Here was 8. And here was yesterday. The photo from yesterday–below–shows the near VZ Bridge footprint, and the far footprint can be seen
here in a photo from a few weeks ago. This morning, as I’m waking up, looks clear like the next few photos.
It’s C. Angelo towing Sea Shuttle. Part of the joy of photographing the same geography repeatedly is seeing the difference made by factors like weather and
time of day.
Here’s a dramatic weather photo taken somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico by Capt. Aeolus. It reminds me of dramatic weather here . . scroll through . . from a “road fotos” post I did about three years ago.
And speaking of the road . . . I have some major gallivants coming up very soon.
Thanks to Aeolus for the photo above; all others by Will Van Dorp.
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May 17, 2014 at 9:54 am
sfdi1947
I am reminded of a time, back around Y2K or so, when Sea Shuttle (Unless I am mistaken, the same barge) was working as originally purposed, for NASA, hauling Space Shuttle parts, and was involved in an incident where her Towing Vessel was endangered in a hurricane. The tankship MV Cherry Point, an LCC, and her valiant crew performed the heroic task of rescuing the tug’s crew with that huge ship. Maneuvering that huge ship like that, to that purpose, in the restricted waters of the Florida Strait was both hairy and heroic.
May 17, 2014 at 1:26 pm
tugpower
The gentleman in the previous post is referring to the gallant rescue of the tug J.A. ORGERON and barge POSEIDON by the Keystone Shipping Co. tanker CHERRY VALLEY off of the southern tip of Florida on November 13, 1994 in Tropical Storm Gordon. There is an excellent book out on the rescue called IN PERIL by Skip Strong & Twain Braden. The book is in my library, is an excellent read, and is available at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Peril-Decision-Captains-Resolve-Salvage/dp/1592285945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400350718&sr=1-1&keywords=9781592285945. More about the rescue here on the internet at these links: http://masglp.olemiss.edu/Water%20Log/WL18/poseidon.htm, http://www.safesea.com/salvage/other/other_cases.html, http://www.janetmendelsohn.com/docs/060_87_Skip_Pilot.pdf, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-05-17/news/9505170014_1_nasa-tank-tug-coast-guard. Also Google Tanker CHERRY VALLEY rescue, and more interesting reading will come up.
May 17, 2014 at 2:27 pm
tugster
tugpower is correct. i did several posts on poseidon last year: https://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/nola-traffic-4/ and https://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/specialized-17/
skip strong and twain braden have also written a must-red book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480255.In_Peril
cheers