Eventually, but probably not for a week or more, the Navy plans to make the Cole sufficiently seaworthy to tow it from its sheltered position in the Bay of Aden to a rendezvous with a Norwegian-owned ship that is a combination of a seagoing flatbed and drydock.
Mr. Poberezny had not been much of a student, but he was able to repair the glider quickly and figure out how to lift it into flight by towing it from the back of a car.
Authorities say the tow truck operator had attached the chain to the vehicle to tow it from an apartment complex parking lot when the SUV driver got in and drove away.
Adding the APL-31 to the Shark River "reef" cost about $25,000, primarily for cleaning the vessel and towing it to the site from a Philadelphia shipyard, Mr. Ivany said.
Before the Kathleen encountered the Floating Pool Lady, it towed a barge from Norfolk, Va., to Cove Point, Md. Then it was on to Camden, N.J., to "grab a big barge" and deliver it to Bayonne, Mr. Strickler said.
In 2008 Shell's 22,000-tonne Perdido spar (pictured) was towed from its construction site in Finland to its new home 320km off the Texas coast.
Over the next few days, the structure will be towed from its current location near Cameron, La., to a drill site off the Texas coast.
The craft, the Abora III, named for a Canary Islands sun god, was towed from its berth at Liberty Landing Marina past the Statue of Liberty and south through New York Harbor, to be cut loose once it passed into the open sea.
The ship was towed from its position off Cabo Frio into Rio de Janeiro on 1 August 1947.
Two men were arrested in December for stealing parts of the Porsche as it was towed away from the scene of the accident to be impounded.
