NOTICES TO MARINERS
PUBLICATION
WESTERN EDITION

CHART EDITIONS

The three terms described below are used to indicate the publication status of Canadian charts.

NEW CHART - "NEWCHT"

The first publication of a Canadian chart embracing an area not previously charted to the scale shown, or embracing an area different from any existing Canadian chart.

NEW EDITION - "NEWEDT"

A new issue of an existing chart containing amendments essential to navigation in addition to those issued in Notices to Mariners and making existing editions obsolete.

REPRINTS

A new issue of the current edition of a chart incorporating no amendments of navigational significance other than those previously promulgated in Notices to Mariners. It may also contain amendments from other sources provided they are not essential to navigation. Previous printings of the current edition remain in force.

The current chart edition dates can be accessed at www.chs-shc.gc.ca/charts-cartes/paper-papier/index-eng.asp

Background

By providing nautical charts to the public, the goal of the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) is to provide services for safe navigation in a fiscally responsible manner. As a result, CHS continues to expand its portfolio of nautical paper charts that are printed using Print On Demand (POD) technology. These charts are easily recognized by their whiter paper and the coloured logo of the Canadian Hydrographic Service. This new technology enables CHS to print charts in a more efficient manner while enhancing chart content through being able to quickly add new and important information. POD technology provides customers with up-to-date charts without the historical hand-drawn corrections or glued-on patches. Additionally, this technology eliminates out-of-stock situations which arise with the traditional printing and warehousing methods. In the event of a national emergency, CHS can respond to the appropriate authorities with best available information very quickly.

Care of Your POD Chart

CHS encourages its customers to handle the POD charts more carefully than the traditional lithographic charts. When plotting information on POD charts, use HB pencils and apply limited pressure. Testing has suggested that an Indian gum eraser is more effective than alternatives when used on the product. This eraser is also suitable for charts printed using lithographic processes.

Mariners are advised that ECDIS may not display some isolated shoal depths when operating in "base or standard display" mode. Route planning and monitoring alarms for these shoal depths may not always be activated. To ensure safe navigation and to confirm that a planned route is clear of such dangers, mariners should visually inspect the planned route and any deviations from it using ECDIS configured to display "all data". The automated voyage planning check function should not be solely relied upon.

The Canadian Coast Guard is modernizing and consolidating its Marine Communications and Traffic Services Centres. Clients will continue to receive the high-quality service they have come to expect.

Once complete, there will be a total of 12 MCTS Centres strategically located across the country. Additional information pertaining to this project will be advertised to clients by all available means.

Western Region

Comox MCTS will consolidate to Victoria MCTS in Winter/Spring 2016

The new technology will increase efficiency permitting employees to have a greater ability to focus on the safety services they provide to mariners. Mariners are encouraged to visit the Radio Aids to Marine Navigation (RAMN), www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/Home and Notices to Mariners (NOTMAR), www.notmar.gc.ca PART 3 on a monthly basis for updated information and potential changes to contact information and marine broadcast schedules.

Mariners are advised that the tidal levels listed in the 2016 edition of canadian tide and current tables, volumes 2 and 3 have been updated. This revision is aimed to get more precise tidal predictions in time and height. this will result in corrections to the tidal information table shown on charts. These corrections will be published in 2016, through notices to mariners.

CHARTS	MAIN TITLE	SCALE	PUBLISHED	CAT #	PRICE
New Charts
3978	Bonilla Island to/à Edye Passage	1:80000	01-JUL-2016
New Editions
1514	Carillon à/to Papineauville	1:20000	22-APR-2016	3	18.00
1515	Papineauville à/to Ottawa	1:20000	29-APR-2016	3	18.00
2048	Port Credit	1:5000	29-APR-2016	3	12.00
5070	Satosoak Island to/à Akuliakatak Peninsula	1:25000	29-JAN-2016	1	20.00
6423	Askew Islands to/à Bryan Island Kilometre 1180 / Kilometre 1240	1:50000	15-JAN-2016	4	12.00
7527	Erebus and Terror Bay and/et Radstock Bay	1:50000	29-APR-2016	4	20.00
7710	Lambert Channel and/et Cache Point Channel	1:80000	15-JUL-2016	4	20.00
Charts Permanently Withdrawn
3927	Bonilla Island to/à Edye Passage

NEW PRODUCTS
S-57 ENC NUMBER	CHART TITLE
CA376429	Corbett Island to Ship Harbour Head
CA376616	Garia Bay to/à Burgeo
CA473467	Kangiqlugaapik (Erik Harbour)
CA576184	Pugwash Harbour
CA576617	La Poile
CA576618	Grand Bruit Harbour
Retirées en permanence
CA376429	Corbett Island to Ship Harbour Head

CHARTS	MAIN TITLE
Charts Permanently Withdrawb
RM-1201	Saint-Fulgence à/to Saguenay
RM-1203	Tadoussac à/to Cap Éternité
RM-1223	Chenal du Bic et les approches/and approaches
RM-1226	Mouillages et Installations Portuaires/Anchorages and Harbour Installations - Haute Côte-Nord
RM-1233	Cap aux Oies à/to Sault-au-Cochon
RM-1320	Île du Bic au/to Cap de la Tête au Chien

This is to notify you that a new Ship Safety Bulletin  has recently been posted to the Transport Canada website at: www.tc.gc.ca/ssb-bsn/

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Contact us at: marinesafety-securitemaritime@tc.gc.ca or 1-855-859-3123 (Toll Free).

