NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped Into The Ocean - You Won't Believe Why!
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Interesting Facts About Life it is ok because alto of that will be biodegradable
without even seeing most of the video. old subway cars are dumped into the ocean or other bodies of water to create artificial reefs for fish and other sea life.
repoman how did u know
because I have seen other videos on youtube and TV explaining what they do with the old cars and I have seen it in person just off the coast of where I live.
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In 2000 years, this is going to mindfuck archaeologists
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When aliens discover us, they’ll want to question why there are big rectangular boxes in the sea.
Still seems like an awful waste, why not recycle the steel to make new subway cars?
coolbluelights Because it makes too much sense.
they are contaminated with asbestos and apparently its cheaper to dump them in the sea to make artificial reefs than to get the asbestos removed
ones that don't have asbestos will probably be scrapped
OM G costs a fortune to get asbestos removed . this is because it is highly carcinogenic and it can't be let into the air , it can only be removed by highly trained people in certain locations . google asbestosis to see what I mean. a lot people have died of it . also , from what I can read , the far east has flooded the market with scrap metal . you would get more money breaking them for parts then trying g to scrap them.
coolbluelights excellent idea but it would depend on how much plastic goes into making up the train. it all costs money. if you can make a decent profit out of it then most likely that will happen . that being said if there is no profit big companies don't see the point. not all plastics can be used for storing food . it must be food grade plastic.
So, dumping actually STARTS new life systems? Cool. I've seen it done with decommissioned boats and ships once or twice. I take it the Subway cars now have swimming room only.
This is... Atlantic Ocean Station. This is the last stop on this train. Please leave the train, thanks for riding with Metropolitan Transportation Administration.
Wjimenez923 it’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority
It goes like this.
"This is the last stop on this train. Everyone please leave the train and thank you for riding with the MTA New York City Transit."
Why can't these railway cars be taken to a metal scrap yard this is not the right way to dispose of these carriages
BC it's just like that
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The cars are dumped at the ocean to go with the ecosystem and make an artificial reef at the bottom of the ocean.
The cars are dumped to form an artificial reef which provides a habitat for fish and other creatures. It is also an attraction for scuba divers.
+Richard Head lol
John Quinn they are trains without asbestos so they're not recyclable
These cars could've been used for museum pieces, homeless shelters, vacation bungalows, &c.
O, well the pollution would be nil, this makes more sense than that big garbage patch in the pacific; THAT could be recycled with a few nations' cooperation. People are too damn lazy!
John V There is no way that a train car could ever be placed as homes for the homeless because the city is too crowded and it would have to be placed somewhere far far away where there's lots of room, but only that'll just makes things worse because it would just sit there and rust from rain and poison the waters. Now i no expert on this but i do know it has to be placed far away and it rusts if not maintainedl
Museum pieces? Think of the massive amount of cars you are talking about. How many museums would want one?
Homeless shelters? Are you going to pay to refurbish them, to provide electricity and plumbing for the homeless to live in them?
Would you want a homeless shelter set up across the street from your house made up of old subway cars?
Zudemaster, I agree that there are way more cars than museums that would want one. But as far as homeless shelters are concerned, the cost of conversion wouldn't be so much if the homeless people provided all the labor. They have time on their hands and we all know an idle mind is the devil's workshop. Yes, I would rather have a homeless shelter set up across from my home than to have unsheltered homeless people living there.
John V totally agreed
I do this with all my ex girlfriends that are no-longer needed. How do you get them to sink though?
ROCKS.
quickcrete and a 56 quart plastic storage box and then kill them and position the body so the feet are stuck in the wet cement. Let it dry then drop into ocean. Boom and your done.
Mason and by doing it that way you are also feeding the crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and catfish. So you are giving back to the environment. What a great guy Mason is, giving back to the planet.
How?simple....just cut a massive hole in her body.
big rock
And when the Human Race dies the Aliens will think of it as an Atlantis.
dbkoob nyc yes
dbkoob nyc so long as liberals run the world. We WILL die.
Ayy lmao
lol the snow flakes r commuies yes they will kill us
This has been done for a long time. Recycling bits of steel from old subway cars might cost more than producing steel from scratch. I read somewhere that the useful life of rail cars is about 40 years. NYC probably uses them for as long as they can.
roachtoasties What you see here is about 60 years old, so yes.
