West Quoddy Head Light - Foghorn
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2012
- I love the sound of this foghorn. I especially love hearing it as I'm dropping off to sleep. It's so peaceful -- except in this video with all the wind noise! This was taken just after a storm. You can see all the white caps on the water. The tide is pretty high and is breaking over the top of Sail Rock beyond the wire fence.
This lighthouse is at the easternmost point of the U.S. in Lubec, Maine. The foghorn gives 2 blasts at 30-second intervals and the light flashes twice every 15 seconds, when operating. Both are now automated. The foghorn is triggered by the amount of humidity in the air. The 3rd order Fresnel lens in the light is 4'8" tall and is one of only eight Fresnel lenses still in use on the Maine Coast. It can be seen for 18 miles. You can read more about the lighthouse and foghorn history at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Quo....
The Canadian island of Grand Manan lies on the horizon about 9 miles away, shrouded in fog this day. Sometimes you can hear a low-toned "groaner" fog signal between here and Grand Manan.
There's an interesting history of the lighthouse and the fog signals that have been used there (starting with a cannon!) at this website: @www.ncsbarns.com/lighthousewes...
Fantastic.
Easternmost point of the united states. Always wanted to visit this light station.
I like this kind of job very much. If I could, I would be a Bangladeshi.
Yes, still operating. Some of the comments from other people give specifics.
I was devastated to learn that this foghorn is no longer triggered automatically. I used to love hearing it when I stayed in the area. Now the Coast Guard, as part of a nationwide effort, opted to switch to a “mariner-activated system” in which boaters use VHF radios to trigger a foghorn only if they happen to need it.
I just read this about foghorns in this location: "In 1903, a Canadian firm began marketing the diaphone, a fog signal powered on compressed air. ... West Quoddy Head quickly adopted the diaphone and used it until the 1930’s when a modern electric foghorn replaced it." This must have been an improvement over the cannon that was first used.
Ok thanks :) Great video and well shot ! :)
Awesome 🥰
Thanks, Joey. I'm enjoying your comments. You are much more knowledgeable about all of this than I am, tho your first comment prompted me to do some online research. I read that the FA-232 can be heard only 1/4 to 1 mile away. I certainly hear the foghorn that I recorded from further away than that.
Seems very quiet, and in those windy conditions, it wouldn’t carry very well. How loud was this?
wish it were a diaphone they are soo hard to come by, I know there are a few out there that still have functioning ones they use for guests and for show, but just not all that many of them.
Meraviglioso
Fog horn hear 65 mile way 126 db
It looks like the foghorn (the primary one, heard most of the time) you have in the video was not working for a while and the "beeper" was doing its job as the backup: "West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in the Fog " posted by xxa455xx , for example. Some lighthouses have had the type at West Quoddy replaced by the FA-232 "beeper" since it uses less power - this has happened at Boon Island, Watch Hill, and some others. It also cannot be heard as far away.
BTW, this tone is what I've always associated with this foghorn. I think the Channel light (the sparkplug) has a higher pitch, so I wondered if some of the other videos I saw were picking up that one instead -- but I didn't try timing them, etc.
Casa
Is this a fairly recent video? Others from the past several months have the two FA-232 "beeps", making me wonder if they've turned off the higher power signal.
It was taken last week. I noticed that this signal seems to have a lower pitch than ones I heard in some other videos. Is that what you are referring to?
@Jack Earns It is in Lubec, Maine, on Quoddy Head.
Here in ireland the fog horns have being switched off for god
Nice Lighthouse ! :D Are the foghorns over where you guys are in the US and Canada still operating ? Here in Ireland they have been switched off for good as they were replaced with radar signal things instead of foghorns :/ Still wish they were operating although , maybe i`m wrong there could possibly be some foghorns still operating around Irish waters but at off shore Lighthouses ( but i still don`t know really to be honest since new technology keeps coming in like every few years :/ )
Yup, they are electronic but they still sound
@@wng8993 miss the fog horn at roches point
5 weeks? 2 days?
I'm not clear what your question is.
@Armand d’Hubert Thanks, Armand. That film has intrigued me, but I haven't seen it yet.
Fog speaker.