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...tugs belonging to San Francisco's Crowley Maritime Corp. is towing two barges. The loads are the heaviest and tallest ever. From a distance, the grumbling 136-ft.-long tugs look as if they are pulling an entire city across the top of the world. Welded to the deck of one of the barges is a ten-story-high compressor building that will be used to help reinject gas beneath the ground. It looks like a modest cathedral and is trailed by a second barge carrying a fully assembled drilling complex that will house a web of pipes rising...
...much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...
Along with the rest of the tugs and barges, the Cavalier anchors with her nose running into the wind. For a couple of weeks the crew will lounge and fish from the deck, staring at water so cold that, as oldtimers joke, the only reason for wearing a life preserver is to help rescuers spot the body. Meanwhile, on a gravel causeway 1½ miles away, workers prepare to unload Kardonsky's steel cathedral. Welders will separate the buildings from the barge decks. Transferred to the sort of crawlers that carry space rockets to launch pads, the buildings will...
...Level 11, was an chored directly above the wreck. The crew of 32 included four underwater cameramen and a group of commercial divers who ordinarily work on offshore oil rigs and salvaging of wrecks. They worked in teams of four, transferring through an air lock from an on-deck pressurized living chamber to a diving bell from which they could swim to the wreck. This "saturation diving" allowed them to stay under water for up to eight hours, without intervals of time-consuming subsurface decompression...
...Commander in Chief allowed that it would "be a kick" to fly in an F-14 jet fighter, though he did not insist on going for a ride. He jokingly ordered the flight boss to "tighten up the interval" of the planes hurtling every few seconds off the deck. He stayed chipper through a precision bombing run that nearly jolted him out of his white-draped deck chair. Addressing the Constellation's 5,000 officers and crew later, Reagan reaffirmed his pledge of "a 600-ship Navy, a Navy that is big enough to deter aggression wherever it might...