NOAA/NCEI Bathymetry viewer

[SkunkBoat]

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/
I stumbled across this site and found some high resolution color bottom contours for my area (Ocean/Monmouth county NJ). I've been finding lots of "gold" on this map and punching it into my Garmin. I have the Garmin on my lap at the computer. The mouse on the viewer gives you lat/lon in decimal degrees so its best to set the garmin that way. Love the touch screen for entering and naming waypoints!
Funny thing, the viewer displays the lat/lon backwards as lon/lat...stupid. Also, if you click the mouse it marks an X. Be careful because the lat/lon readout is from the mouse position not the X!


There are some high res areas for DelMarVa and Florida reefs from Boca to Miami and Key West.
Its a complicated mess of a site but I found you can weed out the crap using only the checks in the circled settings.

 

[Hookup1]

Are those marks in the wrecks & obstructions database? Do you have any idea what they are? Doesn't look natural so it must be man-made.

 

[SkunkBoat]

That is Axel Carlson Reef site. They are rock piles of dredge rock from the Kill van Kull and some wrecks. I had numbers for a lot of what in that picture but this map really lets you find odd stuff to the sides and stuff out in the middle of nowhere not on a reef site. Do a lot of zooming in and out and scrolling around. Also, a lot of the NOAA charted "Obstructions" roughly correlate to small things that are worth a drift if not an anchor.

 

[Hookup1]

I have hundreds of NOAA charted "Wrecks & Obstructions" that I charted for Cape May/Delaware Bay. Also charted all NJ/DE reef sites by hand. When we are playing around flounder fishing we pick an area and try them. A small percentage are worth re-visiting. Kinda fun to test them out on flat days when we are not catching.

 

[SkunkBoat]

I have hundreds of NOAA charted "Wrecks & Obstructions" that I charted for Cape May/Delaware Bay. Also charted all NJ/DE reef sites by hand. When we are playing around flounder fishing we pick an area and try them. A small percentage are worth re-visiting. Kinda fun to test them out on flat days when we are not catching.

Thats the point. You can SEE them without having to go there and look at it with your sidevu sonar. I can see a lot of small things and see that they are worth fishing or not.
If you have the Sea Girt reef mapped out, take a look at the detail of it here.






Unfortunately, they don't have much high def detail down by you in NJ. The Boca to Maimi stretch is well covered if you are down there.

 

[Hookup1]

I'm using the Garmin shaded relief maps down here. Not the same but real good. I'll look at this sometime this week. Planning to leave the boat here and come back for April. We have a few wreck the are not charted but light the sounder up. I'll check these out.

 

[Hookup1]

Not much in FL Keys. I'll check out what exists.