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Marine Communications & Traffic Services

RAMN 2005


TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1 – FOREWORD

PART 2 – FACILITIES INFORMATION – Pacific, Western Arctic and Athabasca & Mackenzie Basin

MCTS Centres

PART 3 – VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICES (VTS)

Responsibilities; Traffic Clearance; Communications; CVTS; 96/24 Hour Notification Prior to Entering Canadian / U.S. Waters; Tanker Exclusion Zone; Chart; Zone Descriptions; Zone Application; Reporting Requirements

VTS Zones Schedules - Sectors & Boundaries; Identification & Frequencies; CIPs; Charts

PART 4 - GENERAL

PROCEDURES

General, Examples of procedures, How are you using your marine radio? Phonetic Alphabet, Times, Time signals

Alarm Signal, Distress Signal/Call/Message/Traffic/Procedure

Urgency signal/call

Safety signal/call/message

Distress, Urgency, Safety Communications – Use of 5803 kHz

Positions, Reporting abnormal operation of radio aids, Radio beacons:

continuously operating and ship calibrating, Radar beacons (RACONS)

SERVICES

General, Radiomedical calls, Placing & Receiving a marine telephone call

Direction Finding bearings

Joint Rescue Coordination Centres (JRCC) telephone numbers, Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary

Message charges, Messages: weather, pollution, medical advice, quarantine, pilotage, official naval

Ship radio inspection contacts

SYSTEMS

PART 5 – ENVIRONMENT CANADA MARINE AND ICE WARNING AND FORECAST PROGRAMS

Marine weather forecast program, Marine weather warnings, Weather bulletins, MAREP, Buoy Positions, Victoria Weatheradio Canada

NAVTEX and Marine forecasts, Marine weather observations

Marine weather forecast program, Marine weather warnings, Weather and ice messages, Facsimile, Buoys, Weatheradio Canada

NAVTEX and Marine forecasts, Marine weather observations

Marine ice forecast program, Marine ice warnings, Ice warning criteria, Ice reports, Ice observations, Ice charts available, Ice beacons, Weatheradio Canada

Ice bulletins, Ice charts, Atlantic Fleet Broadcasts, Facsimile broadcast

PART 6 – LORAN-C NAVIGATION SYSTEM

Loran-C chain coverage; chain details; receiver latitude/longitude corrections; cautionary note, waypoint navigation; status information; NOTSHIPs


Updated: 28/07/2005

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