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PART 1 – FOREWORD

Advance Notices

Canadian Maritime Mobile Safety and Public Correspondence Communication Frequencies

General Information on MCTS Centre Listings (includes legend)

Telephone, Address and other Information

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

MCTS Centres

Comox

Inuvik

Prince Rupert

Tofino

Vancouver

Victoria

Bridge Operations – Pacific Coast

NOTSHIP Broadcast Areas – Pacific Coast (chart)

MCTS Network: Centres and Sites – Pacific Coast – Pacific region (chart)

MCTS Network: Centres and Sites – Western Arctic – Central & Arctic region (chart)

Radio Beacon Stations – continuously operating – Pacific Coast

Radar Beacon (RACONS) – Pacific Coast – B.C. (excluding Juan de Fuca)

Radar Beacon (RACONS) – Western Arctic – NWT and Nunavut

PART 3 – VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICES (VTS)

Pacific and Western Arctic (Responsibilities; Traffic Clearance; Communications; Tanker Exclusion Zone; Zone Descriptions; Zone Application; Reporting Requirements, Canada/USA Co-operative VTS agreement, Advance Reporting Requirements, NORDREG zone report)

Mackenzie River Marine Safety Advisory Procedures

Marine Information (Notices to Shipping and Information Updates)

Canada/USA Co-Operative VTS (CVTS) (chart)

Arctic Canada VTS NORDREG (chart)

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

Prince Rupert

Tofino

Vancouver

PART 4 - GENERAL

PROCEDURES

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

Distress communications (Early Notification of Search and Rescue Authorities of developing situations, Alarm Signal, Distress Signal/Call/Message/Traffic/Procedure)

Urgency communications (Urgency signal/call)

Safety communications (Safety signal/call/message)

Athabasca – Mackenzie Watershed Area (Distress, Urgency, Safety Communications – Use of 5803 kHz)

Aids to Navigation (Positions, Reporting abnormal operation of radio aids, Radio beacons, Radar beacons (RACONS))

SERVICES

Marine Telephone Service (General, Radiomedical calls, Placing & Receiving a marine telephone call)

Cellular Telephone (*16) Service – Marine Emergencies

Direction Finding (DF) Service (Direction Finding bearings)

Sailplan Service

Search and Rescue in Canadian areas of responsibility (Joint Rescue Coordination Centres (JRCC) telephone numbers, Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary)

Marine Communications and Traffic Services Message Service (Message charges, Messages: weather, pollution, medical advice, quarantine, pilotage, official naval)

Canadian Hydrographic Service

Worldwide Radio Navigational Warning System (NAVAREA) (chart)

Inspection of Radio Apparatus (Ship radio inspection contacts)

Radio Station Licensing and Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) Numbers

Application for Radio Inspection Compulsorily Fitted Ships

SYSTEMS

GMDSS – Global Maritime Distress and Safety System in Canada (charts) (What is and Why GMDSS?, Maritime Safety Information (MSI), GMDSS Sea Areas, Communications between GMDSS vessels and Non-GMDSS vessels, Safety Notice on VHF/DSC, CCG MCTS Centres, Navtex Services)

VHF-DSC System – Radio Coverage Prediction

Transport Canada’s requirements for GMDSS & Guidance on important operational alerting procedures

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (406 MHZ and INMARSAT “E” EPIRBs)

Distress Situations and Alerting of SAR Authorities

Amver Ship Reporting System

Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) (table & chart)

Pre-Arrival Information Report(PAIR)

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

Background

Buoys Program

MAREP

Port Meteorological Officers (PMOs)

NAVTEX (example of Navtex message, abbreviation used by MSC)

Suggestions/Comments

Pacific Coast (Marine weather forecast program, Production schedule, Marine weather warnings, Weather bulletins, MAREP, Buoy positions, Weatheradio Canada)

Marine Forecast Areas – Pacific waters (chart) (Marine Forecast, Marine Weather Observations)

Northern Canada (Marine weather forecast program, Production schedule, Marine weather warnings, Weather and ice messages, Radiofacsimile package available, Buoys, Weatheradio Canada)

Marine Forecast Areas – Northern Canada (chart)(Marine Forecast, Marine Weather Observations)

Canadian Ice Services (CIS) (Ice Bulletins, Production schedule, Ice warning criteria, Ice forecast program, Ice reports, Ice charts available, Ice beacons, Weatheradio Canada)

Ice Areas Canada (chart) (Ice charts, Atlantic Fleet Broadcasts, Facsimile broadcast)

PART 6 – LORAN-C NAVIGATION SYSTEM

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

Table 1 – Gulf of Alaska and

Table 2 – Canadian West Coast

Table 3 – U.S. West Coast and

Table 4 – North Central U.S.

Loran-C Coordinate Converters

Loran-C Charts