On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 07:39:20PM -0500, Ron Rogers wrote: > They built a steel barge with 3 compartments. Each can be flooded so they > sink one end until that end is awash. Then they winch the boats up. But, > they don't come up and hang-up on the submerged bow. They have two CAT > miniature cranes/front-end loaders on two other barges. One of them reaches > down and grabs the boat's bow and picks it up onto the barge. Then it gets > stuck and the wrestling begins! It is at this juncture that some fiberglass > boats catch something and start breaking. Speculation has it that the wooden > boats will not come up in one piece. The recovery pace is picking-up as the > smaller boats (under 35 feet) appear to be easier - 4 recovered on Friday. > Some larger boats have taken all day. It is very, very sad and even the > insured owners look like they have been stabbed in the stomach.
Wow, that sounds like an absolutely horrific operation. I can also totally see that the owners would be pained by it; I suspect it's not entirely unlike watching horrible mishaps carried out on the remains of a deceased relative. And here I was hoping that they were just doing a really lousy job of trying to raise the sunken boats with air cushions made of materials that weren't actually durable enough for their loads. Well good luck getting through this. -Kris -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
