United States Coast Pilot®

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The United States Coast Pilot® consists of a series of nautical books that cover a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes. Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart.

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Coast Pilot 5 - 37th Edition, 2009
Coast Pilot 5 covers the Gulf of Mexico from Key West, FL to the Rio Grande. This area is generally low and mostly sandy, presenting no marked natural features to the mariner approaching from seaward. Coast Pilot 5 also covers Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Chapter	Description
Front Pages	Title page, Preface, Graphic Index, and Table of Contents
Chapter 1	General Information
Chapter 2	Navigation Regulations
Chapter 3	Gulf of Mexico
Chapter 4	Key West to Tampa Bay
Chapter 5	Tampa Bay to Apalachee Bay
Chapter 6	Apalachee Bay to Mobile Bay
Chapter 7	Mobile Bay to Mississippi River
Chapter 8	Mississippi River
Chapter 9	Mississippi River to Sabine Pass
Chapter 10	Sabine Pass to San Luis Pass
Chapter 11	San Luis Pass to The Rio Grande
Chapter 12	Intracoastal Waterway
Chapter 13	Puerto Rico
Chapter 14	Virgin Islands
Appendix A
Appendix B	Distances, Meteorological and Climatological Data
Appendix C	Marine Protected Areas
Index

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