The Chesapeake Bay, for example, is an average of just 21 feet deep, but the waterways are deepened to 50 feet. “If so, I dare you to wear them outside of the hotel.” And then she got down to business.ĭredging involves excavating sediment and muck from the bottom of our oceans, rivers, bays and harbors to create navigable waterways for shipping traffic. “Any silt happens T-shirts in the crowd?” quipped Darcy. In fact, until it was recognized as a commercial commodity, the material dredged up to create shipping channels used to be called “spoils.”īut look at it now! Today, dredging warrants an entire international conference. It’s not easy to love an industry with a rather repulsive name.
Dredging has certainly taken its share of abuse in the joke department.
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