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Article: Life in the shipping lane: dredginq projects and underwater gas lines are all in day's work for Boston lobsterman Ed Ferent and his crew.(Cover Story)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Ed Ferent stands at the helm of his 36-foot lobster boat, the Jennifer, a couple of hours before sunrise in September 2004. While steering his boat toward North Channel, one of the main passages in and out of Boston Harbor, he gestures to an apparition in the darkness off his port bow.
Ferent says it's a barge used by a contractor working for the Army Corps of Engineers hired to dredge the harbor, but the fact that the vessel is indeed a barge can't be confirmed until the Jennifer approaches to within a couple of boat lengths of the dark hull. Finally a faint green light on the stern becomes visible and the immense structure of the barge, a couple of hundred feet ...