Navy finalises report on Nakama Channel for Nawi Island Marina
The Fiji Navy Hydrographic Service has released the finalised report for safe navigation through the Nakama Channel into Nawi island Marina to Nawi Island Limited.
The comprehensive report is a result of intensive on the ground survey conducted by the Fiji Navy’s Hydrographic unit and contains all the data and metadata including bathymetry, aids to navigation, obstructions, wrecks and geophysical nature of the bottom and the banks of the Nakama Creek Channel from the mouth of the Creek to Nawi island. Speaking on the next stages for the Report, the Fiji Navy reveal that they will also conduct a Quality Control check by their Cartographic Section and then submit it to the UK Hydrographic Office from which critical depth and positions will be then used to correct existing charts and relevant new charts compiled and published.
Nawi Island had engaged the Fiji Navy Hydrographic
Service as they are the local authority to ensure safe navigational charts and protocols are drawn up for Nawi Island Marina.
With their survey which includes Side Scan sonar assessment as well as dives to determine obstructions and the minimum draughts for boats, any vessel with draughts of up to 10 metres intending to enter Nawi Island Marina will be able to navigate the surveyed channel area safely.
The Nawi Island Marina is expected to be open this year and will feature a yacht club facility with amenities and services to ensure that the yacht owner will not need to go anywhere else in the country.
The Marina is part of a mutlimillion-dollar hotel, real estate and shipyard project undertaken by the Company in Savusavu.