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Hi , my name is Trevor Carver . I'm a

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survey technician at the Army Corps .

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Engineers . I've been doing this for

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about a year and three months of a

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background in marine science and that's

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what brought me here doing a

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hydrographic survey work . Today , we

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surveyed the Tol Chester channel . It's

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a channel in the eastern part of

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Chesapeake Bay . We survey these

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channels regularly to ensure that they

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are deep enough for commercial traffic

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that comes through . My name is Rob

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Kilstein . I'm the captain of the Army

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Corps of Engineer Russell Catlett . You

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know , we conduct hydrographic survey

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in order for the shipping lanes to

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remain open . My favorite part of the

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job is actually operating the boat .

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The boat is very complicated , has a

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lot of uh very technical systems

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on board and makes me happy to be able

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to come out and be on the water every

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day . My name is Jonathan Porter . I'm

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a survey tech engineers . We are tasked

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for surveying all of Baltimore ,

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Harvard's federal channels and branch

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channels . You may see us out doing uh

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zigzags along the channel , but we're

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actually backing the bottom with our

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sonar here . It actually , it gives a

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3d representation of the bottom . Uh In

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doing so we're actually able to um aid

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in navigational charts with uh the

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Coast guard and no a make sure it's

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safe for uh navigational purposes , all

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ships and commercial buses .