Tamaroa of 'Perfect Storm' sunk while former Coast Guard members look on

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7 жыл бұрын

Former Coast Guard members who served on the vessel Tamaroa were invited aboard the Porgy IV out of Cape May to witness the vessel's final day under the sun before being sunk 135 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The Tamaroa becomes the latest addition to an artificial reef which includes the destroyer USS Arthur W. Radford, the minesweeper Gregory Poole and the Shearwater. (Video by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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@charlieirvin5423 5 жыл бұрын

For all you Coastguards men who served on the Tamaroa thank you for your dedicated Services Of the USCG

@troyscoggins3233 4 жыл бұрын

I was stationed aboard the Tam from 91-93. I helped pull the 4 Air National Guardsmen out of the water. One of the most vivid memories of my life! Sad to see her go down like that. May she rest in peace and provide a home to aquatic wildlife and be a sight for divers to see and visit!

@clarencemercado4546 4 жыл бұрын

Just literally finished reading the book "The Perfect Storm" minutes ago. You did a damn nerve-wracking job there, sir.

@mariefc8504 4 жыл бұрын

I imagine you have strong emotions for the Tam. It's quite an understatement to say nothing in your life will compare to being on the seas during that storm and the rescues you all did. I've read The Perfect Storm 9 times. I have family members who served in the Navy. I hold immense respect and honor to you and all who serve to rescue and protect lives in such dangerous conditions. Thank you.

@K-OnTheCase 4 жыл бұрын

The Tamaroa: She served her men and her country well. 🇺🇸 May she indeed “rest easy. ❤️” Incredible work done on that fateful night. I can’t even begin to imagine what the sea must have been like that cold October night! Thank you for your service sir! I am the proud daughter of a Coastguardsmen, and the Granddaughter of career Naval Commander and Pearl Harbor Survivor. God bless you and the men and women who bravely serve their country. 🇺🇸

@K-OnTheCase 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Troy: one quick question: There is a poster on this thread going by the name Bic Stylus: he is stating that the Captain didn’t want to take the call for the rescue that night, and there was much dissension between he and the Ex O? Also stated the Coastguard is trying to cover this up? Claims log books were doctored etc... sounds pretty far fetched to me, so I thought I’d go to a Man who was there! Does any of his rant ring true to you? I’d love to hear back from you! Check out his post on this video. Again thanks for your service, it’s appreciated more than I can say! The daughter of a Coastguardsmen 🇺🇸 K 😉

@jacobytheo1766 2 жыл бұрын

Instablaster.

@dorwindouglass3219 6 жыл бұрын

I was a CG Photographer in the NY Customs House 1965 when the Tamaroa was stationed at Base NY, had a lot of good Friday fish dinners aboard.

@austinbrodzinski4444 6 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace Tamaroa, you served well. -salute-

@aciddream2866 6 жыл бұрын

2:23 now that's respect for your ship.

@finlandball1939 6 жыл бұрын

leo heltai h

@K-OnTheCase 4 жыл бұрын

❤️🇺🇸❤️

@aciddream2866 4 жыл бұрын

@@finlandball1939 what do you mean

@Warhorse500 6 жыл бұрын

The ship in "The Perfect Storm" was actually a 210' "RELIANCE" class. I think they used USCGC ALERT, out of Astoria, OR to simulate the scenes. I served on VALIANT myself for 3 years; got to know that 210' pretty well. Sadly, during the summer that the movie came out (2000), I was in NYC for Opsail 2000; saw TAMAROA sitting forlornly at the docks on the Hudson River. They still had hopes of turning her into a museum. Guess it didn't work out. TAMAROA survived the storm because her salvage tug construction made her bottom-heavy; where the ALERT would have been torn up by the storm, TAMAROA made it. I've heard that the ride was anything but fun; an old QMC at "A" School in Yorktown told me about walking on the bulkheads during that whole mess, she was getting rolled so badly. Very long coupla days for those guys.

@sparrowlt 6 жыл бұрын

yes.. when i readed the book and then saw the movie i knew the ship class was wrongly portrayed.. the boat in the movie was quite more modern than the actual one.. i dont know why they felt to do such change

@steveschwartz6138 6 жыл бұрын

I was on the eagle for opsail 2000 and remember seeing the Tam next to the Intrepid. The Tam was my home from 1991-1994.

@fishheds 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah well , On the Dauntless Michael Caine clogged all the damn flight deck scuppers with cabbage blasting when he went full Rambo with the 50 cal. That stupid movie makes the crew look like idiots to boot. Damn you Michael Caine and damn The Island

@seadoggiedog 7 жыл бұрын

rest in peace old girl

@JohnWilliams-dx2xw 4 жыл бұрын

My father served on the Tamaroa in the late 50's as a Storekeeper 1st.

