Another option the department was considering: Hire a tugboat to tow the wreck to the harbor at nearby Newport, Ore.
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It had a mostly plumb bow, a bare aluminum hull, and deck hardware that looked like it came off a tugboat.
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The sixth was Sergio Basso, who worked for a tugboat operator.
They turned it into a floating factory, fitted with a crane and grapple--a bucket with jaws, originally designed to take a bite out of granite--and pulled by a tugboat.
As it was being pulled by a tugboat, the duck was serenaded for 30 minutes by the city's official police band and greeted by girls from a dance school pirouetting in orange tutus and yellow feather headdresses.
It was hoped the ship would be moved by a tugboat during high tide on Saturday, but crews decided not to attempt to refloat the vessel as they were keen to "take their time" and "prepare a plan".
If there had been just one puffy trawler, a little tugboat of a cloud, even so much as a cotton ball of vapor against the blue, he would have hoped.
But the fire knocked out the ship's propulsion system and left the vessel slowly drifting in the Gulf until a second tugboat arrived Tuesday, joining one that had come earlier.
In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3, 000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
The tugboat encircles the iceberg with a rope and nudges it next to the barge.
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Behind him, seagulls fly past the picture window, tugboat horns sing, and the sun sets, casting a lavender glow over the shifting waters of the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge above.
The journey was further delayed for four hours when the towline from the lead tugboat to the ship snapped, and another tug pushing the ship broke a bit.
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