Once the jackets are removed, a boat drags sonar equipment across a designated grid path. After that, a big trawl is drug to collect anything on the bottom. Junk that can not be picked up by net gets a diver to go down and hook on to it. Last year, we had one in East Cameron that kept having the trawl get hung up on and tear. We sent dive crew down to get it and it was an anchor from a WWII ship. I forget how much it weighed, but it was as big as a Z71, plus had 25 tons of chain connected to it. Pretty neat once we got it topside.
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