{"id":1819,"date":"2014-04-15T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:01:33","slug":"navigation-response-team-finds-vehicle-in-intracoastal-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/navigation-response-team-finds-vehicle-in-intracoastal-waterway\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigation Response Team 1 finds vehicle during survey of Intracoastal Waterway, assists sheriff\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

While surveying the approaches to Panama City (FL), St Andrews Bay, and West Bay, Coast Survey’s Navigation Response Team 1 recently made an unexpected find. When team members Mark McMann and Aurel Piantanida reviewed hydrographic data collected with their side scan sonar and multibeam echo sounder, they discovered an upside-down vehicle in Panama City\u2019s West Bay Creek, part of the Intracoastal Waterway (see chart 11385<\/a>).
\n

\"NRT<\/a>
NRT1’s multibeam echo sounder captures the submerged car’s image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\nThe vehicle location was\u00a0adjacent to the channel maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers,\u00a0and so it was not an obstruction to navigation. However, it was near a bulkhead where a local company loads gravel onto barges, and NRT1 was concerned about the safety of the barges.
\n
\"NRT<\/a>
NRT1’s side scan sonar shows the car adjacent to the channel in West Bay Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe team relayed the information to\u00a0Bay County’s sheriff who\u00a0sent divers to the location. With the NRT\u2019s assistance, the sheriff\u2019s divers found the vehicle and called in heavy equipment from the local gravel company to remove it.
\n
\"The<\/a>
The Bay County Sheriff’s office called in heavy equipment operators to remove the car found by NRT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWhy was the 2007 Ford Escape in the creek? The investigation is in the able hands of the Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office. In the meantime, thanks to the sheriff’s response, led by Sgt. William T. Brotherston, a risk to the barges was removed.
\n
\"The<\/a>
The star on West Bay Creek marks the location of the submerged car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\"obstruction_West_Bay_Creek_Chart_Location\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While surveying the approaches to Panama City (FL), St Andrews Bay, and West Bay, Coast Survey’s Navigation Response Team 1 recently made an unexpected find. When team members Mark McMann and Aurel Piantanida reviewed hydrographic data collected with their side scan sonar and multibeam echo sounder, they discovered an upside-down vehicle in Panama City\u2019s West … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Navigation Response Team 1 finds vehicle during survey of Intracoastal Waterway, assists sheriff\u2019s office”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[240,248,249],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydrographic-surveys","category-navigation-response-teams","tag-intracoastal-waterway","tag-multibeam-echo-sounder","tag-side-scan-sonar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}