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 approximately late 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 5 September 1972 

 through 31 August 1973 are shown in Table 2. 



Table 2 - COMMUNICATIONS STATISTICS 



Number of ice reports received from ships 842 



Number of ships furnishing ice reports 317 



Number of ice reports received from commercial aircraft . 37 



Number of sea surface temperature reports 381 



Number of ships furnishing sea surface temperature reports. 100 



Number of ships requesting special ice information ... 33 



Number of NIK Ice Bulletins issued 378 



Number of NIK facsimile broadcasts 188 



Of the one-hundred ships furnishing Ice Patrol with 

 special sea surface temperature observations, the ten most 

 outstanding contributers were: 



M/V Atlantic Span/SLPN 



M/V Scandic Wasa/SMIK 



M/V Transamerica/DHPT 



M/V Leonardo Da Vinci/ICLN 



M/V Ivo Vojnovic/YTEI 



USCGC SHERMAN/NMMJ 



M/V Ritva Dan/OZBM 



M/V Banija/YTEK 



M/V Hilla/GRHT 



M/V St. Margaret/GHJM 



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