SUB-COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF
NAVIGATION
45th session
Agenda item 3
NAV 45/3/5
25 June 1999
Original: ENGLISH
ROUTEING OF SHIPS, SHIP REPORTING AND RELATED MATTERS (INCLUDING VOYAGE PLANNING)
Amendments to the Provision of Aids to Navigation in the English Channel and the Dover Strait Traffic Separation Scheme
Submitted by the United Kingdom
SUMMARY
Executive summary: This paper advises of the planned discontinuation of the ECI and EC3 Lighted Buoys and recommends the removal of their associated "Areas to be Avoided". The paper also sets out amendments to the characteristics of the SANDETTIE Light Vessel Station
Action to be taken: Paragraph 6
Related documents: NAV 43/INF.13
1 The EC1 and EC3 Lighted Buoy stations, in conjunction with the EC2 Lighted Buoy, lie between the Traffic Separation Schemes "Off Casquets" and the "In the Strait of Dover and adjacent waters". The SANDETTIE, Light Vessel lies in the Traffic Separation Scheme of the Dover Strait and in conjunction with the SANDETTIE SW Lighted Buoy, marks the SW extremity of the Sandettie Bank for vessels using this Traffic Separation Scheme.
2 The EC1 and EC3 Lighted Buoys were established in 1982 as part of a major re-organisation of the Routeing Meastues in the English Channel and Dover Strait. Responsibility for the SANDETTIE Light Vessel was assumed in the French authorities in 1989, consequent upon changes to the territorial waters boundaries in the vicinity.
Current details of the stations are as follows:
Name: EC1 Lighted Buoy
Position:
Latitude 50°05'.90N,
Longitude 01°48'.35W (OSGB36 Datum)
