{"id":252,"date":"2012-08-20T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:55:16","slug":"noaa-ship-fairweather-we-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-ship-fairweather-we-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Ship Fairweather: “We made it!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ensign Hadley Owen, NOAA, Junior Officer, NOAA Ship Fairweather (S-220)
\n1200 hours, Saturday, August 18, 2012: <\/strong>\u00a069\u00b041.4\u2019N\u00a0 141\u00b003.3\u2019W, at anchor, 1.5 nautical miles west of Demarcation Point, on the United States\/Canadian border<\/em>
\nWe made it!
\n

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Photo by Caryn Zacharias, LT\/NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nI must admit, I had my doubts a week ago. But we made it safely through relatively ice-free seas to the northern border between Alaska and Canada\u2019s Yukon Territory.
\nWe were able to collect multibeam echo sounder data along the entire route. The area continues to be relatively shallow (8 to 25 meters) and relatively flat (1 to 1.5 meters of relief). However, dramatic ice scours and scars on the seafloor are easily visible in the data collected.
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\nThis \u201cpseudo-side-scan\u201d image \u2013 which looks at only a preliminary selection of the initial acoustic data recorded \u2013 was obtained in real time.
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Image by Chief Survey Tech Tami Beduhn, NOAA Ship Fairweather<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWe are now surveying from both the Fairweather<\/em> and from one of her launches (during the day, at least). By using both platforms, we are able to obtain even more soundings on our return track to Barrow and send the launch into shallower, near-shore areas.
\nBut this update cannot be complete, I feel, without a personal first. Thanks to the eagle eyes from the Bridge, we had the first of two polar bear sightings from the Fairweather<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 this one a mother and her two cubs.
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Photo by Casey Marwine, ENS\/NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAnd now we are heading west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ensign Hadley Owen, NOAA, Junior Officer, NOAA Ship Fairweather (S-220) 1200 hours, Saturday, August 18, 2012: \u00a069\u00b041.4\u2019N\u00a0 141\u00b003.3\u2019W, at anchor, 1.5 nautical miles west of Demarcation Point, on the United States\/Canadian border We made it! I must admit, I had my doubts a week ago. But we made it safely through relatively ice-free seas … <\/p>\n

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