19 year offshore ROV operator here: So, at 8:08, what you are seeing is a mud mat. We set those on seafloor structures that have a chance of being snagged by things like trawlers and anchors. In theory, that mat should allow anything being drug to slide right over it. I don't know much about your little ROV, but if there's an upgrade for any type of compass, it would be money well spent. If you can keep track of heading, and have someone make a map as you fly in, it will help with orientation and tether management. Another tip: watching you test in the pool, it appears that the tether is negatively buoyant, meaning it sits on bottom. That's good for when you are inside a jacket like that. Next time, turn and try to find the tether and, if possible, follow it back out. That's pretty much what we do with the work class subs. Either way, nice video and congrats on recovering it.
Actually the teather is neutrally boyant on the fifish. Also if your in salt water you should add the optional ballast weight they sell to compensate for the buoyancy of the salt water. And i agree trying to follow your teather visually certainly helps and i know im totally armchair quarterbacking here but since you went straight down then across and up I would attempt to reverse that path on the way out. The fifish app does show the drone orientation in relation to the operator as well as vert and horizontal orientation on the screen along with a directional compass which is extremely important information when there is no visual reference such as the sea floor etc... cool vid though. You may consider also changing your controller input configuration? I had a very hard time controlling mine until I configured it to fly exactly as my quadcopter. That helped a lot.
@@Dunriteproducts Thanks for all that! I should have followed a leg down. The reason I didn't is that the only other tower structure I'm familiar with is a communication tower in the Gulf off Florida, and the legs go out on an angle and I didn't want to descent right into structure. It seems these go straight down. I'm going to mark my controller with a Sharpee so I can avoid confusion of the controls. The problem is I don't get to use the device often because of visibility constraints.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Yeah may I possibly add three things to the first posters comments? 1. ROV's normally have two types of umbilcal floating like scoripo or armoured. Scorpio uses a Chinese finger which is secured to a strongpoint on the ROV. This prevents a direct pull or strain on the electric termination of the ROV. I did not see any mechanical termination so I thought it may be a good idea. So it is there to prevent or reduce the electrical cable being ripped out of ROV. Armoured umbilical uses wirelock compound which you use in a lifting securing point pot which you do not need to worry about. Just providing reference as armour cables are used for lift ROV's On/Off deck. Wirelock is used in crane wire lifting hook terminations 2. Check your ROV specs. See if you have a facility where you can fit a fixed rear camera. You may have unused spare functions or possibly be able to fit a small relay to modify present ROV circuit so when camera is switched ON you use normal camera. When selected OFF supply goes to aft fixed camera if you are struggling for a fix. The reason is this when we fly into rig leg structures and visibility suddenly turns bad keep umbilical taut and fly backwards rather than turning around and follow your own umbilcal out recovering umbilical as you progress. If you have snagged around something then following this plan will undo the problem. Suggest you practice in pool to fly in reverse because camera will look like forward camera but all stick functions will be the opposite. eg moving ahead in reverse turning left or port following your umbilical will stick movement aft and to the right or starboard 3. Make sure that you check your tide tables. Ensure you know high and low tides and the directions that it is running. Also check whether they are Spring or Neep tides because the former may ruin you day. Also good umbilical management. Too much out and it then becomes a sail and the drag becomes excessive. These windfarm platform structures are in water depths of 20-30m. Shallow water is fast running. I was once asked to hold station at the J tube or mousehole where power cable enters structure. I was red lining the props as oil was getting hot and stated I was withdrawing to a safe space. Was ordered to remain in position some clown suggested using robotic arm to clamp to structure. I stated increasing current speed was creating eddys around the structure. We recovered a short while later after we ripped the robotic arm off.
@@NoelDuffy-t1e Thanks for all of that! This drone has a t-shaped thing on the rear that a slip loop in the cable attaches to to keep direct pressure off the main cable connection. I really need to work on spinning 180 degrees the next time I get stuck to see where the tether is.
Does the growth of marine organisms that cover the structure affect the structural integrity or lifespan over time? Is that what you test for? Maybe salt water is the biggest villan?
@@mortonbortell3755yes those platforms will need to be serviced eventually. Those divers that go down make big money as it’s an inherently dangerous job.
@@mortonbortell3755 they probably have a sacrificial anode made of zinc, it will rot and protect the steel structure. The splash zone is most susceptible to corrosion.
Wrong! Nature, (the earth etc.) does NOT progress. It is in a constant state of decay. Mountain crumble, they do not grow higher except those rare times that magma is built upon itself, but other than that, mountains go down, not up. EVERYTHING erodes.
When I was graduate Oceanography student in the 90's there were only a few ROV's in the country capable of doing this and it cost 100's of thousands to support. Its cool that s its become available to normal consumers.
Wind Farms are an IDIOTIC waste of money. They don't come close to paying for themselves. They are stupid and although THEY CLAIM to be green they are ANYTHING but.
Much ocean life loves the cover. That's why places like to create artificial reefs by sinking old ships and such. Attractly the wildlife and that attracts fishermen and divers.
We have a wind farm off our coast here and since it went in and stopped big net fishing and made a safe area sea life has got so much better. I never Sean seals before along coast but see them every few days now.
Man, THAT was a LOT more rewarding that freeing a 25$ lure!! Very interesting to see the underwater structure of the tower. Also a great artificial reef situation! Great Video, John.
Well. I appreciated this video. Have heard lots of negativity on these saying how it destroys the ocean floors and marine life. I now see just the opposite like everything else being reported. Nice video. Amazing.
Oil rigs are also artificial reefs that are teeming with sea life. You will never here the eco nuts admitting that but it is true. Anytime you put a big, static structure in the sea it becomes like an oasis in a desert and life flourishes. Remove that structure and you create a lifeless desert.
@@randaltotten9358 that man says that stuff he sitting in front of a mirrors puddings spray make up orange on him. Yep, you know it I don’t care anybody says he’s a moron ain’t hurting a dang thing.
Isn't the main counter argument about the impact on whales specifically? I've never heard anyone claim a windmill kills all life from the vibrations. Obviously harder to investigate a whale count with a small crew and one camera.
@@AMpufnstuf how do they tie whale deaths to the towers . humans drove whales to the point of extension . now they are comming back some die . reading an old norse saga .finding a dead whale on the beach was a prize worth fighting over.
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@@AMpufnstuf Shipping and especially sonar causes whale death because it ruins their hearing.
