NOAAS Heck
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NOAAS Heck was a Rude-class hydrographic survey ship in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 1995. Prior to her NOAA service, she was in commission from 1967 to 1970 in the
NOAA Ship RudeSister ships NOAAS Rude (S 590) and NOAAS Heck (S 591)
A United States Coast and Geodetic Survey diagram of ca. 1920 of wire-drag hydrographic survey operations as carried out by Rude and her sister ship Heck. The basic principle is to drag a wire attached to two vessels; if the wire encounters an obstruction it will come taut and form a "V".
USC&GS Wainwright
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USC&GS Wainwright. was a survey ship in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1942 to 1967.
NOAAS Heck
…conduct wire-drag survey operations together, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey acquired them to replace the survey ships USC&GS Hilgard (ASV 82) and USC&GS Wainwright (ASV 83) in that role. Like Hilgard and Wainright before them, Rude and Heck worked together under a single command conducting wire-drag surveys, clearing large…
USC&GS Wainwright (ASV 83), ca. 1965. She is painted in the colors of the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey's parent organization from 1965 to 1970.
USC&GS Wainwright conducting wire-drag survey operations.