The third Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference (EIHC), held at the Auditorium Rainier III in Monaco from 11-15 April, was opened by the Prime Minister of Monaco, M. Patrick LeClerc. Professor...

The Maritime Safety Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CHINA MSA) exercises the administration of shipping safety, prevention of pollution from ships, inspection and survey of ships and offshore...

The Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR) organised a workshop on Inland ECDIS in Strasbourg (France) on 14 May 2002. The workshop was about the present status of...

News West Australia Region The West Australia Region signalled it is back in the action again after years on the sideline when it held a well attended meeting at the...

News The old Surveyor It is summer, it is hot and the beach is full of them... but where are you? Sorry, I could not see you behind the computer...

Some people in the hydrographic community show up in every part of the world and it looks like they never age and stop working. Nevertheless they sooner or later reach...

The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), the archetype of Ocean Mapping at a world-ocean scale, celebrated its centenary last year with the release of an updated and greatly...

The Hydrographic Institute of Portugal (HIP) has been executing hydrographic surveys at the port of Sines since 1973 as part of successive contracts signed with the Port of Sines Authority....

There is a global shortage of hydrographic surveyors. The industry is faced with an interesting challenge and looks to specialised education facilities and personnel suppliers to assist in solving this...

Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev, scientist, geographer and hydrographer, explored and surveyed parts of the North Pacific Ocean and the Baltic Sea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a Vice-Admiral he...