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This plan consists of a number of coordinated actions... pumping actions which we are doing right now which has enabled the ship to be raised and refloated. Those pumps on board, there are 22 pumps on board, they have total pumping capacity of about 70,000 gallons. We are not using all of those pumps at once. 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