Maritime Safety

LINZ Hydrographic Services is responsible for:

• charting New Zealand waters for the purpose of safety of life at sea
• providing international standard hydrographic services
• production of nautical charts
• provision of nautical publications.

Maritime Safety information displayed here is sourced from the NZ Nautical Almanac or the appropriate authoritative providers as indicated. For complete Maritime Safety information, please use the web links to go to the authoritative providers' web pages.

The user is reminded that the monitoring of broadcast warnings, particularly the International SafetyNET or NAVTEX Service (part of the International Maritime Organization's Global Maritime Distress and Safety System Broadcasts) can provide more timely access to important navigation safety information and should be routinely monitored.

Maritime contacts

• List of New Zealand Harbour Masters from NZ Nautical Almanac 2009/10 (pdf 53KB)
• List of New Zealand Port Operators from NZ Nautical Almanac 2009/10 (pdf 32KB)
• List of Maritime NZ Offices from NZ Nautical Almanac 2009/10 (pdf 32KB)

Meteorological information

• Tropical revolving storms (pdf 37KB)
• Beaufort scale (pdf 34KB)

Maritime radio information

• Maritime New Zealand - Maritime Radio Information
• Radio Distress calling (pdf 101KB)