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Archive To significantly improve safety at sea, NOAA has led in the development of electronic nautical charts (ENC) that conform to
Coast Survey Publishes New electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS). Following a recent notice issued by the International Hydrographic
Editions of Eastern Long Island Office, NOAA and other hydrographic offices around the world are examining their ENC suites to uncover potentially serious
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issues with the display of some soundings on ECDIS. NOAA has also issued a notice to mariners to highlight the issue.
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What is the problem?
When mariners use either the base or standard display in ECDIS, they turn off the soundings. When they use these display
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hydrographer, director of Coast As shown above, ECDIS displays the isolated sounding when the display mode is full. The mariner can see that isolated
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shoals are located on the wrong side of the depth contour. ECDIS does not depict the isolated shoals in standard and base
NOAA Ship Fairweather
Conducting Hydrographic
display when the safety contour is set to 3.6 meters, in this example.

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Arctic What do mariners need to do?
NOAA Commissions New Survey Since the ECDIS does not set off any type of warnings or alarms for these types of soundings in any display mode, it is

Vessel Ferdinand R. Hassler important that the mariner turn soundings on during route planning and route monitoring to ensure that there are no
Boston Survey for Harborfest and isolated soundings in the voyage path.

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Changes to US-Canada ENC
NOAA issues Notice to Mariner
coverage effective July 26
In order to rectify this situation, NOAA is examining its entire ENC suite for these explicit cases. In the meantime, NOAA has
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issued the following notice to mariner:
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Is a Coast Survey Team Coming to Mariners are advised that ECDIS may not display some isolated shoal depths when operating in BASE or STANDARD

Your Home Port? display mode. Route planning and monitoring alarms for these shoal depths may not always be activated. To ensure safe
Sea Floor Survey Support Texas navigation and to confirm that a planned route is clear of such dangers, mariners should configure the ECDIS to display ALL

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DATA and should visually inspect the planned route. The mariner should not solely rely on the automated voyage planning
New Edition of U.S. Chart No. 1
check function. NOAA is in the process of examining its ENC data for these cases and will issue a notice to mariner for each
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Changes to US-Canada ENC area that has been examined and updated.

Coverage - Effective Dec. 15
NOAA's Newest Chart Supports In addition to warning mariners, NOAA will examine and correct the relevant navigational scale ENCs for the following ports as

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