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If you're headed to the Jersey Shore, you likely have to pass over a drawbridge to get there. If you're on a boat heading out into the ocean, you likely have to pass under one.

All that time spent staring at these bridges from both perspectives got News 12's Brian Donohue wondering what it would be like to be a bridge operator.

On today’s “Brian’s Positively New Jersey, “ Donohue spends the day on Shark71, the state's busiest drawbridge that carries traffic over the Shark River between Belmar and Avon-by-the-Sea.

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