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Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Charting Gibraltar waters

(Agencies & Gibraltar Chronicle) A specialist Royal Navy vessel has spent the past month updating the nautical chart for British waters in the Bay of Gibraltar. The crew on HMS Enterprise (photo), one of the navy’s two survey vessels, has worked to map the seabed and the coastline from Camp Bay to the runway. Key parts of the chart had been updated fairly regularly, others had not been surveyed since the 1950 and existing nautical charts do not reflect recent changes such as the Ocean Village mid-harbour reclamations.>