Balancing Old and New Roles Key to Hydrography

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Surveying a coastline of 102,000km and sea surface of 2.3 million km2 to make safe navigation possible in the treacherous fjords of Norway, together with new applications of hydrography for the blue economy, director of the Norwegian Hydrographic Service,  Dutchman and naval officer Evert Flier, stands for a challenge that requires balancing with a vision. Flier tells Hydro International,  amongst other, how he tries to navigate between old and new tasks of the Hydrographic Office.