NAVIGATION AND SAFETY AT SEA 



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Marine Information Specialist visits the Chilean Hydrographic 

 Institute to maintain world-vride maritime proficiency. 



the broadcast of several thousand radio navigational warning 

 messages annually affecting immediate safety of navigation; 

 weekly dissemination of navigational information in the Notice 

 to Mariners and Navy Notice to Mariners; plus issuance of change 

 information to many of the publications previously mentioned, 

 including Light Lists, Radio Navigational Aids, Sailing Directions 

 and Fleet Guides. In Fiscal Year 1967, this involved over 300 

 separate issues of periodicals and other publications to some 10,000 

 maritime organizations and ships. 



The Navy continually supplies technical information and material 

 for the improved navigation of U. S. ships and the use of the 

 merchant marine and navigators everywhere. In this Electronic 

 and Space Age, many new requirements for such support have 



developed. These are being met by automation of data analysis, 

 development of new navigation techniques and procedures, and 

 preparation of material and information in support of electronic 

 and satellite navigation systems. 