@@repete2362 "How do 'they' tie whale death to the towers"? That's an EXCELLENT phrase to google search! And it won't take any more effort or time to type that into the google search bar than it did to type it here.
pelagic zone. haha ever since i learned that word a few years ago i just love to say it. i like the way it sounds i dunno why. pelagic, pelagic, pelagic, PELAGIC!!😂
pelagic zone being the depth of water from surface down to about 1,000 meters… or feet can’t remember which and of course 1k feet and 1k meters is a huge difference. Anyway, the thing I read said that in certain “perfect” conditions, sunlight can be detected even down to a 1,000! crazy to think about what conditions that would be? Maybe like in the Caribbean where that crystal clear seawater is.
@arlenbell4376 I guess I'm surprised cuz this is off the coast of New York, and not very far off shore. I'd expect the waters in Keys and southern waters to be very clear at practically all depths. I just didn't expect it up north.
I worked off shore for 30 years. The platforms I spent years on were loaded with fish. You name it and you could catch it. Maybe the sounds of the wind turbine is different than a production platform. We had generators and HUGE gas compressor running 24hours a day
Wind turbine bases are a structure, but there's no pollution in the water around them. They become an almost ideal habitat for some marine biology. (especially barnacles and other mussels)
@@vincentrobinette1507 oh! The utopia! We finally managed to keep all our conscience at bay! It doesn't matter that those steel and composite structures will never get back the energy that was spent producing, transporting, installing, maintaining and decommissioning it, but as long as it has the right label on it ("renewable" - which is not, it's not even recyclable), we're on board!
@vincentrobinette1507 are they different from land based turbines? I've climbed 10 different ones, quite a few times each, in 5 states, over the past dozen or so years. Not once have I got off of any of them w/out gear oil soaking my clothes. We put our rigs (parachute and container) in trash bags before every climb to avoid destroying the nylon. The ground around every one of them is always damp w oil seeping from the tower.
Exactly, they’re making it look like these things don’t cause cancer don’t cause air pollution, as well as noise pollution they make it look like it’s not disrupting the frequency of the ocean and not killing the sea light. and all of these people that are so proud to be working on this project really need to take a look around at what the implications of these really are. They’re inspecting them. Do they see the cancer that has caused did they see everything that has died?… I don’t know about you, but we need to do everything we can do to preserve nature and God‘s beautiful earth.. We need to do everything that we can do to stand up for nature because nature doesn’t have a voice.. we need to do everything we can do to live in Harmony with the. big houses aren’t gonna feed you money money is not going to turn into water. The earth provides that… what we do here and now and every moment decides the future for our children. I encourage you to go to the people that are protesting these windmills and obtain the information that they make available... these windmills are coming to a backyard near you. Your property value will be diminished to nothing and you will have no option, but to just lose everything that you worked for your whole life. This is what is happening to people that live near the ocean.. I greatly appreciate winter horse 290 and this was not meant for you. It was meant for the people that are reading the comments. I understand that you are also concerned as I am of the future after they put these destruction towers in our beautiful oceans… big love world peace may the greater good prevail for all🌎☮️💗
@@RyanM-ke2gu preach it !!!! because these people obviously do not understand the implications of these wind turbines, and how many people are fighting them and their voices being shut down by The corporations that are putting them in. I love that you are explaining about the oil because those oils are cancerous as well. Just like the pesticides killed over 120,000 farmers the gas is in oils from this are doing the same. We have to stop poisoning this earth.. We have to use healthy sustainable options.. windmills are not healthy nor sustainable. What people don’t understand that the frequencies that are being used that they don’t see and may not hear at the time are very hazardous and then the frequencies that you do here when they put the generators next to your homes will make you leave it will make you run from your home.
I have a very similar v6 expert drone. Im not that experienced with it, but when my line started to get tangled around some logs i pointed the drone back where i had come in from and just followed the cable as my helper pulled in the slack. Was able to keep from getting it tied up and stuck. This isn't a criticism, but you didn't look back at your cable to see why you might have got tangled. You were lucky that just pulling was able to retrieve it.
Lot of life on and around those legs for the offshore windmill. It has its own habitat for corals, mussels and fish. Looks like its a healthy environment.
78 year old retired certified diver here. Near 50 years ago my dive buddy wife and I migrated from this nasty stuff to the aqua blue waters of S. Florida. Thank you for reminding me why! The next heat wave and hurricane is going to seem like a small price! Wakodahatchee Chris
What's the deal? We have known for ages that fish will seek out shade and that coral polyps and mollusks will attach to anything kind of structure. Ask any boat captain out of Orange Beach, AL how many structures they have dropped overboard to make artificial reefs, the coordinates of which they guard with their lives.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing So I'm into remote control fun. Cars and boats are easy, but once you add the 3rd dimension, up and down, it becomes far more complicated. I like flying, and a sub, like you're using, also has that 3rd dimension. Keep practicing, you'll get it. I can fly kinda ok now, still learning. Lol
And what happens if they have to do repairs on those windmills or replace them?
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@@efwaves4665 then there is sime disruption of an ecosystem that would otherwise not existed at all. You sound like a vegan who does not want us to kill farm animals, and forgets that the youd not exist in the first place, if they were not bred to be eaten later. Lifetime of a windpark is 20-30 years minimum, then you normally install newer larger turbines, at least on land. time will tell, if they will go the same rhythm offshore as well.
I’d like to say thank you to this Orsted, the company that owns and built this wind farm. Their amazing technology has shtredded twice this summer in normal winds, and our pristine cape cod and rhode island beaches are full of millions of tiny pieces of the foam core of the blades, and huge chunks of carbon fiber. their clean up plan isto motivate us, the locals, to go out and clean it up for free. reminds me of oil spills where the company has no plan for catastrophe. thanks Orsted.
Underwater structures related to shipwrecks, wind farms and oil and gas rigs get covered with marine growth. Likewise hard-bottom where sand and sediment is scoured away all support a wide diversity of larvae, fish, shellfish etc all the way up the food chain. In the GOM, sportfishing reports refer to the locations - rigs that are abandoned, drilling or producing - and the types of fish that are biting. On the rigs I was on in the 1970s there were always avid fishermen on board - we ate the catch a few times a week.
😂😂 “I’ll never do this again”…..famous last words. The allure of the adventure is too great 🤩. Awesome video and instantly I thought oh wow not as intimidating under there as it seems when floating in a boat. Looks so peaceful with all the fish hanging out and socializing down there and I I was surprised to see so many different fishes all together. Our imaginations run wild when looking down at the dark watery abyss, sharks and other creatures ready to eat us alive when in reality it’s so peaceful and beautiful for the most part. Great video. 👍
i went on a fishing expedition in Louisiana which was frikkin awesome and fun, and, the guide specifically took us out to the oil rigs to fish the footings. Fantastic structure which i did not know before. Caught my first ever sheepshead and my first ever spadefish on it! All we did was free line shrimp! Easy fishin! Well… haha.. easy if you gotta boat to get there.
