🧭 Charting Authority / Primary Chart Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 NOAA Office of Coast Survey chart: Chart 11470 (Fort Lauderdale / Port Everglades). 95% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment
🧭 Federal Project Channel Dimensions And Depths (Usace) Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 Outer entrance: 45 ft MLW, 500 ft wide, 5,100 ft long. Inner entrance: 42 ft MLW x 450 ft wide. Turning basin: 42 ft MLW, 1,700 x 2,300 ft. 95% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment
🧭 Pilotage Regime (Compulsory / Contact) Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 Pilotage compulsory for all foreign vessels and U.S. foreign-trade vessels with draft ≥7 ft; Port Everglades Pilots Association provides pilotage. 90% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment
🧭 Pilot Boarding Location & Boarding Procedures Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 Plan to receive pilot 2 NM east of Port Everglades Lighted Buoy PE; maintain ~7 kn; pilot ladder 3 ft above water; pilot boats monitor VHF 14/16/77. 90% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment
🧭 Currents And Cross-Current Hazards In Entrance And Turning Basin Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 Tidal currents average ~0.7 kt; reports of flood to ~3 kt, ebb to ~4 kt; unpredictable cross-currents up to ~5 kt in entrance and turning basin. 90% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment
🧭 Regulated Navigation Area (Speed Requirement) & Harbormaster Coordination Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 33 CFR §165.765: Port Everglades RNA requires vessels <150 m to proceed at 'slow speed' in the RNA; commercial vessels ≥90 ft must coordinate movements via Harbormaster on VHF-FM Ch 14 and monitor Ch 14. 90% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment
🧭 Security Zones (Fixed And Moving) Affecting Approach Official Source · Verified Jul 01, 2026 Fixed and moving security zones exist; moving zones (100 yds) around passenger or certain hazard cargo vessels activate when vessel passes Lighted Buoy PE (26°05'30"N,80°04'46"W). 90% Confidence ✓ Confirm 💬 Comment