Hurricane Irene - WFOR - 1999-10-16 - 2 of 2

Name: Hurricane Irene - WFOR - 1999-10-16 - 2 of 2
Uploaded: 2023-09-14
Duration: 889 s
Channel: malgent
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Uploaded: 2023-09-14

Duration: PT889S

Read a transcript preview of “Hurricane Irene - WFOR - 1999-10-16 - 2 of 2” from malgent, uploaded on 2023-09-14.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] and among the show-stopping sites Left

[0:02] Behind after Hurricane Irene was a stuck

[0:04] barge still loaded with tons of cargo

[0:06] the barge first hit the coast at

[0:08] Hallandale Beach and scraped the coast

[0:10] lodging itself along Hollywood Beach

[0:11] tonight that barge is still there CBS

[0:14] 4's Evan bacon has more

[0:17] we're learning a little bit more tonight

[0:19] on how this barge ended up on Hollywood

[0:21] Beach at the bow of the barge there is a

[0:24] snapped tow line now what officials here

[0:27] tell us is when a tugboat pulls a barge

[0:29] into Port the two move in

[0:32] synchronization with that tow line but

[0:34] when Hurricane Irene came through last

[0:36] night that synchronization was lost and

[0:39] the ropes snapped today investigators

[0:42] came through checking out the hull of

[0:44] the boat to make sure everything's

[0:45] intact and here's how they did it

[0:48] from the shoreline she looks intact but

[0:51] beneath the surface this monster barge

[0:54] took quite a pounding so before Salvage

[0:57] Crews pull her back to Sea the Coast

[0:59] Guard wants to be sure she's seaworthy

[1:02] we're gonna climb up on the vessel then

[1:04] we'll open up each hatch and then we'll

[1:06] climb down inside each void we got to

[1:08] check all the framing the bulkheads the

[1:11] the deck itself make sure that there's

[1:13] no holes in the bottom of the barge

[1:15] because we don't want to tow the vessel

[1:16] offshore and end up sinking before

[1:19] inspectors can check the hull for damage

[1:21] they've got to check the barge's air

[1:23] compartments for oxygen this pump will

[1:25] actually draw a sample that air that's

[1:28] inside the tank

[1:30] um it'll tell us how much oxygen is

[1:32] inside t