5:40 Subsea Engineer here. The 'Jacket' is the name of the underwater structure. What you saw when you first landed is the edge of a mud mat, used to prevent scour of the seabed by current & wave action.
John, the concrete linked blocks I believe in your video are anti scour mats,used around the base and over transmission lines. We installed may of these over the years in Boston waters….Mike…(retired commercial diver)
@@steveh8724 I can. The term "scour" refers to the washing away of sand by currents. Anti-scour methods, in this case, is the use of concrete mattresses that are laid over the inter-array submarine cable route to not only prevent scour, but on a hard bottom like off Block, would prevent trawls or anchors from damaging the cable. Anti-scour material in the form of granite rocks is dropped around the bottom of offshore wind foundations to prevent scour there as well. All of this material provides a great sub state for habitat to form on and creates the artificial reef that we fish on. 🎣
@@steveh8724 they are concrete blocks linked together with cable usually with geotextile fabric underneath which are used to protect cables , pipelines, bridge abutments etc from the scouring effect of currents or simply used as armor.
Flying drones for years I have say you were so brave trying this. No visibility whatsoever under a structure like this it looked like as you wanted to lose that drone. Glad you got it back.
Structures ATTRACT fish because they attract crustaceans and shellfish. The fish attract sea mammals. (Sealions are a major problem for offshore oil platforms - they block access to work platforms and mooring buoys).
Seems to be good for sea life. Although I did see some mussels that were apparently dead and had their shells open. That structure is going to be covered with shellfish, barnacles, and stuff. thicker and thicker.
Omg! I grew up in Germany with Jaque Custeau on Saturdays! This is so taking me back 60 years! I used to save the fish stickers, and stamps… but liked fish better 😂😂😂
Those underwater drones are pretty neat. There are a couple of guys over in the UK, on the Lost Mines channel, who explore all sorts of underground mines that can be hundreds of years old. They often encounter mines that have flooded levels, so they get out their drone & see what hasn't been seen or disturbed in many years. Like many new things in life, there is a bit of learning curve involved. One mastered, the results can be breath taking.
funny, i watch that channel too (as well a TVR Exploring, a US mine explorer). i laugh as the fella running their drone, his learning curve seems to be taking longer. i'm always thinking they need a young kid familiar with video games to run it! but indeed great stuff. and i was thinking as i watched this vid, and he thought he got stuck, just turn and follow the cable, like on Lost Mines.
That was a closey. Well done. At least you got to see how good it will be to fish them now. Have you noticed windmills are rarely turning. Most of the ones I've seen stand still so it makes you wonder how they are generating electricity at all.👍💚💛❤️
This looks like a great ocean floor to me lol The impact of driving pilings, is a known issue. After the windmill is there = I am sure the fish like it. Barnacles and muscles grow, and the habitat starts growing and improving. Looks great
Houston..., we have a problem. Leave it to John to handle the emergency like a true fisherman would-- unhang it from the other side. Fun and instructive video. Many thabks!
I used to do pile driving in Louisiana after Katrina. We were flipping houses/land in high value (but also high risk) areas. The drop height and hammer weight really determine how loud it will be. T-Rex is really an understatement lol. Heavier hammer + high drop height makes the work happen quicker and breaks through tougher surfaces. In soft New Orleans dirt, we could drove them in so quickly lol. It can make a SERIOUS noise. Knocking pictures off the walls of neighboring homes is just the minimum. There were people saying we were cracking their windows and walls. And I believe them. Good video btw. The booming just brought back memories.
Exactly I'm so sick and tired of people crying and complaining about bullshit. There's fish that hadn't been caught in years in the area now back. They put them on land they have a problem with that they put them out in the middle of the water they have a problem with that. People just need something to bitch about seriously. They cry and complain about their energy bills. We know for a fact that nuke plants cause cancer, and then you have to store the waste somewhere more toxic shit spread to another area.
If you haven't and ever get the chance, go dive on an oil rig in the gulf. It's like suddenly being on a coral reef. When you live in endless nothing, the tiniest structure brings in everything you can imagine, much less the giant legs of the rigs.
Thanks for this insight on what the structures are doing for the life in the ocean. I have thought all along the structures would benefit the sea-life and it looks like it does. Oh and so many starfish. Hmmm.
well sound propagates better in water than air which is why you could hear them pounding the pilings for the other windfarm from 12m away since sound moves faster in a more dense medium
Was he underwater talking to you in the video? No that was the above water sound. What do you think it’s doing to those animals that use echolocation and are underwater. Then the hum of the turbines while in operation. I am by no way a save the whales greenpeace idiot but the green new scam causes more destruction than any other energy source. Lithium batteries in EV’s birds and other animals.
@@Bassmaster-xd2pnAdding artificial structure absolutely is good for sea life and recreational fishing. New artificial reefs are being added all the time here in Florida and they’ve made a big difference in areas that were previously dead zones for wildlife.
@Danimalpm1 I agree that artificial reefs are good for marine life. Offshore windfarms are not, however. Yeah, this makes an environment for fish. It also will wreck havoc on the environment during the installation and once they start to fall apart.
It doesn’t matter, the money is being stolen from the taxpayers and the government doesn’t care because they’re getting kickbacks from the companies that get the grant money to put them up.
HEY!! This is great! I am in Los Angeles, CA. I look offshore and see oil islands and I wondered how they do foundations for turbines. I learned a lot. So, I thought about what windmills do to the ocean floor. Habitat!!! Compare the overall square footage of the ocean bottom that is covered by a support with the total area created by the support, vertically. Look at the growth! Multiple populations! Food Chain City !!
Glad you got some footage. I have dove those towers many times but in better vis. They are an oasis of life on and otherwise baron pebble bottom. When i hear people disparage offshore wind turbines about all the birds they kill it just shows how misinformed they are. They create more habitat for life than they harm. Windows in our houses kills exponentially more birds than wind farms. I dove these towers even during construction and they were already full of life and the disturbance to the bottom was minimal. The muscles growing on the side of the structure are some of the best I’ve eaten, the water out there is super clean. Lots of big sea bass and black fish and in the summer you sometimes see Mahi on them.
@@barfy4751 As he said, glass windows kill millions of birds a year, Turbines don't, they do kill a few but, no where near as much as windows, or cars, planes and every other form of transport....
@@JohnSkinnerFishing - Would you have dived to retrieve it had it gotten tangled up? Or write it off? $1200 would make it tempting to dive to get it, assuming you have the equipment and skills. 1st time at your channel, pardon my ignorance.
I was thinking of building a home with a 2 car garage on the ocean floor with a tunnel leeding up to the beach. Then I'd have a door that opens up so my cars can get out, but this video changed my mind.
