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Report for H08760 Locality: South Shore of Nantucket Island Sublocality: NANTUCKET SOUND State(s) or Region(s): Massachusetts Start Date: 1963-08-11 End Date: 1963-10-04 These data are not to be used for navigation. For navigation please refer to NOS Nautical Charts. Downloads may take a long time, depending on file size and data transfer rates. Download All Products for H08760
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Survey Products

Descriptive Report and Metadata Documents

NOAA/NOS Descriptive Report
Products listed in the project descriptive report (DR) may not reflect final products available through NCEI.
H08760.pdf	1.23MB	The document may be read using a free Adobe Reader.
NOAA/NOS ISO metadata record
H08760 View / Download H08760.xml		Usually presented as an XML document, which captures the basic characteristics of HSMDB metadata verified from H10000 (1982) to the present as well as F00200 (1965) to the present.

Bathymetry

Survey products may use different units, datums or projections than the associated survey. Please consult product-specific metadata for additional details.
NOAA/NOS Sounding Data
Download data from the Point Store database via NEXT (NCEI Extract System). Point soundings are from the survey Smooth Sheet or of similar density. Depths in meters. Please check the associated metadata to confirm the correct datums. The data file format is : SurveyID, Long, Lat, Depth.
H08760		XYZ format.
NOAA/NOS Sounding Data
Point Soundings from the survey Smooth Sheet in A93 format.
H08760.a93.gz	95.5KB	A93 format.
Survey Metadata Data
Metadata for the survey in H93 format.
H08760_h93.htm	13.8KB	H93 format.

Images

NOAA/NOS Smooth Sheet survey image
H08760.tif.gz	66.37MB	The image may be viewed with a standard image viewer.
NOAA/NOS Smooth Sheet survey image in MrSID format
H08760.sid.gz	10.91MB	The MrSID (.sid) format is supported in major GIS applications. Stand alone tools may be available from Lizard Tech.

Survey Metadata

Survey Summary

Locality Sublocality State or Region South Shore of Nantucket Island NANTUCKET SOUND Massachusetts

Start Date End Date Approval Date 1963-08-11 1963-10-04 1969-01-07

Project Number Project Name Purpose OPR-369-WH-63 Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts Update Nautical Chart(s)

Source of Original Data

Link to Original Data Data Source

Reference System Information

Vertical Datum Horizontal Datum Projection Scale Mean Low Water North American Datum 1927 10000

Tide Note Tide Zones Survey Tide Stations COOPS Tide Station ID Sounding Reduction Not Available Katama Bay, Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts

Affected Products

ENCs RNCs

Junction Surveys

Survey Equipment

Vessel(s) Chief(s) of Party WHITING Jensen Launch 2932 WHITING Launch 2931 USC&GS Ship WHITING H.R. Lippold, Jr.

Manufacturer Model Instrument Type Bar Check Sextant Visual/Azimuth Raytheon DE-723 Single Beam Echo Sounder

Source Data at NCEI

Data in Archive Size (in GB) Date Archived Data Types Surveyed Source Data Not Available