Engineers Swore Nothing Could Move The Sunken Rig Until An Old Man Started His Nineteen Forty Nine Wrecker

and found iron blocks so heavy it took two men to lift each one.

“Run the line through that oak, back to the rig frame, then through the rear boom,” Hank said. “We don’t pull straight. Straight is how fools break things. We lift and walk it.”

He crawled beneath the edge of the rig farther than anyone thought safe. Mud soaked his sleeves. Matthew followed continue reading …