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  • 05.06.12

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  • 01.06.12

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  • 05.03.12

    This summer Londen hosts the Olympics from 27th July until the 12th August and the Paralympics from 29th August until 12th September.
    Are you planning to travel to Londen in your own pleasure craft?

  • 29.11.11
    Chart Lodewijkbank

    On November 18th 2011 the reproduction of the "Fisheries chart for Blankenberghe" was officially inaugurated at Blankenberge town hall.

    The original, a rare maritime chart of Flemish sandbanks, can be found in Sint-Pieters college in Blankenberge. The chart, painted on canvas, dates back to 1890 and was used to train fishers-to-be in the Free School for Fishermen. Teacher Joseph Ponjaert designed it based on English sea charts and on the knowledge of local fishermen. The chart boasts around 90 sand banks and fairways, some of them carrying strange names indeed (Blister Fairway, Evil Ground, ...). The majority of these names cannot be found on older or more recent charts.

  • 07.10.11
    Operatie Opera 2011

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  • 19.08.11
    Masterplan Coastal Safety

    Masterplan Coastal Safety about to start in Koksijde and Wenduine Soon the first works within the scope of the masterplan Coastal Safety will commence in both Koksijde and Wenduine. Together with the municipalities, the Coastal Division organizes informative meetings for the public. There you can get all information and answers to you queries about the masterplan coastal safety.

  • 20.07.11
    Sand Extraction

    The Continental Shelf Service of the FPS for the Economy holds its triennial seminar on the 17th of October 2011. The Continental Shelf Service is responsible for ensuring a sustainable exploitation of mineral resources of the Belgian Continental Shelf.

  • 28.06.11

    Database containing all local place names along the Belgian coast.
    Lifeguards get faster to 'Het Keun'(the rabbit) or 'Blote Betsy'(naked betsy).

    Author: Tom Le Bacq

    BLANKENBERGE/KNOKKE-HEIST/BRUGGE/MIDDELKERKE/KOKSIJDE/DE PANNE/BREDENE/DE HAAN/OOSTENDE - The province has developed a new database  with the different names of approximately a thousand places along our coast. 'If people call us to say that someone is in distress at'Het Keun' in Knokke, we can find out much quicker where we are expected to go', says operator Philippe D'Haene.

    'Child missing in the neighbourhood of Blote Betsy' or 'swimmer in distress off De Pisser': when people contact the rescue services they often use these local place names. To prevent that the rescue services lose time with deciphering these mysterious messages, the province has developed a new database. The database contains 931 places along the Belgian coast, and all possible names that are used to indicate them.

  • 01.06.11
    Flemish Ports Day 2011

    On the second Flemish Ports Day on Saturday 25 June 2011 the ports of Ostend, Zeebrugge, Ghent and Antwerp open their doors. A unique opportunity to discover the hustle and bustle in the Flemish ports.

  • 18.11.10

    For the second time this year, the Coast Guard operation Opera took place from 18 till 29 October in the cold waters of the Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone in the North Sea. This operation was organized in the framework of a cooperation agreement among various Coast Guard partners.