How a Female Engineer Dredges the Deep Seabed

By Michelle Segrest, Navigate Content, Inc. - Reporting for World Pumps Magazine

Half the year, she lives and works on a 100-meter offshore vessel tracking underwater bombs, creating nautical charts, and building islands. When the work ends and all the men onboard go home to dry land, she moves to her floating home—a 12.5-meter sailboat—on which she and her husband sail the world. 

Last year, Emeline Veit spent only 10 days on dry land. She wouldn’t have it any other way. 

The 26-year old engineer/hydrographic surveyor grew up in the south of France, in Sumene, a small village north of Montpellier. She spent her summers in Brittany with her parents and younger brother and knew she wanted live and work near the sea. 


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