🔍 Key Concepts

• Purpose of the Coast Pilot volumes and how they differ by region • What types of information are included in Radio Aids to Navigation (now part of electronic pubs) • Where mariners usually look for climatological and meteorological tables for a specific coastal area

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: which of these publications is specifically organized by geographic area (like Gulf Coast) and often has appendices with local reference tables? • Consider what the primary focus of Radio Aids to Navigation is—is it weather and climate, or something else? • Think about whether the National Weather Service is the only place mariners can access standardized climatological tables for voyage planning.

✅ Before You Answer

• Check which publication is region-specific to the Gulf of Mexico area. • Verify which choice is known to contain appendices or back sections with tables (tides, currents, climate, etc.). • Confirm that the correct source is a standard hydrographic publication used for coastal pilotage and voyage planning, not just real-time weather.