Steel cutting ceremony for Mike Hooks’ new dredger May 14, 2021, by Eldin Ganic Kim McMahon, co-owner and daughter of founder, Mr. Mike Hooks, traveled to Southwest Shipyard in Galveston, Texas, recently to attend the Steel Cutting Ceremony for Hooks’ new dredger. McMahon, accompanied by various Hooks executives and managers, was invited to the ceremony by contractor SPI/Mobile Pulley Works to celebrate the start of construction of the 27-inch custom cutter suction dredger (CSD). As she addressed an audience of guests from Mobile Pulley, Southwest Shipyard, and Hooks’ management, McMahon formally announced that the new dredger will be named Dredge Lorraine Hooks in honor of her mother – the late matriarch of the Hooks organization.