Old Harbor Life-Saving Drill
This is a video taken at the newly-restored Old Harbor Life-Saving Station at Cape Cod National Seashore in June 2010. In this video, National Park Service interpretive staff re-enact the rescue procedures used at life-saving stations along the coast to save shipwreck survivors stranded at sea in the late 1870s. The procedures re-enacted date back to the 1870s.
Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Provincetown - Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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The most beautiful places and sight in Provincetown.
Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Provincetown - Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Race Point Beach, Commercial Street, Herring Cove Beach, Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum, Provincetown Library, Cape Cod Provincelands Trail, MacMillan Wharf, Long Point, Province Lands Bike Trail, Province Lands Visitor Center, Provincetown Town Hall, Beech Forest, Provincetown Causeway, Old Harbor Lifesaving Station, Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Wood Island Life Saving Station
Wood Island Life Saving Station
Wood Island Life Saving Station restoration project underway, Wood Island, Kittery Point, Maine
Weather History: Coast Guard Formation 100 Years
In weather history, January 28th, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Act to Create the Coast Guard.
The act merged the Revenue Cutter Service with the Life-Saving Service to create the United States Coast Guard.
The Revenue Cutter Service was founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton. Known then as the U.S. Revenue Marine, it was much like a modern-day volunteer fire department.
The US Life-Saving Service began in 1848 as a private and local service whose mission was to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers.
The organizations were minimally managed by the government with small appropriations for life stations, surf boats, and carronades to assist shipwrecks.
It wasn't until the 1870s when congress authorized $200,000 for the US Treasury to operate the stations and allow full-time crews.
Stations were added along the Coast of Maine, Cape Cod, the Outer Banks, and Texas.
The stations of service broke down into 3 categories, lifesaving, lifeboats, and refugee houses.
Within the years following, more stations were added along more coastline of the U.S.
In 1878, the network was formally recognized as the Life-Saving Service, separate of the U.S. Treasury.
By the time act was signed in 1915, there was already a vast network of almost 300 stations covering both seaboards of the US, the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes.
Today, the U.S. Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Military and is made up of tens of thousands.
Coast Guard Station
Two decades after the end of the Civil War, the first U.S. Life Saving Station at Pensacola Bay was established just four miles east of Fort Pickens. Charged with patrolling the seashore day and night, the crew assisted stranded voyagers. On August 7, 1894 the Norwegian ship Catherine wrecked on a nearby sandbar. The surfmen staffing the station used a wooden dory-type lifeboat to rescue the 15 sailors. The two daughters of the station keeper also aided in the rescue. Although, the Catherine was lost, King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden recognized the two daughters for their help. The Life Saving Station helped save lives along Santa Rosa Island until it was devastated by a hurricane in 1906. The crew salvaged many of the lifeboats and the Lyle gun - a small cannon used to fire a line to ships that became stranded during times when waters were too dangerous to attempt a lifeboat rescue. The current Cape Cod style house dates to 1908. With the founding of the US Coast Guard, the Life Saving Station became a Coast Guard Station and continued to operate until 1986 when it was deactivated. Today, it serves as the Ranger Station and Campground Registration for Gulf Islands National Seashore.
The Charles W. Morgan Restoration & 38th Voyage with Matthew Stackpole, Nantucket Whaling Museum
Candle Factory Lecture Series, May 15, 2018, at the Nantucket Whaling Museum
Writer, sailor, and maritime historian Matthew Stackpole discusses his book on the restoration of the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaleship, and the oldest commercial ship still afloat in the United States. Stackpole also covers his experience on the vessel’s thirty-eighth voyage after undergoing an intensive restoration process in 2014.
Coastal Massachusetts: Culture and History in Cape Cod, Plymouth, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard
Outdoor recreation, world-class cuisine, museums, shopping, and island culture in a fun and family-friendly Massachusetts holiday.
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Whales of Cape Cod
Whales are a part of Cape Cod's history. In the past, many Cape towns flourished due to whaling. For example, thanks to its whaling industry, Provincetown was once one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts.
Today, the Center for Coastal Studies, the Dolphin Conservation and others on Cape Cod are working to protect Cape Cod's remaining whale population.
Rockport & Gloucester
A few video clips from recent explorations with my Mavic Pro Platinum.
