Coast Guard Inaugurates Aerial Ice Survey. Baffin Bay area - chart showing the principal iceberg glaciers which discharged into Baffin Bay. Each year, as the last phase of the International Service of Ice Observation, the Coast Guard conducts a Post-Season Survey or "iceberg census" to study ice conditions in the North Atlantic from which predictions are made as to the number of icebergs that may invade shipping lanes during each of the next three years. This year marked the first Coast Guard aerial "iceberg census" when a photographer traveling in a Coast Guard converted B-17, took
Coast Guard Inaugurates Aerial Ice Survey. Baffin Bay area - chart showing the principal iceberg glaciers which discharged into Baffin Bay. Each year, as the last phase of the International Service of Ice Observation, the Coast Guard conducts a Post-Season Survey or "iceberg census" to study ice conditions in the North Atlantic from which predictions are made as to the number of icebergs that may invade shipping lanes during each of the next three years. This year marked the first Coast Guard aerial "iceberg census" when a photographer traveling in a Coast Guard converted B-17, took a photographic count of thousands of icebergs in the Baffin Bay area - source of the icebergs. This aerial survey will provide information from which observation officers may arrive at more accurate predictions which in turn will contribute to greater protection of shipping in the North Atlantic and Safety-at-Sea. The International Ice Patrol, originally conducted by surface craft alone, has been augmented by radar by loran, and by aircraft - each addition tightening the patrol's dragnet around the iceberg menace. It is not beyond the realm of possibility, however for an uncharted berg to slip through and find its way into the steamer lanes. Therefore, vigilant though the patrol may be, the hope of increasing its effectiveness is paramount among Coast Guard "ice officers". In its post season aerial survey, the Coast Guard takes another step towards its goal - Safety-at-Sea.
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