Wow, thank you very much for treating us to a view we'd probably never get to see! What an amazing amount of sea life - all those skates and other fish! Now I can see why ships are sunk for fish magnets. I only saw one turbine spinning - I wonder why the other ones are stationary? I tried looking up the current status (ho ho - a pun for a power generating wind farm 😜 ) and I couldn't find any updates. They say wind farms aren't good for birds - that's around 14 miles off Block Island or around 28 from the tip of Long Island - not too many birds out there. Lots of sea life... a good thing? Glad you didn't get the drone hung up on the stanchions. Thanks again!
The first thing you run into is called a submar mat, we use them in the GOM Gulf of Mexico to cover things like pipelines, and underwater structure we don't want snagged by shrimpers. These are also used to separate pipelines from one another, and to cover anything you want covered up. This will boost your sport fishing greatly because it's great habitat for anything that lives underwater.
They are not windmills because they don’t “mill” anything. However they are wind turbines because they drive a turbine that is used to generate electricity.
@@CrusaderSports250 A mill wright is someone who builds machinery… Hammer mills crush rock for example… Steel mills roll sheet steel… Paper mills make paper… Saw mills cut wood…
@allangibson8494 still doesn't alter the fact the correct name is an aero generator. All your other examples are powered to mill their namesake, does that mean a windmill Mills the wind?😅
@@CrusaderSports250 Windmills are a machine that historically powered all of the examples I gave (just like watermills). Cotton and wool mills were similarly water and wind powered (but with steam power coming close behind in England when the real automation to weaving happened). So “mill” is a synonym for a manufacturing plant (or in computer is some 19th century applications (Babbage referred to his mechanical CPU as a “mill”)).
We used to fish around the oilfield jackets in the Gulf of Mexico,, would have loved to see under the surface. We caught all kinds of species ,, fun fun fun. Miss those trips.
Awesome footage John!, I have guilt knowing you risked the drone for us! BTW, Aren't we due for a hurricane like '38 and '55? " If a windmill falls in Block Island Sound and nobody hears it, does it make a noise"?
Those FiFish drones are sick man. People are using them in the Keys and Bahamas looking for wrecks and finding some serious treasure !! The best 2 grand any explorer could spend to find cool stuff without diving all day and breathing tank air for hours on end. Find your wreck. then dive. Awesome footage man
You should mount a GoPro to it and go down to the bottom and see what it sounds like when they are doing the pounding. Or i suppose you could just hook the GoPro to a fishing rod. Lol
19 year offshore ROV operator here: So, at 8:08, what you are seeing is a mud mat. We set those on seafloor structures that have a chance of being snagged by things like trawlers and anchors. In theory, that mat should allow anything being drug to slide right over it. I don't know much about your little ROV, but if there's an upgrade for any type of compass, it would be money well spent. If you can keep track of heading, and have someone make a map as you fly in, it will help with orientation and tether management. Another tip: watching you test in the pool, it appears that the tether is negatively buoyant, meaning it sits on bottom. That's good for when you are inside a jacket like that. Next time, turn and try to find the tether and, if possible, follow it back out. That's pretty much what we do with the work class subs. Either way, nice video and congrats on recovering it.
Thanks so much for the perspective and helpful comment!
Actually the teather is neutrally boyant on the fifish. Also if your in salt water you should add the optional ballast weight they sell to compensate for the buoyancy of the salt water. And i agree trying to follow your teather visually certainly helps and i know im totally armchair quarterbacking here but since you went straight down then across and up I would attempt to reverse that path on the way out. The fifish app does show the drone orientation in relation to the operator as well as vert and horizontal orientation on the screen along with a directional compass which is extremely important information when there is no visual reference such as the sea floor etc... cool vid though. You may consider also changing your controller input configuration? I had a very hard time controlling mine until I configured it to fly exactly as my quadcopter. That helped a lot.
@@Dunriteproducts Thanks for all that! I should have followed a leg down. The reason I didn't is that the only other tower structure I'm familiar with is a communication tower in the Gulf off Florida, and the legs go out on an angle and I didn't want to descent right into structure. It seems these go straight down. I'm going to mark my controller with a Sharpee so I can avoid confusion of the controls. The problem is I don't get to use the device often because of visibility constraints.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing Yeah may I possibly add three things to the first posters comments?
1. ROV's normally have two types of umbilcal floating like scoripo or armoured. Scorpio uses a Chinese finger which is secured to a strongpoint on the ROV. This prevents a direct pull or strain on the electric termination of the ROV. I did not see any mechanical termination so I thought it may be a good idea. So it is there to prevent or reduce the electrical cable being ripped out of ROV. Armoured umbilical uses wirelock compound which you use in a lifting securing point pot which you do not need to worry about. Just providing reference as armour cables are used for lift ROV's On/Off deck. Wirelock is used in crane wire lifting hook terminations
2. Check your ROV specs. See if you have a facility where you can fit a fixed rear camera. You may have unused spare functions or possibly be able to fit a small relay to modify present ROV circuit so when camera is switched ON you use normal camera. When selected OFF supply goes to aft fixed camera if you are struggling for a fix. The reason is this when we fly into rig leg structures and visibility suddenly turns bad keep umbilical taut and fly backwards rather than turning around and follow your own umbilcal out recovering umbilical as you progress. If you have snagged around something then following this plan will undo the problem. Suggest you practice in pool to fly in reverse because camera will look like forward camera but all stick functions will be the opposite. eg moving ahead in reverse turning left or port following your umbilical will stick movement aft and to the right or starboard
3. Make sure that you check your tide tables. Ensure you know high and low tides and the directions that it is running. Also check whether they are Spring or Neep tides because the former may ruin you day. Also good umbilical management. Too much out and it then becomes a sail and the drag becomes excessive. These windfarm platform structures are in water depths of 20-30m. Shallow water is fast running. I was once asked to hold station at the J tube or mousehole where power cable enters structure. I was red lining the props as oil was getting hot and stated I was withdrawing to a safe space. Was ordered to remain in position some clown suggested using robotic arm to clamp to structure. I stated increasing current speed was creating eddys around the structure. We recovered a short while later after we ripped the robotic arm off.
@@NoelDuffy-t1e Thanks for all of that! This drone has a t-shaped thing on the rear that a slip loop in the cable attaches to to keep direct pressure off the main cable connection. I really need to work on spinning 180 degrees the next time I get stuck to see where the tether is.
I do the underwater inspection of these structures as well as fixed leg oil platforms. Thank you for no music.
Does the growth of marine organisms that cover the structure affect the structural integrity or lifespan over time? Is that what you test for? Maybe salt water is the biggest villan?
@@mortonbortell3755yes those platforms will need to be serviced eventually. Those divers that go down make big money as it’s an inherently dangerous job.
@@awdobsession717 talk about a booming industry. All the farms going up everyday. Are there a lot of companies doing it??
