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More than a decade ago, Georgia officials developed a plan for deepening the Savannah shipping channel and, for all these years, prepared for growth according to it. Only in recent weeks did Charleston's former Coast Guard captain of the port come forward with a fresh assessment showing how those old studies underestimated the amount of work required. After publicly denouncing John Cameron's findings, officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah took a look at them recently and decided he may have a point. Cameron, who retired in 2007 as the Coast Guard's Charleston sector commander, studied the waterway on behalf of the local harbor pilots group as the plans advance for a joint South Carolina-Georgia port terminal in Jasper County. He contends that a safer extension for navigation purposes would reach 13 to 20 miles into the sea, not the four to five miles as Georgia officials once thought.

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