PART 4 - Canadian Coast Guard

VI.
Amver Voyage Report Types
There are four types of Amver Reports - Sail Plan, Arrival, Position, and Deviation Reports.
A. Reporting format. Each line of Amver Report text starts with a line identifier. Line identifiers are “AMVER” or a
single letter. The line identifier and the data items on the line are each separated from each other by a single
slash (“/”). Lines are terminated by two slashes (“//”).
B. Reporting data. Amver participants need to be familiar with four types of reports - Sail, Arrival, Position, and
Deviation Reports. Note that Amver permits sail plan and departure to be combined into a single report.
Amver accepts sail plan information separately - for example, several days prior to departure. Report identifiers
are as follow:
AMVER/SP// Sail Plan & Departure
AMVER/PR// Position Report
AMVER/FR// Arrival Report.
AMVER/DR// Deviation Report.
C. Details. Paragraph IX includes a discussion of each report type. Each example is followed by an explanation.
Note that not all the lines in the example are necessary for each type of report. The required and optional lines
are discussed in each section.
VII. Other Required Information
Amver also needs other information, which might be useful in an emergency. This includes data such as the ship length,
communications equipment, radio watch schedule, speed, rig, and so forth. This information is collected separately once,
by completion of the Search and Rescue Questionnaire (SAR-Q) found on the Amver web site at http://www.amver.com
which is then retained in the automatic data processing system, periodically validated, and used only for search-and-rescue
purposes.
VIII. Release of Information
All voluntary information collected under these instructions will be only released to recognized search-and-rescue
authorities. Information regarding vessels required to participate in Amver will be forwarded to the U.S. Maritime
Administration, via the keyword MAREP on the Y-Line.
IX.
Description of Voyage Reports
An example and explanation of each of the four types of Amver reports follows. Numbers in parentheses refer to footnotes
at the end of the section.
A. Sail Plan & Departure Report. The “L” lines contain routing and “turnpoint” information needed by Amver.
Amver needs data about every intended turnpoint, but also accepts information about any points along the intended
track, even though they might not be turnpoints. Turnpoint information is needed by Amver to maintain plot
accuracy.
EXAMPLE:
EXPLANATION:
AMVER/SP// Required -
A/SANDY JOAN//ABCD//
AMVER/SP//
B/110935Z// A /vessel/name/International Radio Call Sign//
E/145// B /intended time of departure or departure time // (1)
F/126// G /port of departure/latitude//longitude// (2)
G/NORVOROSK/4510N/03820E// I /port of destination/latitude//longitude/estimated time
of arrival//(1) (2) (3)
I/GIBRALTERGI/3600N/00600W/140730Z//
L/RL/140/4130N/02910E/112000Z// L / ...... route information ...// (1) (3) (4)
L/RL/140/4010N/02620E/112300Z//
Z // end of report
L/RL/140/3630N/02330E/120330Z//
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