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Preparing in hydrography had been directed installed looking over vessels until the foundation of a Hydrographic School at INS Angre, Bomabay (presently Mumbai) in 1959. The primary endeavor to give precise preparing of Officers and Sailors in Hydrography started with the foundation of a Hydrographic Training Unit at Bombay in 1959 and move to Vendurithy at Cochin on 21 October 1961. For a brief timeframe, it worked from an impermanent office gave in the Gunnery School of Venduruthy. In this manner, for the majority of its outstanding remain in Cochin it worked from the Navigation Direction School. The administration endorse for a lasting foundation in Cochin was gotten in Apr 1965. Naval commander J Cursetji, PVSM Chief of Naval Staff formely inagurated the Hydrogaraphic School at Goa on 29 Nov 1978. Arranged on the beautiful Alpequeiros Hill at the picturesque port town of Vasco-da-Gama, the school is idealy situated to grant quality preparing in the field of Hydrography. The Mormugoa Harbor sound, the encompassing coast with precipices and short extended of sandy shorelines gives the perfect setting to preparing in Hydrography. It was completely prepared to meet the preparation necessity of different Naval Officers, Sailors, Civilians from the Indian sea states, Survey associations, Major port trusts, Ministry of Shipping and Transport, Survey dispatch pools, and other Hydrographic reviewing organizations inside and outside india with a noteworthy UND Paid. In 1980, the Hydrographic School was concurred the status of Regional instructional hub in Hydrographic study for the Asian locale. In May 1981, the second wing of the Hydrographic school was finished and in 1982 the school's Long H preparing project and educational program was perceived by the HO (International Hydrographic Organization) as a Category 'A' course. This is the most astounding recogisatin of a Hydrograhic specialization course by the International body on Hydrographic issues. In 1984, the Hydrographic school) was perceived as the territorial Hydrgraphic preparing place for Soth East Asian and African nations consequently stretching out its compass to Africa and the South East Asian shores. In 1997, the Hydrographic school was granted the Cat 'A' Certification by IHO for offering the Option II which manages Industrial Offshore Surveying under Edition 7.0 of the measures of the IHO/FIG International Advisory Board. The school was the first on the planet to offer this discretionary subject. The school was thus re-assigned as the National Hydrographic School in the light of the way that it provided preparing to Hydrographers from other National Maritime Organizations, for example, the Minor Port Survey Organization, Port Trusts, Dredging Corporations of India, Inland Water Ways Authority of India other than the Naval society of Hydrographers from both inside India and abroad. In 1998, the Schools Cat 'A' Long Hydrographic Course, revalidated under the expansion 8.0 of the gauges of the IHO/FIG worldwide warning board was partnered to the Goa college for the honor of Masters Degree in hydrographic overview to the Long Hydrographic Course. In 1999, the IHO/FIG International Advisory Board granted the CAT B accreditations for Basic/free Hydrogrpahic Course led by the school, under Eddition 8.0 of the benchmarks of IHO/FIG International Advisory Board. In this manner both the expert Officers Courses directed by the School had IHO recognisation continuously 1999. In the year 2000, the school was granted the ISO 9001 affirmation. Three courses are being offered to the understudies of the littoral nations of the Indian Ocean RIM.