They weren't too worried about preserving and tagging items when that fellow was taking a fire hose to her. I realize it's to lose the weight of the mud for the sake of the crane but did they have to use the biggest hammer they had. Probably a fixed bid and not an hourly job.
Lots of pilots, both German and British, owed their lives to this design during the Battle of Britain. It was really a funny situation: the Germans used them as an air/sea rescue vehicle for downed pilots, picking up Brits and Germans ind1scriminately. In this role they sometimes even marked them with red crosses. Knowing that they were a bomber type, the Brits didn't particularly avoid shooting them down, unless they knew there was a rescued Brit aboard!
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring