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ELECTRONIC COAST PILOT v.1.0 FILES ARE PROVISIONAL COPIES OF CURRENT COAST PILOT® BOOKS. v.1.0 FILES ARE NOT CERTIFIED AS CORRECT AND ARE INTENDED FOR TESTING AND EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY.

The Electronic Coast Pilot® (ECP), version1.0, consists of Coast Pilot files formatted using Adobe’s Portable Document Format (.PDF) that may be viewed online with an Adobe Acrobat® Reader®, or in a zipped version that can be downloaded from this website and used offline.

The ECP v.1.0 files are to be considered provisional and are provided temporarily for the purposes of: software development, user familiarization, evaluation of production processes, and to solicit feedback for future enhancements to the ECP.

ECP v.1.0 files contain information from the current edition of the Coast Pilot books. They have not been updated by subsequent corrections published in the NIMA Weekly Notice to Mariners, the Coast Guard district’s Local Notice to Mariners, or NOAA’s website. These files do not meet 33 CFR 164 carriage requirements.

These provisional ECPs are provided with the understanding that they are not guaranteed to be correct or complete. Neither the U.S. Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information contained in these provisional ECPs for any particular purpose. Users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of these data and information before using them for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Conclusions drawn from, or actions undertaken on the basis of, such data and information are the sole responsibility of the user.

These provisional ECPs are not to be used as a replacement for the appropriate Coast Pilot_TM book(s) that have been updated for corrections appearing in Notices to Mariners. Mariners must at all times use prudence and navigational judgment and follow standard navigational operating procedures.

Copying, reproduction of the provisional ECPs to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is discouraged unless the following guidelines are followed: 1) this disclaimer is displayed to anyone who accesses the provisional ECPs, and 2) a reference to this Web site is included so that anyone accessing the provisional ECPs is advised of where they originated. Persons copying or reproducing the provisional ECPs do so at their own risk and liability.

If these provisional ECPs are incorporated into any other product in a form other than as provided by NOAA, the producer of that product does so at his own risk and liability.