Cape Henry Shipwreck + EMS Blood Program + Warm Spring Week

Good evening neighbors, and welcome to Tie Water Talk, the podcast that keeps you plugged

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So whether you're local or just dropping in, we're glad you stopped by.

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on please to eat, explore and experience all that our community has to offer.

I'm Brody and I need to mow my lawn.

Oh, you better get on it.

Right.

You don't want those critters hiding in the grass.

Well, and it's coming up in patches.

So you've got to even it out.

Yeah.

What a terrible.

And my wife's actually working on it.

Like putting mulch down and making things look pretty.

And then the lawn around it is terrible.

Help her out.

What we're going to do about this.

Well, mow it.

Just kidding.

All right.

Well, hi.

I'm co and happy world quantum day.

World what?

What?

You don't so great world quantum day.

Really?

Just kidding.

Don't worry for anybody listening if you don't know what it is,

because I didn't either before I was making my notes for this talk this evening.

But what I found out was that world quantum day.

If I say it again, I'm just going to say like WQD.

But it's celebrated annually on 414, which is a nod to Plank's constant.

Nerd.

I know.

We're energy of a light particle equals 4 decimal one four times the light frequency measuring

energy and electron volts.

You are a nerd.

That is not right.

How do you celebrate quantum day?

I don't know.

Epy.

Yeah.

You can say like, I'm kind of a nerd.

So I give pies to people on pie day, but quantum day, what do you do for that?

No clue.

Quarks?

I like to keep yourself.

I don't know.

I don't know how you would celebrate that.

I wonder how other people do you?

I have to Google it now.

Yeah.

See if anybody's celebrating this day.

That's funny.

Well, I hit record.

Nice.

So we're off to a good start.

Yeah.

Man.

So I saw this article in the news today about the Tidewater EMS Council.

And that is a nonprofit organization that helps coordinate and improve emergency medical

care, but they've received $150,000 grant from the Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation

to expand its whole blood initiative.

So that program will allow them to allow the paramedics to deliver care before patients

reach the hospital by carrying whole blood and administering it in route.

Wow.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

So this program is already active in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, North Pole, Port Smith,

Suffolk, and York County with blood units deployed on specialized supervisor vehicles,

which are designed to respond to critical calls.

But with the grant, they plan to double their daily supply in 26 different jurisdictions.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I wonder what you need for that special car, special truck with free, uh, cooling.

Maybe.

It seems like you would need to, right?

Yeah.

How do you check somebody first and what?

Blood.

While you're on the road.

This isn't like when you go to an emergency.

Right.

It's like giving them a chance.

And it's at EMS, right?

So like in transit, I think so they're responding to like critical situations and able to do

it on scene or like in transit to the hospital before they reach the emergency room.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

No, when I, uh, I did my Eagle Scout, uh, I did the blood drive for my Eagle Scout project.

And a lot of people make fun of that now because it's the, the easy thing to do.

But it was cool because.

Like I got 60 new people to sign up to do blood that had never done it before.

And like two weeks.

No, it was longer than that.

It takes.

Two months to get your.

Information back.

Right.

You go in and your blood and two months later they tell you what blood type you are.

And if you had any diseases or.

Like something that precluded it and they had to throw it away or.

You know, you get a whole bunch of information back from it.

So it was two months to the day that one of my friends, his dad had a major.

I don't know if it was an aneurysm.

It was, it was something like a main in his heart.

Rupshared.

He had to be life-flated.

Well, not right away, life-flated.

But when he went to the hospital.

He needed like tons of blood.

And so we had this list of 60 people that knew their blood type and knew if they could give blood.

And that we had their phone numbers.

And we could just call them.

And they went straight over to the hospital and gave directly to him.

So it was just like this miracle that meant, you know, we had exactly the people.

Exactly the right way to save his life.

It was really.

So that's awesome that they can have it on scene ready to give blood to people.

Yeah.

It's really neat.

Really cool.

And then I wonder if it was a, I've been doing too much grants lately.

It's wondering if it was a federal grant or a foundation grant.

Oh, let's see.

I have the name of the, it's the Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation.

Yeah.

Cool.

