dredger
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Jaype Rubi was a young Filippino when he worked on board the TN dredger Sea Lady in 2012.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2024
Samuel Denapo: Because after we establish this fish trap, the dredger will come and they will put their pipe there, they will start sand-filling everything.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
The 75 families who lived on Tatuoca island began to question the benefits of the port complex expansion in 2009 when a dredger began scooping up chunks of the seabed to accommodate big ships.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
The Cornelis Gert Jan, a scallop dredger, was escorted to the northern port of Le Havre after its crew failed to prove it was allowed to fish in French territorial waters, according to French officials.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2021
“I wondered, Dad, if you would hook up the oyster dredger to the Miss Amanda and help me haul something out of the river?”
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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