Muddy Water Dredging’s new cutter suction dredge (CSD) Vaneta Marie “represents the future of dredging technology”, according to Bill Wetta, senior vice president, and chief technology officer of DSC Dredge, the Reserve, La.
Muddy Water Dredging’s new cutter suction dredge (CSD) Vaneta Marie “represents the future of dredging technology”, according to Bill Wetta, senior vice president, and chief technology officer of DSC Dredge, the Reserve, La. based company that built the dredge, and one of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News' 'Great Ships of 2024.'
Christened during a ceremony in New Orleans earlier this year, Vaneta Marie is a fully customized Marlin Class dredge that measures 371 ft. long, making it one of the longest in its category.
Boasting the capability to dredge a 400-ft.-wide cut with an 80-degree swing arc, it sets a new standard for operational efficiency, enhancing productivity by 5.9%. Furthermore, its customizable design features a detachable carriage barge, enabling seamless adaptation to various working environments.
“Vaneta Marie was specifically built for a certain set of projects in the Gulf Coast area, primarily the Calcasieu River, although it will actually work from Galveston all the way to Pensacola,” Wetta said. The dredge will perform “mostly navigational maintenance-type work, where material is not that deep, but it tends to be more in the corners of the channel, where movement becomes really important.”
“[Muddy Water Dredging] wanted to be able to dig
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