Music by Joakim Karud
WHDH-TV 9pm News, February 19, 2018
Weeknight newscast from the independent station in Boston, MA. Some commercials were included. Quality varies due to OTA reception.
Posted for educational and historical purposes only. All material is under the copyright of their original holders. No copyright infringement is intended.
Coast Guard Prepares for Mass Rescue
HMS Ferries offered the use of one of their ferries for the exercise.
Worlds Biggest Blue Whale Fish At Juhu Beach Mumbai
Juhu Beach gave Mumbai a surprise this week. A big whale washed up on the Juhu Beach, check out the video for more.
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Tacoma to Seattle fast ferry study
South Bureau Chief Drew Mikkelsen looks at how the new route would be a trip back in time.
As the Seas Rise, Can We Restore Our Coastal Habitats?
Steven Handel, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
As sea levels rise, the potential loss of coastal habitats is a threat across the globe. This is of particular concern in the eastern United States, where coastlines are largely developed and offer few open spaces for habitats to move inland if present natural lands are lost. Considering the current conditions of coastlines, as well as future development scenarios, Steven Handel will discuss strategies to help maintain our coastal character and the ecological services of coastal habitats that are critical to the social, cultural, and environmental well-being of our region.
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the Association to Preserve Cape Cod
Recorded - February 27, 2018
Harvard Climate Week Lecture: Bud Ris on Climate Ready Boston: Planning for the Challenges Ahead
Bud Ris is Co-Chair of Boston Green Ribbon Commission's Climate Preparedness Working Group and Senior Climate Advisor to the Barr Foundation.
Ris' lecture was presented as a part of a week of climate change-related events called “Climate Week,” organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment in cooperation with a wide variety of partner institutions across the Harvard campus. This week-long program gives the Harvard community, as well as the interested public, exposure to some of the best scholarship and thinking related to climate change at the university.
Keynote by Richard Schechner at the Encuentro 2019 on Wednesday 12 June 2019
Keynote Address / Conferencia Magistral
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PDT (Tijuana, UTC-7) 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. CDT (Mexico City, UTC-5) / 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4) / 23:00 Tuesday 11 June - 00:30 Wednesday 12 June UTC+0
Location / Lugar: Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, UNAM
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Richard Schechner: If Comedy is Divine, Why Do Inferno and Purgatory Come Before Paradise? /“Si la Comedia es Divina, ¿por qué el Infierno y el Purgatorio vienen antes del Paraíso?”
Presentation / Presentación: Didanwy Kent Trejo
Gail Huff: My Husband's Very Strong On Women's Issues
Gail Huff: My Husband's Very Strong On Women's Issues
Rep. Byron Rushing: Slavery and Emancipation in the Invention of Massachusetts | Talks at Google
As part of Black History Month, Google invited MA State Rep & Majority Whip Byron Rushing to give a talk on any topic relevant to the black experience. In this talk, Rep. Rushing delves into the lesser-known history of slavery in Massachusetts.
Rep. Rushing is a historian by training and former President of the Museum of African American History in Boston.
7 Totally Mysterious Stories Involving Unidentified People
7 Totally Mysterious Stories Involving Unidentified People.
What if you were to di3, but no one was able to identify your body? What if you committed a series of terrible crim3s, but no one could identify you as the culprit? What if you went to great lengths to hide your true identity from the world, so that people are still debating who you are long after you’re gone? As we’ve demonstrated before on multiple occasions, there are few mysteries more fascinating than those involving unidentified people. Once again, here are some strange stories involving individuals whose true identity has never been uncovered.
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How Can I Meet You? Knowing Each Other Through Poetry and Medicine
November 8, 2017
Mark Doty
We live in times when empathy—the ability to imagine how it feels to be inside the skin of another—seems to be in short supply. As a writer of poetry and memoir, Mark Doty believes that literature is one of the most powerful tools we have to come close to the subjectivity of another person. The practice of medicine, too, is a work of knowing—of learning who someone is, what they need, and how they might be healed. In this Medical Center Hour, Mr. Doty explores these ideas through writings that grew out of the crisis years of the AIDS epidemic in this country and in recent work concerned with love, time, and citizenship in the human community.
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture Co-presented with the Creative Writing Program, Department of English