Kayaking & Exploring the Infamous Staten Island Ship Graveyard in NYC

Fascinating video, Matt. AGAIN !!! Loved it. I just subscribed. I was hoping you wouldn’t fumble your phone when you guided it into the ship. Also, when you drifted into the boat I was praying that it wouldn’t collapse on you. It would’ve been your tomb. The Arthur Kill is very interesting. It’s quite narrow, yet full of great stuff, as you demonstrated. I wonder how you got to Carteret Park from wherever you live. Not the easiest place to find, even with a GPS. I don’t live terribly far from there. And yes, someone mentioned the Third Ave. bridge over the Harlem River having trouble closing. I believe you were just there recently. The video with the Big C block. Columbia. Thank you, Matt.

Really appreciate these videos! I’ve always loved all the water surrounding NYC. I left last summer after being there half my life. It’s so fun to watch these.

Oh Brother!!! There he is at it again!! Great Tracking !! Loved this video!!

Another great video and amazing content. Another aspect of your videos i love is the allure and adventure you take us on. It's as first person as a video on a kayak can get.. and you never disappoint with the ideas! Keep it up Matt!

Matt can you come up to Westchester and do some paddling 🫶🏽

Interesting documentary and kayak ride. Beautiful day for you.

Thanks for the video years ago I saw that graveyard when I sailed on a tanker I lived in Jersey and always wanted to go back and explore it don’t think I’ll get the chance so thank you

wow i love this sm

What excellent content this week Matt! It is amazing that someone "owns" this property and the state allows it! Keep 'em coming

Amazing place, great video.

Great video thank you! The Witte family still owns this amazing piece of history.

Great content. It's Kinda sad those ships haven't been recycled. Its not a reef. lol.. I wonder who owns that area. TY for sharing.

This is a dangerously IRRESPIONSIBLE video.
I greatly admire all your work, but in this case, I hope you realized that you foolishly and very literally risked your life to film this video. I have known this Staten Island graveyard well for years, and for every ship that is partly above water, there are scores of others sunk out of sight just below the surface with sharp, knife-like shards of rusted metal like you see in the wrecks above. That, plus all the unforgiving long iron nails that remain upright as the only remnants of those wood barges means that just below the surface of this very filthy and polluted water, a sure, potentially fatal disaster is waiting to happen. What you could NOT see underneath you could very easily have punctured or shredded that fragile fold-up kayak of yours and THEN where would you be ?-- You can't walk to shore because your feet and legs would be cut to pieces, and you can't swim out for the same reason. I BEG anyone who thinks that they too can explore this section of the Kill Van Kull in a small boat to stay away. Two Feet Outdoors was extremely lucky to have gotten out unscathed -- it may NOT be the same for YOU.

Such much maritime history there, thanks for a great video !

The things just beneath the water are mobster bones.

WOW what a trip. do those ships belong to anyone? is it trespassing to kayak into that area since no one owns the water. how and why did it become a ship graveyard? can i come with you next time?

I live up the street and want to get a kayak to explore this and the rest of the island

I live on Staten Island (originally from farmland Kansas) and have ridden the waves of the Arthur Kill, in my case the other direction, from Staten to Jersey.

So awsome!!

LETS GOOOO!!!!

My grandfather and uncle were ship mechanics at the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Navy yard back in the day. They spoke of how they would take the good parts off of vessels no longer used and haul the skeletons out to sea to be sunk or to Staten Island. I'm sure they were on some of the wrecks you passed. Pretty cool

what is that kayak brand

Where are the zombies? 😅

The WWII sub chaser PC1124 is there. The 1st US Navy to an all. Proud Crew of Americans of African heritage. Admiral Gravely the 1st US Navy Admiral of African heritage served on PC1124 during WWII

Please be very careful, that you don’t contaminate your food or drinks with water that may contain diseases, such as Weil’s Disease.

Also, be wary of any open wounds, scratches etc. that you may have on your hands/arms.

great video brother. you should do a foggy day version of this adventure !.

you have the guts of a burglar. I'd be so nervous of hitting something underwater. Awesome video, thanks!

I guess stupid question, but why couldn't these ships have been scrapped for metal?

The real world people don’t know about that hides in plain sight
Very interesting and informative
Thank you for bringing this to us in your great videos

great video.

Shouldn’t you have a kayak flag for safety?

I would love to see how this area looks with a full moon low tide.

After watching several of your videos I was shocked to see that you don’t have nearly as many subscribers that I thought you would. I then realized the channel is new so keep it going. This is quality content and I’m especially interested because I’m from Brooklyn born and raised and now reside in Breezy Point. You should come out here and film we have great water access, bay and ocean. Good luck from a fellow Matthew.

Superb content

They need a new flag on that pole.

Did you see those 2 hangers inside that ship you filmed the inside of? man those must have been there since ww2 !!!!!!!!

Another excellent video. So much fun to watch! Also, your production level just keeps getting better and better!

When I was a kid I used to take my 12 ft boat out there I would never get too close to those wrecks at low tide there is so much debris sticking out of the water iwas always afraid to hit something and poke a hole in the bottom of the boat there is alot of wrecks under water you can just see the tip of some of them

You should team up with @mobileinstinct one of these days

I was stationed at Governors Island back in the mid seventies. I used to patrol past there fairly frequently back then, what a change now. Thanks for the memories! Good job.

Cool ride...thanks for taking us along! Besides the osprey, did you encounter any other animals or fish? Going thru those dilapidated barges was kind of scary! Was afraid you bump into something and just the thought of being tossed into that murky water was crazy!!!!

My father and one of his friends took me out in a canoe through this graveyard and it spooked the crap out of me seeing the ships underwater, pretty sure it triggered submechnaphobia or something in me because sunken ships still fascinate and freak me out at the same time. This was about 35 yrs ago and there was a lot more sunken stuff out there, bits of boats sticking out everywhere and we kept bumping into stuff 😬

A great adventure and a little spooky around the ships! Love seeing ospreys. I lke wearing polarized sunglasses while paddleing {I wear glaases anyway} as it alows me to see whats below the surface better.
Great video!

How many miles round trip did you kayak?

Fun fact - Giuseppe Garibaldi lived on Staten Island and worked on ships and around the docks before he set off to start the Italian Revolution in 1860.

I started following the channel cause you have some amazing content, This video had me on edge, I was worried you were going to get stuck and living 20m away from that spot I would never dream of going around or even near those ships. Did you prep for this? or you went on the fly.