{"id":384,"date":"2012-09-01T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:55:15","slug":"noaa-survey-teams-wrap-up-response-effort-to-hurricane-isaac-return-to-normal-duties-to-protect-ships-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-survey-teams-wrap-up-response-effort-to-hurricane-isaac-return-to-normal-duties-to-protect-ships-and-people\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA survey teams wrap up response to Hurricane Isaac, return to normal duties to protect ships and people"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Gulf ports in the path of Hurricane Isaac bring operations back up to normal, Coast Survey\u2019s navigation response team<\/a> has finished its hydrographic surveys at Port Fourchon<\/a> and is heading back to its regularly scheduled 2012 survey<\/a> of the sea floor in the Port of Houston and Galveston Bay navigational areas.
\nPort Fourchon started allowing ships to enter the port yesterday, after NRT4 found only minor shoaling and no underwater debris that would pose a danger to navigation.
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NOAA surveys ports to keep navigation safe and efficient. As Coast Survey’s navigation response team was wrapping up its surveys of Port Fourchon and Belle Pass on August 31, the pilot of the multi-purpose supply vessel HOS Achiever<\/em>, inbound, asked if they found any dangers to navigation. The team found minor shoaling but no hazards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\nUpon receiving Coast Survey\u2019s initial survey report yesterday, Port Fourchon executive director Chett Chiasson thanked the navigation response team and managers for support in this recovery. \u201cYour immediate availability following the hurricane, being some of the “first” people in, goes above and beyond the call of duty,\u201d he wrote. (See full text of Chiasson’s letter to NOAA Administrator, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, below.)
\nThe navigation response teams and managers responded quickly, and under difficult circumstances, but we need to emphasize that they responded safely<\/em>. Ensuring safety for NOAA response personnel is as high a priority as establishing safe conditions for the maritime transportation system.
\nThe National Geodetic Survey’s Remote Sensing Division<\/a>\u00a0used the NOAA King Air<\/a> and the NOAA Twin Otter<\/a> to gather imagery for the response to Isaac. The crews of NOAA remote sensing planes consist of two NOAA Corps<\/a> pilots from the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations<\/a>, with NGS experts operating the sensors. (Images from the remote sensing survey are being posted to Hurricane ISAAC Response Imagery Viewer<\/a>.)
\nCoast Survey\u2019s navigation managers<\/a> are returning to their stations in port areas across the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. They remain available, as always, to provide NOAA asset coordination and assistance to government officials, port representatives, pilots, and the maritime industry.
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\nSent to Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, August 31, 2012<\/em>
\nSubject: Thank You to NOAA for the Service to the Nation and to the Gulf’s Energy Connection, Port Fourchon, Louisiana from Hurricane Isaac
\nDr. Lubchenco:
\nI would like to recognize the huge effort of NOAA\u2019s Office of Coast Survey to respond in such a timely and critical way to our needs at Port Fourchon to respond to Hurricane Isaac and to recover our Port Operations as quickly as possible.
\nEvery day, almost 30% of America\u2019s supply and consumption of energy comes from the Gulf of Mexico. Port Fourchon is the single most important supply Port in the Gulf.\u00a0 The preparations for a hurricane and recovery of the Port is critical to this Nation in re-establishing the supply of domestic energy from the Gulf.\u00a0 Delays and loss of operations by the Port can have dramatic impacts to energy supply of this country and create large economic impacts throughout the United States.
\nThe eye of Hurricane Isaac came directly over the Port and we saw widespread flooding throughout the area and of our only access road to the Port, Louisiana Highway LA-1.
\nThe day the hurricane started to move from the area, NOAA\u2019s Office of Coast Survey Navigational Response Team arrived in our offices, discussed the needs of our Port and headed to the Port that morning.
\nNOAA\u2019s Coast Survey Navigation Response Team was the first responders to arrive and reach Port Fourchon. They and our Harbor Police made it through flooded highways and arrived to start work before anyone else. They worked through yesterday and today surveying the entire Port and it\u2019s Pass, Belle Pass and are now in our Operations Center processing the work and have been constantly updating me and our Port staff throughout.
\nWith a very large hurricane and coastal impacts we saw, you quickly find out who are the real responders and partners with the Port and the Gulf. For us, it is NOAA and the Office of Coast Survey.
\nOur commendations and thanks to you and to the Office of Coast Survey. Their service to us and the Nation is truly exemplary.
\nRespectfully,
\nChett
\nChett C. Chiasson, MPA
\nExecutive Director
\nGreater Lafourche Port Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Gulf ports in the path of Hurricane Isaac bring operations back up to normal, Coast Survey\u2019s navigation response team has finished its hydrographic surveys at Port Fourchon and is heading back to its regularly scheduled 2012 survey of the sea floor in the Port of Houston and Galveston Bay navigational areas. Port Fourchon started … <\/p>\n

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