Nodule dredging bucket

A bucket for dredging the sea bottom in order to collect nodules, comprising a box-like basket having parallel lateral walls and being open at the front;

• large shoes attached on each lateral wall side of said basket which are composed of a continuous structure surrounding each lateral wall of said basket, each of said structures comprising a sole defining a plane which is extended under the basket essentially along its whole length, the sole being turned up at the front so as to form an inclined plane that is prolonged backwards over said basket and behind it by elements joined to a back part of the sole;
• the bottom wall of said basket comprising front and rear cross-bars and a plurality of parallel spaced rods extending longitudinally of the basket between said front and rear cross-bars, said bottom wall embodying at its front part a grill with a plurality of longitudinal spaced flexible elements which are downwardly inclined towards the front of the basket and stretched between said front cross-bar and a transverse front link, said transverse front link being deformable;
• elements fixed to corresponding lateral faces of said basket for anchoring ends of said transverse front link and;
• cheeks having slots formed therein, and being fixed to the basket, said transverse front link passing through said slots in such manner that said link is situated under the plane determined by said soles of said shoes.