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Here was 10. Here was 3 . . . , and the others you can locate through the search window. Guesses might include new amusement park equipment for Coney Island? Doubleclick enlarges.
exports of the now-discarded Berlusconi?
Au contraire . . . it’s Giulio Verne, having appeared on this blog once long ago here.
I’d love to see a helicopter alight on the house deck.
So why is she in the sixth boro, you ask? To help install a backup and down under power system. Read prysmian’s press release here. Here are mostly land fotos of the project that carries the river’s name.
Click here for the specs and diagrams of the vessel.
When I got these fotos, she was at leisure, but
thanks to Kaya, who surfed QE2‘s wake here some years back, enjoy this foto of her at work last week. On the extreme right side of the foto is Port Imperial, named for Mr. Imperatore, NYWaterways floating homeport.
Thanks much to Kaya for the foto above and for news of and info on GV’s visit. All other fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: When something unidentifiable causes a traffic snarl on the Queensboro Bridge, it might just be Batman and a movie shoot.
More related: Another recent visitor in the sixth boro has been this . . . moltomega motor yacht . . . named Serene. Thanks to eastriver for pointing out the article.
ELECTION INFO>>>
Tugster has been nominated for VillageVoice “best neighborhood (of course the sixth boro IS a NYC neighborhood and an ignored one at that!!) blog” AND for “best photo (even though that’s not how it’s really spelled) blog.” It WOULD really be an honor to win this . . . so please vote vote and vote some more. Ask your siblings and everyone to vote, please.
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November 14, 2011 at 10:02 am
bowsprite
voted for you!
(and http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/ for best sex blog.)
can we also nominate you for something in the new italian government?
November 15, 2011 at 1:18 am
bowsprite
yes: thanks, Kaya!
November 14, 2011 at 10:11 am
tugster
bowsprite– thanks for the vote! i’ll decline the nomination to be next PM of Italy, but . . . what good governance might the sixth boro borrow from mr bungabunga’s legacy?
November 14, 2011 at 5:48 pm
cegrundler
You’ve got my vote! No day would be complete without seeing what fotos and news you’ve posted from my favorite boro.
November 14, 2011 at 8:59 pm
D Merritt
Several votes for Tugster have been placed from this household. Hope you win!
November 14, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Bill
Prysmian, a highly reguarded submarine cable laying company.
Locally, Prysmian completed a power cable laying operation from a power plant on the Raritan River in New Jersey to Long Island, NY in 2006/7?
The project started with directional drilling under the Long Island beach to offshore, where the cable laying barge used a plow like device to dig a furrow and lay the cable. The cable crossed Ambrose Channel and slid south and east past Staten Island and into the Raritan RIver.
The barge used a plow like device to create a furrow into the sea bed. The cable falling into the freshly created crevice.
I know they and a two breaks in the cable that required extensive and expensive splice. Once when the cable was crimped when a spool operator paying off the cable allowed the cable to crimp due to lack of attention during night time pay out operations. A second intentional cable cut when the cable was being readied for it’s transit under the New Jersey Transit Raritan River Rail Road Bridge.
The splices were an expensive deal and required a team of Italian techs to fly into the States and make the splice. I guess when your talking megawatts, you can’t depend on butt splices and shrink wrap from Home Depot.
Passing cable under the rail road bridge required hard hat divers using water jetting equipment to burrow a trench under the bridge for the cable to be laid in. The divers worked by touch, due to the crappy natural visibility of the water, plus the effects of jetting the silt off the bottom and the mud as they cut the trench. These divers were amazing and earned their dough.
The Prysmian II barge used in thi operation moored at John Dingals yard on the NJ north side of the Goethals Bridge for several years. The cable laying rig, easily recognizable by the merry-go-round turn table the underwater cable spooled overboard from.