The Dirt About Dredging
Introduction This is a post about dredging. It's an assignment my dad and I took on together to “create a post about dredging and make it as interesting as we can.” Wait. Don’t leave! Remember our anchoring post? You might find this one pretty cool, too. In all our blog posts, we try to relate them to being on our Nordhavn. Here, you’ll see how important dredging has been to our 3-1/2 year live-aboard experience. Ancient History Of Dredging Ever since civilization began, dredging was critical for trade, because all vessels, no matter how small, need water depth to navigate without running aground. The earliest way to improve depth was to remove sediment by hand. There is evidence of this on the Tigress and Euphrates rivers in West Asia, and the Nile river in Africa, dating back to around 3500 BC, the approximate beginning of the Bronze Age! As time marched on, dredging methods improved. There is extensive evidence of harbor dredging between 300 BC and 100 AD in the eastern