Seabed Mapping: A Navigational Breakthrough?

Text on screen [Nautical charts]

Louis Maltais:
Vessels need constant feed of information.

Text on screen [Protect lives]

Lynn Patterson:
Everybody is going digital.

Text on screen [and the marine environment]

Louis Maltais:
S-100 services will make navigation safer.

Jean-François Belzile:
Optimizing the trade routes in Canada.

Male voice:
The S-102 service is mapping of the ocean floor, high resolution bathymetry.

Louis Maltais:
The benefit of bathymetric and hydrographic layers, it's detailed knowledge of what's down there. Ships, they navigate everywhere. We need to support navigators with data that is coherent.

Lynn Patterson:
Everybody uses charts. Everybody has their map on their phone. Even the little fisherman has got some form of digital chart.

Louis Maltias:
The most privileged pilot that are already working with S-102 service, they don't want to go back.

Lynn Patterson:
With a traditional Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC), you can see some contours. The darker blue is less safe than the lighter blue, white is very, very safe. Now when you turn on the bathymetric data you have more details. Blue is deep, green is starting to get shallower and red you're getting into the danger zone.

Louis Maltais:
The pilot community, they're really striving for the best information. Super precise information, because they are in charge of the most critical key areas in Canada.

Lynn Patterson:
Halifax Harbor, if a ship where to run aground. Depending on the severity, you're going to end up shutting down the port. You're going to have ecological problems. It would be disastrous for any major size ship to run aground in this area. By making use of S-102, will provide greater safety. You're going to reduce a chance of a grounding, greater efficiency for the Mariner traveling and saving even on emissions.

Louis Maltais:
And the efficiency of the turnaround time, of course the carbon footprint will be a lot less. In terms of the science around it. There's basic parameters that highly influences the living species in the water column. So bathymetry is essential.

Jean-François Belzile:
Getting high definition of the actual bathymetry of the bottom, that would add safety.

Louis Maltais:
S-100 will make navigation safer in Canada and will boost efficiency.