Warning: Dropped a cutterhead chain on the dredge in Louisiana last month

I was working the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge and one of the chain links snapped while we were swapping cutterheads. That thing hit the deck with a bang and it took me and two guys an hour to fish it out of the water. Has anyone else had a chain failure during a head change or did I just get unlucky?

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shah.ben8d ago

Damn, an hour to fish that out?

the_wyatt8d ago

Bet it swam off laughing the whole time lol.