It would take too much time and too much money, they were told, to stop work and make those fixes. His co-workers had warned the company that just such an accident was bound to happen unless changes were made. His wife, Colleen, buried her husband a few days later, on their fifth wedding anniversary.
He landed on his back, on the sand meant for the new beach. It snapped the metal rod hard against his face and neck, throwing him out of the hatch. Pearce ducked into a hatch called a "rock box" and began chipping away at the 250-pound boulder with a pry bar. 29, the Sarasota resident was working on Weeks Marine barge 265 near the mouth of Tampa Bay when a supervisor told him to clear a chunk of concrete from a massive pump that moves sand. He was going to quit the brutal job of a laborer at sea as soon as he could pass the test for his ship captain's license. Always moving, the dredges are like construction sites during an earthquake.īut the pay - which can reach $60,000 and up - was too tempting for a 32-year-old man with the equivalent of a high school diploma. Army Corps of Engineers and the Port of Brownsville, on this important improvement project that will benefit the navigation interests and allows for future development of the Port of Brownsville.David Pearce knew the dangers of beach rebuilding, that sand dredges are hot, slippery and loud that deckhands can die or lose limbs. We look forward to working with NextDecade and other stakeholders, including the U.S. Lasse Petterson, Great Lakes’ president and CEO, said, “This exciting milestone project is the largest undertaken by Great Lakes in its 133-year history.
The project will enhance commercial navigation into and out of the Port of Brownsville and ensure the safe and reliable access of LNG carriers to the Rio Grande LNG facility. The project also includes the development of two ship berths and turning basin for the Rio Grande LNG facility. The company said it expects to start work for the project later this year, including deepening the entrance channel to the western end of the Rio Grande LNG property also known as Phase 1 of the Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvements. Dredging contractor Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced it has received a notice to proceed to perform essential improvements to the Brownsville Ship Channel for NextDecade Corporation’s Rio Grande LNG project.
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