oh muddy mud mudsucker...

[the doctor]

just watched a modern marvels on dredging...pretty cool stuff

ever seen it? they showed us the Vasco de Gama, big mofo.

Also the Palm Islands of Dubai in the persian gulf, sultan of dubai(oil) building island in the persian gulf shaped like a palm tree and another series of islands that will appear to be a map of the world...you can buy your own island for around $10MM...you might be dredging in the wrong area??

cool stuff anyhow

the doc

[mudsucker]

[Bankermane]

[the doctor]

[hillhunter]

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[hillhunter]

So how long does it take before you get to run one of those things? Just curious.....seems pretty neat to me. Do you do all of your work keeping the river channel open? also how long does it take after you dredge a spot down there that you have to come back a redredge it? Do you take off 10 ft of sediment, 20 ft?.....sorry about all of the questions but it is pretty neat to me.....never hurts to learn a little something either.

[MudHog]

I've seen that one before. Watch Modern Marvels and Extreme Engineering all the time.

Extreme Engineering had a clip on a TransAtlantic Pipeline for transportation. In the days of ships, it took weeks to cross the Atlantic. Planes cut that down to hours and with the TransAtlantic Pipeline, it would be cut down to minutes.

What I got from the show, it's actually be thought about and things are being engineered for it. It would house two maglev trains that would move at speeds of 5,000 MPH!!!!!. 3 chambers would get the train to that speed for the simple fact that no human body can withstand the G's from 0-5000 mph.

Oh yea, the pipeline would be a vaccum too. For the reason of no wind resistance, thus easier to propell an object to higher speeds without wind drag.


Back on topic, I when I seen the dredgers, it showed the ones that actually open their bellys to dump the sediment. Amazing how they don't SINK.

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