So somebody set up a foundation just for this.

Cool.

That's good.

Well, you want to do a stranger nod?

Of course I do.

All right.

Strange and odd of tidewater.

So I found that one right here in Virginia Beach.

It's real and documented and sitting right off of our coast.

Just off of Cape Henry.

And water people fish and boat in all the time.

They're shipwrecks all over the ocean floor.

Not deep ocean mysteries.

Something miles offshore.

This is right in the same water people are in every day.

One of those wrecks is the San USS San Marcos.

That name alone already tells you something strange happened because it did not start as the San Marcos.

It started as the USS Texas launched in the 1890s.

This was one of the first battleships the United States ever built.

At the time it was a big deal.

This was the Navy trying to step up into being a modern naval power.

And it served through the Spanish American War helped project US strength.

And for a while it was exactly what the Navy needed.

But technology moved fast within about 15 years.

It was already outdated.

Bigger ships, better armor, more powerful guns.

Like everything changed in that 15 years.

So instead of scrapping it right away, the Navy had another idea.

They renamed it the USS San Marcos.

And they did that for a reason.

In 1900, another ship named San Marcos had been lost in a hurricane in Texas.

The Navy reused the name, which was a common practice.

But it also freed up the name Texas for a newer, more modern battleship.

So they're like, we want to name that one Texas.

I guess I would make me mad if I'm serving on the San Marcos or serving on the Texas.

And they're like, we're going to name here some else because we want to name this better one the Texas.

I don't know.

Hold on.

I don't confuse between the names.

The San Marcos is what it was renamed to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because they had the newer, better ones.

The Texas was lost.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm on track.

So now you have this older ship no longer front line renamed and is essentially repurposed.

And then they decided to use it for live fire testing.

In 1911, they towed it out near Cape Henry and used it as a target.

They fired on it with naval guns to study how modern weapons would affect armored ships.

And eventually it sank.

And that's where the story should end, except it does not.

They did not tow it out to the debotion.

They did not dismantle it.

They did not clear the area.

They sank a battleship in relatively shallow coastal water and left it there.

For time, parts of it were even visible above the surface.

You could see pieces of the U.S. battleship sticking out of the water off of Virginia Beach.

And over the years, storms and erosion broke it down further, and now most of it submerged.

But it is still right there.

So have you ever thought about how much has happened right around where you are?

Like, who could have been standing in the exact same spot as you?

I did think about it when we were talking about Blackbeard a couple of weeks ago.

Really?

Like, all the things that happened right here along the coastline with the British and the water.

Yeah, it's like so much has happened right here.

Right.

It's really cool.

Yeah, I thought about it when I was at Cranie Island.

I was thinking about all the guys setting up tents and moving stuff around.

Like, who has marched right where I'm living and where I walk every day?

Yeah.

It has walked on these exact same coordinates.

Right.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I've been in the opposite situation where it's like, it looks like nobody has ever been here.

You know, like, way out in the deep forest and you're like, I bet I'm the first person to ever see this.

Really?

You've been there deep?

Oh, yeah.

You used to fight forest fires.

You'd be like, go walk 20 miles that way so you can watch and see if there's fires.

Yeah.

Come over the hill.

Yeah.

You're just real deep in there.

Wow, this is really deep.

I don't know if anybody's ever been here.

Yeah, I'm not into that.

But then around here in tidewater, it's like, I bet a ton of people have been here.

I wonder if she's, I don't know what the history is.

It's neat.

So this one, the San Marcos, is marked on nautical charts.

And it shows up on marine GPS.

Fisherman know exactly where it is and will go right over it.

So if you're out on a boat or even just thinking about the ocean off Virginia Beach,

there's a very real chance that under that water is a battleship.

The USS, the US Navy sank on purpose over 100 years ago.

And if you're not a boater of fishermen, that's part of, that is the part that feels strange.

Because most people picture shipwrecks as distant, hard to reach,

something you would never, you would need a document to retrieve to find.

Not something sitting in the same water people are casually driving boats across on the Saturday.

There's no fence, there's no sign from the beach, there's no,

there's no moment where someone tells you, hey, by the way, there's a battleship under you.

It's just part of the environment now.

And that's the strange part, not that a ship's sank, but that we put it there.

New exactly where it was marked on a map and then just kept living our lives right on top of it.

So next time you're out near Cape Henry or even just looking over the water,

just remember there's more down there than you think.

That was this week's strange tidewater moment.

It was also good. I like that one.

Yeah.

Well, if you liked that and oh, we didn't do our weather.

Oh yeah.

Oh no, what time is the weather?

So I have currently 86 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's like it's going to get down to 65 tonight.

And then in the mid to high 90s through Friday and back down at 80 on Sunday.

Chance of showers in the afternoon on Sunday.

And then we see temperatures start to decrease Monday down the 68 for the next.

Nice. I like 68.

Can I just stay there all summer?

Yeah, not local, but are you watching this typhoon over in the Pacific?

No.

Yeah, super typhoon.

Synilocoup.

I don't know how pronounce it, but that's how I'm going to say it.

Yeah, it made a landfall over Sipan and Tinion with winds at 145 miles per hour,

a gust of 175.

Wow.

Yeah.

No, I did not see that.

Yeah, there was an article that said, according to the data from University of Wisconsin,

that the storm exceeded its max potential energy, which was estimated to be 175 miles per hour.

But at its max, peak sustained winds were 180 to 185 miles per hour.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's some destruction.

Yes.

So a lot of the same this week and some rain on Sunday and then get some value out of that.

The weather and the story and talk to him about the local news, then we operate this podcast

on a value for value model.

And it's not working out great.

We say it's not working out great.

But we are grateful.

Yeah.

You know, I guess you need to do a different model though, right?

No, I like it this way.

We just need some more neighbors that think it's valuable.

So if you think it's about, oh, go ahead.

There was one.

What would it say?

Come back to me.

I'm going to have to find this question again.

Okay.

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Got some time just to share the episode on Facebook or whatever socials you do or tell somebody about it.

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Or, yeah, help us with a strange and odd segment.

You can drop us a note at tips at tidewatertalk.com.

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I can't define that for you.

But if you got some value, just give some back.

And there's a donate page at tidewatertalk.com.

And go ahead.

Yeah, back to that question.

So what does this show need to do to make you want to binge every episode?

You ask it question.

Yeah.

So I invite our listeners to be critical.

Tell us what we need, what we're missing, what we could do better.

And it seems like somebody's been looking through the downloads.

A few people, it looks like they're going way back and listening to the first ones.

That's cool.

That means that somebody's getting some value out of it.

Yeah, let us know.

Yeah.

We like any feedback.

You can just send it to tips at tidewatertalk.com.

So we asked a question last week about where are you spending your first real warm day?

The oceanfront, the bay, or backyard?

To answer your question, I'm just going outside.

Any excuse to have my armpits out?

Like, I'm all about the tank tops.

Nice.

Well, how you say it?

Yeah, I'm going to go more the lawn soon as we got a warm day and I'm not running around doing a thousand things.

I just, I actually want to just mow the lawn.

Listen to a podcast.

Yeah.

We'll get that sense of accomplishment across something off the list.

Yeah.

This makes you feel better that your house would feel like.

Yeah.

It is.

I was the word.

It's not sympathized.

I identify with it.

Is that it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Identify.

That's a good way to say it.

So for next week, we'll ask.

So we asked that question.

What does this show need to make you want to binge every episode?

Well, well, if you want to answer that question, answer that question.

But if not, we have another question you can answer.

All right.

Kind of goes back to the strange and odd.

Have you ever stood somewhere in tired water and thought something used to be here?

Yeah.

So let us know at tips tiedwatertalk.com or on Facebook or.

However, you want to get a hold of us.

And then we got tiedwater tips.

Oh, yeah.

So I found an interesting one this weekend.

It's a vintage button earring workshop.

I don't know if you're interested, but I am a little bit.

Button earring.

Vintage button earrings.

Okay.

So it's buttons from the 1920s through the 1980s.

And you make earrings with it.

They have like a whole little workshop.

It's hosted by the mid-century garage company.

This will be on Friday, April the 17th at 511 Central Drives.

