This is looking straight up the 85 foot lock wall after HUCK was secured to the bollard. That's water spraying through a leak in the wall. There were lots of leaks caused by the tremendous pressure of the water surrounding the empty lock. You need to have a lot of faith in those walls when your closed in there down at the bottom!

The gates have just closed on the low side of the empty lock. HUCK is secured to the wall and waiting for the lockmaster to open the valves to let millions of gallons of water boil up from the bottom, lifting HUCK up to the level of Pickwick lake above. This is the 9th largest lock in the country, and the last of the locks on the Tenn-Tom, starting with Coffeeville lock, almost 300 miles south.