Lifting the Icy Bird

Our cruises out of Chelsea Piers are winding down now, post holidays, for a three week period of repairs and work hiatus beginning tomorrow.

We have had about 3 cruises per week this month and previous to last night, Wednesday the 14th was our last cruise. This was about 17 hours before US Airways 1549 went down - miraculously smoothly - in the Hudson.

Not many things affect our cruising. That may have. We will never know, but we did go back out last night and I was able to shoot a couple of pics of the crane that would lift the plane out of the icy water about 3 hours later.



Both of these above are looking east at Battery Park City.

I did not take the following pic, but you can see the crane:
Facing west:



It has turned really cold here in NY since Wednesday and there is now standing ice in the Hudson. Had that ice been there Thursday we are probably talking about a very different event.

The ice hampered the salvage of the plane for a day or so, but it is finally out of the drink.

Crazy.