PUB. 132 SAILING DIRECTIONS (ENROUTE) ★ EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ★ Prepared and published by the NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY Bethesda, Maryland © COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT NO COPYRIGHT CLAIMED UNDER TITLE 17 U.S.C. 2003 TENTH EDITION For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: http://bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; DC area (202) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2250 Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-0001 How to Keep this Book Corrected 0.0 As initially published, this book contains material based 0.0 Between Editions, the Record of Corrections Published in upon information available in the National Imagery and Weekly Notice to Mariners, located below, affords an Mapping Agency through the date given in the preface. The alternative system for recording applicable Notice to Mariners publication of New Editions will be announced in Notice to numbers. The Summary of Corrections, Volume 5, contains a Mariners. Instructions for ordering the latest Edition will be cumulative list of corrections for Sailing Directions from the found in CATP2V01U, Ordering Procedures. date of publication. Reference to the Summary of Corrections should be made as required. 0.0 In the interval between Editions, information that may 0.0 Book owners will be placed on the Notice to Mariners amend material in this book is published in the weekly Notice mailing list on request to the DEFENSE LOGISTICS to Mariners. The Notice to Mariners number and year can also AGENCY, DSC-R, ATTN: Product Center 9, 8000 Jefferson be marked on the applicable page of the Sailing Directions. Davis Highway, Richmond VA 23297-5337. 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II Pub. 132 Preface 0.0 Pub. 132, Sailing Directions (Enroute) Eastern Chart Information graphic for the Sector, where the largest Mediterranean, Tenth Edition, 2003, is issued for use in scale chart showing the feature is depicted. conjunction with Pub. 140, Sailing Directions (Planning 0.0 Geographic Names are generally those used by the nation Guide) North Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the having sovereignty. Names in parentheses following another Mediterranean Sea. The companion volume is Pub. 131. name are alternate names that may appear on some charts. In 0.0 This publication has been corrected to 6 September 2003, general, alternate names are quoted only in the principal including Notice to Mariners No. 36 of 2003. description of the place. Diacritical marks, such as accents, cedillas, and circumflexes, which are related to specific letters Explanatory Remarks in certain foreign languages, are not used in the interest of typographical simplicity. 0.0 Sailing Directions are published by the National Imagery 0.0 Geographic names or their spellings do not necessarily and Mapping Agency (NIMA), under the authority of reflect recognition of the political status of an area by the Department of Defense Directive 5105.40, dated 12 December United States Government. 1988, and pursuant to the authority contained in U. S. Code 0.0 Soundings are referred to the datum of the charts and are Title 10, Sections 2791 and 2792 and Title 44, Section 1336. expressed in meters. Sailing Directions, covering the harbors, coasts, and waters of 0.0 Heights are referred to the plane of reference used for that the world, provide information that cannot be shown purpose on the charts and are expressed in meters. graphically on nautical charts and is not readily available 0.0 Bearings are true, and are expressed in degrees from 000˚ elsewhere. New Editions of Sailing Directions are corrected (north) to 360˚, measured clockwise. General bearings are through the date of the publications shown in the preface. In expressed by initial letters of points of the compass (e.g. N, the period between Editions, important information, which NNE, NE, etc.). Adjective and adverb endings have been may amend material in the publication, is published in the discarded. Wherever precise bearings are intended degrees are weekly Notice to Mariners. used. 0.0 Sailing Directions (Enroute) include detailed coastal and 0.0 Courses are true, and are expressed in the same manner as port approach information which supplements the latest bearings. The directives "steer'' and "make good'' a course revised print of the largest scale chart for sale by the National mean, without exception, to proceed from a point of origin Imagery and Mapping Agency. This publication is divided into along a track having the identical meridianal angle as the geographic areas called "Sectors.'' Sector limits are shown on a designated course. Vessels following the directives must allow chartlet following the Table of Contents. The standard format for every influence tending to cause deviation from such track, of the Sector is described below. and navigate so that the designated course is continuously 0.0 Chart Information.—A graphic key to the largest scale being made good. charts is included for each Sector. The key has a border scale 0.0 Distances are expressed in nautical miles of 1 minute of graduated to help identify by approximate coordinates, the best latitude. Distances of less than 1 mile are expressed in meters, scale chart for a place. Refer also to the Index—Gazetteer at or tenths of miles. the back of the book. 0.0 Wind Directions are the true directions from which winds 0.0 Coastal Winds, Currents, and Ice.—Special graphics that blow. depicted coastal winds, weather, tides, currents and ice for the 0.0 Current Directions are the true directions toward which Sectors have been removed. General weather information can currents set. now be found within the text. 0.0 Light and Fog Signals are not described, and light sectors 0.0 Dangers.—As a rule outer dangers are fully described, but are not usually defined. The Light Lists should be consulted for inner dangers which are well-charted are, for the most part, complete information. omitted. Numerous offshore dangers, grouped together, are 0.0 Radio Navigational Aids are not described in detail. mentioned only in general terms. Dangers adjacent to a coastal Publication No. 117 Radio Navigational Aids should be passage or fairway are described. consulted. 0.0 Coastal Features.—It is assumed that the majority of ships 0.0 Special Warnings.—A Special Warning may be in force for have radar. Available coastal descriptions and views, useful for the geographic area covered by this publication. Special radar and visual piloting are included in geographic sequence Warnings are printed