Bermuda’s tourism and transport minister has met with a team from Britain to perform aerial surveys.

Zane DeSilva, in his role as Acting Minister of Public Works, met with members of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office — Overseas Territories Seabed Mapping Programme.

The team has been using a small plane to conduct hydrographic surveys, including to capture water depths, land elevations and high-resolution images for both land and sea.

The surveys, which had been scheduled to take place in November, were delayed due to mechanical issues and bad weather.

The work is a partnership between the Government and the UKHO.

A Government spokesman said that the data collected would be used to update Bermuda’s nautical charts “to ensure safe and efficient navigation of all marine traffic, including ships in harbours and around the island”.

Mr DeSilva said: “This is an excellent opportunity to have a detailed survey of Bermuda conducted at no cost to taxpayers.

“The information obtained will be vital to our efforts of achieving compliance with the International Maritime Organisation’s Triple I Code and audit, to be held in December 2020.”