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All Cruise Ships: Vessels may enter 94° 59.12' W (LLNR-23525), and within 500 yards of a cruise ship but Ship Light 91, 29° not closer than 100 yards provided COAST GUARD WARNING ! 41.00' N, 94° 59.00' W (LLNR- 23375) they operate at the minimum speed The following areas are off- (NAD 1983) necessary to maintain a safe course. No person or vessel may enter within limits: City: The 100 yards of a cruise ship unless Channel, Turning Basin and Industrial specifically authorized by the Captain Houston: The containing all waters bounded of the Port. Security Zones for and all associated turning basins, by the area south and west of a line bounded by a line drawn between the drawn between Texas City Channel Houston, Galveston, Houston Ship Channel Light 132 Light 19 (LLNR-24810) through Cut B (LLNR-24445) and Houston Ship Inner Range Front Light (LLNR24765) and Texas City. Channel Light 1133 (LLNR-24450) and terminating on land in position (Just west of the USS Battleship 29° 23.16’ N, 095° 53.15’ W (NAD 1983) TEXAS) west to the T & N Railroad Swing Bridge at the entrance to , including all waters The Captain of the – adjacent to the ship channel from Galveston has established Security shoreline to shoreline and the first 200 yards of connecting waterways. Zones for certain locations within the

Houston-Galveston area. For information on how to obtain authorization Bayport: The Port of Bayport to transit a Security Zone contact Sector Ship Channel and Turning Basin Houston-Galveston Waterways Management Recreational vessels and other containing all waters south of 29° 36. at 281-464-4891. unauthorized vessels/persons 45’ between the Bayport Ship are excluded from these areas Channel Light 9 (LLNR-23295) and the channel’s western-most point without the express permission of (NAD 1983). USCG Sector Houston-Galveston the Captain of the Port. 13411 Hillard St.

Morgans Point: The Barbours Houston, TX 77034 Violators may be subject to Cut Ship Channel and Turning Basin Command Center Emergency No: civil penalties, fines, and/or containing all waters west of a line 281-464-4851 imprisonment. See below for a further drawn between Junction Light Sector Houston-Galveston Homeport: explanation of these areas. “Barbours Cut” 29° 41.12' N, https://homeport.uscg.mil/port-

directory/houston-galveston .