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Overlooking The Cement Ship, a known shipwreck in the Nisqually Reach near Dupont, Washington. The ship was a former tank boat constructed & launched on March 3, 1919. Called the Captain Barker, it was constructed by Great Northern Concrete Shipbuilding Company for use of transporting up to 52,000 gallons of freshwater. Later on it served as a sludge-disposal barge by the Rouse Tugboat Company & was renamed Foss 103. It was scuttled in the 1960s at this location, eventually splitting in two. It sits in a lineup of a handful of other nearby shipwrecks that are barely visible on Google satellite imagery. Here kayakers are seen exploring the site - during low tide one can walk up to & explore the wreck.
More info here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13522821/abandoned-concrete-cement-ship-sandbar-east-coast.html
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The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.