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00:00She's called a megaship, a giant vacuum cleaner, the mightiest dredger on Earth.
00:08How do you feel if Superman was next to you?
00:11Very big.
00:12Cristobal Colón, a super-sized superstar able to build ports, harbours, canals, even islands.
00:21Some projects become feasible which in the past could not have been done.
00:26In the frigid waters of the North Sea, she will face her inaugural test, building her first megaproject.
00:35Cristobal Colón is the world's first super-dredger.
00:39At 223 metres and 78,000 tonnes, she's a giant.
00:46I have a lot of power, a lot of big muscles, a lot of strength, a lot of energy.
00:54At 223 metres and 78,000 tonnes, she's a giant.
01:00I have a lot of power, a lot of big muscles, a lot of strength, a lot of energy.
01:08And today, unbelievable is in big demand.
01:13New port construction projects are now super-sized,
01:17and Cristobal was built to take on the monster jobs no other dredger could handle.
01:25She's on her way to her very first job in Cuxhaven, Germany, at the mouth of the Elbe River.
01:33The Elbe is one of Europe's busiest commercial waterways,
01:37and Cuxhaven wants to expand to become a superport.
01:42Cristobal's job is to create the land the new port will be built on
01:46by dumping two and a half million cubic metres of sand on the coast,
01:51enough to build the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
01:56The deadline is brutal, and so is the weather.
02:01Port construction starts in just eight weeks,
02:04and Cristobal is sailing into one of Germany's worst winters in a hundred years.
02:14But before she gets to Cuxhaven, she has to pick up her first load.
02:21Cristobal will suck up sand from the seabed in a dredging zone ten kilometres offshore,
02:26and then deliver it to Cuxhaven.
02:31To get the job done, she'll have to dredge and deliver 85 loads.
02:37Her weapons? Two long suction pipes and two giant drag heads.
02:44Weighing in at 80 tonnes apiece, each head can vacuum up 20,000 tonnes of sand an hour
02:50and feed it up to the hopper that can hold 46,000 cubic metres,
02:55enough to bury a football field nine metres deep.
03:04For Captain Jean Bleu, Cristobal Colon's size and strength are made to measure for Cuxhaven.
03:11The deal to use this vessel on this project is that we can bring much more than one vessel in one trip.
03:20But bigger isn't always better.
03:23First Officer Patrick Struve is navigating giant Cristobal in one of the busiest shipping lanes in Europe.
03:30Every year, 6,000 vessels head in and out of the Elbe River.
03:42It's like steering an aircraft carrier through rush-hour traffic.
03:46I have to look in the radar now how far the ships are and how quickly they come in.
03:52Seven ships are on his radar right now, some just a few hundred metres away.
03:58One of them, a tanker, cuts across Cristobal's bow with almost no warning.
04:03Patrick adjusts his speed, but stays on course.
04:07You're not allowed to make a mistake, that's it.
04:10If I make a mistake now, we have a collision.
04:13But Cristobal Colon is more than just big. She's clever.
04:26Despite her massive size, Captain Bleu runs his super-dredger with just 17 crew.
04:33He needs only two men on the bridge, which is crammed with enough electronics to keep an astronaut happy.
04:40I have good access to all the information from the engine rooms, from the dredging equipment.
04:495,000 sensors control 6,000 valves and feed a steady stream of information to help navigate, dredge, even run the engines.
04:59Cristobal is the most technically advanced dredger ever built.
05:03This is the big deal.
05:09Six floors below the bridge, in the engine room's high-tech control centre,
05:14Chief Engineer Danny Hjuskens runs his entire engine room with just three crew.
05:20That means the behaviour of the engines, temperatures, pressures, all the alarms.
05:28We can start and stop the engines from here, we can open valves from here.
05:33For example, we get...
05:34We get...
05:38The alarm warns the engineers to check one of Cristobal's two huge diesel engines, the biggest ever installed on a dredger.
05:47Together they pump out 56,000 horsepower, enough energy to light a city.
05:53Instead, it drives the ship and powers every gauge, valve and sensor on board.
06:00This time there's nothing wrong, but Danny can't afford to ignore any one of the hundreds of alarms that go off every day.
06:09I think this is the heart of the ship.
06:12When we are not there, you have no power, you have nothing.
06:22It's the ship's computer-controlled, dynamic positioning system that maintains their course and heading.
