What Goes Up Must Come Down..

When it comes to opportunities, taking the chance will be worth it in the end. With school ending, we thought our summer would be boring when we were presented with becoming interns. Many of us could not wait. The opportunity that allowed us to work for the Billion Oyster Project is a paid internship. During the training, we went through different experiences. We went to one of our homeports in Brooklyn, where we used it as a secondary location for our vessels for our first week. Since 2011 the Brooklyn Navy Yard allowed the New York Harbor School to have a site. In 2012 our area was affected by Hurricane Sandy, causing a sinkhole to grow for ten years, and it was time to move for repairs. As we can imagine, growing a billion oysters and placing them into the Harbor requires anchors, concrete oyster domes, gangways, heavy tools, and lines. Our interns mobilized as a team to transfer old stuff from our senior site and our temporary location, thanks to the generous donation from the Navy Yard. Without them, we would not have been able to become this successful.  Most of the stuff we had to relocate was extremely heavy and required a crane to move it. Lucky for us, we had our school vessel called Privateer. The ship contained an A-frame and crane, which is used to lift objects to 3000 pounds.