reports potentially contained single or multiple 

 iceberg sightings, stationary radar targets, and 

 sea-ice. From these reports, 125 individual 

 targets were merged into the Ice Patrol's 

 modeling system (BAPS). Figure 4 highlights 

 the reporting source of sightings merged into 

 BAPS. 



Information Reports 



Voluntary reports were requested from 

 all ships transiting the Grand Banks region. As 

 in previous years, ships were asked to report ice 

 sightings, weather, and sea surface 

 temperatures via Canadian Coast Guard Radio 

 Station St. John's, U.S. Coast Guard 

 CAMSLANT or Inmarsat using code 42. Ships 

 were encouraged to make ice reports even if 

 "no ice" was sighted, as knowledge of the lack 

 of ice is also fundamental to accurate product 

 generation for the mariner. The continued 

 success and viability of IIP depends heavily 

 upon all contributors of ice reports. 



Merchant shipping provided the vast 

 majority of reports received by IIP. In 2006, 79 

 ships from 25 countries provided IIP with 675 

 reports (87% of the total reports received) 

 demonstrating that the number of nations that 

 used IIP services exceeded the 17 member 

 nations supporting IIP under SOLAS. 

 Furthermore, the international merchant fleet's 

 high level of participation indicated the value 

 placed on IIP products and services. 



Ice Patrol relies heavily on the support 

 of merchant traffic transiting through the 

 operational area, both for reports of icebergs, 

 and sea surface temperatures (SST) to aid in 

 iceberg melt and deterioration predictions. In 

 2005, IIP initiated a program to recognize the 

 ship or station that made the most contributions 

 through SST or iceberg reports. Named after 

 Carpathia, which came to the aid of the victims 

 of Titanic, the Carpathia Award is presented 

 annually to the ship that makes the most 

 information reports. In 2006, the M/V Mattea, 

 home ported in Arnold's Cove Station, 

 Newfoundland was the recipient, with 131 

 reports of SST and ice. Ice Patrol salutes 



Mattea for providing the most ship reports two 

 years in a row. Appendix B lists all of the ships 

 that provided information reports, including 

 weather, sea surface temperature, ice, and 

 stationary radar target reports. 



While the vast majority of information 

 reports were received from merchant shipping, 

 IIP received valuable information from other 

 sources as well. For example, the Canadian 

 Government, which includes reports from the 

 CIS reconnaissance airplane, contract 

 reconnaissance flights by Provincial Airlines, 

 HMCS vessels at sea, and even coastal 

 lighthouses, provided 62 reports (8% of the 

 total reports received). Figure 2 provides a 

 thorough breakdown of the sources for all 

 information reports handled during 2006. 



Figure 2. Reporting sources of the 775 

 information reports received at Ice Patrol during 

 2006. Information reports including ice, sea 

 surface temperature, and weather reports. 



Ice Reports 



In 2006, 123 of the 775 information 

 reports (16% of all reports) contained data on 

 icebergs. Differing from information reports, 

 the Canadian Government provided 51% of the 

 iceberg reports, followed by the merchant 

 vessel fleet with 28% and the IIP 

 reconnaissance detachment with 14%. The 

 remaining 7% of ice reports were received from 

 other sources. Figure 3 displays a breakdown 

 of these iceberg reporting sources. 



