National Ocean Service, United States Power Squadrons Cooperative Charting Manual: NOS-USPS Cooperative Charting ProgramU.S. Department of Commerce, 1988 |
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accuracy accurate aeronautical charts aids to navigation Area Representatives awards AZIMUTH MARK baseline bench marks boat C&GS changes channel chart corrections chart datum chart section Charting and Geodetic Coast Guard Coast Pilot coastal compass CONDITION OF SURVEY construction Cooperative Charting Chairman Cooperative Charting Committee Cooperative Charting Program datum depth distance District Chairman District Cooperative Charting established field sheet Figure Geodetic Services Geodetic Survey harbor height HIGHWAY inches landmarks longitude lines Louis-San Francisco Railway low water maps marine measured miles National Geodetic Survey National Ocean Service nautical charts nautical mile NOAA form 77-4 Noble County Notice to Mariners object observations obtain PETROL pier plot pole port position quad recorded RECOVERY rock Sectional Charts sextant sextant angles shore shoreline sounding line Squadron Chairman Squadron Cooperative Charting submerged submitted SURVEY MARK tidal triangulation station United USPS usually vertical vessels wharf
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Page 8 - Congress at which a Customs officer is assigned with authority to accept entries of merchandise, to collect duties, and to enforce the various provisions of the Customs and Navigation laws in force at that place.
Page 4 - ... Data Sheets. HOLDFAST . (1) Flattened disklike tip of a tendril, used in attachment; (2) basal part of an algal THALLUS, which attaches it to a solid object; may be unicellular or composed of a mass of tissue. (18) HOLDING GROUND. The condition of the bottom of an anchorage area; called good or bad according to whether or not the material of which the bottom is composed will prevent a ship's anchor from dragging. (27) HOLME SUCTION GRAB. In this device the force required to suck in a sample of...
Page 8 - The central office ashore maintained by pilot associations. Pilot stations usually are manned by dispatchers and have facilities for radio communication between the station, pilot boats, and ships; some stations, particularly on the west coast, are equipped with radar. POL pier (or wharf): Term sometimes used by the Naval establishment for fuel pier or wharf (petroleum, oil, and lubricants). port of entry: A place designated by due authority at which a customs officer is assigned with authority to...
Page 8-1 - Pilots are a series of eight nautical books that cover a wide variety of information important to navigators of United States coastal and intracoastal waters.
Page 5 - That science which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of the oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and their adjoining coastal areas, with particular reference to their use for navigational purposes.
Page 6-1 - Antarctica should be addressed to the Branch of Distribution, US Geological Survey, 1200 South Eads Street. Arlington, Virginia 22202. Maps...
Page 8-8 - The nearer the angles equal each other the stronger will be the fix. (3) The fix is strong when the three objects are in a straight line, or the center object lies between the observer and a line joining the other two and the center object is nearest to the observer.
Page 12-10 - MOA, such changes as are deemed necessary will be accomplished by either an amendment to this MOA or by entering into a new agreement, whichever is deemed expedient to the interest of both parties.
Page 4 - In the semidiurnal type of reversing current, the terms greater flood and lesser flood are applied respectively to the flood currents of greater and lesser velocity of each day.