While some shrimpers are eager to get back out, many are still working for BP, which has hired boats to skim oil off thesurface and lay protective booms along the shorelines.
Nor were we to dig on our dig, only to skim away fine layers of earth with a scalpel, lowering thesurface of our metre over the course of days, until the objects embedded there projectile points or pottery shards rested on top.