A Quality Compendium of Maritime Information

The UKHO has released the 8th Edition of it’s Mariner’s Handbook. This authoritative reference book has been comprehensively updated throughout. Special features of this edition include:

• revised information on the assessment and promulgation of safety-critical information for Notices to Mariners and Navigation Warnings
  
• how to interpret source data
  
• the charting of wrecks
  
• information on minefields
  
• photography on sea-states, ice and ODAS and ATLAS buoys
  
• Marine Pollution reports (MARPOL)
  
• Enhanced charts and diagrams.

In addition, there are new sections on aquaculture and fish haves and new information on long-period swell waves, as well as the revised Hydrographic Note form (H102).