Fisherman's Gat
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Fisherman's Gat is a much-deepened channel in the North Sea, between the final long line of shoals loosely associated with the Thames Estuary.[1] The channel cuts across Long Sand. In the west it opens onto the nominal cut-off point of Knock Deep (north) or the Princes Channel (south) which links to the Strait of Dover. In the west it opens to Black Deep, a Thames approach.
Fisherman's Gat was opened up to shipping as a route through, consequent to the demise of North Edinburgh Channel as a buoyed route. Opened in 2000 with a controlling depth of 7.4 metres, the navigation depth has since increased to 8.3 metres (January 2006). The gat in 1934 had minimum depth of Script error: No such module "convert"., naturally greater around its due east access but much less next to the north-west, its narrows/neck.[2]
Shipping generally approaches Fisherman's Gat from an arc, extending from south of Kentish Knock to the far east, around to North East Spit buoy to the south-southeast.[2] For vessels approaching the Thames Estuary from the south or east, it makes a saving of Script error: No such module "convert". and lower pilot charges when compared with the Sunk route to the north.[2] As time passes it is becoming a more dominant use by moderate draft vessels (save those heralding from the north/middle of the North Sea), some of which are still being routed via the Sunk (north end of Black Deep).[2]
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References
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- ↑ THAMES ESTUARY FISHERMAN’S GAT. ASSESSMENT ON THE ANALYSIS OF ROUTINE RESURVEY AREA TE19 FROM THE 2005 SURVEY. Template:Webarchive UK Hydrography Office. 2005. Accessed 18 July 2008.
- ↑ a b c d e Admiralty Chart "1975: Kentish Knock and the Naze to The Nore. Of 1934.
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