The caisson gate is a concrete floating structure that acts as a watertight lock at the dry dock’s entrance. It functions by sinking when the dry dock is empty by flooding its compartments with ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division partnered with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to donate ...
After more than 100 gate docking and undocking operations across more than 45 years, Concrete Tech Corp.’s Tacoma dry dock was in need of a replacement caisson gate, a 150-ft-long floating concrete ...