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Automated weather sensors subject to significant errors.

Posted Wed, 2010-08-25 07:22
Date Published: 
2010-08-23
Source: 
Postmedia News

Environment Canada's automated weather sensor system is subject to significant and well-known errors which have significantly compromised the integrity of data, according to a new Environment Canada report, 'Degradation in Environment Canada's Climate Network, Quality Control and Data Storage Practices: A Call to Repair the Damage. '

Automated sensors in British lighthouse fail.

Posted Fri, 2010-08-06 23:30
Date Published: 
2010-08-04
Source: 
BBC News

The fog horn on the Hanois Lighthouse off the British Island of Guernsey has been silenced after sounding continuously for two weeks, despite there being little or no fog.

Peter Gill, Guernsey's harbour master, said the fog horn was turned off after the problem came to light on Tuesday.

Trinity House, which looks after a lot of Britain's lighthouses, said an automatic sensor had failed and they were now operating the signal manually.

Engineers are expected to travel to the lighthouse on Monday to make repairs.

Lighthouse keepers remain a necessity

Posted Wed, 2010-06-23 08:03
Date Published: 
2010-06-22
Source: 
Nanaimo Daily News

Every few years, someone in Ottawa comes up with the proposal to automate lighthouses on B.C.'s coast.

It doesn't matter if it is a Liberal government or Conservative government, the bean counters want to save money and disregard saving lives, which is what many lighthouse keepers do on a routine basis.

Lighthouse keepers on Vancouver Island have saved countless lives.

Not only are they monitoring the shipping lanes and warning of deadheads and other navigational dangers, but they provide up-to-date weather information for a specific area to sailors who need them.

BC' s coastal guardians face threat of extinction: Lighthouse staff face uncertain future.

Posted Tue, 2010-06-22 17:09
Date Published: 
2010-06-22
Source: 
Nanaimo Daily News

Just 50 of Canada's lighthouses -- including Entrance Island near Nanaimo -- are still staffed by keepers. As the Coast Guard tries to automate those few staffed beacons, and declares close to 1,000 lighthouses 'surplus,' some wonder if the remote and romantic life of lighthouse keeper is at an end

For 134 years a handful of hardy souls have made their home on tiny, windswept Entrance Island. In all that time their job has been largely unchanged: To maintain the lighthouse, provide navigation assistance to boaters and aid people in distress.