NAVIGATION AIDS
TRINITY HOUSE – SERVING THE MARINER AND THE RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR
The lighthouses, lightships and buoys together with modern day electronic, radar and satellite based aids to navigation, provided around the English and Welsh coasts for general navigation, are established and maintained by Trinity House
A HISTORY AND TRADITION BUT FORWARD LOOKING The organisation can trace its origins back nearly 500 years to 1514.
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES These include eLoran, DGPS and AIS with eLoran in particular as it is viewed as potentially an important terrestrial based back-up to GPS. This is particularly important given the increasing dependence on GPS. Adapting and using lighting developments such as LEDs and synchronised lights is also providing enhancements for the mariner with clearer lights available at longer ranges but using less power.
always trained to the necessary levels to appreciate what they are dealing with. In addition it is important to not create an over-reliance on the technology at the expense of critical base navigation skills.
RENEWABLES OFFSHORE SECTOR Trinity House is also bringing its expertise to the renewables sector. Their services, working with our colleagues in Scotland and Ireland, provide a comprehensive, economic solution to a range of activities in this sector all around the coasts of the UK and Ireland.
These include the most obvious service of providing buoys to mark wind farms and other offshore developments during both the construction and completion phases, but it also includes hydrographic surveying using the up to date multi-beam equipment.
Also a number of ships in the lighthouse services’ fleet are capable of laying protective mattresses and offering other lifting services. They are working with a number of renewable based organisations in the southern North Sea and the Irish Sea.
However, Trinity House, whilst proud of its history and traditions, is primarily forward looking to ensure that the services it provides meet the requirements of today’s users of the seas to make ‘safe and expeditious passage’ through some of the most crowded and difficult seaways in the world. This means dealing with wrecks and other obstructions as well as marking the channels.
WORKING TOGETHER To do this Trinity House work with their sister authorities the Northern Lighthouse Board for Scotland and the Commissioners of Irish Lights for Ireland in testing and developing a range of technological developments in the aids to navigation field.
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The increasing availability of electronic aids to navigation coupled with advances and improvements to onboard technology in ships does not mean that the demise of the more traditional lighthouse is imminent.
ONGOING CRITICAL ROLE FOR VISUAL AIDS It is clear that there is an ongoing, critical role for visual aids to navigation such as lights and buoys for some time to come. Trinity House will review and make the necessary adjustments to the complement of aids to navigation to meet the changing needs of the mariner.
Not everyone at sea is equipped with the most up-to-date bridge technology and even some of those who are, are not
STATUTORY SERVICES AND FUNDING Our statutory services are funded from Light Dues which are paid by commercial shipping entering UK and Irish ports. Income generated from commercial activities offsets the income required from Light Dues so the benefits are wide ranging in that as well as providing a quality proven aids to navigation service cost efficiencies are maximised.
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