06:27Right now it confirms that Cristobal has entered the dredging zone.
06:32The site is three kilometres long, barely a hundred metres wide and right in the middle of the shipping lanes.
06:43As Patrick navigates into the zone, two more tankers pass within metres of Cristobal.
06:57You have to be always on tension on it, always thinking and keep your mind on it.
07:05On the other side of the massive bridge, pipe operator Sebastian Scholten brings Cristobal's two dragheads to life.
07:17From his command console, he can operate these giant vacuum cleaners by remote control.
07:28His shipmates call him Bars, and the dragheads are his babies.
07:33Each one weighs as much as a house, but he treats them like fine china.
07:38One mistake could send them crashing to the deck or into the side of the ship.
07:44I have to take care that I damage nothing at the back, so just make sure everything will go OK and smoothly.
07:52Everything is in place for their first dredge.
07:56But as Bars starts to lower the dragheads, Captain Blur watches the weather.
08:02There's a winter storm building in the North Sea that could shut Cristobal down.
08:12Mega-dredger Cristobal Colon is offshore in the North Sea, 10 kilometres from Cuxhaven, Germany.
08:19And First Officer Patrick Struff is preparing the ship to dredge up her first load of sand.
08:31If all goes well, in just three hours she will have 60,000 tonnes in her belly.
08:39But there's a winter storm building, and pipe operator Bars Scholten has no time to waste.
08:45To dredge up sand from the seabed, Bars uses Cristobal's two huge 80-tonne dragheads.
08:52He has to move them slowly and carefully as he lowers them over the side.
09:05Patrick's job is to navigate Cristobal, and he must carefully steer the ship over the dredge site.
09:15As Cristobal hits her first mark, Bars manoeuvres the dragheads into position.
09:24Slowly, he lowers them to the bottom, just 15 metres below the keel.
09:35The dragheads' 50 teeth rip into the seabed, loosening the sand.
09:41At the top of each arm, a powerful 400-tonne pump inhales the sand up and into the hopper at 18 kilometres an hour.
09:53With every cubic metre of sand, Cristobal also vacuums up a cubic metre of water.
09:59It's the only way to suck up so much sand quickly.
10:04But as soon as he uses the water, Bars needs to lose it.
10:11If all the water goes out, he takes the water.
10:15As the sand enters the hopper, it sinks to the bottom.
10:18A giant funnel is then lowered, skimming off the excess water and draining it back into the sea.
10:33Filling the hopper is a delicate operation.
10:37A carefully choreographed dance between navigator and pipe operator.
10:42Together, Patrick and Bars have just one job – keeping the dragheads on the seabed.
10:49Using real-time data from sensors right on the dragheads, Bars raises and lowers the heads constantly as he follows the contours of the bottom.
10:58While Patrick battles swells and currents to maintain the ship's position inside the dredging zone.
11:0713.5 metres, Bars.
11:1013.5 metres?
11:11Yes.
11:13You have to communicate very good for long distances.
11:17When it's quiet, we can hear each other.
11:20Speed is critical.
11:22Dredge sand up too fast or too slow and the pipes could clog, shutting Cristobal down.
11:30We have to take care that we don't block any pipes and keep the speed going.
11:36This is the main thing that we do.
11:40But midway through the dredge, Patrick has a problem.
11:44If you look to the buoy now, you see how much current there is.
11:47There is now between four and five knots of current ahead of me.
11:52The fast sea current could knock Cristobal off course and any sudden movement could smash the dragheads against the ship.
12:00Yes, especially now when the current, the pipe will go constantly under the ship.
12:04So I keep it very close to the bottom, but not too much, otherwise it will go.
12:10As Patrick nears the end of the dredging zone, his sensors warn him that Cristobal is drifting.
12:16Keep it a bit lighter.
12:19A bit lighter?
12:20Yes.
12:21You even pull the jet pump down?
12:23Yes, of course.
12:24I'm at maximum power. I can't do it anymore.
12:28Bas struggles to keep the dragheads away from the ship, while Patrick fights the fast currents with his thrusters.
12:33Propellers mounted on the hull that can manoeuvre the ship sideways.
12:40He has to apply power carefully.
12:42Too much, and he'll push Cristobal out of the narrow dredging zone and into the busy shipping lanes.
