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What will become a familiar site in Oriental and other low-lying parts of Pamlico County. The pink insulation from behind watersoaked walls. This was on Broad Street approaching the Oriental Bridge. In another era, one might have mistaken it for flensed whale.

A dock box just below the water’s surface, as seen from the Oriental Bridge looking west. That pier structure is not a casualty of Hurricane Irene; it had long ago lost its planking.

Lee Porter and Craig Cannon of TowBoat US out of Beaufort, the crew hired to raise the motor vessel, “Robin’s Nest” which had sunk at Oriental Harbor Marina in Hurricane Isabel. It got caught on a finger pier during Isabel’s storm surge and never righted. The boat is owned by Tommy Coldwell of Virginia whose wife passed away this summer. The two had planned to travel with the boat. The crew eventually raised the boat and brought it to Triton Yachts Tuesday.

Diver Craig Cannon of TowBoat US out of Beaufort takes an axe to a finger pier at Oriental Harbor Marina on Tuesday. He was trying to loosen the pier that was interfering with the raising of the sunk motor vessel, “Robins Nest.” It wasn’t easy, he said, “to swim and swing an axe at the same time.”

Lee Porter of TowBoat US out of Beaufort, head of the diving crew hired to raise the “Robin’s Nest” from the slip it sank in at Oriental Harbor Marina. In the water is diver Craig Cannon who earlier tried to hack away at the finger pier from the water.

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Posted Tuesday August 30, 2011 by Bernie Harberts