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March 14, 2007: Fishing for debris: cleaning up the pieces from yesterday

Today was clean-up. Randy and the 1250 were fishing, catching, rotating and releasing all day long - cleaning up the river bottom of debris from yesterday's implosion. The worksite

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Carlos and Robbie - 2 kings of the mountain

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The acrobat team

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Pulling a spud to move the barge

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The 1250 with Randy driving

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Then the cleanup procedure: Fishing

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Rotating

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and releasing

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Piece of cake - another iteration: Fishing. Click to watch the deep reach 1250 in action

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Releasing

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