News

Masterplan Coastal Safety about to start in Koksijde and Wenduine Soon the first works within the scope of the masterplan Coastal Safety will commence in both Koksijde and Wenduine. Together with the municipalities, the Coastal Division organizes informative meetings for the public. There you can get all information and answers to you queries about the masterplan coastal safety.

Database containing all local place names along the Belgian coast.
Lifeguards get faster to 'Het Keun'(the rabbit) or 'Blote Betsy'(naked betsy).

Author: Tom Le Bacq

BLANKENBERGE/KNOKKE-HEIST/BRUGGE/MIDDELKERKE/KOKSIJDE/DE PANNE/BREDENE/DE HAAN/OOSTENDE - The province has developed a new database  with the different names of approximately a thousand places along our coast. 'If people call us to say that someone is in distress at'Het Keun' in Knokke, we can find out much quicker where we are expected to go', says operator Philippe D'Haene.

'Child missing in the neighbourhood of Blote Betsy' or 'swimmer in distress off De Pisser': when people contact the rescue services they often use these local place names. To prevent that the rescue services lose time with deciphering these mysterious messages, the province has developed a new database. The database contains 931 places along the Belgian coast, and all possible names that are used to indicate them.

For the second time this year, the Coast Guard operation Opera took place from 18 till 29 October in the cold waters of the Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone in the North Sea. This operation was organized in the framework of a cooperation agreement among various Coast Guard partners.

Found an explosive?
You'd much rather not encounter an explosive in your nets or on board but when it does happen, this chart of explosives may come in handy.