Analysis of Global and Selected Geographic Areas With Depths Between 50 and 100 Feet

Abstract

This report identifies additional areas of the ocean that shallow draft Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) could sail which are beyond the safe operating depth of conventional deep draft warships. Depth limits used in this report are 50 feet (15.24 meters) for the LCS and 100 feet (30.41 meters) for deep draft vessels. Approximately .91% of the world's ocean area lies between the 50-foot and 100-foot depth contours, or 1.27 x 106 square miles (3.29 x 106 sq km). For 13 small areas identified, the percent with this depth range varies from a low of 1.09% for the lonian Sea to a high of 25.75% for the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf and the Yellow Sea have the largest percent increase in accessible area for a shallow draft vessel, 56.01% and 36.65%, respectively.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 14, 2003
Accession Number
ADA411649

Entities

People

  • Chad A. Steed
  • Frank P. Mccreedy
  • John T. Sample
  • Michael M. Harris

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aegean Sea
  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Gulfs
  • Ionian Sea
  • Latitude
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Oceans
  • Persian Gulf
  • Ships
  • Yellow Sea

Readers

  • Hydraulic Engineering.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Oceanography.