@@mortonbortell3755 they probably have a sacrificial anode made of zinc, it will rot and protect the steel structure. The splash zone is most susceptible to corrosion.
In other words ur rich lol
The way scars heal and things adapt is quite frankly amazing. Nature knows nothing except continual progression and expansion.
Equilibrium.
Nature dies off.
Wrong! Nature, (the earth etc.) does NOT progress. It is in a constant state of decay. Mountain crumble, they do not grow higher except those rare times that magma is built upon itself, but other than that, mountains go down, not up. EVERYTHING erodes.
@@kevinmclain6741and that's a fact. We can't avoid the inevitable out come from inescapable natural disasters that cleanse the earth.
@endlessmountainoutdoors yeah I hate these nonsensical fallacious statements
When I was graduate Oceanography student in the 90's there were only a few ROV's in the country capable of doing this and it cost 100's of thousands to support. Its cool that s its become available to normal consumers.
I tell my kids almost daily how lucky they are. Don't get me started on how much more challenging photography was only 20, or even 10 years ago.
Getting the drone back in one piece-best catch ever! 😂😂
Wow, lots of life appreciating this artificial reef.
No distracting music is a BIG PLUS !
super massive i agree
Wow, thank you. I started watching half thinking there was going to be a negative environmental impact, but, the biodiversity was great.
Wind Farms are an IDIOTIC waste of money. They don't come close to paying for themselves. They are stupid and although THEY CLAIM to be green they are ANYTHING but.
Under oil rigs is amazing, they draw life and divers
Much ocean life loves the cover. That's why places like to create artificial reefs by sinking old ships and such. Attractly the wildlife and that attracts fishermen and divers.
Derrrrrt, now I'm voting for kamala derrrr
@@dubdub680 dude please not here jesus christ
We have a wind farm off our coast here and since it went in and stopped big net fishing and made a safe area sea life has got so much better. I never Sean seals before along coast but see them every few days now.
I wonder if environmental impact assessments capture this kind of positive news
Man, THAT was a LOT more rewarding that freeing a 25$ lure!! Very interesting to see the underwater structure of the tower. Also a great artificial reef situation! Great Video, John.
Ha! I almost wish it was me who freed it so I could have had that feeling!
Just a 1300$ drone lmao
"and I will never do it again" ... welcome to world of drone photography :D
Thank you for sharing and putting this together
Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU...for not adding music !!!
Well. I appreciated this video. Have heard lots of negativity on these saying how it destroys the ocean floors and marine life. I now see just the opposite like everything else being reported. Nice video. Amazing.
Oil rigs are also artificial reefs that are teeming with sea life.
You will never here the eco nuts admitting that but it is true.
Anytime you put a big, static structure in the sea it becomes like an oasis in a desert and life flourishes. Remove that structure and you create a lifeless desert.
Where are all the dead whales I heard the turbines were killing😁😁😁
@@randaltotten9358 that man says that stuff he sitting in front of a mirrors puddings spray make up orange on him. Yep, you know it I don’t care anybody says he’s a moron ain’t hurting a dang thing.
Windmills are bad😳MAGAt Misinformation 🤷🏻♂️
Do you know what chemicals they pump into the sea floor when placing the pillars holding it? If you did you wouldn't be happy
Looks like a healthy sea bed to me. Good job designing the windmill system.
Isn't the main counter argument about the impact on whales specifically? I've never heard anyone claim a windmill kills all life from the vibrations. Obviously harder to investigate a whale count with a small crew and one camera.
@@AMpufnstuf how do they tie whale deaths to the towers . humans drove whales to the point of extension . now they are comming back some die . reading an old norse saga .finding a dead whale on the beach was a prize worth fighting over.
@@AMpufnstuf Shipping and especially sonar causes whale death because it ruins their hearing.
They are not supposed to be out there … good job liberals , green new deal …lol
@@repete2362 "How do 'they' tie whale death to the towers"? That's an EXCELLENT phrase to google search! And it won't take any more effort or time to type that into the google search bar than it did to type it here.
thank you for no music
You're welcome!
Amen to that! So many videos are ruined by music.
I third that statement! Thank you for No music!
Agreed. Too many videos are ruined by mindless royalty-free music that nobody wants to hear in the first place.
@@johnsmith-gk4ry ❤ exactly ! And not just music, but loud marching band music
I think what I find the most surprising is the amount of light available at 90'.
Great observation. I saw the same at Cartwright off Montauk. 50 feet down in peconic bay is black.
pelagic zone. haha ever since i learned that word a few years ago i just love to say it. i like the way it sounds i dunno why. pelagic, pelagic, pelagic, PELAGIC!!😂
pelagic zone being the depth of water from surface down to about 1,000 meters… or feet can’t remember which and of course 1k feet and 1k meters is a huge difference. Anyway, the thing I read said that in certain “perfect” conditions, sunlight can be detected even down to a 1,000! crazy to think about what conditions that would be? Maybe like in the Caribbean where that crystal clear seawater is.
SCUBA diving the sunken reef ships off Key Largo, FL you can see the ships clearly from the surface. The ship sits on the bottom at 120 feet.
@arlenbell4376 I guess I'm surprised cuz this is off the coast of New York, and not very far off shore. I'd expect the waters in Keys and southern waters to be very clear at practically all depths. I just didn't expect it up north.
I worked off shore for 30 years. The platforms I spent years on were loaded with fish. You name it and you could catch it. Maybe the sounds of the wind turbine is different than a production platform. We had generators and HUGE gas compressor running 24hours a day
Wind turbine bases are a structure, but there's no pollution in the water around them. They become an almost ideal habitat for some marine biology. (especially barnacles and other mussels)
@@vincentrobinette1507 oh! The utopia! We finally managed to keep all our conscience at bay! It doesn't matter that those steel and composite structures will never get back the energy that was spent producing, transporting, installing, maintaining and decommissioning it, but as long as it has the right label on it ("renewable" - which is not, it's not even recyclable), we're on board!
@vincentrobinette1507
are they different from land based turbines? I've climbed 10 different ones, quite a few times each, in 5 states, over the past dozen or so years.
Not once have I got off of any of them w/out gear oil soaking my clothes. We put our rigs (parachute and container) in trash bags before every climb to avoid destroying the nylon. The ground around every one of them is always damp w oil seeping from the tower.
