Today was a day of crane lifts and troubleshooting while we began assembling the drilling barge in our port in Timampu. We started with a 5 AM breakfast, and worked all day to assemble the barge. Things started well, but we quickly found our little replacement forklift doesn't work well on the gravel, requiring that we tow it with a pickup. Then, one of the barge containers got jammed during assembly, which delayed us by several hours. The DES team eventually sent down a diver to try to attach cleats to the bottom of the barge to link everything together. Hours in a Neoprene suit in an 85 degree lake in the tropical sun... not much fun. But by the end of the day we managed to get all 13 of our containers transferred from our staging area to the port, and got ~75% of the barge built. Tomorrow, we'll finish off the barge, and start loading drilling gear. On a personal note, it's enormously exciting to see this all coming together. I can't help but grin as I see years and years of work coming to fruition. (TDP on facebook)