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Promoting STEM To Students At Nashville Navy Week
by U.S. Navy Rebecca Eckhoff, Fleet Survey Team
September 12, 2019
Fleet Survey Team (FST) made its mark on Music City June 3-7,
2019 shining the spotlight on STEM careers in the U.S. Navy,
visiting more than 400 children during Nashville Navy Week.
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Fleet Survey Team Sailors
quiz John Overton High School STEM campers with trivia
questions following their presentation on near-shore
hydrographic surveys on June 4, 2019 during Nashville Navy
Week. (U.S. Navy photo by Rebecca Eckhoff, FST)
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The Navy’s experts in conducting near-shore hydrographic surveys,
FST Sailors spoke to various groups of Boy Scouts, STEM campers and
Adventure Science Center visitors about the importance of their
mission to enable safe and effective maritime navigation for naval
and joint forces.
At each of 10 events in which FST
participated, dozens of eager children climbed into the driver’s
seats of two Rapid Littoral Survey Vehicles (RLSVs), commercial jet
skis outfitted with specialized sonar equipment, which FST brought
along to Navy Week. The kids also had the opportunity to see the
command’s newest survey asset, the Teledyne Z-boat unmanned surface
vessel, which can be remotely operated from ship or shore to provide
detailed and accurate data in water too shallow for standard survey
vessels.
The command’s interactive display allowed hundreds
of children and adults to get a close look at the scientific
instrumentation used by the “Bottom Mappers” to chart littoral zones
(waters within 25 miles of the coastline), supporting safe ship to
shore movements by amphibious forces.
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Chief Aerographer’s Mate
Chris Rondeau explains to children visiting the Adventure
Science Center on June 7, 2019 how Fleet Survey Team
remotely operated its Z-boat unmanned surface vessel while
conducting near-shore hydrographic surveys. (U.S. Navy photo by Rebecca Eckhoff, FST)
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FST maintains a 96-hour globally deployable team capable of
conducting navigation surveys in support of humanitarian
aid/disaster relief efforts or other emergent tasking. The command
was instrumental in charting natural disasters such as hurricanes
Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike in the Gulf of Mexico, the Haiti
earthquake in 2010, hurricane Sandy in New York in 2012, and Super
Typhoon Souldelor in Saipan in 2015.
FST is a rapid-response
team with the capabilities to conduct quick-turnaround hydrographic
surveys anywhere in the world. Comprised of approximately 65
military and civilian members, FST is subordinate command of the
Naval Oceanographic Office located at
Stennis Space Center, Miss.
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