Exactly, they’re making it look like these things don’t cause cancer don’t cause air pollution, as well as noise pollution they make it look like it’s not disrupting the frequency of the ocean and not killing the sea light. and all of these people that are so proud to be working on this project really need to take a look around at what the implications of these really are. They’re inspecting them. Do they see the cancer that has caused did they see everything that has died?… I don’t know about you, but we need to do everything we can do to preserve nature and God‘s beautiful earth.. We need to do everything that we can do to stand up for nature because nature doesn’t have a voice.. we need to do everything we can do to live in Harmony with the. big houses aren’t gonna feed you money money is not going to turn into water. The earth provides that… what we do here and now and every moment decides the future for our children. I encourage you to go to the people that are protesting these windmills and obtain the information that they make available... these windmills are coming to a backyard near you. Your property value will be diminished to nothing and you will have no option, but to just lose everything that you worked for your whole life. This is what is happening to people that live near the ocean.. I greatly appreciate winter horse 290 and this was not meant for you. It was meant for the people that are reading the comments. I understand that you are also concerned as I am of the future after they put these destruction towers in our beautiful oceans… big love world peace may the greater good prevail for all🌎☮️💗
@@RyanM-ke2gu preach it !!!! because these people obviously do not understand the implications of these wind turbines, and how many people are fighting them and their voices being shut down by The corporations that are putting them in. I love that you are explaining about the oil because those oils are cancerous as well. Just like the pesticides killed over 120,000 farmers the gas is in oils from this are doing the same. We have to stop poisoning this earth.. We have to use healthy sustainable options.. windmills are not healthy nor sustainable. What people don’t understand that the frequencies that are being used that they don’t see and may not hear at the time are very hazardous and then the frequencies that you do here when they put the generators next to your homes will make you leave it will make you run from your home.
I'm glad you said you're not going to do it again, I could not hold my breath much longer. Geesshh! Great to see what's down there though.
😂 I like your comment the most
I have a very similar v6 expert drone. Im not that experienced with it, but when my line started to get tangled around some logs i pointed the drone back where i had come in from and just followed the cable as my helper pulled in the slack. Was able to keep from getting it tied up and stuck. This isn't a criticism, but you didn't look back at your cable to see why you might have got tangled. You were lucky that just pulling was able to retrieve it.
My sincere thanks for the absence of any irritating “music”… bravo!
Sea life doesn't take long to find a new place to live, wrecks and structures make a good place for a new reef and a place for fish to live.
This video was awesome!!! When man uses earth’s resources in a environmental friendly way - every creature benefits 😎😊
Lot of life on and around those legs for the offshore windmill. It has its own habitat for corals, mussels and fish. Looks like its a healthy environment.
78 year old retired certified diver here. Near 50 years ago my dive buddy wife and I migrated from this nasty stuff to the aqua blue waters of S. Florida. Thank you for reminding me why! The next heat wave and hurricane is going to seem like a small price!
Wakodahatchee Chris
What's the deal? We have known for ages that fish will seek out shade and that coral polyps and mollusks will attach to anything kind of structure. Ask any boat captain out of Orange Beach, AL how many structures they have dropped overboard to make artificial reefs, the coordinates of which they guard with their lives.
It takes practice. My brother said he had to understand the control buttons then he got the hang of it.
Pretty awesome 👍
I need to label the controller with a marker, else I sometimes mess up a bit.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing So I'm into remote control fun. Cars and boats are easy, but once you add the 3rd dimension, up and down, it becomes far more complicated. I like flying, and a sub, like you're using, also has that 3rd dimension. Keep practicing, you'll get it. I can fly kinda ok now, still learning. Lol
Really glad you didnt have to draw straws to see who swam down for it!
Did not expect THAT much life!! Incredible refuge area to help ocean ecosystem.
And what happens if they have to do repairs on those windmills or replace them?
@@efwaves4665 then there is sime disruption of an ecosystem that would otherwise not existed at all. You sound like a vegan who does not want us to kill farm animals, and forgets that the youd not exist in the first place, if they were not bred to be eaten later. Lifetime of a windpark is 20-30 years minimum, then you normally install newer larger turbines, at least on land. time will tell, if they will go the same rhythm offshore as well.
@@efwaves4665 I imagine the fish will swim away until they finish, then come back.
@@efwaves4665 hahaha, what if, what if !!!!!
John just says gimme that thing and then just starts pulling it back up. lol 😂 great work John!
Funny how happy I was when the drone came up. Wow, didn’t expect to see that save.
I’d like to say thank you to this Orsted, the company that owns and built this wind farm. Their amazing technology has shtredded twice this summer in normal winds, and our pristine cape cod and rhode island beaches are full of millions of tiny pieces of the foam core of the blades, and huge chunks of carbon fiber. their clean up plan isto motivate us, the locals, to go out and clean it up for free. reminds me of oil spills where the company has no plan for catastrophe. thanks Orsted.
Could be an oil spill, count yourself lucky
@@johnhartley3022 any pollution like this is unacceptable
Omg quit crying you could have oil wells smh
so, you’d rather have oil spills?
What makes y’all think if there wasn’t a wind farm there, there would be oil wells there instead?
What we see is life thriving below a wind farm! Very interesting. Thanks for the video!
Underwater structures related to shipwrecks, wind farms and oil and gas rigs get covered with marine growth. Likewise hard-bottom where sand and sediment is scoured away all support a wide diversity of larvae, fish, shellfish etc all the way up the food chain. In the GOM, sportfishing reports refer to the locations - rigs that are abandoned, drilling or producing - and the types of fish that are biting. On the rigs I was on in the 1970s there were always avid fishermen on board - we ate the catch a few times a week.
Absolute legend! Skinner knows what’s what and when to “never do that again”
😂😂 “I’ll never do this again”…..famous last words. The allure of the adventure is too great 🤩. Awesome video and instantly I thought oh wow not as intimidating under there as it seems when floating in a boat. Looks so peaceful with all the fish hanging out and socializing down there and I I was surprised to see so many different fishes all together. Our imaginations run wild when looking down at the dark watery abyss, sharks and other creatures ready to eat us alive when in reality it’s so peaceful and beautiful for the most part. Great video. 👍
I know how you felt there John, I got my kite stuck in a tree once. Unfortunately, I didn’t have Rick with me.
😂
i went on a fishing expedition in Louisiana which was frikkin awesome and fun, and, the guide specifically took us out to the oil rigs to fish the footings. Fantastic structure which i did not know before. Caught my first ever sheepshead and my first ever spadefish on it! All we did was free line shrimp! Easy fishin! Well… haha.. easy if you gotta boat to get there.
5:40 Subsea Engineer here. The 'Jacket' is the name of the underwater structure. What you saw when you first landed is the edge of a mud mat, used to prevent scour of the seabed by current & wave action.
Thanks for that info!
The few square meters covered by the windmill support at least cannot be devastated by fishing boats doing bottom trawl every few weeks...
I was feeling anxious watching you get stuck than more anxious when i checked your Amazon link and saw the cost. Cool video.
