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Survey Ship Documents Shipping Channel Dangers at Mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003
The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 16--Well south of Baltimore, where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic, the tides are posing a threat to Maryland commerce.
Ocean currents off Virginia are pushing a stream of sand south, away from Cape Charles, toward the channels that provide the main highway for an estimated 2,000 commercial ships headed to Baltimore each year.
That is where the Littlehales comes in.
The 208-foot research and survey ship, owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is wrapping up its first survey of the ocean floor at the mouth of the Chesapeake, a three-month sonar examination of 60 square miles of sandy sea bottom.
The surveys are necessary to document...
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