The  German  Hydrographic  Institute  within  the  year  1962

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coast  of  South  America  were  issued.  The  last  copies  of  the  new  track  charts
for  the  Brasilian  waters  could  be  published  until  the  end  of  the  year.  6  charts
were  added  to  the  former  number  of  coastal  and  special  charts  of  the  west  coast
of  South  America.  One  chart  was  issued  out  of  the  number  of  general  charts  planned ­
  for  the  western  part  of  the  Pacific.
An  aid  to  fishery  shall  be  given  by  the  so-called  "North-Sea-Fisherles-Charts"’,
  1  :  250  000.  Germany  will  produce  two  copies  of  the  total  amount  of
30  sheets.
The  publication  of  multicolour  charts  by  the  G.H.I.  was  met  with  keen  approval.
The  temporary  delay  in  the  correction  of  the  charts  by  hand  will  be  compensated
by  the  introduction  of  new  correctional  methods.
The  printing  shop  of  the  chart  establishment  could  continuously  be  modernized
and  enlarged  during  the  last  year.  An  obsolete  stone  print  press  was  replaced
by  a  modern  colour  offset  press,  two  Rewa  proof  print  presses  by  a  modern  offset
proof  print  press.
Out  of  the  48  books  of  the  Sailing  Direction  Establishment  the  Handbuch  des
Indischen  Ozeans  (pilot  of  the  Indian  Ocean)  and  the  pilots  Baltic  Sea  (I),
Norway  (II),  West  Coast  of  Ireland  and  Irish  Sea  were  re-edited.  Besides  this,
13  supplements  and  the  numbers  Winterbetonnung  der  deutschen  Küstengewâsse'r
(Buoyage  in  the  German  coastal  waters)  and  Bezeichnung  der  deutschen  Küstengewâsser
  (system  of  buoyage  in  the  German  coastal  waters)  were  published.  The  Sprechfunk
  für  Küstenschiffahrt  (R/T  service  for  coastal  vessels)  was  kept  up  to  date
by  monthly  supplements  amounting  to  1  500  copies.  For  the  list  of  lights  comprising ­
  all  oceans  440  blocks  and  4  750  individual  corrections  were  issued.  13
books  were  re-edited.  Every  fortnight  supplements  in  an  edition  of  2  700  copies
were  published  for  the  German  list  of  Radio  Signals  used  all  over  the  world.  The
German  Notices  to  Mariners  were  being  edited  once  a  week  in  an  edition  of  3  500
copies  and  the  single  enclosures  Verzeichnis  der  Zwangswege  (list  of  the  official
routes)  and  Karten  der  Verbotszonen  (charts  of  the'prohibited  areas)  ((Prevention
of  the  pollution  of  the.  sea  by  oil)).
The  tide  tables  and  calendars  were  published  in  the  usual  form  as  well  as  the
Nautisches  Jahrbuch  (nautical  yearbook),  the  Erdmagnetisch.es  Jahrbuch  (geomagnetic ­
  yearbook),  the  Feuerschiffsbeobachtungen  (observations  from  lightvessels)
and  the  Deutsche  Hydrographische  Zeitschrift  (German  Hydrographic  Journal),  etc.
Out  of  the  18  survey  tasks  to  be  carried  out  in  the  coastal  waters  of  the
North  and  Baltic  Seas,  14  projects  could  be  realised,  in  one  case  only  a  small