Walked through a marina in Norfolk and saw a dredge sitting half-buried in silt like it hadn't moved in years

That boat looked like it was abandoned mid-shift with the ladder still down and a coffee cup on the console, how do you even let equipment get that bad without someone stepping in?

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parker_patel8415d ago

Read somewhere that the Army Corps of Engineers has like 50 dredges sitting around rotting just like that. They say it costs more to fix them than to buy new ones which just seems backwards to me. Someone should have been keeping up with basic maintenance, greasing things, running the engine once in a while. Once the silt gets inside the hull and starts rusting everything from the inside out you're basically done. I bet that coffee cup is still there too, just full of rain water and mud now. Hard to look at something like that and not wonder how many tax dollars just got flushed down the drain.

seth_allen16d ago

Man that is a rough sight to see. It really gets me because that equipment probably cost a FORTUNE to buy and now it's just slowly sinking into the mud like nobody cares. I've seen it happen in my line of work too, where a perfectly good unit gets neglected until it's too far gone to save. Someone must have walked away from that job and just never came back, which is a shame. You gotta respect the gear that pays your bills, you know? If you let stuff slide like that, it's only a matter of time before you're out of business or in a world of hurt trying to fix it.