Judy Ann (dredge)
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The M/V Judy Ann (USCG id: 1263237) is an excavator-based sea gold mining dredging|dredge motorized barge operating out of Nome, Alaska, USA, in the Bering Sea, used to mine seafloor placer gold deposits. It was shown in the background on Bering Sea Gold, and featured in an episode of Gold Rush: Alaska#Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue|Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue. It was built by the Martinson land gold mining family, and operated by Judy and Doug Martinson and their son Ryan, with daughter Jessa Martinson-Labinski operating the galley. Unusually for barges operating out of Nome, it was built completely in Nome. The dredge was launched on 26 September 2015.[1][2][3]
History
The barge was built as an excavator barge as the Martinsons did not want to do scuba suction dredge mining, which is common out of Nome. The Martinsons chose to build a barge to go seafloor mining, when the bought ocean floor claims at auction.[3][4][5]
The barge was constructed in Nome, from the junkyard; unlike other barges that are imported, and then adapted in Nome, or built elsewhere.[3][6][7]
The Judy Ann was designed and built by the Martinsons. It was built out of four pipe-pontoons, with a deck laid over it. The excavator would be used to extract seafloor material to dump into an on deck hopper, that would feed into sluices, concentrators, centrifuges, that would extract the gold.
The barge was completed and launched in 2015.
The 2019 dredging season ended for the Judy Ann on October 16.
In 2020, the Martinsons and their barge became part of Discovery Channel's Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue, where the modified the barge with Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibara to increase gold catchment efficiency by adding additional sluicing runs. The episode featuring the barge aired in 2021.[1]
- Vessel 1263237
- Launch date: 2015
- Length: 80 ft (24 m)
- Width: 30 ft (9.1 m)
- Depth: 6 ft (1.8 m)
- Net tonnage: 56 short tons (51 tonnes)
- Gross tonnage: 56 short tons (51 tonnes)
- Construction cost: $1.5 million USD
References
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- ↑ "JUDY ANN (1263237)". boatdb.net. Boat Database.
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