@blaster1012 5 жыл бұрын

Sure glad I caught this video I served on the Tamaroa 1961 1963 rcvd my discharge from this cutter Radioman 2cl

@darrylallen3461 2 жыл бұрын

Y they didn't just drag her and fix her up

@johnstark4723 5 жыл бұрын

Sad but a fitting end for a hero ship that served so well and so long

@tommooe4524 2 жыл бұрын

She was my ship……sad to see her go….many days at the helm, she steered like a dream even in heavy weather

@NIcholasparker88 6 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace old lady! Now after almost 50 odd years of service you may find your rest

@TheCaptbob1 5 жыл бұрын

She was built as the USN Zuni (in 1943) ATF-95 during WWll and became the USCGC Tamaroa WMEC-166 after the war. I served aboard her from 6/66-6/70 (my entire Coast Guard enlistment). Her service was until 1992 upon her decommissioning.

@K-OnTheCase 4 жыл бұрын

Bob Fish Thank you for your service sir. She was indeed a lovely old girl. ❤️🇺🇸❤️

@tripleatriplea5686 3 жыл бұрын

Im 33 years old I have to say I love watching videos like these.. Wow

@jazzerat Жыл бұрын

I had to watch when I saw this. I served with a man who became a close friend, a DC at Brooklyn Supply around 1980. He had served on her and often chuckled at her record of sinking. Sadly, I have lost contact with everyone I served with. Jax, 1978-1983.

@rickylappin8862 3 жыл бұрын

I watch a lot of this type of videos . I wish they would show it resting on bottom how she's sitting .

@charlieirvin5423 5 жыл бұрын

My dad Served on the CCG Alert WMEC 630

@privateer177666 4 жыл бұрын

Any of y’all remember a MK3 Angelo Bozone? Tell him Ukie said Hello. I believe he went to the Tammy & I wound up on Thomas Point Shoals Light Station after MK school in Yorktown back in ‘75....”

@ekweseman 6 жыл бұрын

Does the ship still have her propeller attached or was that removed before the sinking. I see the Tamaroa still has her rudder.

@ghandtlg5898 2 жыл бұрын

This was my dad's last command when he retired after 26 years in August 1972

@pferrara929 2 жыл бұрын

Served on the Tam for a year and a half. Lot of good experiences. Once 5 Coasties tried to hijack the Tam at gun point when it was tied up at Gov. Is. What were they thinking? At the age of 19, I was issued a .45 caliber pistol and was told to drive one of them to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where he was transferred to Philadelphia prison. I was told if he escaped, I’d serve his 3 year sentence. I was going to see Perfect Storm in the theatre until I learned Hollywood gave her a massive “face lift” for the film. The Tam; sunk once by the Japanese, 4 times by us. R. I.P. Well deserved.

@andrewjackson9697 3 жыл бұрын

I always have and always will believe sinking a perfectly good boat, is a perfectly stupid ideal. Too many vessels I have seen on these videos resemble swiss cheese when they finish cutting holes in them and, yet they still fight their fate like a man who is drownings.

@sdot5389 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t perfectly good. It lived it’s life. It won’t be forgotten. Time to move on. It can now serve to foster sea life and divers can get a first hand look. If you get too stuck in the past you can’t properly face the future.

@andrewjackson9697 2 жыл бұрын

Are we talking about the ship, or , are we referring to the 1960's Woodstock philosophy of free love, flower power, can't see through my LSD purple hazed, and syphilis infected brain, spread STD' s not war philosophy masquerading it's self these days as the environmentalist movement, then yes, I think we should sink that one to the bottom, forget about it and move on. It's time for the hippy generation to retire. Time to grow up people.

@Oxurus 6 жыл бұрын

Damn....

@alperdue2704 Жыл бұрын

Still serving!

@robertsilva1016 2 жыл бұрын

They should have kept that Coast Guard ship commissioned kept it in known as a Reserve FLEET

@adennis200 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, the original boat was so much smaller. But i guess that in reality the waves were smaller so eventually this ship would have withheld the weather.

@healthybeans3161 2 жыл бұрын

I was going to toast this video with a beer but then dude said "its better than beer cans" so i quit drinking.

@jamesdenny4734 Жыл бұрын

Why not any footage of it under water ?

@williamgottlieb8723 6 жыл бұрын

Just how exactly did this ship go from "It was retired in 1994 and donated to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City" to "So after years of preparation...."? Why is it not still there? What kind of operation are they running there in New York City? Why should anything else be donated to that museum? Is that some kind of racket they have going on there?

@flyguy7374 6 жыл бұрын

William Gottlieb i can understand your feelings. Hate to see a lady go down intentionally. But to answer... Many times museum ships will acquire a certain amoit of leaks due to corrosion that a museum simply cannot financially support. So the museums will relinquish the vessel back to the donating party. A government vessel is never truly donated as far as permanent ownership. It is leased out for free. Think of it like a foster child. Nobody can change who the parents are, but the legal guardianship liea with another party.

