One day Atlantic Coast moves the scow, and the next it moves what would scoop sixth-boro-bottom into the scow.
Michele Jean does pre- and post-dredging surveying.
An eight-leg stand bucket (?) in autumn light is as beautiful as a spring daffodil about to open, a bud just quivering with excitement.
Fin Kennedy has its niche.
More buckets . . . er quivering petals.
Red Rogers has its niche.
Bowsprite’s favorite is the cutter head, fierce though it be.
See the fine print on the hull midships . . . it’s another survey boat.
and two barges loaded with buckets and cranes over by Atlantic Salt. More on this soon.
Not a very good foto of Seis Surveyor, but I did catch it as an unusual profile about a mile and a half away. Read all about this transient here. Here are her fleet siblings.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Note: all these fotos were taken in about a four-hour period over two days in the past week. More dredging than typical in fall?
I wonder if Little Richard would substitute “dredgin'” for “shakin,'” THE anthem of the dredging world then.
If you want to see some of the 92,754 steps in building one of the world’s largest dredgers, click here for Leiv Eiriksson.
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October 27, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Mage B
Why do the port need to shift so much sand? Are the ships getting deeper? More ships? Shifting sands? Planning for all of the above next year? Here they dredged for the navy ships, and they keep the channel deep enough with more regular dredging.
November 12, 2009 at 11:18 pm
bowsprite
Heaven! i’m in heaven! what a cool post!
That cutter suction head did indeed grind up rock in the KV; I got to see a photo of the black gravelly spoil scooped up. Cheaper to chew away than to blast.
Mage: both! Some berths silt in at a rate of a foot a year. Our KVK has been dredged to 50′, some of the deepest berths are 45′ or maybe more, for cargo & oil. Cruise ships berths are about 36′ deep, mean low water.
November 12, 2009 at 11:21 pm
bowsprite
Leiv Eiriksson is THE world’s largest. Crew of 70!
November 13, 2009 at 7:18 am
bowsprite
errr: 35 onboard at a time: on a six weeks on/of schedule, so total
about 70 people…
November 13, 2009 at 7:29 am
tugster
thanks for correction, bowsprite. praytell though . . . besides the command/nav crew, engine crew, and galley crew, what types of specialties do the dredge-specific crew represent? dredge operators . . . of course, dredge maintenance … no doubt. can you get an organizational breakdown of this 35 onboard crew?
November 13, 2009 at 11:33 am
bowsprite
tinker, tailor, candlestick maker…
November 13, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Jed
Ahem –
I believe them to the BUTCHER and BAKER
Just sayin’
Or perhaps in this case didn’t The Dredge do away with The Dune?</b?
November 14, 2009 at 11:59 pm
bowsprite
yes, and we laughed to see such sport!
November 14, 2009 at 11:58 pm
bowsprite
gosh, I did BUTCHER that Mother Squid Rhyme!
November 15, 2009 at 4:47 am
tugster
ok . . . big ending . . . and the bitch ran away with the goon . . . or the snitch ran to play (with) the buffoon (bassoon?)
November 17, 2009 at 8:47 am
Jed
Start to finish:
Hey diddle. diddle,
the drag boat’s too little
to effect the depth of the lagoon
SANDMASTER laughed to hear such sport
as the dredge did away with the dune
November 17, 2009 at 8:55 pm
bowsprite
Brilliant!!! Jolly Tar’s Nursery Rhymes!!!