Human Resources Theme of World Hydrography Day

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On 21st June every year the International Hydrographic Organization IHO, Monaco)and its Member States’ Hydrographic Offices (HOs) celebrate World Hydrography Day. World Hydrography Day is an opportunity to increase overall public awareness of the vital role that hydrography plays in everyone’s lives.

This year’s World Hydrography Day, which is also the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the IHO, focuses on the importance of people in hydrography.

For World Hydrography Day 2011, with its theme: Human Resources – The important element to the success of hydrography the IHO seeks to increase public awareness of the indispensable service that the world’s hydrographers render to safety at sea, protection of the marine environment and all other seaborne activity, publicise the role of hydrographers and thereby attract additional personnel to follow the profession, emphasise the role played by the IHO in ensuring appropriate hydrographic standards are achieved, and congratulate all hydrographers on the outstanding work that they do in support of safe and efficient operations and activities at sea.

However mankind has thoroughly mapped the surfaces of the Moon and Mars with a height measurement taken every few metres, there are many parts of the World’s oceans and coastlines, where there are no surveys at all or the depth is known maybe only every few kilometres.

Dangerous rocks, shoals and other obstructions still remain undetected – until that first ship goes there…. There is therefore much work left to be done by the world’s limited number of hydrographers – both to collect the missing data and also to alert all those that use the sea where there is no reliable data at present.

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