12:52So what I go doing, I go a little bit more to the centre, and then I go swing them around at one time, both thrusters.
13:01And it works. Cristobal comes back on course and stays there.
13:06So far, so good. But as tons of sand pour into the hopper, suddenly there's another problem.
13:18Cold winter weather has knocked out a key source of the problem.
13:22The ship's engine is not working.
13:25The engine is not working.
13:27The engine is not working.
13:29The engine is not working.
13:31The engine is not working.
13:33Cold winter weather has knocked out a key sensor.
13:36This one measures how much sand is in the hopper.
13:39It's also frozen, I think.
13:43So Bas and Patrick continue filling Cristobal the old-fashioned way, by eye.
13:51On the beach, what you see on the beach, when you see the waves coming up,
13:56goes smooth, slowly, and I want to see the same in the hopper.
14:00Then I know he's almost full.
14:02Getting it right is critical. Fill Cristobal too full, and she could run aground.
14:08You touch the bottom and then it's finished.
14:11With sand pouring into the hopper at 18 kilometres an hour, Cristobal dredges her first load right on schedule.
14:2130,000 cubic metres of sand.
14:24Enough to fill 1,630 dump trucks.
14:30Despite the frozen sensor, it goes off without a hitch.
14:35Phase one is complete, and Bas hauls in the dragheads.
14:46Good afternoon, sir. About 45 minutes to 50 minutes we are on the connection.
14:52Now Cristobal is in a race against the weather.
14:56A winter storm is right in her face, and high winds are pushing a large ice flow towards her.
15:05It won't take long for it to sweep down the Elbe river and block their path.
15:10It's Captain Blur's worst nightmare.
15:13He has to beat the ice to Cuxhaven, and orders Patrick to get there fast.
15:21As soon as Cristobal arrives at the new port site, a fleet of tugs rush out to meet her.
15:27They've got a tricky job.
15:29Guide the dredger into shallow water just offshore, so she can discharge her load.
15:35On shore, project manager Kobe Pears watches Cristobal arrive.
15:40He's worried. There's less than three metres of ice in the water,
15:44and the tugs are not going to be able to get to her.
15:47They've got a tricky job.
15:49Guide the dredger into shallow water just offshore, so she can discharge her load.
16:05One small error, and she could run aground.
16:20So Kobe waits, and watches Cristobal and the tugs get to work.
16:26To help fight the powerful six knot river current, one tug connects to Cristobal's stern,
16:31the other to her bow.
16:44With a delicate touch on his thrusters, Patrick carefully spins the ship,
16:49while the tugs struggle to hold her in position.
17:02Now Cristobal must stay exactly where she is.
17:05Captain Blur orders the anchor to be dropped.
17:15Like everything else on Cristobal, it's huge. 16 tonnes.
17:23Captain Blur orders out enough chain to lock his ship in position.
17:32But anchoring is the easy part.
17:37They've now got to discharge 60,000 tonnes of sand, and they've got to do it fast.
17:43The ice is coming.
17:45If they don't unload it before it hits, poor construction could shut down.
17:53Cristobal Colón is in a risky position.
17:55Ice from upriver is approaching fast, and Captain Blur doesn't have a moment to lose.
18:01He and his first officer, Patrick Struth, have to unload 60,000 tonnes of sand
18:06before the ice shuts them down.
18:10To do that, they have to connect to a discharge pipe that runs from the new port side
18:15to the new port side.
18:16From there, it disappears underwater.
18:19140 metres offshore, it surfaces, attached to a float that has to be hauled over
18:25and connected to a discharge valve on Cristobal's bow.
18:30And that's the job of the tug, Bremerhaven.
18:33They've got to make sure the tugs don't sink.
18:36They've got to make sure the tugs don't sink.
18:39They've got to make sure the tugs don't sink.
18:42They've got to make sure the tugs don't sink.
18:44That's the job of the tug, Bremerhaven.
18:58Klaus Tumler is Bremerhaven's captain.
19:01He's been driving tugs for over 40 years.
19:04Using his powerful twin diesel engines, he slowly tows the 180-tonne pipe towards the ship.
19:14Hit me!
19:19Cristobal's deck crew lowers Klaus aline so the tug's crew can connect it to the discharge pipe.
19:29Hit me!
19:31Hit me!
19:37But just as Cristobal starts hauling it up, the ice arrives.
