{"id":912,"date":"2013-03-14T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2013-03-14T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:24:57","slug":"noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson-prepared\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson prepared for 2013 survey season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ensign Brittany Anderson, Junior Officer, NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson<\/em><br \/>\nAfter a quiet winter at home port, the NOAA Ship <i>Thomas Jefferson<\/i> completed her sea trials this week in preparation for the 2013 field season.<br \/>\nEach year, prior to departing for working grounds, the <i>Thomas Jefferson <\/i>transits to the Chesapeake Bay to perform tests on the ship\u2019s and launches\u2019 systems and hydrographic survey equipment. Crews conduct numerous tests to check the accuracy and precision of multibeam echosounders, side scan sonar, and the sophisticated suite of programs that process all the data. Additionally, this is an opportunity to ensure the safety of the vessel and her crew by performing numerous safety drills and readdressing safety standards and operating procedures.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/side-scan-cert-patch-test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-913  \" src=\"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/side-scan-cert-patch-test.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Screen grab of sonar images\" width=\"780\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a screen capture of the simultaneous multibeam and side scan coverage of an obstruction used to verify the NOAA Ship <em>Thomas Jefferson\u2019s<\/em> imaging and bathymetric sonars.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut it wasn\u2019t all just tests and drills. During her transit, the\u00a0<i>Thomas Jefferson<\/i>\u00a0also deployed a GPS tide buoy to make real-time tides more accurate and efficient for the region.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/gps-tide-buoy1-rotate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-915 \" title=\"GPS tide buoy deployment\" src=\"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/gps-tide-buoy1-rotate.jpg?w=877\" alt=\"Deploying GPS tide buoy from TJ\" width=\"526\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Riley and Brian Murray from Coast Survey\u2019s Hydrographic Systems and Technology Programs Branch assist with GPS tide buoy deployment.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNow that the vessels and equipment are ready for the season and the crew has their sea legs back, the NOAA Ship <i>Thomas Jefferson<\/i> will be returning to the Northeast this year to further update nautical charts for critical shipping and transportation regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ensign Brittany Anderson, Junior Officer, NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson After a quiet winter at home port, the NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson completed her sea trials this week in preparation for the 2013 field season. Each year, prior to departing for working grounds, the Thomas Jefferson transits to the Chesapeake Bay to perform tests on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson-prepared\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson prepared for 2013 survey season&#8221;<\/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":[7,48],"tags":[193,87],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydrographic-surveys","category-thomas-jefferson","tag-hydrographic-surveys-2","tag-noaa-ship-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}