INSTALLATION (part 2)

Just a few days previously, I was told that we needed massive amounts of weight (over 15 tons!) to be added to the barge to get our stability correct. I luckily was able to find 7 tons of steel plate, which was cut, welded together and lowered into the barge. It was the best we could do at such short notice (by the way, steel--even "dumb" steel--is VERY expensive!) and all we could do is hope that we would sit low enough. The lower floor was rigged up and carefully lowered onto the barge. Our designed tolerances were 1- 1/2" all the way around, so it was a bit of a nail-biter as this 10 ton thing was matched up with its counterpart.