Recovering the heavy equipment that ended up on the bottom of the lake was quite an involved process. The following photos were taken at about 1:45 PM yesterday (6/16) along the southern shore of Rattlesnake Island. Several other barges, and many boats and people, were involved in the salvage operation. It reportedly took two cranes on two barges to bring the backhoe to the surface and get it to land. The salvaged backhoe, and the actual barge that tipped over, are at the shoreline in the first photo below, but they are mostly obscured by the other barges. The salvaged barge can be seen better in the second shot, with its pilothouse smashed.
