For the first time since 2001, the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris was drained so it could be cleaned, and the photos of the operation do a pretty neat job of answering that question.
The project began on Monday, Jan. 4, and is expected to continue for the next three months, according to a report in The Guardian.
A lot of what workers have found so far is kind of fascinating. And definitely not pretty. It's either the remains of the most off-the-wall holiday party ever or a real-time look at a decade and a half of pollution.
1. Here's what the canal looks like on an ordinary day.
2. To start the drainage process, a dam was lowered into the canal.
3. Then, before anything else could happen, workers had to go in and dig out all the fish.
Here, fishy fishy fishy! The canal cleaners remove the fish the old fashioned way — by catching them by hand with long nets. According to a Vice News report, the deadline for all the fish to be extracted is Friday.
4. And carry them gently to safety...
5. ...where a full accounting was made of all the fish.
The fish are weighed and identified before they're relocated. Not a particularly comfortable set-up for the fish, but far better than the alternative.
6. Meanwhile, clean-up crews got to check out all the cool, gross stuff the canal had been hiding, including ... a suitcase.
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