June 30, 2006:
Marine life in unexpected places
While Mickey has been doing his implosions and the iron workers have been
doing their unbuilding - what is happening in the Cooper River? Remember
last fall when we explored building
artifical reefs
outside Charleston
Harbor? Well today, I thought some of Sparky's photos provided a nice
lesson in marine life. More specifically, about oxidation and the
bioavailability of oxygen in water.
Of course, everything starts with Pat and the Capt. Gary. Pat pushes
folks around and positions them into their worksite locations. Actually
Lewis, with Pushy, has his own role in keeping folks in their worksite
locations.
This is the fishing rig - usually Manny is driving the crane
and here is some of the harvest shoing marine growth as well as rust.
Oxygen @ work!
Inside a rusting box girder - more signs of oxygen working
within the Cooper River.
Oxidation is the name of the game. Also stuff (algae?) growing on the
steel.
But look what is growing at a steroid rate. Here is early marine life
growing on the Grace and Pearman girders
more stuff growing on the girders while they were experiencing baptism
and here is Sparky at his best. A study of the Ravenel Bridge with
Steve Testa's framing the bridge and the bow of Pat's tug.
Another view
and a final view
