About

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The Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography (SADCO) stores, retrieves and manipulates multi-disciplinary marine information from the areas around Southern Africa.

SADCO has been in existence since the 1960s, and is now being hosted by the Department of Forestry Fisheries and the Environment: Oceans and Coastal Research Directorate (DFFE:OCR) after previously having been hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa. The history of SADCO can be read here.

All new data submitted to SADCO after March 2019 is archived in the Marine Information Management System (MIMS) and will not be published in SADCO.

Thank you to CSIR, the Namibian Ministry for Fisheries and Marine Resources, the South African Environmental Observation Network and the South African Navy for their funding support up until March 2019, and to the members of the steering committee that guided SADCO, in particular the Chairs.