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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Kennedy

Mike Rowe gets filthy on 'Dirty Jobs' to reconnect Americans

Discovery Communications

It may come as no surprise to fans of Mike Rowe that when he recently visited the Florida Panhandle, he didn't lay out on the beach or take a cruise.

He donned a 100-pound (45.3-kilogram) diving helmet, waded into a smelly, muddy creek and joined a work crew putting concrete jackets around wooden bridge pylons. Emerging from the muck after several hours, he told the crew: “Glad you do it. Don’t know how you do it.”

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