{"id":380,"date":"2005-09-13T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/what_lies_beneath.html"},"modified":"2005-09-13T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:31:26","slug":"what_lies_benea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/what_lies_benea.html","title":{"rendered":"What Lies Beneath . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What lies beneath the murky waters of the Hudson River remains unseen by most, unless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/13\/nyregion\/13river.html\">enterprising divers outfit themselves with a microphone and a camera and broadcast it back to shore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Hudson River at night, with the lights of Manhattan reflected and shimmering on its surface, can be a romantic and inspiring sight. What lies beneath the surface is another matter.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, about 200 people got a rare nighttime look at life under the Hudson&#8217;s surface off Pier 26, in Lower Manhattan, from two divers outfitted with underwater cameras and microphones.<\/p>\n<p>Up on the pier, the audience regularly applauded and gasped at the visions unfolding live before them on two large projection screens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re taking bets to see if we see any bodies down there,&#8221; said Daniel Edelman, 23, a graphic designer from Brooklyn who was drinking beer with a group of friends. &#8220;I know it is an old New York river stereotype. But it is certainly possible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But alas, gawking landlubbers were perhaps disappointed to learn that there are just a bunch of fish, oysters and crabs down there &#8212; just as well, say environmental groups, who seek to further clean up the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What lies beneath the murky waters of the Hudson River remains unseen by most, unless enterprising divers outfit themselves with a microphone and a camera and broadcast it back to shore: The Hudson River at night, with the lights of Manhattan reflected and shimmering on its surface, can be a romantic and inspiring sight. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}