station, Atlantic (CAMSLANT)/NMF in 

 Chesapeake, VA and Canadian Coast 

 Guard Marine Communications and Traffic 

 Service (MCTS) St. John's 



Newfoundland/VON are the primary radio 

 stations responsible for the dissemination 

 of the ice bulletins. In addition, ice 

 bulletins and safety broadcasts are 

 delivered over the INMARSAT-C 

 SafetyNET via the Atlantic east and west 

 satellites. Other transmitting stations 

 for the bulletins include Canadian 

 Coast Guard MCTS St. Anthony 

 NewfoundlandA/CM and Radio Station 

 Bracknell, UK/GFA. IIP also prepares a 

 daily ice chart, depicting the 1200Z limit of 

 all known ice, for broadcast via 

 radiofacsimile at 1600Z and 1810Z daily. 

 CAMSLANT and the National Weather 

 Service (NWS) assist with the transmission 

 of the daily ice chart. The bulletin and 

 chart are also placed on the World Wide 

 Web on HP's website. In addition, 

 CAMSLANT and MCTS St. John's provide 

 special broadcasts as required. 



requested that all ships transiting the area 

 of the Grand Banks report ice 

 observations, weather, and sea surface 

 temperatures to IIP via CAMSLANT, 

 Canadian Coast Guard Radio Station SL 

 John'sA/ON, or INMARSAT-C or 

 INMARSAT-A using code 42. Ships are 

 encouraged to make reports even if "no 

 ice" is sighted (reports with "no ice" are 

 included in HP's statistics as ice reports). 

 Knowledge of where ice is not found is 

 very important to IIP. IIP tabulated the 

 number of reports received and the 

 start/end date of the 1999 ice season 

 (Table 2). IIP received information via the 

 following communications and operations 

 centers during the 1999 ice year: 

 Canadian Coast Guard Ice Operations St. 

 John's; Canadian Coast Guard Marine 

 Communications and Traffic Services 

 HalifaxA/CS; Canadian Coast Guard 

 Marine Communications and Traffic 

 Services St. John'sA/ON; Canadian Ice 

 Centre Ottawa; U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic 

 Area Command Center; and U.S. Coast 

 Guard Automated Mutual-assistance 

 VEssel Rescue (AMVER) System/ 

 Operations Systems Center, Martinsburg, 

 WV. Commander, International Ice Patrol 

 extends a sincere thank you to all stations 

 and ships which contributed reports during 

 the 1999 ice year. 



Because IIP never offered regular 

 service in 1999, no bulletins or charts were 

 distributed. IIP sent six season status 

 reports advising mariners of the MP's ice 

 observations near the Grand Banks of 

 Newfoundland. 



As part of its season status report 

 broadcasts, International Ice Patrol 



