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Norway's Kystverket has installed 1,900 new lights and beacons along the Norwegian coast, upgraded to the IALA standard to simplify night navigation.0:10 The new system aligns sector logic with the familiar buoyage convention: green sector means the vessel is too far to starboard, red means too far to port, and the white sector is the safe track to steer.Watch Navigating by chaining white sectors from one light to the next — without looking at a chart plotter — is the intended technique, demonstrated on a passage from Steilene inbound toward Oslo.1:33 The sector boundaries display clearly in Navionics chart plotters.1:36 A new light type, the HIB (hurtigbåt indirekte belysning — high-speed ferry indirect illumination), was developed after a fast-ferry accident; its angled reflector panel gives depth perception at night, helping mariners judge whether a light is near or far.2:07 HIB units appear as a small crown icon on charts, but Navionics and similar plotters do not yet render the icon correctly, which can cause confusion.2:31

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