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A Sound , by the way, is defined for this purpose as a large ocean inlet. Other well-known sounds in the United States are Long Island Sound and Puget Sound . 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. EXTERNAL LINKS
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