URAGROUND: Ft. Pierce

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Ft. Pierce Faber Cove

Soundings in Faber Cove and the Harbour Isle development on north Hutchinson Island.

NOAA raster chart view.

NOAA ENC chart view.

Entering Harbour Isle. Much more info at www.harbourisleflorida.com

Marina at Harbour Isle.

Exiting Harbour Isle.

Faber Cove anchorage.

Ft. Pierce Queens Cove

Soundings along the Queens Cove development just north of Ft.Pierce.

NOAA raster chart view.

NOAA ENC chart view.

Entrance to Queens Cove.

Queens Cove canal south of Sovereign Way.

Ft. Pierce Cut

Soundings along the beachside developments just north of the inlet at Fort Pierce Cut.

NOAA raster chart view.

NOAA ENC chart view.

Canal entrance between Bimini Beach Drive and Harbour Cove Drive.

Stan Blum Memorial Boat Launch on North Causeway Island.

View of Stan Blum Memorial Boat Launch on North Causeway Island from the water.

Ft. Pierce Marinas

Soundings in Ft. Pierce at Harbortown Marina alongside Taylor Creek, Riverside Marina, Ft. Pierce Yacht Club and other small marinas just east of the Coast Guard station

NOAA raster chart view.

NOAA ENC chart views.

Harbortown marina entrance channel approach.

Harbortown marina basin.

Ft. Pierce Yacht Club.

North Causeway Bridge.

What's this all about?

Not to be used for navigation! This is a reference and education tool only and is not in any way to be used to pilot any watercraft.

This site can help you find out the depth of the water at marinas as well as behind canal-side homes and docks along the east coast of Florida. Within this site are depth sounding surveys of private and public canals and waterways that are all navigable from the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW). For the areas surveyed, NOAA charts are outdated and provide limited or no coverage at all--we try to include the relevant government chart 'snippet' with each survey posting so you can see for yourself.

Some areas inside the Indian River Lagoon portion of the AICW are not tidal and the depths shown are based on US Army Corps of Engineers datum. For areas that do have daily tidal flucuations, all soundings reference a known tidal station for that time and date as well. Date shown at the top of the posting is the actual date of the sounding survey, and each and every spot sounding is also time stamped--just click on the associated colored circle next to the depth that's displayed in the embedded Google Earth KML viewer and a label will pop up with the date/time stamp and tide reference. To see these depth soundings overlaid on a map you'll need to have the Google Earth plug-in installed in your browser.

The color code for all soundings are: depths 4.9 feet and shallower are RED; depths 5.0 to 6.9 feet are GREEN; and depths 7.0 feet and deeper are BLUE--a variation of the old rhythm "Brown brown, run aground, green green, nice and clean, Blue blue, run right through." I've substituted red for the brown as I think in this case the color red does a better job of alerting to shallower waters.

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