John, the concrete linked blocks I believe in your video are anti scour mats,used around the base and over transmission lines. We installed may of these over the years in Boston waters….Mike…(retired commercial diver)
Can you briefly describe their function for those unfamiliar with the term?
@@steveh8724 I can. The term "scour" refers to the washing away of sand by currents. Anti-scour methods, in this case, is the use of concrete mattresses that are laid over the inter-array submarine cable route to not only prevent scour, but on a hard bottom like off Block, would prevent trawls or anchors from damaging the cable. Anti-scour material in the form of granite rocks is dropped around the bottom of offshore wind foundations to prevent scour there as well. All of this material provides a great sub state for habitat to form on and creates the artificial reef that we fish on. 🎣
@@steveh8724 they are concrete blocks linked together with cable usually with geotextile fabric underneath which are used to protect cables , pipelines, bridge abutments etc from the scouring effect of currents or simply used as armor.
Thank you for no music! I love how these wind turbines are becoming artificial reefs and home to so much life. Wow.
Just so beautiful how healthy these structures are all the way around
I built some of those jackets when I was working at Gulf Island in Houma, LA. Heavy duty stuff on them.
Flying drones for years I have say you were so brave trying this. No visibility whatsoever under a structure like this it looked like as you wanted to lose that drone. Glad you got it back.
It's good to see that these structures have not scared off the fish.
Structures ATTRACT fish because they attract crustaceans and shellfish. The fish attract sea mammals. (Sealions are a major problem for offshore oil platforms - they block access to work platforms and mooring buoys).
My mouth watered at the sight of that first tautog. Best tasting fish I've caught. Love going for them in the winter. Nice porgies and sea bass too!
Lots of good eating down there, and you can start with a mussel appetizer!
Seems to be good for sea life. Although I did see some mussels that were apparently dead and had their shells open. That structure is going to be covered with shellfish, barnacles, and stuff. thicker and thicker.
I imagine the starfish had something to do with that, mussels are a large part of their diet.
Omg! I grew up in Germany with Jaque Custeau on Saturdays! This is so taking me back 60 years! I used to save the fish stickers, and stamps… but liked fish better 😂😂😂
Awesome - I used to watch that too!
Thanks for a great video. Glad you recovered the drone. A little tense for sure.
Those underwater drones are pretty neat. There are a couple of guys over in the UK, on the Lost Mines channel, who explore all sorts of underground mines that can be hundreds of years old. They often encounter mines that have flooded levels, so they get out their drone & see what hasn't been seen or disturbed in many years. Like many new things in life, there is a bit of learning curve involved. One mastered, the results can be breath taking.
funny, i watch that channel too (as well a TVR Exploring, a US mine explorer). i laugh as the fella running their drone, his learning curve seems to be taking longer. i'm always thinking they need a young kid familiar with video games to run it! but indeed great stuff.
and i was thinking as i watched this vid, and he thought he got stuck, just turn and follow the cable, like on Lost Mines.
REALLY appreciate the lack of music!!
Great content!
Everybody hates music!
That is amazing, so many fish.
That was a closey. Well done. At least you got to see how good it will be to fish them now. Have you noticed windmills are rarely turning. Most of the ones I've seen stand still so it makes you wonder how they are generating electricity at all.👍💚💛❤️
This looks like a great ocean floor to me lol
The impact of driving pilings, is a known issue.
After the windmill is there = I am sure the fish like it.
Barnacles and muscles grow, and the habitat starts growing and improving.
Looks great
Looks like great fishing!
Houston..., we have a problem. Leave it to John to handle the emergency like a true fisherman would-- unhang it from the other side. Fun and instructive video. Many thabks!
Oh yeah, beautiful! Can’t wait to get out then and fish under the windmills lol.😀
I used to do pile driving in Louisiana after Katrina. We were flipping houses/land in high value (but also high risk) areas.
The drop height and hammer weight really determine how loud it will be. T-Rex is really an understatement lol.
Heavier hammer + high drop height makes the work happen quicker and breaks through tougher surfaces. In soft New Orleans dirt, we could drove them in so quickly lol.
It can make a SERIOUS noise. Knocking pictures off the walls of neighboring homes is just the minimum. There were people saying we were cracking their windows and walls. And I believe them.
Good video btw. The booming just brought back memories.
l thought you were going to lose that Drone lol...
But you got it back,thanks for that amazing footage my friend.....
Old F-4 II Shoe🇺🇸
This is very similar to offshore oil structures in the Gulf of Mexico. They are great fish attracting devices
Exactly I'm so sick and tired of people crying and complaining about bullshit. There's fish that hadn't been caught in years in the area now back. They put them on land they have a problem with that they put them out in the middle of the water they have a problem with that. People just need something to bitch about seriously. They cry and complain about their energy bills. We know for a fact that nuke plants cause cancer, and then you have to store the waste somewhere more toxic shit spread to another area.
It was interesting, when you were stuck, I felt for ya.
If you haven't and ever get the chance, go dive on an oil rig in the gulf. It's like suddenly being on a coral reef. When you live in endless nothing, the tiniest structure brings in everything you can imagine, much less the giant legs of the rigs.
Thanks for this insight on what the structures are doing for the life in the ocean. I have thought all along the structures would benefit the sea-life and it looks like it does. Oh and so many starfish. Hmmm.
well sound propagates better in water than air which is why you could hear them pounding the pilings for the other windfarm from 12m away since sound moves faster in a more dense medium
Was he underwater talking to you in the video? No that was the above water sound. What do you think it’s doing to those animals that use echolocation and are underwater. Then the hum of the turbines while in operation. I am by no way a save the whales greenpeace idiot but the green new scam causes more destruction than any other energy source. Lithium batteries in EV’s birds and other animals.
They were hearing it above water, not below
Sound does not move better in water
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I'm glad you got that dream back, that underwater footage is really cool
18:15; ahhh come on do it again do it again!😃
Having fished in this area, this is interesting to see the ocean floor on the shelf.
Great video! Thanks for taking us under.
Awesome video , to see something underwater ,, I was operating a crane to build them jackets in Houma,La at Gulf Island Fab. First ever R.I. windmills
Very cool! Thanks for the comment.
So they are good for the environment and the ocean...cool.
No they are not don't be fooled
@@Bassmaster-xd2pn Soooo....don't believe what I see?
@clifflong7944 If you think a couple fish swimming around the base of a windmill is good for the environment your a bigger clown than I thought
@@Bassmaster-xd2pnAdding artificial structure absolutely is good for sea life and recreational fishing. New artificial reefs are being added all the time here in Florida and they’ve made a big difference in areas that were previously dead zones for wildlife.
@Danimalpm1 I agree that artificial reefs are good for marine life. Offshore windfarms are not, however. Yeah, this makes an environment for fish. It also will wreck havoc on the environment during the installation and once they start to fall apart.
