride.
Pretty interesting sights. I seem to remember those cargo nets on a landing platform are for people to hang on to so as not to get blown off into the ocean by the chopper. 👍🤙
Another great episode, how great is it to see that most interesting place. Gotta say I’m 71 and had I been with you at that platform my inner youngster would have been wanting to scale up that wall to check things out. 😎🍺☮️🇨🇦
It's obviously a cargo net! For dropping off supplies!
Thanks for the ride✌
No , it's for when landing in bad whether/ wind you kan grab a hold and not been blown overboard
Dustin's water world great vid👍
Thanks for showing us another beautiful part of Canada. The old drilling platform was neat but it should have been abandoned. It should have to be removed.
Won't hurt the environment but will help the wildlife - as most boat wrecks do. As you say though I hope the dangerous chemicals etc have been removed. Probably one of Dustin's reasons to want to get inside the platform. The drone seemed to indicate hazardous materials had indeed been taken off... worry more about the base though... bury pits etc. Hope they were properly cleared out.
The oil platform was more like an island,
Sanddredging ships would pump sand on the seabottom almost up to the sealevel and then this large pontoon would be towed ontop and then ballasted down onto the large underwater sand pile, extra anchors were attached but obviously this wasnt enough
It was amazing how many glass floats he found! He found so many he had to leave a bunch.
That oil platform was something very unique, never seen like this before as I myself have sailed for more then 25 yrs on VLCCs (very large crude carrier) as an engineer.
Always look forward to Dustination Adventure Saturdays... Dustin I am kind of missing Mic on this trip though.. That drilling platform is next level..
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Another fantastic video with my morning coffee...tks agn , I've been out of ser6for 2 weeks nice to catch up
.. Cloud berry's I'm originally from Newfoundland and there we call them Bake Apples we make jam from them omg soooo good.
Keep up the great work bud.
Great video Dustin, we love watching your videos. The second you mentioned the Japanese balls I knew you were talking about The Outdoor Boys, my 4yo loves watching thier adventures. A pingo is intrapermafrost hill.
Thank you so much for sharing this i have never seen anything like it.
Thanks for taking me to places I would go to....out of the way treasures thx
As always nothing but great Content thank you. I appreciate you taking me along safe travels
You just sent me on a multi hour deep dive into pingos. Thank you. lol
Know so little about the extreme far north and the people there. Very interesting video!
The sad thing is that due to the climate changing, parts of the coastline are eroding away quicker, and the sea ice isn't as stable as it used to be. The residents of Tuk may have to eventually move more inland.
FANTASTIC..DROVE TO AK FROM RI.NEVER GOT TO THE NWT,THANK YOU..
What's up Dustin n Emmy
Loved this adventure, interesting.destination. I too am a rock hound, have always looked for interesting rocks since I learned how to walk.
I'm now disabled n can't walk to much
don't really get out much either.
So appreciate ur videos, destinations, n adventures.
Y'all r #1 in my 👀
In the early 1980s, Dome's base camp was called (Tuk Tech). During the winter months, programs such as education upgrading, sports programs, first aid, basic welding and pipefitting, housecleaning, sports, and general supportive activities and counselling were available. Tuk Tech was operated by Dome/Canmar with the full support of the other oil and gas companies and governments and was considered a great success.I was in Tuk in 1979, our ship was doing Hydrographic Surveys in the Beaufort Sea. At that time the oil and gas companies were thinking of more offshore Arctic Oil and Gas Exploration in deeper water, with Tuk Harbour as a Base
Hey Dustin- i started your videos seeing the road to Tuk- thought it would be nice to see- wow, i'm taking note of your boat name, what you guys see, what's needed- it is prob dif for me as im indigenous (guessing?) all the same ready to search for the right hoops, plan a go and see when it happens. I've camped 90 miles north of Nain with my cousin- saw a humpback breaching (very impressive) found a flint arrowhead in the sandpit of an establishment- oh annnnnnd !!!!! i caught arctic char and ate it- omg soooo good !Every trip just a sentence or paragraph of life, compare notes and make life better ! :)
Rock polishing/tumbling is harder than it seems. You can not polish every kind of rock, and you can not polish a wide variety at the same time. Some rocks are harder than others and the harder ones will break down the softer ones. As the softer rocks break down, they become an abrasive material that will mess up the polishing of the harder rocks such that they never get really smooth and shiny. Sorry. Its a bummer, but I learned that the hard way too! That was an amazing trip! Thanks for taking us along for the ride! 😊😊😊
another great adventure thanks - nice drone work - and I'm glad you didn't risk that ladder
The more I see this part of the Arctic the more I am pulled in. At first I thought that Pingo looked like a dead Volcano but that would be a lot of them! :) That abandoned oil platform was cool too, so wild to think it all used to be active including that camp and now it's quiet.
I love this video. Those pingos are very interesting. I’m going to do some research on these. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Dustin
Cool video. Hope you have a blessed week
Sweet video indeed... Loved it all... You are a master of information and intrige... God Bless...
Well I learned something today! Never heard of a Pingo before so thank you for that! Great video as always! Loved your beer shirt at the beginning of the video! Cheers! 🍻
Range Markers for marking a channel for a boat to follow. Loved this episode, Dustin & Emi
Like aways never disappointes great saturday morning !! Awesome video !
Happy Saturday
Thanks
I've built small buildings on skids in the past to enable easy movement of said shack to various locations if needed. EG: moveable outhouse; once the first one gets too full. Move the house over a new pit and fill in/cover over the old one
DJI home point updated, that was hilarious.
Another great one thank you
The net is to stop a helicopter from rolling off the landing pad, I'm no expert but that setup looks to me like it is towed to a location, sunk, water pumped out and the drill rig assembled within the casing. Tape an empty water bottle to your drone in case of uninitiated landings in water, drone will float then.
Wonder if anyone makes a C02 inflatable to put on a drone akin to an old school emergency float for boats.
Thanks!
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I just figured out how to donate! 😊👍
Never heard of a pingo before.
I always seem to learn something watching your videos.
You do a lot of catch and release when fishing, I hope your cute travel companion stay a catch. Oh and thanks for sharing another fantastic adventure, absolutely my favorite thing to watch while having my breakfast
Awsome tuk videos man. I was ine of the workers on the dempster highway extension to tuk. it was awaome up there, glad to see an updated video of the place so awaome