Saturday, June 21, 2014

World Hydrography Day! In honor of the IHO theme, "Hydrography - More than Charts,"


From NOAA

Every year, the international hydrographic community celebrates World Hydrography Day on June 21.
The 2014 theme, established by the International Hydrographic Organization, is “Hydrography ‒ More Than Nautical Charts.”

To further the discussion, NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey invited the public to contribute articles that illustrate the theme.
The articles in this collection, contributed by government and private experts, reflect the diversity of users of hydrography, with interests from marine ecology, archeology, energy and water resource management, and emergency response.

John Cloud tells how hydrography helped restore oyster beds in the late 1800s ‒ and how that early work may help to restore oyster beds in North Carolina today. George Cole reports on using LiDAR hydrography to develop minimum flow standards for Florida water management districts.
James Delgado and Vitad Pradith describe how hydrography helped NOAA positively identify the 1860 wreck of the U.S. Coast Survey steamer Robert J. Walker, and brought long-delayed honor to the 21 lost crew members.
Paul Donaldson recounts the contributions of hydrographic operations to local economies after hurricanes.
John Hersey and Paul Cooper discuss the emergence of crowdsourced bathymetry as a next-generation hydrographic tool.
Joyce Miller explains how a continuing collaboration is using hydrography to conserve coral reefs in the Pacific.
Alison Pettafor provides two articles: one describes how bathymetry data can determine damage to underwater pipelines, and the other shows the use of hydrography to monitor and detect problems with wind turbine seafloor foundations.
Aurel Piantanida provides an overview of the use of hydrography in speeding the resumption of commerce at ports hit by hurricanes.
Finally, Kevin Tomanka winds up the collection with a provocative question: are you a hydrographer?
You might be surprised at some of the answers.

Acid oceans


A third of all man made emissions of CO2 dissolve into our oceans forming carbonic acid. As those emissions increase scientists predict dramatic changes to sea life.
In Papua New Guinea a unique phenomenon, whereby CO2 is naturally released into the sea through volcanic vents, is acting as nature's warning. It gives scientists a clue to what could happen to our oceans in decades to come.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Harvester: the California urchin diver experience


Harvester: The California Urchin Diver Experience
from Highliner Studios


“Harvester” is a cinematic ocean documentary that explores the variety of subtle differences that make a California urchin diver’s life so unique.
We aim our audience to plunge into and explore the culture of commercial urchin divers and see how they interact within their unique community, balancing work, family, and transition through an array of newly imposed environmental restrictions.
The characters lead us past the traditional fisherman stereotypes, revealing the possible end of an era and creation of a new breed of environmentally conscious divers.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

US NOAA update in the Marine GeoGarage

As our public viewer is not yet available
(currently under construction, upgrading to Google Maps API v3 as v2 is officially no more supported),
this info is primarily intended to our iPhone/iPad universal mobile application users

(Marine US on the App Store)
and also to our B2B customers which use our nautical charts layers in their own webmapping applications through our GeoGarage API.

29 charts have been updated in the Marine GeoGarage
(NOAA update May/June 2014, released June 6th 2014)

  • 11311 ed25 Corpus Christi Harbor
  • 11367 ed37 Intracoastal Waterway Waveland to Catahoula Bay
  • 14880 ed33 Straits of Mackinac
  • 14881 ed34 Detour Passage to Waugoshance Pt.;Hammond Bay Harbor;Mackinac Island;Cheboygan;Mackinaw City;St. lgnace
  • 14885 ed22 Les Cheneaux Islands
  • 14969 ed23 Munising Harbor and Approaches;Munising Harbor
  • 16433 ed9 Sarana Bay to Holtz Bay;Chichagof Harbor
  • 16442 ed8 Kiska Harbor and Approaches
  • 16446 ed9 Constantine Harbor. Amchitka Island
  • 16477 ed8 Tagalak Island to Little Tanaga l.
  • 16511 ed8 Inanudak Bay and Nikolski Bay. Umnak l.;River and Mueller Coves
  • 16551 ed11 Unga Island to Pavlof Bay. Alaska Pen.
  • 16605 ed10 Shuyak Strait and Bluefox Bay
  • 16762 ed10 Lituya Bay;Lituya Bay Entrance
  • 17387 ed14 Shakan and Shipley Bays and Part of El Capitan Passage;El Capitan Pasage. Dry Pass to Shakan Strait
  • 17426 ed16 Kasaan Bay. Clarence Strait;Hollis Anchorage. eastern part;Lyman Anchorage
  • 17436 ed10 Clarence Strait. Cholmondeley Sound and Skowl Arm
  • 11317 ed33 Matagorda Bay including Lavaca and Tres Palacios Bays; Port Lavaca; Continuation of Lavaca River; Continuation of Tres Palacios Bay
  • 11519 ed13 Parts of Coosaw and Broad Rivers
  • 11553 ed30 Intracoastal Waterway Albermarle Sound to Neuse River;Alligator River;Second Creek
  • 12200 ed51 Cape May to Cape Hatteras
  • 12273 ed59 Chesapeake Bay Sandy Point to Susquehanna River
  • 13209 ed27 Block Island Sound and Gardiners Bay; Montauk Harbor
  • 16547 ed10 Sanak Island and Sandman Reefs;Northeast Harbor;Peterson and Salmon Bays;Sanak Harbor
  • 16549 ed17 Cold Bay and approaches. Alaska Pen.;King Cove Harbor
  • 17365 ed13 Woewodski and Eliza Hbrs.;Fanshaw Bay and Cleveland Passage
  • 19331 ed8 Kailua Bay Island Of Hawai'i
  • 19347 ed19 Channels between Molokai. Maui. Lana'i and Kaho'olawe;Manele Bay
  • 19384 ed9 Hanamaulu Bay Island of Kaua'i
Today 1025 NOAA raster charts (2167 including sub-charts) are included in the Marine GeoGarage viewer (see PDFs files)


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  • U.S. Coast Guard Local Notices to Mariners (LNMs),
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Notices to Mariners (NMs), and
  • Canadian Coast Guard Notices to Mariners (CNMs)
While information provided by this Web site is intended to provide updated nautical charts, it must not be used as a substitute for the United States Coast Guard, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or Canadian Coast Guard Notice to Mariner publications

Please visit the
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All new sea adventures diving with the Moken

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Monday, June 16, 2014

Catching the tide


Catching the tide
from Goat


This Scotland: Catching the Tide: A documentary about photographer Colin McPherson’s quest to capture the final days of Scotland’s salmon netting industry.

In the early 1990s, photojournalist Colin McPherson embarked on a project that would take him to the heart of one of Scotland’s fast disappearing communities - the salmon net fishermen.
Since then, he has spent many days - and nights - photographing them at work.
The result to date is over 180 stunning colour and black & white images.

Shot on the panoramic beaches of north east Scotland, this documentary film weaves together the story of the demise of the salmon netting industry with that of Colin’s creative journey.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Narcose


NARCOSE from Les films engloutis


Deep water freediving exposes its practitioners to a form of narcosis, which induces several symptoms, among which a feeling of euphoria and levity that earned this phenomenon its nickname of “raptures of the deep”.
The short film relates the interior journey of Guillaume NĂ©ry, the apnea world champion, during one of his deep water dives.
It draws its inspiration from his physical experience and the narrative of his hallucinations.