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The Cooperative Charting program is one of the finest examples of volunteers helping our federal government. Started in 1963, the Cooperative Charting program is the United States Power Squadrons’ effort to assist the National Ocean Service (NOS), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. The Power Squadrons aids the NOS through its efforts to improve the accuracy of nautical charts, coast pilots, tidal current predictions, aeronautical charts, the National Geodetic Reference System, and other crucial missions of NOS. Through the ability generated by the outstanding educational courses offered by The Squadrons, USPS members are uniquely qualified to provide technical services in the effort to keep America’s charts the most accurate in the world. The Beaverton Sail & Power Squadron has adopted the Port of Portland chart (#18526) as its chart as part of an Adopt-a-Chart Program. Over the past seven years, Beaverton Sail & Power Squadron members have turned in hundreds of reports updating this chart. It is a critical service that would otherwise go undone. Many of the chart corrections made by Beaverton members have saved lives and uncounted thousands of dollars of damage that would have resulted through undetected errors in the chart. The United States Power Squadrons and the Beaverton Sail & Power Squadron are proud of the service they provide to America’s mariners through their countless hours of observations and reports keeping our waterways accurately charted! Click on the image at left to see a larger (166K) image of the chart. |