19:45The current is moving so fast, in seconds it pushes the discharge pipe away from the ship.
19:56Patrick watches from the bridge and orders Klaus to drive it back.
20:01Bremerhaven, go and push the pipeline, you can stay also on standby,
20:05because there is a lot of ice coming on the tiger.
20:09But Bremerhaven's big twin diesels, powerful enough to push an aircraft carrier around, can't beat the ice.
20:17Normally the current alone is OK, and ice alone is also OK,
20:23but ice and current together, it is too hard.
20:28With the current pushing the ice faster than he ever thought possible, Patrick calls in reinforcements.
20:33With the current pushing the ice faster than he ever thought possible, Patrick calls in reinforcements.
20:56In a desperate bid to get the discharge pipe connected, Patrick orders all three tugs to drive it toward the ship.
21:04On Bremerhaven, Klaus kicks his 2,000 horsepower diesels into high gear.
21:12It's now a battle between the tugs and an ice flow a kilometer long.
21:22Slowly they push the discharge pipe forward, but the tugs' combined might still can't get it close to Cristobal.
21:34By nightfall, it's still not connected.
21:38A job that usually takes 20 minutes is now into its fourth hour.
21:53On Cristobal's bridge, the night shift takes over.
21:57First officer Leon Idemer replaces Patrick, but all he can do is watch the tugs continue to fight the ice.
22:06Finally, after eight hours of non-stop heaving, Klaus and the other tugs beat the ice.
22:17It's just before dawn when they position the discharge pipe, right under Cristobal's bow.
22:27The line is connected, you can heave.
22:35On board, the deck crew slowly haul it up.
22:51The discharge pipe is in place.
22:57And Cristobal is ready to deliver.
23:11To discharge the sand, high-pressure jets blast 30,000 cubic meters of water back into the hopper.
23:18When the mixture turns to liquid mud, pipes on the bottom of the hopper open up,
23:23and it's pumped into the discharge pipe with enough force to send it seven kilometers.
23:41It's 6 a.m. when Cristobal starts to deliver her first load.
23:46Just two hours later, she's pumped over 80,000 tons of sand and water onto the new port site.
23:57In 17 years, project manager Kobe Peers has never seen anything like it.
24:10A fleet of dozers and excavators swing into action.
24:14The pressure is on. Cristobal is spewing out enough sand to bury Wembley Stadium nine meters deep.
24:29Kevin Temmerman is Kobe's site foreman.
24:32The ice has put Cristobal and construction behind schedule.
24:36He can't afford another setback.
24:43If there are delays, we have big problems.
24:48Kevin's not the only one feeling the heat.
24:51Dozer operator Wolfgang Frenz is rushing to keep up with Cristobal.
24:56In 30 years, he's never seen so much sand.
25:08It's also dangerous work. The discharged mud is like quicksand.
25:14It's even more dangerous for us.
25:18We're in danger of sinking.
25:26Without water, it's easy to work with a dozer.
25:29With water, it's very difficult.
25:31They don't see anything. They have to work on feeling.
25:40But they're not keeping up.
25:41Cristobal is discharging five tons of sand a second.
25:45It's piling up so fast around the end of the pipe, it could clog it.
25:55So Kobe orders Kevin to add another section of pipe and divert the mud to a new part of the site.
26:02It's a challenge because we cannot distribute the sand 600 meters away
26:07without extending the pipelines during the pumping.
26:11The flow of water which comes out of the pipeline should never ever stop.
26:19Kevin directs the excavator into position.
26:22With sand blasting out at the speed of a tube train, he guides the 10-ton pipe in.
26:35With another section in place, the discharge continues without losing a beat.
26:40The little stress we have. The little stress.
26:45Back on Cristobal, the crew keeps a close eye on the two huge discharge pumps
26:49as they finish disgorging their first load.
26:52Two stories tall and able to empty an Olympic-sized pool in two minutes,
26:57they've disgorged 60,000 tons of sand in three hours.
27:03With the hopper close to empty, Tug's maneuver into position to recover the discharge pipe.
27:09On the bridge, Patrick gives the order to disconnect.
27:18Cristobal's first discharge is complete.
27:33But there's still no time to waste.
27:36Captain Bleur immediately heads back to the dredge site.
27:39He should have discharged three loads by now, but he's delivered just one.
