April 25, 2006:
Jackie Foley and Michael Hebb
on Fishing for Grace
Sparky's weather report was rain, rain and more rain. Nevertheless, he
managed to get out on the water and catch up on the Grace retrieval work.
Manny was playing his crane while Jackie was playing the shear and ? was
working the grapple.
But no story can start without a progress report on P-3. Now down to the
level where a low reach hammer can work - here is the progress.
An overview of the Cooper River worksite
C-2 and the jackup barge
Here is Jack and Michael with Manny and his crane in the background.
Manny's elevator, lifting the DD guys as they work on charge placement
and Manny
The jackup barge - quiet today.
I am not sure how to describe this other than fishing. The water is shallow
enough that the truss sections can be readily seen - so you might say this
is grappling for a section
Then its Jackie's turn - probably to cut a section so that the
Michael's grapple (using a short reach arm on the 1250)
can lift out a small section. Note Sparky's umbrella
Here it takes two to fish
A retrieved section. Watch
the action (2 Mb synthesized video from Sparky's still photos)
A different view of fishing from the barge
and here is a frame by frame closeup of Michael's grapple and
Jackie's shear dancing with
a truss section
Michael lifting
Jackie positioning his jaws
and taking a bite
and Michael lifting the section
more lifting
more lifting
From a different angle
Well the rain is calling an early day and here is Manny and his cheerleaders
and - as no story is complete without P-3, no story is complete without
a bit of Sparky's porthole art
A different view
Leaving the worksite
and still hammering away on P-3
Until tomorrow