A steel sheet pile cofferdam has been built around the HMS Alliance, a British submarine launched in 1945. The cofferdam will be infilled to create a safe place to perform restoration work. [Source: New Civil Engineer. Image: NCE]
Nothing too exciting here, but geotechnical videos are kind of few and far between, so I like to share them. It looks like its some kind of anchored sheet pile wall.
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