The Myrtle Irene (USCG id: 643114)
[ is a crewed flat-topped power barge adapted into a littorals at-sea excavator dredge mining vessel designed By Tony Messina out of Northern Wisconsin .][ It is owned by Arctic Sea Mining, LLC and its registered home port is ]Nome, Alaska
Nome (; ik, Sitŋasuaq, ) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of Alaska, United States. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a population of 3,699 recorded ...
, USA.[ This excavator dredge mining barge is introduced and featured since the 2018 season 10 in '']Bering Sea Gold
''Bering Sea Gold'' (also known as ''Gold Divers'' in the UK) is a reality television series set in Nome, Alaska, on Norton Sound, that airs on Discovery Channel. It is from the creators of the ''Deadliest Catch'' reality TV show.
The show is di ...
'', a Discovery Channel USA reality TV show on sea mining for gold in Alaska.[ ][ ''Bering Sea Gold'', Discovery Channel USA, Season 10, 2018 ][ ''Bering Sea Gold'', Discovery Channel USA, Season 11, 2019 ][ ''Bering Sea Gold'', Discovery Channel USA, Season 12, 2020 ] The excavator dredge cost $6,000,000 to build.[ ]
Specifications
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* Launch date: 1981
* Length: ; with extension.
* Width:
* Depth:
* Net tonnage:
* Gross tonnage:
* Mining rate: per hour
* Mining depth:
See also
* Tuvli 160
* Christine Rose (dredge)
* AU Grabber
* Viking Dredge 1
* Viking Dredge 2
* Bima (dredge)
References
External links
* Boat Database (boatdb.net
Nome, AK port boats
Bering Sea Gold
Dredgers
Ships of the United States
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