27:43And he's feeling the pressure.
27:46Because this is, in fact, my deal on board.
27:48Keeping running seven days a week and all the years long.
27:52That's it. That's what I am paid for.
27:56However, it's not enough.
27:58That's it. That's what I am paid for.
28:01However, when the ship gets underway, an alarm goes off in the control room.
28:07A valve has ruptured in the pump room.
28:11It's a huge problem.
28:13This is a big valve, with a very big job.
28:16It controls the flow of sand from the hopper.
28:19No valve means that Cristobal's ability to discharge sand is crippled.
28:25It costs nearly $10,000 for every hour Cristobal is out of action.
28:30Captain Bleur comes down to inspect the damage himself.
28:33And then orders all hands on deck.
28:36Even Baars is drafted from the bridge.
28:55The repair crew quickly lower the damaged five-ton valve.
29:02On the pump room floor, Technical Superintendent Francisco Perez-Idiego assesses the damage.
29:08Like Captain Bleur, he's worried by what he sees.
29:12We are now looking for damage on the broken valve gate.
29:17It looks quite bad, actually.
29:20The hopper's monster pumps are to blame.
29:28During the discharge of so much sand,
29:30the pressure ripped the valve open like a wet paper bag.
29:35The damage is so bad, the valve can't move.
29:39The damage is so bad, the valve can't be repaired.
29:42It must be replaced.
29:51It's a massive job, and no one knows how long it will take.
29:55And that's another big problem for Captain Bleur.
29:58In just five hours, Cristobal will be back in Cuxhaven, ready to discharge her next load.
30:08Francisco has to move fast.
30:10If he can't replace the valve in time, Cristobal will fall even further behind schedule.
30:17Up on the bridge, Captain Bleur sets a course for the dredge site, and the countdown begins.
30:30Francisco and his team are pulling a double shift in a desperate bid to replace the damaged valve.
30:39A repair crew is busy connecting the hydraulics that open and close the new valve, but it's slow work.
30:49The valve is the size of a car, and the parts are huge.
30:57Meanwhile, Cristobal has arrived back at the dredge site,
31:00just as winter sea conditions start to turn nasty.
31:09As Cristobal's second dredge begins, Captain Bleur isn't worried about the weather.
31:13He's worried about his valve, and heads below for an update.
31:19Francisco and his team are still struggling to connect the hydraulics.
31:28They're still hours away from replacing the valve.
31:38On the bridge, First Officer Leon Idemer carefully navigates Cristobal over the dredge site.
31:44Even at night, the Elbe River is still as busy as a motorway,
31:47and it's now almost impossible to see another ship coming.
31:52Leon has to keep a close eye on his radar, as the hopper fills up with sand.
32:09Francisco is running out of time.
32:21The hopper is filling quickly.
32:23In less than three hours, Cristobal gobbles up 35,000 cubic meters of sand.
32:39As morning arrives, the dredge heads are hauled in, and Cristobal sets course for Cuxhaven.
32:54In just 45 minutes, the ship will be back at the discharge site.
32:58But Captain Bleur still has no word on the situation.
33:02In just 45 minutes, the ship will be back at the discharge site.
33:06But Captain Bleur still has no word that the new valve is ready to go.
33:10And no idea if Cristobal will be ready to unload.
33:19Cristobal Colon is back at the new port site in Cuxhaven, but she can't unload.
33:33In the pump room, Francisco Perez-Idiego and his team are rushing to replace the five-ton valve.
33:40And they're running out of time.
33:46Beside Cristobal, the tugs take a line from the dredger.
34:03This time, the ice is holding off.
34:07As the tugs push the discharge pipe toward the ship, the connection begins.
34:20Down in the pump room. They've done it.
34:23The new valve is installed. With just minutes to spare, Francisco and his team have made the deadline.
34:29Cristobal is now ready to discharge her next load.
34:56But now there's a new problem.
34:59Cristobal's pumps are running at full power, but on shore, nothing is being discharged.
35:05No water, and worse, no sand.
35:08Back on Cristobal, Chief Engineer Danny Hueskins quickly tests his systems.
35:13Everything checks out.
35:15Up on the bridge, Baars checks his sensors too, looking for a blockage in the hopper or pumps.
35:21Nothing. The problem is not on Cristobal.
35:30On shore, the pipe is checked for clogs. Again, nothing.
