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It featured the 00:14.040 --> 00:17.180 first tried a power play had in the world on inevitable river. 00:17.810 --> 00:21.040 It also goes severe fifty ninth diet high in thirty ninth bullet 00:21.040 --> 00:24.810 list navigation loft which made it possible for commercial traffic 00:25.030 --> 00:27.520 to make its way up to Tennessee river in the chair the new there. 00:28.440 --> 00:32.200 Us army corps of engineers national district kept alive operating 00:32.200 --> 00:35.690 twenty four hours a day until the down close in the kojo dam 00:35.690 --> 00:37.890 began operating in nineteen sixty seven. 00:38.700 --> 00:42.240 Is last operator on the job it hills Bart edit nick today visited 00:42.240 --> 00:45.550 the decommissioning lock piece in the nineteen two thousand and thirteen. 00:46.200 --> 00:49.620 He tours de quail in large an operations centre in re called 00:49.620 --> 00:53.080 believes past and he'd like through vessels headed up and down 00:53.080 --> 00:56.730 the river about all we bear the just keep took place claimed 00:56.880 --> 00:57.340 up then. 00:58.040 --> 01:00.820 Gallard mold strewn fish commit that damned. 01:01.590 --> 01:02.960 There was a lot of earth. 01:04.820 --> 01:06.910 Football. They're news. 01:07.930 --> 01:10.000 Blood transfered i've members forever. 01:11.540 --> 01:14.580 Okay they haven't dove across a room roles of there. 01:15.360 --> 01:16.770 They will so mold company. 01:18.090 --> 01:21.590 And he holds siam grow warm air will clone. 01:22.740 --> 01:24.370 Uh-huh he is to lock quite a bit. 01:25.310 --> 01:28.170 That back Rand. I didn't have no mind of scruple. 01:28.820 --> 01:30.890 We can we did that we're car sale. 01:32.640 --> 01:33.630 Chip to place up. 01:34.900 --> 01:38.620 Do you sure it in the us navy in world war two and then followed 01:38.620 --> 01:41.920 in the footsteps of his father who served himself at one of the 01:41.920 --> 01:43.750 cumberlin rivers old locks. 01:44.370 --> 01:47.470 Is tube rubbers were also woke up readers in the national district. 01:47.760 --> 01:51.340 So short in in the corps of engineers was something of a family business. 01:52.460 --> 01:56.560 Charger now rather next to me where we were and genome we're 01:56.560 --> 01:58.700 all working hours from joined and lazy. 01:59.440 --> 02:02.110 Them fun where tray mild poor. Now god for. 02:02.840 --> 02:06.530 There how god this charger blood to section marched for the war 02:06.530 --> 02:07.040 will solve. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.440 But one make came out. 02:10.540 --> 02:11.130 Oh levels. 02:12.100 --> 02:12.710 You want to work. 02:14.800 --> 02:18.290 Just like the firm weird domonic's old and the germ roche GE. 02:20.020 --> 02:21.630 But do it with me it was good more. 02:23.850 --> 02:27.300 Even Nokia we're still those nearby hills bar lock. This was 02:27.300 --> 02:30.690 the first time he had to read his all work site since you'd left 02:30.690 --> 02:32.520 the project in nineteen sixty seven. 02:33.080 --> 02:36.020 He walked wherever away over the projects site in the experience 02:36.020 --> 02:40.490 appeared to stir up a few emotions and special memories. He would 02:40.490 --> 02:42.450 stop to share the little things. He was member. 02:43.170 --> 02:44.770 Or brags about a ma'am real slow. 02:45.690 --> 02:47.490 Them up and down those a lot of. Plan. 02:51.260 --> 02:55.550 Okay it's sure grills are all come and learn the steps at a one 02:55.550 --> 02:56.330 euro grigson. 02:57.020 --> 02:59.580 Well. Here hugely. 03:00.110 --> 03:02.350 One small whale smallish is only injures. 03:03.590 --> 03:05.270 When we numeric so your. Work. 03:08.630 --> 03:11.090 There is called these very few ddg form. 03:12.770 --> 03:13.600 Direction of. Water. 03:15.920 --> 03:19.260 So james you know tagged paired up one way. Or or 03:22.070 --> 03:25.450 And we're drone double stay us to kind wipe master it mic eject 03:25.450 --> 03:28.760 navigation market is retiring soon. But he remembers when he 03:28.760 --> 03:31.320 first to write to the project site in nineteen eighty. 03:31.880 --> 03:35.380 The first person. He met wasn't another the girl PC you looked 03:35.430 --> 03:37.650 there was a bad to him his illustrious career. 03:38.290 --> 03:41.330 They just taught me how we didn't things have they did things 03:41.330 --> 03:45.250 it had nick eject car is just a lot can the mold claims thing 03:45.250 --> 03:48.320 as you watch for it to its particular law will it eighties and 03:48.320 --> 03:52.300 currents and wind directions they'd this to talk me how to do 03:52.300 --> 03:52.740 the job. 03:53.590 --> 03:56.130 We were just today was radar push a view. So worked. 03:56.640 --> 03:59.510 Which are was on hand with keeling during his visit to hills 03:59.510 --> 04:02.870 bar and they bedroom back and forth about how the markup bring 04:02.870 --> 04:03.780 it back in the day. 04:04.450 --> 04:07.570 The true professionals were in their element in keeler said he 04:07.570 --> 04:09.220 really enjoyed his return visit. 04:09.930 --> 04:11.900 Warm right decimal felix. 04:12.440 --> 04:12.850 Out. For. 04:15.730 --> 04:18.220 This is where you are which reporting for the national district 04:18.220 --> 04:32.040 hills barbie and navigation mark on the Tennessee river in jesper Tennessee. So. Uh-huh. Uh-huh..