You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Many recreational boaters are not aware that traditional Marine Navigation ...

Most mariners now use Print-on-Demand nautical charts that are up-to-date to the moment of printing. (Credit: NOAA) Electronic charts, layered with multi-faceted information, are increasingly popular ...

Road atlases are still published, but you wouldn’t know it if you have a smartphone and Google Maps. Most pilots who got their license a decade ago started on paper maps, but the iPad rules the ...

Centuries-old nautical charts, mapped by long-deceased sailors to avoid shipwrecks, have been used by modern scientists to study loss of coral reefs. A new study compared early British charts to ...

Sailors will now have to use digital versions in a move described as ‘quite sad’ and might disadvantage older people Henry Bodkin is The Telegraph’s Jerusalem Correspondent, based in Israel. He has ...

18th Century Nautical Charts Document Historic Loss of Coral Reefs: Researchers studying 18th century British nautical charts tracked the loss of coral reef habitat in the Florida Keys over the last ...

A legal dispute over electronic marine charts may prevent up to 100,000 Canadian boaters from accessing accurate navigational tools. In a few weeks, thousands of boat owners across Canada will be ...

China accused the Philippines on Friday of having "provoked trouble" in the South China Sea with U.S. backing, a week after Beijing and Manila traded accusations over a new confrontation in the ...