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October 17, 2006: 995 Cleanup and Chris Vocci on the move

Looks kind of like Singapore - except in Charleston, the overcast is natural whereas the haze here is from forest fires in Indonesia - just now, Charleston is the place to be!
Here is the worksite - the 995 picking up pieces of T-3 (aka Frank)

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And this is how the J. Cashman (995) does it - first reaching into the water

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Picking up a scopper of debris and rotating

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Rotating

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Rotating

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Pre-dumping

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and serious dumping

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Then another scoop

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Meanwhile adjacent to the Sea Breeze, Chris Vocci and a couple of our iron worker acrobats are busy working on the next support

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Here is the support and Chris' 7550

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Tieing it

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Connecting

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and Chris - doing his thing

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