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OAS platform Detail for HECK
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| platforms_id: | 1651 |
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| Title: | NOAA Ship |
| Name: | HECK |
| ICES Code: | 31HK |
| Callsign: | WTEY |
| Countries: | UNITED STATES |
| Comments: | Hull Number: S591 Commissioned: March 29, 1967 Decommissioned: October 25, 1995 Twin diesel,length 90 feet, beam 22 feet, draft 7.2 feet. Built for the Coast and Geodetic Survey by Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, New York, in 1966. Originally designed as a wire drag vessel for use with its sister ship NOAA Ship RUDE. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico service. Named for Captain Nicholas Heck who more than anyone, developed wiredrag as a method for discovering undersea obstructions in the early Twentieth Century. Prior to the advent of sidescan sonar, this was the only method to search large areas for obstructions and lost vessels and aircraft. |
| Deprecated: | false |
| Metadata version: | 4 |
| Keydate: | 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-10-16 12:55:01+00 |