The two young men who toil on deck relax on the way back to port at Viking Village.

Unused on this trip was this big bad buoy, but it has an important role...

You can never have too much rope on a boat. Meanwhile, in the wheelhouse, radar and sonar screens and other equipment scan the ocean bottom, watch the weather, keep track of other boats, avoid undersea wrecks and allow Capt. Chris LaRocca to tuck sagacious pinches of Skoal behind his lip...

In the wheelhouse, Capt. Chris LaRocca has all the essentials in close array...

With 459 pounds of cleaned scallops on board, the Lucky Thirteen heads back to Viking Village at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. This would prove to be the last day of nice weather before Irene made the scene.

The first tow across the ocean bottom yielded 70 bushels of unshelled scallops. Now came the small-bore part of the job, the cleaning...

The dredge contents are dumped on the deck of the boat, and the deckhands begin flipping through the pile, sifting out scallops...

This contraption, that looks like a giant bedspring/art project, is dragged across the ocean floor, arresting scallops from their peaceful, filter-feeding, bottom-snoozing existence...