IRI Marine Safety Advisory
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has issued Marine Safety Advisory regarding restrictions to fishing and navigation in the security areas for oil platforms and other offshore units as follows:
Please be advised that the Directorate of Ports and Coasts in Brazil has issued Ordinance number4/DPC modifying the publication NORMAM-08/DPC (Brazilian Maritime Authority Norms forNavigation and Permanence of Vessels in Brazilian Jurisdictional Waters) which can be found inthe Portuguese version only at the following address: https://www.dpc.mar.mil.br/normam/N_08/normam08.pdf.
Below is an English translation of an extract from the publication dealing withthe procedures regarding security areas around oil platform and other offshore units.
No vessel can fish, sail or approach within five hundred meters of oil platforms, including theirsupport vessels (platform/FPSO/FSU, relief and tug), as that distance of five hundred meters isconsidered a safety area. An exception is made for vessels that are providing maritime supportfor the platforms, which can navigate and operate within five hundred meters of them, but muststill refrain from fishing.
Other vessels entering into the safety areas of oil rigs and otheroffshore units (FPSO, FSO, FSU or vessels operating in conjunction with these units) may benotified by the Maritime Authority Agents, under the following conditions:
a) when the vessel isobserved by teams of Naval Inspection and/or
b) when a complaint has been lodged by theplatform or offshore unit regarding the proximity of the offending vessel.
For item b) above, the person responsible for the platform or offshore unit shall send an email tothe Command of the Naval Control of Maritime Traffic ([email protected]), attachingthe Denouncement of Invasion inside Security Area of Oil Platform and Offshore Unit form,according to Annex 3-F of NORMAM-08/DPC, and attaching photographs of the offendingvessel, to facilitate the identification of the same, in order to begin the administrative process ofthe Maritime Authority for notifying such a vessel.
Complaints of this type can also be receivedat any time, by the Ports Captaincies and its Agencies of the jurisdiction where the platform oroffshore unit operates.