{"id":171446,"date":"2018-09-11T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=171150"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:54:39","slug":"noaa-readies-survey-response-teams-ahead-of-hurricane-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-readies-survey-response-teams-ahead-of-hurricane-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA readies survey response teams ahead of Hurricane Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hurricane Florence is due to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/graphics_at1.shtml?cone#contents\">landfall on Friday morning<\/a>, September 14, on the coast of North Carolina. While it creeps its way toward the East Coast, NOAA\u2019s Office of Coast Survey is prepared to deploy its hydrographic survey assets to help speed the resumption of vessel traffic in our nation\u2019s ports following the storm.<\/span><!--more--><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_171152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171152\" style=\"width: 946px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171152\" src=\"https:\/\/alb.nauticalchartsblog.ocs-aws-prod.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_1066-e1536695338735-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1066\" width=\"946\" height=\"889\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-171152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. j.g. Patrick Debroisse, junior officer in charge of <em>Bay Hydro II<\/em>, deploys side scan sonar in Solomons, MD, for testing in anticipation of Hurricane Florence response.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOAA\u2019s southeast, \u00a0Mid-Atlantic, and Chesapeake Bay <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/customer-service\/regional-managers\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">navigation managers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are coordinating with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, following their daily plans and keeping them informed of NOAA\u2019s survey assets and their readiness. NOAA\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/customer-service\/navigation-response.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">navigation response teams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NRT) are prepared for deployment depending on the track of the storm:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NRT stationed in Fernandina Beach, Florida, is standing by awaiting deployment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Hydro II <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is standing by in Solomons, Maryland, awaiting deployment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NRT stationed in New London, Connecticut, will travel south this week to stage closer to impacted areas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NRTs stationed in Seattle and Galveston have personnel available to respond <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobile integrated survey teams located in Washington, DC, and Stennis, MS, are prepared to respond <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coast Survey Development Lab storm surge modeling expert is embedded with the National Hurricane Center in Miami to assist with various modeling products as the storm approaches<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_171151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171151\" style=\"width: 1243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171151\" src=\"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/map-01.jpg\" alt=\"Map of survey response asset locations\" width=\"1243\" height=\"780\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-171151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Status of NOAA&#8217;s Office of Coast Survey response assets in preparation for Hurricane Florence.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the wake of strong storms and hurricanes, large debris can become submerged, creating dangers to navigation. Ports are often closed until this debris can either be removed or determined not to be a threat. Coast Survey specializes in surveying the seafloor and reporting to the USCG the location, depth, and size of the debris. Once our teams notify the USCG of our findings, the quicker ports can re-open and resume shipping.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nowcoast.noaa.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nowCOAST\u2122<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">real-time coastal observations and forecasts related to Hurricane Florence.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Check back on our blog as we update the status of our response teams over the next week.<\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Florence is due to make landfall on Friday morning, September 14, on the coast of North Carolina. While it creeps its way toward the East Coast, NOAA\u2019s Office of Coast Survey is prepared to deploy its hydrographic survey assets to help speed the resumption of vessel traffic in our nation\u2019s ports following the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nautical-charts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}