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Professional affiliations: 

The Hydrographic Society of America  

Florida Surveying & Mapping Society  

American Society of Civil Engineers

Coasts Oceans Ports and Rivers Institute

 Surveyors Historical Society   National Society of Professional Surveyors .

 Offshore RLPG Sea Island Terminal and miles long Pipeline/Roadway Marine Trestle, off the coast of Ju'aymah, Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf

Offshore petroleum Terminal, Ju'aymah, Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf

   

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Curriculum Vitae:

David Hugh Barrow, RLS, PSM

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Florida Registered Land Surveyor (RLS), Professional Surveyor and Mapper (PSM), Certificate No. LS 5263

Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Associate in Arts (AA) degrees; Social Science (Geography) 2000: Thomas Edison State College of New Jersey

Certificate in the Cartographic Sciences, Salem State University of Massachusetts                            

Certificate: Hydrographic Surveying For Nautical Charting, NOAA / Old Dominion University

Certificate: High Accuracy GPS Positioning, University of New Brunswick / Navtech, Inc.

Certificate: Mainframe Computer Programming: Computer Science Institute, Miami, Florida

Certificate: Surface Supplied Air / Mixed Gas Commercial Diving; Coastal School of Deep Sea Diving, Oakland, California

Certificate: Diving Instruction and Business of Diving, Professional Diving Instructors College, Marathon, Florida Keys

Worldwide, professional experience on land, underground, airborne, on and under the water.

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Our Business

B S M / Barrow Surveying & Mapping

David Barrow Surveying & Mapping, Inc.,  Key Largo

           Florida Keys

  
After several years working abroad as a  surveyor and commercial diver in the international offshore oil and gas industry in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, David Barrow came to the Florida Keys in 1980 as a surveyor with the large marine construction company contracted for fabricating and erecting
the new Seven Mile Bridge on the Overseas Highway (US Highway No. 1) in Marathon at Knight's Key, and Chief Surveyor for the construction  of the Lummus Island containerized freight seaport  in the Port of Miami, FL.

     The company eventually moved on. But he stayed, working his way instead into the surveying and diving fields in Miami and the Keys.                

       In 1994, on the occasion of the retirement of his long time employer and Keys Surveying mentor, Arnold McClenithan, he acquired Mr. McClenithan's work files (including partial records from McClenithan's colleagues & predecessors) and formed his own Surveying Company in Islamorada, on Plantation Key. When Hal Thomas, another veteran Keys Surveyor, retired in 2000, Barrow Surveying purchased his extensive records and the BSM office moved to the former Thomas building in Tavernier, on Key Largo; and Younger brother, Ken Barrow, also a lifelong surveyor, joined the company in its new location. These Tavernier offices have been occupied by Land Surveyors since the 1970's when Frank Uherek worked out of them, through 2011 when BSM moved back to Plantation Key. The Uherek, Thomas and McClenithan records, combined with our own 19+ years of work records, make a unique, unexcelled archive of the history of land and water boundaries in these Keys. As a small firm, we use modern technologies such as robotics, satellite positioning, smart phones, cad, etc. as force multipliers. We also respect and appreciate past technologies and skills, and maintain a small, private "museum" of antique maps, globes and surveyor's instruments & tools, etc., at our office..

     Believing in professional, as well as community and world involvement, we are active members of the professional societies listed in the top left column, and we support the work of the following organizations through donation of funds and / or goods & services:

Habitat for Humanity of the Upper Keys

Florida Keys Wild Bird Center

Marine Mammal Conservancy

Island Dolphin Care

Audubon of Florida, Tavernier Science Center

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

The Salvation Army

Burton Memorial Methodist Church, Food Pantry