1. Draw the centreline
Turn on Customize on the map, pick the corridor tool and click from the landing point out to open water. The corridor is drawn as a real channel of real width, not a line that changes meaning as you zoom.
Campaign proposal
Boat corridor plans for towns
Most collisions with swimmers happen where boats improvise their way in. Draw the corridor your town actually needs, check it against published navigation standards, and send it to the maritime regulator.
A corridor drawn here is a civic proposal. It is not a legal channel, it is not marked at sea, and no boat should navigate by it. What is actually published is listed on the official zones page. See official zones
How to draw one
2. Set the width and the gate
Give it at least 30 m so two boats can pass, and place the red port mark and green starboard mark where it crosses the buoy line.
3. Check it, then send it
The standards check below reads your plan and tells you what a maritime reviewer will ask about. Then send it with your town's name — a person on the campaign team reads every plan.
Draw it on the map
Check these shapes
Select an item on the map or in the list to edit its size, direction and channel width.
Plan items
- 24.25 ha
- 13.14 ha
- 952 m
- 481 m
- 33.89020, 35.47320
- 33.88940, 35.47310
- 33.89250, 35.47410
- 33.89310, 35.47530
- 33.89050, 35.46900
- 33.88690, 35.47000
Legend
- 5-knot no-wake band
- Buoyed swimming zone
- Buoy line
- Boat corridor (IN / OUT) — 40 m wide
- ◆ Port-hand gate mark
- ◆ Starboard gate mark
- 👥 Group of swimmers
- 🛟 Lifeguard post
- ⛴ Sightseeing boat
- 🛥 Jet ski
This plan is a campaign proposal drawn on a public basemap. It is not current Lebanese law, not a survey, and not a navigational chart. Distances and channel widths are drawn to scale on the ground but are unverified; the shoreline shown is an OpenStreetMap reference line, not a legal boundary. Edits stay in this browser, and when you are signed in you can also save them to your own plans — saving is private and publishes nothing.
Standards check on your plan
This reads the plan you drew above and compares it with published navigation standards and the campaign's own stated thresholds. It is advice, not approval.
What it checks against
Lateral marks — IALA Maritime Buoyage System (Region A)
Lebanon lies in IALA Region A: entering a channel from seaward, port-hand marks are red and starboard-hand marks are green. Every corridor gate in a plan must carry both.
IALA — Maritime Buoyage System (IALA-AISM)Safe speed and lookout — COLREGs Rules 5 and 6
The international collision regulations require a proper lookout at all times and a safe speed for the visibility, traffic and proximity of navigational hazards — which includes people in the water.
IMO — Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREG)Comparative practice — 300 m shore band at 5 knots (France)
French coastal rules cap all craft at 5 knots inside the 300 m shore band. The campaign uses the same figure as a reference point for Lebanon; it is comparative practice, not Lebanese law.
Légifrance — Code des transports, navigation dans la bande littorale des 300 mètresLebanese baseline — Decree 4810/1966
The shore and the sea up to the highest winter wave line are public maritime domain. Public access and swimming are the baseline right any corridor must protect.
Decree 4810/1966 — Lebanese public maritime domain
Send your corridor plan
Tell us which town it is for and who should receive it. If you consent, the campaign passes the plan and your contact details to that authority and records the handoff. Nothing is published automatically.
Where it goes
Where to send this proposal
Published contact details for the bodies that can act on near-shore zoning. Each line carries the source we took it from. In an emergency call 112, 125 or 140 first.
Directorate General of Land and Maritime Transport (DGLMT)
Regulator for vessel registration, licensing and navigation duties in Lebanese waters — the addressee for any near-shore zoning decision.
Ministry of Public Works and Transport — official contacts listMaritime Transport Division — DGLMT
Division handling maritime transport files inside the directorate.
Ministry of Public Works and Transport — official contacts listJoint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) Beirut — Beirut Naval Base
Coordinates search and rescue in Lebanon's search-and-rescue region; inaugurated at Beirut Naval Base in October 2025.
Lebanese Army — inauguration of the JRCC at Beirut Naval BaseLebanese Navy — coastguard duty line
The Lebanese Navy is responsible for search and rescue in Lebanese waters.
Search and Rescue Contacts — Lebanon (IMO SAR contact directory mirror)
Proposed coastal zoning plan
Download the campaign's Raouché plan as data you can open in a GIS, attach to a submission, or hand to an authority. It is a proposal, not law.
- Legal basis: Decree 4810/1966 — the shore and the sea to the highest winter wave line are public maritime domain; public access and swimming are the baseline right.
- No published Lebanese text fixes a per-beach swimmer-protection distance. Every distance drawn here is a campaign proposal to the DGLMT, not existing law.
- Depth contours are not drawn: no public bathymetric survey covers this frontage. Import surveyed data before treating any line as a depth limit.