Derik M. was on the McMurdo Station in Antarctica as a US Coast Guard in 2017, when he spotted a family of penguins.
Suddenly, a piece of the ice broke and the clip turned out to be one of the most thrilling ever filmed.
๐ฅ I'm pretty sure we just witnessed the first ever IndyCar pit stop on White House grounds ๐คฃ
President Trump looks VERY entertained ๐
41 DAYS until our nation's capital becomes a RACE TRACK to celebrate our 250th birthday
The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.
The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.
Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.
So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.
Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.
Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.
๐จ WOW! President Trump is building a granite HELIPAD on the White House โ meaning NO MORE landing Marine One on soggy, wet grass...
...and the COMPANY is paying for it, in full!
47 reveals the newer, modern Marine One helicopters can NOT land on the grass โ the new helipad means he can finally use it at the White House ๐๐ป
Trump is the true builder-in-chief ๐ฅ
"NOBODY planned for this. So they landed the helicopter, and half the grass was sitting in front of the Oval Office front door!"
"Now, we are building a BEAUTIFUL helipad. It's got the seal of the White House in granite. REALLY a beautiful thing. Sikorsky is paying for it."
Our raw/unedited video of the last 2:30 of the fireworks last night from the roof of Kennedy Center.
Check out the lightning strike at the 12 second mark.
Then skip to the last 30 seconds where you felt the concussions in your chest and the building was actually shaking.
Frickin' awesome!
The bomber trifecta: The BONE, the Death Dorito, and Grandpa BUFF. ๐บ๐ธ
Seen over the Hudson moments ago, featuring three of America's most iconic strategic bombers.
๐น: AccomplishedBrick251