Deals with guidelines for the voyages into Polar Regions and include, among other aspects, the following:
- Suitability of charts,
- Methods and equipments for position fixing as well as for direction determination
- Problems related to ice presence in polar regions,
- Past voyage histories / experiences to be considered as guidelines
- Area may not be well surveyed, refer to coast pilots, sailing directions
- Recommends polar voyages only during summer season for that pole
- For arctic regions, there are special ice plotting sheets and charts
- Mfrage effect very prominent
- Unknown tides / currents (due scanty surveys) make DRs of vessel very unreliable.
