@@FPTower as a commercial fisherman (scalloper) i will have to say the feeling isn't eerie, to me. i love it. you don't know what i would give you to be able to live on the tower year round. i love the ocean, especially when it gets rough. people see this video & would think 20 footers aren't big. they don't look big in this, because you're way above them. what they need to understand: that's a 2 story wave w/ the power that's almost unmatched to anything else. I wonder if there have ever been any rogue waves hit the tower? We got a 35 footer hit us late last year in November. That was a ride!
Thanks for the video , it was great to see what is going on when I'm not there. I live on Hillsboro mile in the winter and Newport ri in the summer. Please keep us posted. Again thank you . Greatly appreciated
I remember back in '78 during which we were taking on some 12 foot + swells, I was making a sandwich in the galley (kitchen for you land lubbers) of the Tower & the sandwich was swaying back & forth on the countertop. However Neil, those are definitely some Heavy swells! Wow! Speaking of Bad Weather... one time we were going through a some tropical weather & during the wee hours of the night I woke up with the sound of a Freight Train, ZOOMING underneath our quarters!... I got a frantic knock on my door to get up! I said: "I'm already up"! We went to the radio room to see that the Anemometer was up to 80 knots! Bill C Former EM3 of USCG Light Station Frying Pan p.s. Neil How does the Full Moon look out there? (pretty amazing eh)?
Yep we were out there a couple months ago and our anemometer on the very top stopped pointing to the direction of the wind because that part of it blew off in 87 mile an hour gusts. The air cups survived and we are carrying out a new anemometer and a spare for the closet. Remember those old anemometers at the very very top? The props on the front of those are missing but they still point into the wind!
I would love to volunteer here over the summer but I’m only 14. Well 15 for when summer comes when I want to volunteer. I’m small and can get in tiny spaces. I have a burning passion for the ocean, and this is something I would love to do and it could count towards my graduation from high school. I could also use a go pro and take footage to show my whole school. That would be good for an extra curricular project lol.
Very cool! Travel by you all the times on trips from Yonkers NY to West Palm Beach FL or vice versa. Will be passing sometime Monday or Tuesday on the tug Sea Robin bound for NY!
I would love vist someday. Living on the beach, I know what salt air and water can do to metal. I think I would be leery of the integrity of your walkways, handrails, pylons etc.. How often do you inspect them?
I bet that's an eerie feeling, knowing you're that far out in the ocean on a platform in the middle of the ocean's fury.
indeed
Peter- Can you swim 35 miles? Sounds far enough out to me
It is always a bit odd for sure. Even ten years into it... Richard
@@FPTower as a commercial fisherman (scalloper) i will have to say the feeling isn't eerie, to me. i love it. you don't know what i would give you to be able to live on the tower year round. i love the ocean, especially when it gets rough. people see this video & would think 20 footers aren't big. they don't look big in this, because you're way above them. what they need to understand: that's a 2 story wave w/ the power that's almost unmatched to anything else.
I wonder if there have ever been any rogue waves hit the tower? We got a 35 footer hit us late last year in November. That was a ride!
@@NotOnDrugs the guys who where on it in the Coast Guard said they saw a rogue 60' one tiime. Washed the belly! Richard
Keep the videos coming Richard!! We all love them. So jealous of you.
Thanks for the video , it was great to see what is going on when I'm not there. I live on Hillsboro mile in the winter and Newport ri in the summer. Please keep us posted. Again thank you . Greatly appreciated
I remember back in '78 during which we were taking on some 12 foot + swells, I was making a sandwich in the galley (kitchen for you land lubbers) of the Tower & the sandwich was swaying back & forth on the countertop. However Neil, those are definitely some Heavy swells! Wow!
Speaking of Bad Weather... one time we were going through a some tropical weather & during the wee hours of the night I woke up with the sound of a Freight Train, ZOOMING underneath our quarters!... I got a frantic knock on my door to get up! I said: "I'm already up"! We went to the radio room to see that the Anemometer was up to 80 knots!
Bill C
Former EM3 of USCG Light Station Frying Pan
p.s. Neil
How does the Full Moon look out there?
(pretty amazing eh)?
Yep we were out there a couple months ago and our anemometer on the very top stopped pointing to the direction of the wind because that part of it blew off in 87 mile an hour gusts. The air cups survived and we are carrying out a new anemometer and a spare for the closet. Remember those old anemometers at the very very top? The props on the front of those are missing but they still point into the wind!
Oh, and the full moon is incredible! And when it’s gone the stars are countless
I would love to volunteer here over the summer but I’m only 14. Well 15 for when summer comes when I want to volunteer. I’m small and can get in tiny spaces. I have a burning passion for the ocean, and this is something I would love to do and it could count towards my graduation from high school. I could also use a go pro and take footage to show my whole school. That would be good for an extra curricular project lol.
We will we will be waiting for when you are able to make it. Keep studying!
That wave had a very “rogue-ish” look to it.
Yep, that was a monster
Very cool! Travel by you all the times on trips from Yonkers NY to West Palm Beach FL or vice versa. Will be passing sometime Monday or Tuesday on the tug Sea Robin bound for NY!
I so wish I were at the Tower right now!
me too
This is so cool!! I hope to make it out to the Frying Pan one day! ❤️
That's what we call a walleye chop on Lake Superior.
I would love vist someday. Living on the beach, I know what salt air and water can do to metal. I think I would be leery of the integrity of your walkways, handrails, pylons etc.. How often do you inspect them?
Every day. No joke we literally review the steel we walk on each trip
very awesome to see
Hi and do you ever fill fear when it storms like that?
this may sound silly but can you feel the bigger ones when the roll through?
he said he felt it in the video.
Yes, it depends a little on the direction on whether or not they hit the crosspipes below direct on
Wow
That wave
What a rush
how do you get internet. for uploading the videos
He waited until home
for several years now we have had microwave to shore for internet. like now :) in 2020
bad day at my old office.
is this live?
B Blod it’s from 4 years ago
@@sniperrrish
Thought it was Florence.
Waves breaking with 50 ft. depth.
richard for chrisssakes be careful
I am. Well I try to be. OK sometimes I am a little silly, but I do my best so I can go back to my sweetie on shore.
That wave breaking out in front in this footage, is that common at at that spot at this size or just a random occurrence?