 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Puget Sound / Strait
of Juan de Fuca
Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) Charts
Now Available for Sale to Mariners
International Maritime Organization, is scheduled to be implemented in Puget Sound on December 1, 2002. The new scheme will be a major change to existing commercial traffic patterns. In response to
requests from the Coast Guard and other local maritime authorities,
NOAA's Office of Coast Survey is ensuring that 27 nautical charts showing the change, will be available to the public before December 1st.
Ten
of the 27 charts are being released as completely New Editions.
Using
"Print on Demand" technology, NOAA and its private partner,
Oceangrafix,
will make these charts available for sale on or about
November
22. In the past, new charts would not be available to the
mariner
for weeks or sometimes months after the implementation of a new traffic
sepatation scheme.
New Editions that depict the new Puget Sound / Strait of Juan de Fuca TSS are: 18400, 18421, 18429, 18431,18433, 18440, 18460, 18465, 18480, 18485.
Updated charts that depict the new TSS are: 18003, 18007, 18424, 18427, 18430, 18432, 18434, 18441, 18446, 18448, 18449, 18453, 18464, 18468, 18471, 18473, 18474, 18477, 18484, and 18500.
Those with LORAN-C may be ordered without the LORAN-C grid lines.
The charts depicting the new Traffic Separation Scheme are now available for sale to mariners.
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
