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1. The deck layout for the mooring operations on the Louis at the beginning of the recovery. On the port side is the dual capstan winch and tension cart, which hauls the mooring wire through a block mounted on the deck and the A-frame on the starboard rail. (Bill Williams)
2. Another view of the deck layout from above the bridge. (Bill Williams)
3. Captain Marc Rothwell handles the ship from the bridge, constantly positioning the massive vessel in order to keep the mooring wire straight up and down so that it doesn't go under the hull, and later into the ice to retrieve the backup floats. (Rick Krishfield)
4. Darkness has arrived before the last of the mooring is recovered. (Bill Williams)
5. The backup floats are finally freed from the stubborn ice floe that they were hiding under and are brought on deck in the cold Arctic night. (Bill Williams)