May 3, 2006:
Unbuilding: Divers and Ironworkers
How else to start the day than checking up on P-3?
from a different orientation
The Pearman / Grace worksite
The Demolition Dynamics guys are busy planting explosives on the Grace
and Mickey's Advanced Blasting team is drilling C-3
From behind
All they while, Jackie and Michael are fishing for Grace sections
And a new story - Sparky and I have somehow missed the diving team
out of Norfolk - but here they are: Anthony Ennis and Ken Morningstar
(sitting)
and Riley Sutten
and James Keeling
inside the barge doing a bit of welding
The dive barge
Ryan Miller, the diver today
Ryan
and the support team
and the dive gear
with Manny watching and doing the fetching and toting of Pearman sections
The Pearman unbuilding worksite - unbuilding the west cantilever section
a little burning (on the right)
above
Meanwhile, Jackie and Michael are continuing to fish
Grace sections from below
While there is some serious fishing from above - lifting a section
and bringing it home
down
down
and almost down
Richard (?) running the Pearman crane
and our ironworker acrobats on the Pearman
Then Kim takes Sparky over to the other barge
where Manny is working with the DD guys
who are planting
explosives on the Grace
But back at the Pearman - unbuilding the top section
while stabilized by the crane
Then lifting the section
and bringing it down
and down
where Sonny can uncouple it from the cables
And Stan above - just sort of chillin'
Cutting the next section
more cutting
and more cutting
The lower section is free
Then making the final cut above
lifting and lowering
to the barge below