I would get upset when I would hear about this happening. Thank you so much for sharing this story. I'm going to share it on my Facebook page in hopes people will keep it going and see what a BEAUTIFUL ecosystem NYC has from old subway cars. I didn't realize they took everything off that could eventually rot away and float to the surface. Thank you! Thank you!
one day they won't be careful and dump subway cars over the wreck of the Titanic
I knew about things like that before and I think it's really a cool. Anyhow I also think it would be better to really recycle all Metal.
***** Yeah, that's what I thought too. Maybe they could use better material to create artificial reefs.
If recycle that metal is better making reefs out of steel and paint and other stuff isn't that cool …
No This Is Stupid It's Never A Good Idea To Put Any Subway Cars Into The Ocean Especially R32's Because That How We Destroy Our Own Planet.
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Why would you want to create an artificial reef out of something that over time rusts away? So in a sense the reef is doomed to self-destruct in 80-100 years.
Before anyone else comes along and writes "why did they just scrap/recycle the trains!" or some other line.
The trains were loaded with asbestos. when this stuff is airborne, it's basically deadly, causing lung cancer. To remove it, you need specialized equipment, you need specially trained personnel and you need a safe place to do it. all of these are expensive and time consuming. They tried it once, doing it the way you all would have preferred, it took them weeks just to do one train.
The MTA had two choices, spend more than the trains were worth to get the asbestos removed, or just get rid of them.
Reefing them was chosen because Asbestos is harmless when immersed in water. the trains were power washed clean of anything that could harm marine life before being loaded on to the barges and dumped.
Still pollution in my view.
The trains should be recycled.
Princess ナコルル they're not recyclable they put it in the empty spaces of the ocean where life can't thrive unless you put a habitat where coral can form then fish can come and survive many of which are endangered so don't judge before you do research
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How do the fish know about it? How do they get there? You think they get a brochure in the mail saying "Come to Fish Terminal in the middle of the Atlantic" or you think they just swim out to the middle of the ocean looking for a new housing project? Research is good, but you also have to think before you come up with cockeyed schemes.
Steel vehicles, of course
I believe they do this as a way of restoring coral reefs in the area. So the cars act as rock that the coral can attach to and then grow. It helps to revitalize the coast
The after 5 and 10yrs pictures make you wonder how the Titanic has survived so long,perhaps its just because its so deep.
True. At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean there is little oxygen to cause corrosion. However, corrosion still happens, but more slowly. Hence, the "rustcicles" you see in photos. There are also iron-eating bacteria that are dissolving the Titanic, too. It will not last forever. Nothing does.
This is also sometimes done with ships, that of course have been cleaned of all noxious substances before being sunk.
I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW IT WAS FOR A REEF THINGY!
Lol
I've come across this sort of thing when diving off Florida, where some old barges have been sunk. It works very well.
they could use the carts to make low cost houses for poor people ,just like how they use shipping container.
I think it's just evil . I am sure a lot of those cars could have been updated and given a longer life .
I miss those old trains , now there either scrapped , throwing in the water , in a yard ready to be scrapped or used ,or in a museum
here's an idea how about using those old cars to make housing for the homeless and also for low-income families
What a waste of money, you can't tell me it's cheap to clean those cars, better send them to the scrap yard where they don't need to be cleaned.
I whoud pay to turn one of those into a apartment
@thoughtAbyss 748, I think that is an excellent idea - But where to put them ?
excellet idea or start a new "subdivision" made up of subway apartments
like a ship that sinks it makes a good habitat for fish
At least they don't have a loco-motive for doing this. There is light at the end of the tunnel for the sea-life; they can't express how happy they are. They now have more algae to chew chew on.
Too many puns!!!
lmao
The metal can't be recycled?
It would be polution if they left all the oil and other toxic stuff in the cars, but the way they do it, it makes the ocean better.
Recycling the metal would be far better than creating an artificial reef. Producing new metal destroys marine life so this is actually counterintuitive.
R32 An Train that was thrown into the ocean is still here On the C,J,Z,N and R lines
1, g and F lines too
No the G and F has the R38 and the 1 has the R62
lol train nerds. but then again knowledge is power.
