The 62-meter “CREI I” was built in 1978. She is a dredge, or a vessel that is used to excavate and remove material from the bottom of a body of water.
She can also be used for beach nourishment, digging fresh sand from the bottom of the sea and literally spraying it from afar on a depleted shoreline.
External links: Beach nourishment (Wikipedia)
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Looks like a hefty boat worthy of the work she is doing! I'm sure she's much in demand. Nice photos, too.
Reminds me of a kind of marine mole. :-)
I wondered what the contraption was, but I expect that's key for dredging.
A very useful vessel!
That's a big vacuum.
She is so strange looking! And "beach nourishment," what a good idea and interesting term!
I agree with Lois, the first photo shows it in the best way.
I like your harbour activity VP, it makes me think of Fremantle harbour.
I think I've seen one like this in Brest...
Beach renourishment is huge around here. But, for a variety of reasons, they usually truck the sand in.
Your first image is very nice.
That sounds a bit messy for all the living things in the water.
Fascinating. I'll have to pay better attention to the boats that dredge harbours in the Great Lakes!
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