35:41Cristobal is out of action.
35:43It's now up to Operations Superintendent Joris Santemans to troubleshoot the problem on land.
35:55But Joris suspects it's more than that.
35:57He wants to know if there's a break in the submerged section of the discharge pipe,
36:01and has come up with an ingenious plan to use Cristobal's big pumps.
36:15Joris thinks ice flows and strong currents have caused the problem.
36:20The ice pushing hard against the discharge pipe might have caused it to bend and crack.
36:25If he's right, water pumped from Cristobal will bubble out of the leak and mark the spot.
36:40It's confirmed. The discharge pipe is broken.
36:43And until it's repaired, Cristobal is down for the count again.
36:49Captain Blur fears the worst.
37:07To fix the pipe, Joris first has to haul it out of the river.
37:11He commandeers the workboat MCS Anika for the job.
37:20Anika's captain, Francis Matthews, hooks a sling to the boat's powerful working crane
37:25and straps it around the discharge pipe.
37:35But he can't budge the damaged pipe.
37:39The crane's good for 28 ton. It's not lifting it.
37:46The repair mission is getting dangerous.
37:53Francis is stretching his cables to breaking point.
37:59No one knows how much the discharge pipe weighs.
38:02If it's more than 50 tons, the winch cable could snap.
38:09Finally, they wrestle the pipe onto the deck.
38:24Sure enough, the rest of the discharge pipe slides in.
38:39Twelve hours after they began, Joris gets a look at the damage.
38:59It's a clean break, but a dirty job to fix it.
39:03The ice snapped the pipe in half.
39:06They'll have to haul all 140 meters onto land and re-weld it.
39:13Like everything connected with Cristobal, it's a massive undertaking.
39:24Cristobal Colón is shut down while a shore crew races to repair the discharge pipe.
39:30It takes five long days and nights, but it's almost fixed.
39:37I feel relieved. It was hard work.
39:40I'm very happy that everything is ready for the dredger to come back and pump some sand.
39:47There's just one more step to go. Reconnect the discharge pipe to the ship.
39:55It cost almost a million dollars to keep Cristobal on site during the repairs.
40:00Project manager Kobe Pears is desperate to get the ship back to work.
40:07Fighting day after day and every day is a new challenge to keep this side running.
40:15Finally, the discharge pipe is connected.
40:24And Cristobal immediately revs up her discharge pumps.
40:37Port construction roars back to life.
40:52As Cristobal spews out 35,000 tons of sand.
40:57And the land for the new port begins to rise again.
41:07Her schedule is in tatters, but Cristobal Colón is back in action.
41:11To get back on track, Captain Jean Bleu will have to push his crew and his ship as hard as he can.
41:18It takes two or three or four voyages a day.
41:21That's the calculation, the production and to be competitive.
41:25We must be very careful.
41:27We must be very careful.
41:29We must be very careful.
41:31We must be very careful.
41:33We must be very careful.
41:35We must be very careful.
41:37The calculation, the production and to be competitive.
41:40We must work together. If you don't work together, you don't have results.
41:44We have to keep on pumping, just keep on pumping.
41:47As soon as Cristobal arrives back at the dredge site, the drag heads are lowered, the race is on.
41:59It's a little bit adrenaline.
42:02It's going to be fun.
42:04With the winter weather cooperating, Cristobal makes a dozen perfect runs and delivers 600,000 tons of sand.
42:13For the first time since the job began, both Captain Bleu and Kobi Peers believe the deadline is within reach.
42:24Thanks to Cristobal Colón, her size and her capacities, we can still finish this project on time.
42:30I think it's a good chance that we will make it.
42:36Over the next few weeks, Cristobal makes more than 70 runs and delivers 2 million cubic meters of sand.
42:44It's more than enough to finish the project right on schedule.
42:48And I must say, I'm absolutely amazed about the capacities and I'm absolutely surprised about what this vessel is capable of doing.
42:58But to Kobi, Cristobal's success is more than just hitting a deadline. It's a new beginning.
43:06And I think Cristobal Colón will mark the start of a new era in the dredging industry.
43:12And I think Cristobal Colón will mark the start of a new era in the dredging industry.
43:24During one of the worst winters in a century, Cristobal Colón battled time and the elements and won.
43:32And along the way, she proved that bigger is better.
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