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The AU Grabber (pronounced as: Gold Grabber; [NB 1]) is a self-propelled barge excavator dredge used to mine Bering Sea placer gold deposits in the region around Nome, Alaska, USA. It is owned and operated by Richard Schimschat and featured in the Discovery Channel USA mining reality TV show Bering Sea Gold .
The recovered sludge was pumped to an Exxon barge by reversing the dredge pumps. Yaquina began her skimming operations around Knight Island in Prince William Sound and worked her way southwest to Kukak Bay. She combined with another Corps of Engineers dredge, USAV Essayons, to recover 379,720 gallons of oil. [25]
The Mowag Piranha is a family of armoured fighting vehicles designed by the Swiss company Mowag (since 2010 General Dynamics European Land Systems – Mowag GmbH).. Five generations of vehicles have been produced, manufactured by Mowag or under licence by other companies such as the LAV, and variants are in service with military forces throughout the world.
A grab dredge. Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing dams, dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines; and recovering valuable mineral deposits or marine life having commercial value.
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In 1941, Ellicott Dredges also built the dredge MINDI, a 10,000 HP, 28-inch cutter suction dredge still operating in the Panama Canal. Currently, Ellicott has sold over 1,500 dredges to 80 different countries. Their cutter dredges can be used for a variety of applications including coastal protection, sand mining, and land reclamation.
The previous Essayons was a hopper dredge commissioned on January 16, 1950, and retired in May, 1980. [4] [13] The name was given to a Corps of Engineers tug, which was built in 1908 and retired in 1949. [14] A yet earlier vessel, a "dredge-boat" named Essayons, was built for the Army Corps of Engineers in 1868. She was used to keep the mouth ...
The Tuvli 160 (USCG id: 516564) [1] is an ocean-rated crewed flat-topped barge in the process of being adapted into a powered littorals at-sea excavator-boomed suction dredge mining vessel. [2] It is owned by Pomrenke Mining and its registered home port is Nome, Alaska, USA. [1] The Tuvli 160 was featured in 2018 season 10 of Bering Sea Gold.