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  • March

    Ryan Miranda, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, survey technician, smiles as he watches a survey vessel advance the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, July 23, 2021. Miranda has a lifetime dedication to maritime activities and sports ranging from diving, rowing, and maritime archaeology. Now, he operates as a survey technician to safeguard the one of the largest estuaries in the nation as a federal employee in the National Capital Region. (U.S. Army photo by Greg Nash)

    New Splash: Surveyor continues waterways passion

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Survey Technician Ryan Miranda endures another chapter pursuing waterway passions, which includes stints as a rower, scuba diver, and naval historian. As one of the newest members of the survey technician team, he incorporates his experiences from swimming as a child to coaching rowers to successfully contribute towards enhancing the Chesapeake Bay and District’s National Capital Region area of responsibility with hydrographic condition surveys of federal channels and topographic surveys on special projects.

  • August

    Harold Catlett, pictured here, worked on the water in support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, navigation mission from 1985 until his sudden passing in 2014. Catlett was a mentor to many hydrographic surveyors over the years and personnel he worked with overwhelmingly supported naming Baltimore District’s new survey vessel after him.

    Hydrographic surveyor’s legacy lives on in new survey vessel name

    Harold Catlett’s sudden death shocked his team members at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. When the time came for Baltimore District to replace its aging survey vessel with a newer model, it only seemed fitting that the vessel be named after a man who inspired so many.