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Barges glide across bar for New Carissa removal.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Barges glide across bar for New Carissa removal.(City/Region)(The plan calls for salvage crews using an aerial tramway to yank the ship out of the sand, bit by bit, and cut it apart)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

COOS BAY - Gary Gilmore found the perfect vantage point to watch the giant jack-up barges ease across the Coos Bay bar on Saturday. He was perched atop a Charleston hillside with a full view of the bay and the beach where the now fabled shipwreck, the New Carissa, has sat for more than nine years.

The barges slipped into the bay with ease and glided toward the swingspan bridge that connects North Bend to the North Spit and then beneath Highway 101's McCullough Bridge, while Gilmore and dozens of other residents who came with binoculars and cameras to greet the ships at different points took the chance to utter what has become an oft-repeated maxim in Coos County:

"I think they ought to leave the thing out there," Gilmore said. "But it's kind of interesting to watch."

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