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There are still a few R32s left in revenue service until probably end of 2017.
Well creating an artificial reef seems nice, but then it also means new metals have to mined out of the earth, refined and processed to make new cars rather than simply recycling the old ones, which creates a lot of air pollution, not to mention wastes the earth's metal reserves, which are a finite resource. So I am definitely NOT sold on the idea of this being an environmentally friendly thing to do!
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Throwing subway cars into the ocean will contaminate the ocean.
makes sene
Very good chance the older cars had asbestos sprayed in to the cars for sound deadening or insulation. The cost would be astronomical to recycle them as the asbestos would have to be removed before they can do anything safely.
and the fish don't have to pay to ride when the earthquakes come
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Crazy amazing how this stuff works.
The only problem is if there are any heavy metals like lead cadmium or mercury in these train cars. That would pollute the ecosystem.
it just like a ship wreck for the fish
They are just ruining the people's hard work back then when the trains were made
Great idea. I was in Maui a few years ago. When I was snorkeling I saw two aluminum or steel lawn chairs under the water. They were embedded in coral. You could only see half of them. Beautiful coal was growing on them. Probably 5 more years and the chairs will be completely hidden in beautiful coral. This is a tremendous idea.
10 years after the red bird in the ocean you can actually see the red color
I'm sure they're not doing it for the environment. They would be doing it because it's the CHEAPEST solution! If they could make a buck by recycling them they would.
They put the cars into the ocean to create coral reefs for fish
I remember helping a friend that lives on the east cost,we took his trash to the dump and it was literally a act of congress to dump it, you have to show your tax statement with proof of ownership of your home along with your ID and a valid permit. Now you want to know why they dump in the ocean. This is why
I dont think the mayor of NYC has ever heard of "Recycling" before?
the mayor has no direct authority over transit. It's a state agency. and the trains were loaded with asbestos. this was safer and cheaper.
It is a waste. You could recycle the steel for other things. But I don't think dumping them should be hazardous. I mean, I don't know it could be a new home for fish?
what a waste of metal
Can't salvage it, the asbestos inside the cars would be too expensive to remove, it becomes dangerous when exposed to air.
So how much can it cost to remove it, compared to the value of stainless steel? Does everything have to be about the dollars? Stainless steel has skyrocketed in price because there isn't enough to go around for all the countries that want it now. China pays top dollar for it, why didn't we sell these cars to them and let them deal with the asbestos? How and why did asbestos get into a container for humans anyway? I think you're just making up silly excuses.
Eddie Knox just shut the duck up
Mateo Nikitin shut up
Many people can think just about themselves. If it is not reused for their own direct benefit, they consider it a waste.
The report seems to say that the cars were dumped in the middle of the icy cold ocean, but there are divers viewing the cars that have been dumped. Divers can't go much deeper than 300' so this doesn't seem to be that far off shore!
all the cities crying poor and they could be getting the scrap value for those ... what a waste.
They'd rather send it to Japan, to use on us again! Lest we forget, history repeats it's self!
Give one to me and I will convert it into a tiny home!
Btw this is cool how they are reusing old trains to help nature
It's a great idea. But some of them would be great to form a tiny home community. They'd last much longer than the standard tiny house build and could stand up to just about anything.
I think they dump train cars in the ocean to make more corals.
I think it would probably be to build coral on it for the fish to have a home or something along those lines! however they could just sell them for their scrap metal worth! now, time to get back to the video :P
Next time you're on the train, think to yourself... "one day this train cart is gonna be at the bottom of the atlantic."
Some facts to sort out some misconceptions. The dumping was intentionally done to reverse damage in areas where coral was damaged due to human activity. Instead of recycling for new trains, you could consider this as recycling for new marine life - certainly a noble idea. Further, this was a project that is now complete and currently the NYCTA scraps their cars for recycled metal just like everyone else.
This has nothing to do with asbestos, nor waste - it was an environmental project that turned out to be successful in promoting aquatic life at the site.
I don't mind the subway cars but a whole aircraft carrier? Those things cost a pretty penny.
I don't know for sure but I am pretty sure they dump them in the ocean to make new fish habitats and stuff.
