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Update #3 · Apr 8, 2012 · comment

Here are 2 sets of pics that show the locations of some of the underwater tests I have taken.  The first pair is of an unnamed ditch near Shell Beach.  The ditch that runs left to right in front of the camera goes for about 4 more miles to the left, At this point it is not navigable by shrimp boats.  A few blocks to the left, the shrimp boats are docked and the ditch runs a couple of miles until it connects to the Mississippi Gulf Outlet Canal (MGOC). Even where it is in front of the camera it is surprisingly deep for only being about 40' wide.  It is at least 8 feet deep. 

The small canal the is running directly away from the camera connects to the MGOC about a 1/4 mile away.  The trees are dying from salt water incursion.  The Gulf is around 25 miles from this site.  The underwater image was taken around 20 feet to the right.

The second set shows a feeder to the Black Levee Canal. The two above water shots connect the point where the feeder meets black levee and where the feeder ends about a 1/4 mile away. The same oil platform can be seen in both.  The underwater shot was taken about halfway between the camera and the car in the second above water image.

I think we have found the perfect van.  It is in great shape has low milage, a cargo rack on the roof, nice, in-built cabinets in back and a partition that separates the cargo space from the passenger/driver area.  The clincher?  There is a cat sized closable door cut into the partition.  How perfect is that?

2 weeks to go, not quite 5% raised.  Thanks to all of you who have donated so far.  You guys are so sweet!

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Why I am doing this (Map)?

Update #2 · Apr 4, 2012 · 1 comment

Ok, so you already know why am go to the Delta to make work, but I thought I would post this map to make the point visually. All that water used to be land. You can still see the canals that once cut through the marshes.  The lines we dug remain, but the land they wiped out is simply gone.

On one of my first trips to the area, I was in contact with a guide.  The places he spent time as a child, the wooded marshes with their abundant life, are gone now.  That blue on the map is at the village he grew up in.

The coast has moved that much further in.  The once protected urban areas around New Orleans are that much more exposed.

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Map of Locations

Update #1 · Apr 4, 2012 · comment

Just thought I would throw up a map of the 330 or so locations.  The first shows them all.  Stretches from About 40 milers east of New Orleans to the edge of the Atchafalaya Basin.  The sec on is a detail and gives some sense of the watery terrain and the canals cut through it.

Thanks so much to all (10) of you have backed it.  No mater what happens with the funding (and it is going slow...) I really appreciate it and after I make the work (going to the Credit Union this week to look at loans for the van, boats all set, life vest and other accoutrements get here tomorrow, got anchor, ropes, and all sorts of good ole marine gear) I hope to find a way to manifest that appreciation.

Oh yeah, if you could share the link to the project on Facebook that would be cool!

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