Crane Arrives in Tarrytown to Remove Sunken Tug

Operations are scheduled to begin early Thursday morning to remove the sunken tugboat Specialist from the bottom of the Hudson River.

FIOS1News.com said the 1,000-ton crane barge named “Chesapeake 1000” arrived in Tarrytown Wednesday.

The body of the remaining crew member, Harry Hernandez, 56, is believed to be in the wreckage.

The tugboat crashed into a bridge construction barge near the Tappan Zee Bridge March 12. The bodies of two other crew members—Paul Amon, 63, of Bayville, Nassau County, and Timothy Conklin, 29, of Westbury, NJ, were recovered.

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