At a Glance

Maine's famous ice disk is spinning again after coming to a stop for a day.Photographer Andrew Sims used his paddleboard and an ice pick to free the disk from the shore.The disk has since spun in its normal counterclockwise fashion since being freed.

About a week ago and the internet was crazing over , but then it stopped.

No, it wasn't the attention for disk that waned. The actual disk seized to rotate. That is, until Andrew Sims came into the picture.

Sims, a photographer from Freeport, Maine, and found his way to the point where the 100-yard-wide disk had lodged itself along the shore and began to use an ice pick to chip away the ice that halted the massive saucer, according to the Portland Press Herald.

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“We were like, ‘This is insane. There was no way he’s going to be able to do this,'" Doug Bertlesman, who was watching Sims from his office that sits along the river, told the newspaper. "He came at it from two sides and cut it loose. And then he pushed it, he pushed it across the river back to where it was."

Westbrook's famed ice disk seen at rest on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. It was freed and returned to its normal counterclockwise spin one day later.

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Sims told the Herald that the disappointment of those who came to visit the revolving phenomenon only to see it stationary urged him to intervene. That, and, well, it was a great spot for time-lapse photography, of course.

It took the paddleboarder about two hours to free the disk from its resting state, the newspaper reported, to the applause of onlookers.