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My old dredge mentor would be amazed by today's GPS systems
Just finished a job where we used real-time GPS to guide the cutter. I remember my mentor teaching me to read paper charts and use a sextant. The accuracy now is AMAZING, and we cut our mistakes by half. It's a small win, but it feels good to see how far we've come.
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daniel_perry885d agoMost Upvoted
Imagine what your mentor would think about self-driving dredges.
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blair6264d ago
He'd probably laugh at the idea until he saw it work. We ran a test with auto-spudding last year, and the big win was consistency, not flash. The system just held the pattern in a stiff cross-current where a human would've fought it. Still had a guy babysitting the junction boxes though. Your mentor would've hated the setup but loved the clean cut.
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