Everything about The Mississippi Sound totally explained
The
Mississippi Sound is a
sound along the
Gulf Coast of the United States. It runs east-west along the southern coasts of
Mississippi and
Alabama, from
Waveland, Mississippi to the
Dauphin Island Bridge, a distance of about 145 kilometers (90 mi). The sound is bordered on its southern edge by the barrier islands -
Cat,
Ship,
Horn,
Petit Bois and
Dauphin Islands - which are part of the National Park Service's
Gulf Islands National Seashore. Those islands separate the sound from the
Gulf of Mexico.
Large portions of the Mississippi Sound reach depths of about 6 meters (20 ft). Part of the
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway traverses the sound with a project depth of 3.6 meters (12 ft). The waterway, maintained by the
US Army Corps of Engineers, is designed for
towboat and
barge traffic. Most of its route through the sound is merely an imaginary line through water whose depth exceeds the
project depth. A section west of
Cat Island and the portion north of Dauphin Island rely on dredged channels marked by aids to navigation maintained by the
US Coast Guard.
Deepwater ports along the sound include
Gulfport and
Pascagoula. Dredged ship channels running basically north-south connect those ports to the
Gulf of Mexico, running between pairs of the
barrier islands.
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