Category Archives: Safety Alerts

Your ECDIS may not dis­play sig­nif­i­cant shoals and may not set ground­ing alarms auto­mat­i­cally because some ENC pro­duc­ers did not under­stand the impor­tance to safety of a bul­letin issued by the Inter­na­tional Hydro­graphic Organisation.

A lucky visit by a mar­itime del­e­ga­tion to the UK Hydro­graphic Organ­i­sa­tion has sparked a flurry of urgent mes­sages and updates in the elec­tronic chart com­mu­nity after the del­e­ga­tion noticed that a sig­nif­i­cant shoal was miss­ing from the ENC chart on the screen and no ground­ing alarm was set on the ECDIS. The was being reviewed prior to issue and the prob­lem was only noticed because the vis­i­tors were famil­iar with the area displayed.

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