Frequently Asked Questions
What is all that stuff drawn on the background maps?
- Oil and gas pipelines
- Oil and gas fields
- Ports
- Lighthouses and coastguard stations
- Rigs and platforms
- Buoys
- Undersea features such as ridges, banks or deeps
- Sea areas (Tyne, Dogger, etc)
- Traffic seperation schemes
- Outline of coastline in case the satellite image is obscured by clouds