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Dredging Rocks on the R/V Melville

Dredging Rocks on the R/V Melville

Dredging Rocks on the R/V Melville

A large iron dredge bucket is used to scrape rocks from the flanks of seamounts. Shown here are sediments and manganese crusts falling from the bucket as it is emptied on the deck after a dredge. Read more about the Walvis Ridge Project.