NOAA Coast Survey News
Nautical chart news – October 2017
 | | Providing commercial mariners and recreational boaters with top notch navigation products and services is a priority for Coast Survey. Here are a few items we have been working on for the past few months. |
Coast Survey launches new NOAA Nautical Chart Catalog With NOAA’s new Nautical Chart Catalog, users can readily access raster data and charting products in list format. The website serves as a complement to the Chart Locator by providing search capability for any of NOAA’s thousand plus nautical charts. Find and download NOAA RNC®, full-sized nautical charts in PDF format, BookletCharts™, notice to mariners chart corrections, and a list of chart agents. The catalog is in a new responsive design and is mobile friendly. Read more |
Coming November 14, 2017The Coast Survey website, nauticalcharts.noaa.gov, will have a new look on November 14, 2017! Find your favorite charting products in fewer clicks from our mobile friendly design. Also, be prepared to update any bookmarks you may have to our web pages, as some will change. |
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NOAA hosts Navigation Industry Day 2017 Recently, NOAA hosted it’s third Navigation Industry Day at the Annapolis Yacht Club, attracting over two dozen prominent maritime application and navigation system developers. This year’s event focused on NOAA’s extensive data and models that are freely available and of particular interest to the recreational boater community. NOAA presentations, project summaries, and contact information is available on the Coast Survey website. |
NOAA responds to three major hurricanes The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been a busy one. Coast Survey responded to three major hurricanes and remains ready if any others start churning in the Atlantic. For information on our response efforts to hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, read our blog stories: |
NOAA may eliminate annual tide and current table paper publications A recent decision by the U.S. Coast Guard Policy Office is allowing the use of electronic tide and tidal current predictions to meet carriage requirements (33 CFR 164.33 and 46 CFR 28.225) for vessels operating in U.S. waters. Although printed publications are still preferred, electronic products such as PDF files or online predictions generated and stored for use are being accepted. In light of this change in policy, and with the availability of tide and tidal current predictions for U.S. locations through the Tides & Currents website services: NOAA Tide Predictions, NOAA Current Predictions; CO-OPS is investigating the possibility for the elimination of the annual Tide Tables and Tidal Current Tables publications. This would impact all 6 of the annual tide/current tables publications and all related data files used in the production of these publications. - Tide Tables, East Coast of North and South America Including Greenland
- Tide Tables, Europe and West Coast of Africa Including the Mediterranean Sea
- Tide Tables, Central and Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean
- Tide Tables, West Coast of North and South America Including the Hawaiian Islands
- Tidal Current Tables, Atlantic Coast of North America
- Tidal Current Tables, Pacific Coast of North America and Asia
Over the next year, NOAA will be reaching out to users of these products to gather comments about the potential elimination of these publications. If you would like to contact NOAA about this matter, please email Tide.Predictions@noaa.gov. |
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