There’s exciting news in the boating world because the U.S. Coast Guard has finally approved the use of official electronic nautical charts on board vessels. As regulations for boaters appear to keep ...

Crewmembers from Station Honolulu and members of NOAA Fisheries' telemetry team train for whale disentanglement training off Oahu on Feb. 16, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class ...

This undated photo made available by NOAA shows a computer displaying an electronic nautical chart aboard a ship. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with ...

San Jacinto College and the Seamen’s Church Institute will host e-Navigation Underway (North America) 2016, the third in the annual North American series of conferences focusing upon the development ...

It was at one of those stand-around functions where people make small talk to keep from falling asleep, when a woman mentioned that her family had just bought a big boat and were having a heck of a ...

The 2014 Miami International Boat Show drew several innovations and good news from the navigation electronics industry. New charting capabilities will make charts more accurate, more fishable and ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government is going into uncharted waters, deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it has been printing for mariners for more than 150 years. The National Oceanic and ...

BEIJING -- Maritime authorities from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao jointly issued the latest-version of electronic charts for one-year's free use for jet boats shuttling between the three sides. The ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with surveying the nation's navigable waters to help keep mariners off the rocks and out of the shallows, will cease ...