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Posted by User "red2" on 1/27/2010, at 5:33:42 at The Offshore Diver Forum, from URL;
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"sailing in, the first thing we could see were all the ships in the harbor. a few freighters, a navy LSD (that's what they carry Marines around on), as well as some foreign navy ships. i saw france and canada. when we got closer to shore, we could see all the shacks piled up on the mountain side. a thick layer of smoke hovers over the wh*** shore line. a lot of fires going, it smells. we're docked at a fuel dock a mile north of port-au-prince in a neighborhood called sogesol, it looks pretty bad. they swarm around the barge and boat in little canoes, hand carved out of a log . they're defiantly scoping stuff out to steal. we have local armed security on the barge at night. we catch them sleeping all night. our boat's crew pulls watch onboard the pioneer. they got their s*** together though. we're working hard here, 7 to 7. we're rigging a bunch of equipment on the beach and moving it around. we have the pioneer and the 300 barge docked in between 2 concrete piers. the one that we're tied to extends out about 250'. beyond that, it extends about 300 more feet. but that part broke off and is now sitting on the bottom in broken up concrete, twisted steel, and re-bar in about 40' of water. the pier across from us is still intact, but pretty banged up. all of the deck is cracked and split apart, and the pier's leaning about 20 degrees. i dove on that pier today to do a survey. the pilings are in terrible condition to begin with, but since the earthquake they're all knocked out of plumb, or totally broken off. the owner still wants to be able to dock roro ships there to offload vehicles and equipment from the canadian navy. the condition of the pier looks pretty suspect, if you ask me. the pier that we're tied up to, the half sunk one, is a different story. running right down the center of the pier, is a huge crevasse, with a crane falling in on one side, and an 18 wheeler falling in on the other side, laying sideways against eachother in the h***. today, we picked up the truck, then dismantled the 40 year old rusted out crane, which wasn't easy. and it 90. as for the rest of the pier that's laying on bottom, that has yet to be dove on. here's the s***ty part, at the time of the earthquake, about 80 men were working on that pier loading sugar onto a ship. they're still down there in the rubble. there's gonna be sharks"
http://members.boardhost.com/offshorediver/msg/1264592022.html
"sailing in, the first thing we could see were all the ships in the harbor. a few freighters, a navy LSD (that's what they carry Marines around on), as well as some foreign navy ships. i saw france and canada. when we got closer to shore, we could see all the shacks piled up on the mountain side. a thick layer of smoke hovers over the wh*** shore line. a lot of fires going, it smells. we're docked at a fuel dock a mile north of port-au-prince in a neighborhood called sogesol, it looks pretty bad. they swarm around the barge and boat in little canoes, hand carved out of a log . they're defiantly scoping stuff out to steal. we have local armed security on the barge at night. we catch them sleeping all night. our boat's crew pulls watch onboard the pioneer. they got their s*** together though. we're working hard here, 7 to 7. we're rigging a bunch of equipment on the beach and moving it around. we have the pioneer and the 300 barge docked in between 2 concrete piers. the one that we're tied to extends out about 250'. beyond that, it extends about 300 more feet. but that part broke off and is now sitting on the bottom in broken up concrete, twisted steel, and re-bar in about 40' of water. the pier across from us is still intact, but pretty banged up. all of the deck is cracked and split apart, and the pier's leaning about 20 degrees. i dove on that pier today to do a survey. the pilings are in terrible condition to begin with, but since the earthquake they're all knocked out of plumb, or totally broken off. the owner still wants to be able to dock roro ships there to offload vehicles and equipment from the canadian navy. the condition of the pier looks pretty suspect, if you ask me. the pier that we're tied up to, the half sunk one, is a different story. running right down the center of the pier, is a huge crevasse, with a crane falling in on one side, and an 18 wheeler falling in on the other side, laying sideways against eachother in the h***. today, we picked up the truck, then dismantled the 40 year old rusted out crane, which wasn't easy. and it 90. as for the rest of the pier that's laying on bottom, that has yet to be dove on. here's the s***ty part, at the time of the earthquake, about 80 men were working on that pier loading sugar onto a ship. they're still down there in the rubble. there's gonna be sharks"
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