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The Bima was a bucket-line dredge. It was built to mine tin in offshore Malaysia and Indonesia. In the late 1980s, it was moved to Nome, Alaska, US, to mine seafloor placer gold deposits in the Bering Sea off the coast. Being unprofitable at gold mining in Nome, it was sold for scrap in 1990. The barge is the largest barge to operate out of Nome for gold mining, being some 14 storeys tall. The Bima was the last commercial-scale dredging operation to operate out of Nome at sea. Prior commercial-scale land-side bucket dredges had all already shutdown by the time Bima started up.
The Christine Rose is a self-propelled barge excavator dredge used to mine Bering Sea placer gold deposits in the region around Nome, Alaska, USA. It is owned by Pomrenke Mining and its registered home port is Nome, Alaska, USA. The Christine Rose is featured in the Discovery Channel USA mining reality TV show Bering Sea Gold.
Tagiuk Provider, formerly Arctic Endeavor, is a 205 ft (62 m) 1500-ton ice-class flat-topped deck cargo barge adapted to being a clam-shell crane scoop mining platform for placer gold mining in the Bering Sea off Nome, Alaska, United States. The barge, a gold dredge, is owned by Tagiuk Gold, which previously ran scuba-diver-operated suction dredges for seafloor gold mining in the area. Tagiuk Gold is run by miner Andrew Lee, whose business running the barge is partially crowdfunded. Tagiuk Provider was profiled in an episode of Bering Sea Gold, at which time, it was the largest scoop dredge operating off Nome.
M/S Stålbas, formerly the Norwegian Coast Guard cutter Stålbas offshore patrol vessel, is a multifunction cargo vessel. It was converted to be able to perform crab fishing in 2021, and featured on the Discovery Channel USA show Deadliest Catch on Discovery+ and Discovery Channel Canada in the 2022 TV show season; and Deadliest Catch: The Viking Returns on Discovery USA for the 2022 fall TV season.
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- ↑ Rob Owen (22 January 2012). "Discover series 'Bering Sea Gold' aims for pay dirt". The Seattle Times.
- ↑ Emily Fehrenbacher (6 May 2015). "Reality Check: 'Bering Sea Gold' plumbs the depths for TV drama". Anchorage Daily News.
- 1 2 Maguire, Sean (19 June 2017). "Two-week-old walrus calf rescued from Nome and brought to Seward". KTUU. Gray Media Group.
- 1 2 Maisie Thomas (23 June 2017). "Walrus calf found stranded on Nome gold dredge". The Nome Nugget.
- ↑ "Hank Schimschat". Discovery. 6 February 2014.
- ↑ "Miners Were Dredging The Ocean For Gold When They Discovered An Astonishing 120-Pound Stowaway". 14 August 2018.
- 1 2 "What Happened to Hank Schimschat? Exclusive Interview!". Bering Sea Paydirt. 1 September 2022.
- ↑ "The Gold, The Bad, & The Ugly". Bering Sea Gold. Season 12. Episode 6. 5 June 2020. Discovery USA.
