Patent ID: 7188440

Claim:
In combination: a floating body with a hull having an outer perimeter with an exterior facing outermost wall; an earthmoving device for extracting water and sand from a water bed, said earthmoving device being movably positioned at a movable single location opposite said exterior facing outermost wall and being in fluid communication, at the single location, with the water bed to move extracted water and sand past the single location; a support connected to said earthmoving device, said support enabling said earthmoving device to be movable adjacently alongside said exterior wall and correspondingly to move the single location of the fluid communication with the water bed adjacently alongside said exterior wall; and a moving element operatively connected to said support, wherein, in use carrying out operations on the water bed, said moving element moves said support and said earthmoving device in a longitudinal direction adjacently alongside said exterior wall so that the single location of fluid communication is moved correspondingly alongside said exterior wall.