Chart updating
Inshore survey vessel quartering the ground just off the pier's North approaches. It's fairly even for much of the bay, finally dropping away to 60+ft from one to two miles offshore. Folk imagine the sea to be really deep, but the reality is far from that. The deepest water we've seen around East Fife was the trench between Fife Ness and the May Island where we saw about 125ft on the sounder. By far the deepest water we ever had under the keel was on Loch Lomond, peaking at around 650ft; and Loch Tay showed a dropaway with a deep of slightly over 500ft in the Lawers area. Over here you need to be miles offshore before seeing such deeps, and the seabed slopes quite gradually to the deeper areas. A documentary on overfishing seen some years back showed many examples of various areas of the North Sea's bottom and they could find nowhere that wasn't heavily scarred by the grooves made by trawls being dragged across the sea bed. That's what overfishing does.
Chart updating
Inshore survey vessel quartering the ground just off the pier's North approaches. It's fairly even for much of the bay, finally dropping away to 60+ft from one to two miles offshore. Folk imagine the sea to be really deep, but the reality is far from that. The deepest water we've seen around East Fife was the trench between Fife Ness and the May Island where we saw about 125ft on the sounder. By far the deepest water we ever had under the keel was on Loch Lomond, peaking at around 650ft; and Loch Tay showed a dropaway with a deep of slightly over 500ft in the Lawers area. Over here you need to be miles offshore before seeing such deeps, and the seabed slopes quite gradually to the deeper areas. A documentary on overfishing seen some years back showed many examples of various areas of the North Sea's bottom and they could find nowhere that wasn't heavily scarred by the grooves made by trawls being dragged across the sea bed. That's what overfishing does.