Saturday, April 17, 2010

Captain – depth check please?

And wouldn’t you know – the depth sounder says “Sir only 2m beneath the hull”

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Local authorities have decided to ensure the situation stays that way.

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Yes they have employed a dredge to ensure




local yachties and foe will be ok.

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In many cases where a channel needs to be “re-explored & re-developed”

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its normal practice that a suction type dredge would be employed.

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But for reasons I aren’t quite clear about now

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– maybe it had something to do with rock / stone content or

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so – the authorities choice at first had me wondering?

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It has an interesting propulsion system on two long outboard motor like stalks at the rear of the ship.

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The barge then transits out through The Cut and appears to go

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about half way out in Tasman Bay where it obviously “drops its load”…..

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then returns to do it all over again.

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