Jerry McLelland, reaches into the pipe dredge

Always have a contingency plan. Jerry McLelland, a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, reaches into the pipe dredge to extract a sample. This was the first successful use of the pipe dredge, custom-built for the Charleston Bump expedition.

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