DREDGE OPERATOR

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Commands vessel equipped with machinery for excavating under water to facilitate building structures in harbors, estuaries, straits, sounds, rivers, lakes, bays, and oceans: Sets course of vessel, using navigational aids, such as charts, area plotting sheets, compass, and sextant, and orders worker at helm to steer ship toward excavation site. Determines geographical position of ship, using loran or azimuths of celestial bodies. Directs crew engaged in operating deck winches and lowering dredging equipment. Supervises crew engaged in dredging operations. Verifies depth of excavations to ensure that excavations are made according to requirements. Maintains ship's log. Must be licensed by U.S. Coast Guard for steam, motor, or sail ship according to waters navigated and tonnage of ship. (references)
	Operates power-driven dredge to excavate and maintain navigable channels in waterways and to mine sand and gravel at bottom of lakes, rivers, and streams: Directs workers engaged in placing shore anchors and cables, laying additional lengths of pipes from dredge to shore, and in pumping water from pontoons. Starts and stops engines to operate equipment. Moves levers to place dredge in position for excavation, engage hydraulic pump, raise and lower suction boom, and control rotation of cutterhead. Lowers anchor pole to verify depth of excavation, using winch, or scans depth gauge to determine depth of excavation. Starts power winch that draws in or lets out cable to change position of dredge, or pulls in and lets out cable manually. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-g-o-o-p-r-r-r-t"
	-3 letters: retrograded.
	-4 letters: depredator, preordered, prorogated, reoperated, retrograde.
	-5 letters: depredate, derogated, operagoer, perorated, porterage, prorogate, readopted, reoperate, reordered, reportage, retreaded, torpedoed.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 45 44 47 45 4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01000101 01000100 01000111 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#69 &#68 &#71 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0045 0044 0047 0045 004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Gold dredge operator. Nye County, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

DREDGE OPERATOR

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