Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: Shearleg crane, mounted McDermott's preexisting barge the Intermac 600 (hereinafter 1600", was attempt- ing its first offshore lift: ar approximately 4100 short tor oil and gas production called the "SNA PPER deck" which McDermott had built and was to install for its client structural steel base, known "jacket" affixed the floor of the Gulf Mexico, off the Texas coast East Breaks block 165 Shortly after the Shearleg crare lifted the SNAPPER deck from its transport barge one huge prong f the Shearleg's main hook broke off and plummeted down into the top of the SNAPPER deck An eleven inch diameter. steel cable-laid sling. supplied by British Ropes through ISSI then immediately unrav- eled at eye-splice, half the 4100 ton deck uMOp onto its separate transport barge and causing sway. striking ...