Sweet 101 in Virginia Beach.

And the cost is $30 a person.

And I thought it was cool.

Button earrings are always cute.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

I don't know if you have any piercings, but you can rock it.

Do they have clip-ons?

I'm sure you could.

I can make a clip-on.

It's probably easier.

I'll make it a nose ring.

Yeah.

I'll clip it to my nose.

Button nose ring.

Oh.

I saw Virginia International Tattoo.

Yeah.

What's that all about?

At the Norfolk Scope Arena.

It was established in 1997.

Virginia International Tattoo is a signature of the Virginia Arts Festival.

It's an annual celebration of patriotism and international goodwill.

So every year the Tattoo welcomes over 800 performers from all over the world.

And it is way of military bands, drill teams, mass pipe,

mass pipes and drums, Celtic dancers, choirs more.

It's the largest Tattoo in the United States drawing an audience of nearly 36,000 people each year.

And I just, I love that kind of stuff for some reason.

Yeah.

Because it's drums and, I don't know, makes you want to, I love that.

You could fill it in your, like in your spirit.

Yeah.

You would have seen it, but like, yeah.

It's the Polynesians when they do their stuff.

And that always makes me just like crying.

Yeah.

I don't know why.

It just really hits me.

A couple of those kind of shows when I was in Hawaii was just amazing.

I love that.

Yeah.

I like that too.

And I like the, like the, you say Polynesian, but like particularly,

I like the Tahitian dancers, like where they, like move their hips really fast

and they squat down low.

Yeah.

Like, I don't even know how you move your body in that way, but I think it's amazing.

I know.

It's really neat.

Yeah.

And, yeah.

And tattoos a little bit different, but it's all just that same deep rhythm.

Yeah.

Like that.

Yeah.

I didn't realize to, uh,

the, uh, where tattoo comes from.

Historically tattoos stem from a 17th century European tradition of military drummers,

alerting soldiers that it was time to return to their barracks for the evening.

After hearing the call of the local regiments, fife syndromes,

the Dutch locum tree innkeepers would call doden-tap-toe, turn off the taps.

So the tap-toe evolved over time.

And the word tattoo now refers to a ceremonial performance of military music by masked bands.

Pretty cool.

I know at night and on the ship they say taps, taps, like, uh,

but I feel like I've heard someone say tattoo, tattoo.

Is that not right?

Yeah, I've heard that as well.

And when I was young, you know, the music that they play at taps.

Like the, yeah.

We learned the words to that song in Girl's Guests.

Yeah.

Right?

So it's like, day is done, gone to sun, from the earth, from the, something from the sky,

always well, safe and rest, God, it's night.

So I always just thought it meant like the end of the day.

Huh.

I can't believe you remember that from Girl's Guests.

Most of it.

That's awesome.

I don't remember anything from, from yesterday.

Just kidding.

Yeah, the, like, all of those are deep memories.

Anything that happened after the, like, the age of 13 is forgotten.

Right.

Well, cool.

Do you have any other tied water tips?

One more.

And I might have mentioned this before, but it came up on my feet again today.

So I'll say it again.

Short drive, farmer's market.

Boom, boom, boom.

It happens on Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 9.45 short drive.

Yeah.

I love farmer's markets.

Me too.

On Saturdays?

Saturdays.

Well, I might be there.

It sounds fun.

Yeah.

We have a little farmer's market that happens kind of close to where we are.

On Saturdays.

And there's this lady that makes pickles.

And I don't know how many jars of pickles I've bought in the last few weeks.

But she has different flavors.

Right.

She has, like, the regular deal and then the jalapeno and then some other ones.

Yeah.

So I've probably got, like, four jars of pickles in the fridge right now.

Oh, my wife loves pickles.

Me too.

I'm going to have to put her on.

Yeah.

Enough to go get some pickles for my wife.

For sure.

Sounds awesome.

All right.

Thanks for hanging out with us neighbors.

Thanks for hanging out with me, Co.

Thanks for hanging out with me.

All right.

That was this week.

Out wrong one.

Oops.

Man.

And that wraps up another week's edition of Tie Water Talk.

Thanks for joining us.

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