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Preparing for Sandy
Date: 10/26/2012 Album ID: 1556451
Photos by Gordon Chibroski
Lobsterman prepares line extensions to add length to end lines in preparation for Sandy
Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer: Jim Holden, a lobsterman working on Widgery Wharf Thursday, October 25, 2012, prepares for the coming hurricane by selecting and conditioning lines that will be added to lengthen his end lines allowing him to put his traps into deeper water.
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Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer:  Greg Tanner, left, a lobsterman and his sternman, working on Widgery Wharf on Thursday, October 25, 2012, prepare for the coming winter by replacing his summer lines with thicker lines that will be added to lengthen  and strengthan his end lines allowing him to put his traps into deeper water. This will also help with defending trap loss and damage for the coming hurricane, Sandy, but he was not doing it for the coming storm, he emphasized.
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