This is to notify you that a new Ship Safety Bulletin  has recently been posted to the Transport Canada website at: www.tc.gc.ca/ssb-bsn/

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SSB#06/2016 – Guidelines for Moored Attraction Vessels
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Contact us at: marinesafety-securitemaritime@tc.gc.ca or 1-855-859-3123 (Toll Free).

This is to notify you that a new Ship Safety Bulletin  has recently been posted to the Transport Canada website at: www.tc.gc.ca/ssb-bsn/

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AIS Application-Specific Messages (ASM) and AIS AtoN

Mariners are advised that the Canadian Coast Guard will perform a test of AIS Application-Specific Messages (AIS-ASM) on the Pacific Coast from the Sand Heads meteorological/hydrological station: 49°06’21’’N 123°18’12’’W, and may extend this testing to other stations in the coming months. The test will start at the end of August and consist of broadcasting meteorological/hydrological (MET/HYDRO) data through AIS binary “Message 8”.

Although AIS was originally developed as a means for positive identification and tracking of ships, it includes functionalities to transmit binary messages such as MET/HYDRO information and other types of data. These additional functionalities of AIS may be useful to mariners to assist in onboard voyage planning.

Ships need to be equipped with a proper Class “A” AIS device for the accurate onboard display of AIS message. The IMO mandatory carriage requirement for the Class “A” AIS display ^{Footnote 1}.is the Minimum Keyboard Display (MKD) which displays the binary data in an alphanumeric form. However, as there is no current requirement for the MKD to be capable of decoding all AIS binary messages, the display and use of the ASM information may require additional hardware and/or software^{Footnote 2}.

AIS Aids to Navigation (AtoN)

The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) defines an AtoN as:

'a device or system external to vessels that is designed and operated to enhance the safe and efficient navigation of vessels and/or vessel traffic’^{Footnote 3}.

The primary purpose of an AIS AtoN Station is to promote and enhance safety and efficiency of navigation by one or more of the following:

• Providing a positive and all-weather means of identification;
• Complementing existing services (e.g. RACONS) from AtoN;
• Transmitting accurate positions of floating AtoN;
• Indicating if a floating AtoN is off position (monitoring the status of an AtoN);
• Marking or delineating tracks, routes, areas, and limits;
• Marking offshore structures;
• Enable timely marking of new hazards (fixed or dynamic) using Virtual AIS AtoN.

The use of AIS within the marine aids to navigation service is accomplished by the broadcasting of the aids to navigation report message “Message 21”.

An AIS AtoN can be implemented in three ways, Real, Synthetic, and Virtual.

1. Physical/real AIS AtoN: : An AIS device which is physically located on the AtoN and transmits “Message 21”.
2. Synthetic AIS AtoN: There are 2 types of Synthetic AIS AtoN – Monitored and Predicted.
   1. Monitored: A “Message 21” is transmitted from a nearby AIS base station. The AtoN physically exists but there is no AIS device on it. A communication link is installed on the AtoN to allow the monitoring of its status.
   2. Predicted : A “Message 21” is transmitted from a nearby AIS base station. The AtoN physically exists but there is neither an AIS device on it nor a communication link. Status and position of the AtoN cannot be monitored.
3. Virtual AIS AtoN: :A “Message 21” is transmitted from a nearby AIS base station for an AtoN that does not physically exist. The “Message 21” will clearly identify this as a virtual AIS AtoN.

  Displays and Symbology

As the AIS information available to mariners will be dependent on their display system, not all transmitted information may be displayed. Mariners are encouraged to install systems that provide AIS overlay on either ECDIS or Radar, or both.

Of those vessels that are AIS equipped the various displays available can range from no display on some Class B units, through to the mandatory Class A MKD, and to a full ECDIS or Radar overlay. In the absence of an ECDIS or Radar overlay, mariners will not be able to fully utilize the AIS AtoN functionality. Also note that there is a variance in the information that can be displayed on ECDIS or Radar equipment by the different AIS manufacturers.

The symbology that may be displayed on nautical charts, display systems and the MKD is summarised below.

Nautical Charts
On nautical charts AIS AtoN are indicated by a magenta circle surrounding the existing AtoN symbol and an adjacent legend stating AIS. The font will be straight for fixed AtoN and italic for floating AtoN.

A physical AIS AtoN provided as an overlay on ECDIS, Radar or other display systems are indicated by a diamond shape with crossed lines at the reported position of the AtoN. A physical AIS AtoN that is off position will use the same symbol but in red. A virtual AIS AtoN is indicated by a dotted line diamond shape with the crossed lines at the reported position.

Physical AIS Aton	Physical AIS AtoN off position	Virtual AIS AtoN

Minimum Keyboard Display
The mandatory MKD is only required to display data in alphanumeric form. Some MKD are units supplemented by a small graphical display. Exact presentation will vary but this layout below would be typical of MKD displays.

Range	Bearing	Name
XX.XX	XXX.X	XXXXXXXXX
Latitude		XXX XX.XXX
Longitude		XXX XX.XXX

Feedback on AIS - ASM
Mariners are requested to provide feedback on the AIS-ASM test bed to their applicable Regional MCTS Office.

Contact information can be found in the publication Radio Aids to Marine Navigation, Part 1.

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