In 1995 I worked in Denmark, on the Øresund Project
On a visit to the fill site one day, Hans Havbro decided to demonstrate the compaction of the clay till. It finally took the backhoe to get him out. |
The dredge on the project was the Chicago, the largest dredge of it's type in the world. Here I am on board. |
One nice thing about dredging is that it gets me out on the water where I get to see some unique sights.
On a visit to Coos Bay, Oregon, I found this guy hanging about the dock. |
I love seeing Dolphins, but rarely get such good pics. |
On a visit to Hilton Head, North Carolina, I got this great picture of the sunrise. |
On a trip to Coos Bay, Oregon I got this picture of the Dredge Padre Island in the afternoon. |
Here is a sample of the equipment Great Lakes owns. This is just a small fraction of the largest dredging fleet in the United States.
This is the Dredge California, a Cutter Suction Dredge (CSD). This picture was taken on site north of Galveston Texas. |
Here is the Captain of the California, Alan Julian, and the Deck Captain looking at the cutter. |
This is the booster pump GL130. This picture was also taken on site north of Galveston Texas. |
This is the Dredge Alaska, another CSD. This picture was taken at Craney Island, near Norfolk, VA. |
This is the Dredge New York, a backhoe dredge. This picture was taken in New York Harbor. |
This is the New York with the boom and bucket on deck. Notice how small the man looks next to the largest backhoe dredge in the world! |
On a trip to Egypt in 1999, I took some pictures of dredges owned by our Dutch and Belgian competitors.
This is Dredging International's Dredge Antigoon. The Antigoon is a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge (TSHD). |
This is HAM Dredging's CSD HAM 217. Here the 217 is digging 'plus bank', the top of the material being dredged is above the waterline. |
In Egypt, the housing for some of the local workforce was very basic. |
In 1999 I recieved an award for a paper I gave at the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) annual conference on dredging. The subject of the paper was "The Development of an RTK Hydrographic Survey System".
Of course I wasn't nervous at all. |