This is what remains of a pier after a craft was inadvertently backed into the concrete pylon, pushing it into the wooden support at right. It's a big pylon: approximately 40' tall and 3.5' in diameter. It was a big craft that hit it: 90' long, capable of holding 100 tons. Oops. See the debris in the water.

The guys were really impressed with this handy-dandy tool somebody found--part axe, part shovel.

This is a bilge pump cover, about 10' across. Somebody got bored and wanted to make it happy.

The back of the head of a colleague who had been wearing a hard hat all day. With this hair style, his considerate coworkers began addressing him as "Monkey King."

Here our guys are in the process of lashing down a 60-ton section on deck. (The sections are 90-foot-long metal platforms that are filled with air, making them buoyant.) Clamping down the 15 or so wires for each section requires teamwork -- SOMEBODY has to stand in back and jump up and down. It creates the illusion of . . . never mind.

Here our intrepid Seabee is cheerfully going about his task lashing down these 60-ton sections with chains while standing on a six-inch ledge. The Navy: It's Not Just a Job; It's an Adventure.

And here are enough chains to occupy the guys for, oh, about a week.

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