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STRONG 
- also in recreational boating 
A high level of safety awareness in 
recreational boating is the best way 
to ensure that water sports can be 
enjoyed without taking any unneces 
sary risks. This requires proper 
voyage preparation, carriage of 
up-to-date nautical charts, and a 
thorough check-up of the boat and 
its technical equipment. To be on the 
safe side, recreational boaters should 
use the BSH's nautical publications, 
especially its 16 small-craft chart 
series and navigational equipment 
bearing the BSH certification label. 
The BSH’s special online chart 
correction service with downloadable 
block corrections, which allows chart 
updates to be made at any time, 
is particularly useful to small craft 
operators. By using this service, 
recreational boaters exercise circum 
spection and responsibility for their 
crew and themselves; to put it briefly: 
they practice good seamanship. 
2007 
12 New Editions of small-craft chart 
folios; issue of 3 summaries of 
corrections; 
Updates to harbour pilots and cruis 
ing guides issued in co-operation 
with Deutscher Seglerverband 
and Deutscher Motoryachtver- 
band (German sailing and motor 
yacht associations); 
Type approval of two small-craft 
versions of the automatic ship 
identification system AIS; 
Issue of 1,280 Flag Certificates; 
Issue of 290 small-craft tonnage 
certificates needed for registrati 
on at the local court; 
BSH current predictions for the 
North and Baltic Seas available 
atwww.bsh.de. 
BEACHTLICH 
Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten des BSH 
Fundierte wissenschaftliche Kennt 
nisse sowie kontinuierliche For 
schungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten 
bilden für das BSH die wesentlichen 
Grundlagen seiner täglichen Arbeit. 
Ohne sie wäre die qualitätsgerechte 
Aufgabenerfüllung und eine 
kontinuierliche Leistungsanpassung