It was vile weather, but poof ! thought the officers, what of that? They were 160 kilometres off shore and their hydrographic charts showed 4,000 to 5,000 metres of water under .
That ferret fleet is intended as a counterforce to Russia's 60-vessel ELINT armada, made up mostly of converted trawlers and hydrographic craft, all bristling with antennas and .
Studying hydrographic charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it.
LATEST NEWS The grant was given to the school's Joint Hydrographic Center , which specializes in hydrographic, ocean and coastal mapping sciences. Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter said Friday that the center will serve NOAA and the country through research, training and the development of state-of-the-art ocean mapping technologies.
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Twigg in BBC News While I understand their concerns, it's important that we maintain the Hydrographic Office as a world-class organisation with the expertise that's important to both government and the private sector,said Derek Twigg.
APJ Abdul Kalam in Times of India On the hydrographic map supplied by the Navy, we saw a few islands in the Bay of Bengal off Dhamra coast indicating that there was some landmass,Kalam said.