Artificial reefs, all toxic and hazardous materials removed before they are dropped. I learned about these as a child back in the late 1960's while fishing with my father off the coast of Texas. You want to catch lots of fish, you go fish next to the oil rigs.
Nice didn't know this. Does seem wasteful but NYC is the biggest fish market in the world. I can understand why they would want to create fish habitats to enrich the quality and quantity if fish locally.
If a few thousand years, divers will be like “there was a railroad system before the ocean?!”
why not recycle the subway cars? by recycling they could reduce taking raw materials from the Earth
They remove most of the parts like the wheels, seats, destinstion signs. The empty SHELL is just being put in the ocean
Those could be renovated at low cost for the homeless.
Kids in Africa could have eaten those subway cars
Just kidding. It's really quite amazing how this can easily be used to rebuild marine life.
WHY NOT KIDS IN THE U S A,THEY ARE USED TO EAT JUNK FOOD
I would have taken the subway car on a ship or something and take it home, so that my friends can play in it😅
God forbid we use these cars to house homeless people🙄
I was riding on the subway the other day and I was thinking “This subway car I’m sitting in is gonna be a coral reef in the ocean one day and I get to sit in it before fishes feed in here in the Atlantic ocean”
I love it when humans try to help environment, after all we will live in this planet for the rest of our life!
Using an aircraft carrier as a reef is great until the fish figure out how it works and start launching attackes on New York.
Pretty wasteful! Some young entrepreneur would refurbish these into homes for those without homes!
Those redundant carriages can make homes for alot of homeless people
People: *throws subway carts into the water*
The ocean: *what the hell is this a house?*
This is the correct protocol. What can be hygienically worse than a subway car? It is different from steel to construct a building.
It would not be hazardous because it is metal being put in the ocean the most that can happen is the case rust but other than that nothing else but it is wasteful throwing metal away like that to never be seen again
its very good fish habitat we have been doing it for years off fort Lauderdale coast but it helps bring lots of fish here
There making artificial reefs just like what u see in the movie SharkTale
I first saw this on the weather channel. Very interesting putting subway cars at the bottom of the ocean.
There is a huge difference between being "broken-down" & retired !
Very clever, as long as they don't add to the pollution.
"next stop: *gargling noise* " lol
If an apocolypse occurred, this would be the only remains of the human race---a subway car...
Future Intelligent Species:
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They could recycle the metal this is why people think NYC is so crappy because of this kind of stuff that they do
Don't say artificial reef your going to wake up all the potheads! Huh! Whut did day say? Free reefers in the ocean?
There dumping the subway cars in the Atlantic Ocean so the cars could be with the titanic...lol
my guess is so they can give abandoned fish a place to live.
Why not rebuild them? We'd need a brand-new R100a by Kawasaki which would've saved the MTA tons of cash thwarting the fare-hikes or even lowering the fares.
The Robin-cars are no exception. The MTA should've thought about recycling them all.
Actually, all these cars have been rebuilt more than once during their very long service lives. Most were built in the 1950's and 1960's. Their car bodies suffer from metal fatigue and corrosion from the heavy pounding they get in daily service. They were retired due to maintenance costs and safety concerns. Nothing lasts forever.
What a waste! should have been RECYCLED!
man just think how many homeless people could of used the shelter. no lets make fish houses, you know the things that have lived in the ocean since the beginning of time.
For those complaining, these reefs are very safe and help rebuild sea ecosystems that were destroyed for construction or something. This is an easier alternative than building reefs for that purpose. Also, it's not a bad thing that it is not melted down again. Scrap yards will not be likely to run out of metal for a long time.
Gives an excuse to toss metal stuff into the ocean.
if they rip all the toxic materials out first then there is no harm and then they will make good artificial reefs
Why could they use them for homeless people, so they could have homes.
Those subway cars could have been recycled and then reused for something else.
Recycling the metal would be better option can be used on project on land.
I think the R32s are the closes nexts to be dump in to the ocean about time we do need new trains for ones. :)
They don't even dump the cars into the ocean anymore. They stopped this with the retirement and mass scrapping of the R44s
The wild life is dying in our waters. This sounds like an excuse to dump their garbage in our oceans.
dump garbage , steel and human bi product in the ocean for the eco system . that's a new twist on not polluting earth