2021 The dredger position is an approximation based on satellite images of the scene. 2020 The initial dispute culminated in French authorities detaining the Cornelis Gert Jan, a British scallop dredger near Le Havre.

2021 Fifty-one people died when a pleasure boat sank in the River Thames in London after colliding with a dredger. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023 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. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023 Chuan Hong 68 was built in 2014, and is described as a grab dredger, or a ship that uses a large claw to remove items from the ocean floor.

2021 First came the dredgers, the scientists who dragged giant shovels behind sailing ships and picked through the biological rubble.

Vivian Yee New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023 Several dredgers, including a specialized suction dredger that can extract 2,000 cubic meters of material per hour, were digging around the vessel's bow, which is wedged into the canal's eastern bank. Noun But recently, Beijing laid claim to 90 percent of the 1.3 million square-mile sea, and has used dredgers to expand dozens of islets and shoals, fortifying them with anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and military-grade airfields.

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