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Canadian Hydrographic ServiceService hydrographique du Canada 1

National Canadian Marine Advisory Council

Canadian Hydrographic Service & Oceanographic Services

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Michel Goguen

Director, Canadian Hydrographic Service

April 21, 2015

Ottawa ON


CHS Update

CHS Mandate

• Enhance navigation safety and efficiency

• Maintain and enhance Canada’s official marine navigation products

and services

• Support sovereignty

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CHS Operational MandateCHS Portfolio

944 Paper Charts/ Cartes papier

1000 ENCs

701 BSB

29 Sailing Directions/ Instructions nautiques

7 VolumesTide Tables/

Tables des marées

Tidal Tidal CurrentCurrentAtlas Atlas / Atlas des / Atlas des courantscourants


Navigation safety and efficiency

• World-Class Tanker Safety System

Sovereignty

• Canada’s Extended Continental Shelf Project

Extended Mandate for 2015-16

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World-Class Tanker Safety System

1. Prevention

• CHS contributes to the charting component of a “modern and

charted navigation system”

2. Preparedness and Response

3. Liability and Compensation

For CHS

• Phase 1. Improve navigation products in the Kitimat region

• Phase 2. Address issues for 20 ports/ derive strategies for

delivering dynamic tides & currents/ explore technology and

strategies to improve efficiency

Navigation Safety and Efficiency


ENCs for 20 Ports and Waterways

• The highest risk 20 ports in Phase 2 were selected based on the following criteria:

-High tonnage

-Cargoes including Oil & Gas and Hazardous and Noxious Substances.

-Quality of bathymetry (WC standard for CHS is multi-beam bathymetry to 50m

depth)

-Quality of ENC coverage (WC standard for CHS is ENC equal to paper chart

coverage or better, considering client needs);

-Risk to shipping from navigational complexity (traffic congestion, silting, etc.)

-Risk of port prone to environmental conditions (tides, weather, ice, swells, etc.)

• Goal of ENC coverage is to meet Canada’s commitments with respect to provision of

ENCs under the Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS);


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Belledune, NS

Come By Chance, NL

Georgetown, PEI

Goose Bay, NL

Halifax, NS

Pictou, NS

Pugwash, NS

Sydney, NS

St. John’s, NL

Montreal, QC

Québec, QC

Sorel-Tracy, QC

Clarkson, ON

Hamilton, ON

Nanticoke, ON

Thunder Bay, ON

Goderich, ON

Windsor, ON

Vancouver, BC

Prince Rupert, BC

Original targets now being refined with full regional (local area) knowledge




Dynamic Tides and Currents

• Real-time and forecasted tides and currents

- to meet the real-time data requirements of next-generation

Electronic Navigational Charts

- Supoport E-Navigation concept

- development of standards for dynamic products is with the

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)

With release in 2017-18, these will become industry standard for commercial

shipping

• Involves installation of hydrographic instrumentation and service

delivery strategy at four pilot sites

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Proposed study sites for dynamic data services:

• Vancouver Harbour; Fraser River Port; Port of Saint John; Strait of Canso

• Goal is to operationalize 4 study sites, including implementation of the S-100

Standard for next generation ENC and dynamic data services, and;

• Extend lessons learned nationally.

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Canada’s Extended Continental Shelf Project

• Canada filed a submission for the extended continental shelf in the

Atlantic Ocean on December 6, 2013.

• Government opted to obtain additional data necessary to prepare an

Arctic submission.

• The first survey was completed in summer 2014 using the new

multibeam system on the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent

• Planning for the 2015 survey is well underway.

• No current plans for a Pacific submission.

Sovereignty

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• Creating partnerships with other government agencies (e.g. CCG,

NRCan,Transport Canada, DND) and outside organizations is a

priority in the delivery of the Canadian Hydrographic Service mandate.

• CHS continues to explore technologies and strategies to meet its need

for up to date and modern hydrographic information to enhance its

suite of products and services.

• CHS continues to engage with clients to understand their evolving

needs

Concluding Remarks


Thank you.

Questions?

For information please contact:

Michel Goguen

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National Canadian Marine Advisory Council

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