@bobgottlieb6735 5 жыл бұрын

William Gottlieb Zuni / Tamaroa Society ran out of restoration money- Bob Gottlieb

@blaster1012 5 жыл бұрын

I smell obama

@bicstylus9237 5 жыл бұрын

I was a coverup by the Coast Guard. Mutiny, altered ships logs and the story that went down with the ship. Brudnicki didn't want to divert the ship to the downed AirGuard helicopter crew. Executive officer just about forced the ship to take the call for assistance (near mutiny). Brudnicki spent the entire time of the rescue of the 4 AirGuard crew in his cabin but has been taking all the praise for the rescue ever since. It took 16 years for the actual Coast Guardsmen who saved that crew to receive their awards. Whole thing has been a coverup of how the captain of a CG Ship defied a request for assistance. The ships log books were altered to cover up the ruse. The Coast Guard went so far to cover this up that they attempted to Scuttle the Tamaroa (fired 50cal round in hull below the water line while docked at ship repair facility) to keep this story from being told to a National Geographic documentary crew wanting to do a feature on the Tamaroa and the organization (Zuni foundation) trying to save it. Coast Guard eventually got the upper hand and now the ship is an oyster reef off NJ. SAD!

@bowtie3 4 жыл бұрын

@@blaster1012 You're a idiot. You sound like one of those trumptraitors. Go back to Russia

@gregorys6838 4 жыл бұрын

Boats don't belong under water. Why couldn't anyone save that boat?!

@dwlopez57 2 жыл бұрын

There are literally thousands of beloved boats and ships that had to be cut up or sunk because no one could be found to dave them. It's quite expensive and time consuming.

@AdventureswithP.C.Wabash6057 2 жыл бұрын

At least she is serving as a reef for living creatures of the ocean, so she is still living. Just other creatures call her home now other than Coasties. My ship was scrapped.

@MirceaD28 3 жыл бұрын

Sad. She could have bein saved to serve another purpose.

@samuelhaverghast2442 4 ай бұрын

Sad end for a heroic ship

@andreicibowroska5156 5 жыл бұрын

Tamaroa real life perfect storm Aircraft carrier in movie perfect storm

@UQRXD Жыл бұрын

I served on the Cherokee.

@ljbunso4450 3 жыл бұрын

I STILL IMAGINING WHAT IF THEY WERE ABLE TO RESCUE THOSE CREW OF ANDREA GAIL. AND THEY SEE IT SLOWLY SUBMERGING .. rip to the crew

@adriaanboogaard8571 Жыл бұрын

Most of the things they make reefs out of I get it this one it just feels wrong. Anything that size built that well lasted that long in the worst weather should be upgraed and. repurposed as a possible research vessel .

@bobbybigelow7175 4 жыл бұрын

Dis is sad😭😭😭😭

@sheilahadley3420 2 жыл бұрын

Why sink it??????????????

@rogue-ish5713 4 жыл бұрын

Couldnt try reuse the metal??? seems like a waste.

@mattmaccg6691 4 жыл бұрын

It will be a home for fish, not a waste at all

@CrystalMouse1 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that littering? How is that allowed? 😕

@realMaverickBuckley 3 жыл бұрын

It'll serve as a reef. Reefs have been dwindling for 50 years.

@robertsilva1016 2 жыл бұрын

I serve border Her During world war III

@jesseacreman7638 2 жыл бұрын

Bought at garage sale

@maryanngray6665 4 жыл бұрын

It use 2b the andragale in the movie the ship shank with its owner , oh well so much 4 movies I quest u cant blieve everything.

@Iconhulk 3 жыл бұрын

Will never make sense.. LET US SINK IT.. SMH

@waltershumate5777 5 жыл бұрын

moral of this story is don't donate a valuable piece of History to a museum that has no way to preserve it or they'll just blow it off!! what kind of preservation is that? boy that rust stain on the ocean floor will sure be neat for our children to see. thanks museums. we'll never forget that.

@tonyquigley6543 4 жыл бұрын

i love how they say "She will become part of a reef" when really, they just need to sink sh*t.

@donnieprice2217 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a cheap way to dispose of trash.

@realMaverickBuckley 3 жыл бұрын

They could've sold her to be butchered for Bangladeshi or Chinese scrap for 50 grand. Instead they chose to keep her in one piece and make a reef. I can see both sides.

@GiantRogueWave 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this ship sink made me think of the song Last Watch by Stan Rogers. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oZuegcyWlavSo6c.html

@rainbowdash4651 4 жыл бұрын

And we littler our oceans with more shit. Think about this. What does aquatic wildlife eat? Options from the sea. Correct? What do we eat from the sea? Aquatic wildlife! The more metal and steal we introduce. The more iron we consume. This is why I don't eat much 🐟. Let's just discard our ships instead of recycling it. Great ideas.

@tommooe4524 2 жыл бұрын

It was recycled….it is now part of a reef

@jesseacreman7638 2 жыл бұрын

I have the clock that the crew bought the skipper 1953- 1955. C D R. W E EHRMAN