It's the young fisherman's way of summing up the dangerous exertion that is his part-time vocation: sand dredging off the coast of Makoko, the world's biggest floating city.
The environment minister, Greg Hunt, has approved controversial dredging off the Queensland coast that will help create one of the world's largest coalports, while imposing some of the "strictest conditions in Australian history" to safeguard the health of the Great Barrier Reef.
MAHOGANY: A deep-ocean hard-shell clam dredged off the Maine coast.
They are among the only people who can look at a proposal describing the way algae dredged off pond scum could someday power an office building and see opportunity rather than science fiction.
About 50 adult zooids of Rhabdopleura compacta Hincks, 1880 were dissected from their coenecia, which were attached to disarticulated shells of Glycymeris glycymeris, dredged off from Stoke Point (near Plymouth, UK, 50°17'N, 4°01'W) in Mai 2006 from a depth of 21-24 m.
Deposits of calcareous shells are dredged off the coast of Iceland and on the Great Bahama Bank in the Bahamas, and the shells are used in cement manufacture and as a soil additive.
"I'm not going to hang a completely novel interpretation of the peopling of the Americas from something dredged off the sea bottom 40 years ago and not properly documented," said David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University.
Shannon was working at an entertainment law firm at the time, and they started looking into the benefits of green tea extract and volcanic rock (theirs is "dredged off the coast of Southern France, home to glamorous Cannes, St. Tropez, and Monaco").
From the start, the E.P.A. and New York State environmental officials were caught between private environmental groups, which wanted a prompt cleanup, and the company, which used lobbying, public relations campaigns and dozens of its engineers and scientists to stave off dredging.
It is not the first time the Environment Agency has auctioned off dredging machinery.
Sedimentation is an important stressor on coral reefs subjected to run-off, dredging and resuspension events.
