911 Boat Lift - worth watching

[Vince_nj1]

[video=youtube;MDOrzF7B2Kg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg&feature=player_embedded#![/video]

 

[wetpaint]

I watched yesterday....Awesome vantage point from another side of the attaqcks.....I just dont think people understand what it was like and this sheds a different look into the terror and the good of people coming together

 

[techmitch]

Pretty cool Vince, thanks for posting.

 

[Brian77]

Great video...I just don't understand how this is the first I'm hearing about this.

I was at work that morning at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, and I remember it like it was yesterday. I made it out of the city by hopping into a plumbing supply van (with about 7 other strangers) that pulled over at the entrance to the Mid-town tunnel. It was just one of many examples I witnessed that day that made me believe we would all get through this.

-Brian

 

[Trucky]

What an incredible account. Half a million people rescued. It's hard to fathom the reality of what it was like to have been there.

 

[Vince_nj1]

Great video...I just don't understand how this is the first I'm hearing about this.

-Brian

Someone sent it to me this morning. I wasn't sure if it was previously posted. Very moving video.

 

[Alex F]

Thanks for sharing, Vince. I'm also surpized that this video is the first time we hear about it in 10yrs.

 

[floriduramax1]

A little "teary eyed" now! Thank you for posting!

 

[alwhite00]

Amazing.

LK

 

[Gofirstclass]

We watched helplessly from WA as the events of the day unfolded. I wish, like many of you, that we'd been able to be there and do something. It was a helpless feeling to sit and watch.

 

[Jack F]

Thanks for posting this Vince, very moving indeed.

I’ve passed it along.

Jack

 

[mistercomputerman]

Vince, way cool. Absolutely amazing.

 

[rondds]

I've already relayed this story on another site but I'll repeat it here...

Amberjack is a party boat out of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, which is where I grew up boating - Alex knows what I'm talking about. I used to watch that boat (or probably it's predecessor) go out twice a day for years, since as far back as I can remember. It was always the biggest and fastest in the fleet.

My wife was working on B'way and 39th street and she walked down to Chelsea Piers, met up with one of our friends who was working on 53rd and 5th. They were crammed onto a party boat (for all I know it could have been Amberjack V !), which got her across the river to NJ. She boarded a NJ Transit bus, which took her to a NJ Transit train, which got her home. The whole process took 7-8 hours.

I closed my office probably around 10am and went home. My father had already collected my daughter from pre-school so I had some time. I drove to where I was keeping the boat I had at the time - Keyport Harbor, which is 20 miles across the water from Ground Zero. I got out of the car and looked northeast, past the Verrazano Narrows bridge to lower Manhattan. About 40 other people and I just stared, dumbfounded, at the plume.

We were out on our 19' Regal that year, on Labor Day, Sept 3, and, as we did all summer long, we headed over to Sandy Hook for the day. Also, as we did all summer long, we cut through a restricted area (it's on the charts) off of Naval Weapons Station Earle. Only that particular weekend, however, we were chased out by a military RIB with angry looking men bearing automatic weapons.

 

[endless seas]

Thank you.

 

[JVM225]

That was a great and very moving video. I have seen hundreds of photos and scores of video footage and as graphic as the images are they don't come close to portraying the atmosphere down there that day or the days that followed.

 

[matthewmiller01]

Great video. Thanks for posting.

 

[KayKook]

Tom Hanks narrates the epic story of the 9/11 boatlift that evacuation half a million people from the stricken piers and seawalls of Lower Manhattan. Produced and directed by Eddie Rosenstein. BOATLIFT was commissioned by Dr. Stephen Flynn, President, Center for National Policy, for the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Summit: Remembrance/Renewal/Resilience in Washington . Flynn & Sean Burke served as executive producers. The film was made possible by a generous grant by philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, Chairman Emerita, and TotalBank.

It's a new release for the 10th anniversary of 9/11,The film was first shown Sept. 8th at the Newseum in DC and was available that day at the Road to Resilience website.