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Weeks 533 has credibility: she lifted the USAir Flight 1549 Airbus A320 out of the Hudson back almost 11 years ago and more. So the other day when I was on my way to “yon” and saw her “hither” and she was working with Susan Miller, I decided to linger and inquire.
That’s when I noticed the pier 11 Wall Street float was partially submerged, and a heavy lift crew was aboard securing cables.
Besides that crew, one tug and Susan Miller, even the Green Lady was craning her neck overtop the ferry and over in my direction, paying attention.
When I managed to board a conveyance and get to the middle of the East River . . .
I saw there were actually four tugs involved, two Dann tugs and another Miller tug.
Once the landing barge was lifted over the spuds and large pumps installed–I think that’s what I saw–Susan Miller whisked the barge away to be repaired, rehabbed.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who calls this another feat for Weeks 533.
Lots more tugster cranes here.
I’m not shifting the focus of this blog to photography–although it’s always been photo driven–but it’s fun to shoot what the light allows, which in this case somewhat obscures the identification of the tug in the foreground and highlights in profile the construction over by the Goethals Bridge. Also, I’ve not forgotten a realization of a few weeks back about there being nothing random; context here is recent sixth boro.
Anyhow, name that tug?
Meanwhile, north of the GW, it’s Joan Moran (1975) with a coal barge, from what I could tell.
Farther downriver, it’s Atlantic Coast (2007) with a dredge scow.
On that same dredge project, Shannon Dann (1971) stands by with GL 602.
Wye River (2008) waits over by the Palisades,
Sea Wolf (1982) holds steady over by –is that?–Edgewater.
Barry Silverton counts down for an appointment with Fight ALS,
Brendan Turecamo (1975) hangs with Connecticut, and
that brings us back to the first photo, now benefitting from a different light and easily identifiable as
Doris Moran (1982).
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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