The Army Corps of Engineers has put an electric fence in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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Though the crew might have been able to restore power to the vessel by firing up the generators in the ship's other engine room, Cuty said the ship's engineers made the right call in not doing so.

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Canada brought in the big guns -- a Navy ship and Army helicopter with engineers and supplies.

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They then began to ship heavier, and, as the engineers had warned them, the tracks indeed broke down.

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