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# Wind blows down from the northern sky

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# Waves rise up to meet the eye

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# Fisherman bring in your line this time... #

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The sand is being pumped into the tank in a slurry -

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water and sand mixed.

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The sand is settling in the tank and the water goes overboard.

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It's virtually impossible to sink these boats.

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They were purpose-built for the job,

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they're all buoyancy tanks

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and it's practically physically impossible on a flat, calm day

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to fill that tank with the boat down.

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How much would you lift in one session like this in one load?

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Erm, about 200 tonnes would be a good load.

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At the moment, there's 17 boats working on the lough

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and at one time, these were the biggest boats in the lough.

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They're now amongst the smaller ones.

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There are boats on the lough that are carrying 300-350 tonnes

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that have been brought in by row.

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These boats come in via the lower Bann.

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These were the maximum size that the loughs on the lower Bann can take,

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120 foot by 20.

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The sand that's on the bottom of Lough Neagh,

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how did it get there? Is it glacial?

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Yeah, it was about 15,000, 12,000 years ago,

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at the end of the last ice age, as the glaciers were melting.

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I read recently that there's over a million tonnes of sand

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extracted from Lough Neagh every year.

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It's clearly a finite resource. How long will it last for?

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A million and half tonnes a year sounds a lot,

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but in comparison to the area of sand that's here,

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it's going to last a long time.

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It's been in full production since the end of World War II,

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things really started getting revved up.

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There's a lot of industries that have sprang up round

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the shores of the lough,

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you know, concrete and one thing and another,

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and all those brought jobs to the area from the sand.

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It'll not last for ever, but it's got a long, long way to go.

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I hear that most of the sand that was used to build

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Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, and also for the pitch there,

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actually came from Lough Neagh here.

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The last time the pitch was refurbished,

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I think it was about 6,000 or 7,000 tonnes

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of Lough Neagh sand went to Croke Park

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and that's the reason why Sam Maguire has come to

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the shores of Lough Neagh so often in the last few years.

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They're playing on their home ground.

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