Sinking

[Rum_Pirate]

A small dredger sank this morning.
wouwill have to enlarge the picture

 

[Davy_S]

I am not surprised, it looks like he has gone over a waterfall

 

[tobermoryphil]

Looks more like Rummy is sinking!

 

[SaltIre]

Looks more like Rummy is drinking!

 

[Rum_Pirate]

 

[Boathook]

Is that an oil slick from it or Rum Pirate's rum ration making a bid for freedom ?

 

[SaltIre]

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Is this a thread about photography?

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Is this a thread about photography?

Pollution in my neighborhood.

 

[Tomahawk]

Post a piccie and detals to gCaptain.. especially the bit about the oils slick.

 

[AuntyRinum]

Some dredgers are designed to do that when the pipes are too short to reach the bottom. It will resurface when it's finished dredging.

 

[Tomahawk]

Where is it?

 

[Kelpie]

Where is it?

On the bottom

 

[Blueboatman]

It’s a bottom feeder

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Where is it?

Frigate Bay, St.Kitts, West Indies

 

[penfold]

Looks deep enough to not need dredging, it's at least 8' deep.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Looks deep enough to not need dredging, it's at least 8' deep.

It was pump dredging (wrongly IMHO) sand to replenish the beach.
No environmental or oceanographic investigation was done.

 

[penfold]

There's a lot of it about; when I visited the Seychelles 20 years ago they were just getting into that, a look on google earth reveals they've filled up large areas of the big bay on Praslin island with dredged material. Capitalism needs checks and balances.

 

[alan_d]

There's a lot of it about; when I visited the Seychelles 20 years ago they were just getting into that, a look on google earth reveals they've filled up large areas of the big bay on Praslin island with dredged material. Capitalism needs checks and balances.

I agree, but be careful - you'll get this thread closed for politics like the Irish Sea Bridge one.