John! I have 38 years and thousands hours of diving behind me. The ripple in the sand is from current. Much like wind does to beach sand.
All them windmills and none of them are spinning..
Probably because, as with land based windmills, they can on be used at certain wind speeds. Or they're down for repair.....which is often.
Maintenance schedule behind schedule
Meanwhile Mt. Etna is spewing more CO2 than clean burning coal power plants which are shut down.
It doesn’t matter, the money is being stolen from the taxpayers and the government doesn’t care because they’re getting kickbacks from the companies that get the grant money to put them up.
They mentioned another wind farm being built. Which use cabling back to land. Cable infrastructure may not be completed to tie in to the new farm.
Amazing the fish around the drone and not spooked by it
that aluminum center console is sick
HEY!! This is great! I am in Los Angeles, CA. I look offshore and see oil islands and I wondered how they do foundations for turbines. I learned a lot. So, I thought about what windmills do to the ocean floor. Habitat!!! Compare the overall square footage of the ocean bottom that is covered by a support with the total area created by the support, vertically. Look at the growth! Multiple populations! Food Chain City !!
Glad you got some footage. I have dove those towers many times but in better vis. They are an oasis of life on and otherwise baron pebble bottom. When i hear people disparage offshore wind turbines about all the birds they kill it just shows how misinformed they are. They create more habitat for life than they harm. Windows in our houses kills exponentially more birds than wind farms.
I dove these towers even during construction and they were already full of life and the disturbance to the bottom was minimal. The muscles growing on the side of the structure are some of the best I’ve eaten, the water out there is super clean. Lots of big sea bass and black fish and in the summer you sometimes see Mahi on them.
Fish feeders?
Its been shown that 1 blade painted a different color allows the birds to see the spinning blade
@@barfy4751 As he said, glass windows kill millions of birds a year, Turbines don't, they do kill a few but, no where near as much as windows, or cars, planes and every other form of transport....
Water is denser than air, sound travels farther. Cool episode
Looks like a great spear fishing spot
Lovely to see, I´ve got the FiFish V6 (yellow) Found a lot of bicycles, carts, tires and much more. But this is interesting!
Great underwater view
No music makes your videos really pleasant to watch !
Glad you got it back, was nervous there for a minute. Great video.
I thought it was gone for sure. One and done for me on that structure.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing - Would you have dived to retrieve it had it gotten tangled up? Or write it off? $1200 would make it tempting to dive to get it, assuming you have the equipment and skills. 1st time at your channel, pardon my ignorance.
I wouldn't be comfortable diving in that structure.
I was thinking of building a home with a 2 car garage on the ocean floor with a tunnel leeding up to the beach. Then I'd have a door that opens up so my cars can get out, but this video changed my mind.
Wow, thank you very much for treating us to a view we'd probably never get to see! What an amazing amount of sea life - all those skates and other fish! Now I can see why ships are sunk for fish magnets. I only saw one turbine spinning - I wonder why the other ones are stationary? I tried looking up the current status (ho ho - a pun for a power generating wind farm 😜 ) and I couldn't find any updates. They say wind farms aren't good for birds - that's around 14 miles off Block Island or around 28 from the tip of Long Island - not too many birds out there. Lots of sea life... a good thing? Glad you didn't get the drone hung up on the stanchions. Thanks again!
This wind farm is 3.8 miles off Block. There's another under construction farther out.
The first thing you run into is called a submar mat, we use them in the GOM Gulf of Mexico to cover things like pipelines, and underwater structure we don't want snagged by shrimpers. These are also used to separate pipelines from one another, and to cover anything you want covered up. This will boost your sport fishing greatly because it's great habitat for anything that lives underwater.
Awesome info. Thanks!
They are not windmills because they don’t “mill” anything. However they are wind turbines because they drive a turbine that is used to generate electricity.
The blades are the turbine…
Technically a “mill” is a generic machine.
@@allangibson8494I believe the correct term is aero generators, unfortunately not quite as catchy windmills, and lacking the windmills romantacisem😊.
@@CrusaderSports250 A mill wright is someone who builds machinery…
Hammer mills crush rock for example…
Steel mills roll sheet steel…
Paper mills make paper…
Saw mills cut wood…
@allangibson8494 still doesn't alter the fact the correct name is an aero generator.
All your other examples are powered to mill their namesake, does that mean a windmill Mills the wind?😅
@@CrusaderSports250 Windmills are a machine that historically powered all of the examples I gave (just like watermills).
Cotton and wool mills were similarly water and wind powered (but with steam power coming close behind in England when the real automation to weaving happened).
So “mill” is a synonym for a manufacturing plant (or in computer is some 19th century applications (Babbage referred to his mechanical CPU as a “mill”)).
We used to fish around the oilfield jackets in the Gulf of Mexico,, would have loved to see under the surface. We caught all kinds of species ,, fun fun fun. Miss those trips.
This is fascinating, thank you for doing this
I love seeing the bottom like this. Great job!
Can I recommend training with the drone A LOT more?
I’m usually pretty liberal with my critiques and had decided I wasn’t gonna say it, so I’m glad you did! lol
You were very lucky John to recover that drone. Check and see next week how many of your subs are out there fishing. Nice video
So cool. Thanks John. Been hoping one bonus of wind farms would be like how the oil rigs are mini reefs in the Gulf Coast
Certainly a ton of growth on that thing after roughly 8 years.
Don't be surprised if these zones are made off limits to recreational boating. That's what I expect will ultimately happen.
@@1982mako224 yeah, I think you are prob gonna be right about that.
@@commanderblue they just can’t propose those regulations until after they are in place.
@@1982mako224 could be good to have some reefs that can't be fished to be honest (that being said I'm not necessarily advocating for it)
John you are becoming a regular Jacques Cousteau. Thank you for the video.
Loved the drone footage!
It's a giant pile driver you're hearing. Pile drivers are amazing technology. It's so simple yet so advanced.
Awesome footage John!, I have guilt knowing you risked the drone for us! BTW, Aren't we due for a hurricane like '38 and '55? " If a windmill falls in Block Island Sound and nobody hears it, does it make a noise"?
The whales will hear it.
Those FiFish drones are sick man. People are using them in the Keys and Bahamas looking for wrecks and finding some serious treasure !!
The best 2 grand any explorer could spend to find cool stuff without diving all day and breathing tank air for hours on end.
Find your wreck. then dive.
Awesome footage man
You should mount a GoPro to it and go down to the bottom and see what it sounds like when they are doing the pounding. Or i suppose you could just hook the GoPro to a fishing rod. Lol
Second that to hear the sounds when it's on.
Nice save :) .... and looks like the underwater anchor structure has received a big tick from the fish.