Merchant ships calling to transmit ice sightings, weather and 

 sea surface temperatures were requested to use the regularly assigned 

 international call signs of the Coast Guard Ocean Stations, East 

 Coast AMVER Radio Stations, or Canadian Coastal Radio Station, 

 St. John's. Coast Guard Stations were alert to answer NIK/NIDK calls, 

 if used. 



Ice information services for the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as 

 the approaches and coastal waters of Newfoundland and Labrador, were 

 provided by the Canadian Department of the Environment from December 

 until June. Ships obtained ice information by contacting the Ice 

 Operations Officer, Sydney, Nova Scotia via Sydney Marine Radio /VCO 

 or Halifax Marine Radio/VCS. 



Communications statistics for the period 1 September 1971 

 through 4 September 1972 are shown in TABLE 2. 



TABLE 2.- COMMUNICATIONS STATISTICS 



Number of ice reports received from ships 1151 



Number of ships furnishing ice reports 402 



Number of ice reports received from aircraft 30 



Number of sea surface temperature reports 432 



Number of ships furnishing sea surface temperature reports .... 99 



Number of ships requesting special information 16 



Number of NIK Ice Bulletins issued 378 



Number of NIK FAX Broadcasts 188 



Of all the ships furnishing Ice Patrol with special sea surface 

 temperature observations there were ten outstanding contributers : 



M/V Atlantic Span/SLPN 



M/V Ampere/FNVL 



USCGC Spencer/NRDS 



M/V Banija/YTEK 



M/V Francois/FNLH 



R/V Chain 



M/V Baltic Wasa/SMHR 



M/V Commandant Bourdais/FBTF 



M/V Atlanta/DIMR 



M/V Michelangelo/ ICVI 



