Exeter Port Authority has issued a warning to mariners to 'take extreme care' when entering or leaving the Exe Estuary.

It comes after the navigable channel used by boats and other marine craft was found to have shifted significantly to the east.

They are currently working to find better positions for several buoys marking out the channel, and expect to know where the new channel is exactly roughly by the middle of May this year.

A Port Authority spokesperson said: "Notice is hereby given that after a hydrographic survey was conducted in the estuary approaches, results indicate that the channel into the River Exe has moved significantly eastward of the current charted depths.

"Exeter Port Authority are in the process of establishing new optimum positions for the lateral marks from numbers 7 to 1 plus the safe water mark. A contractor will be tasked to establish the new channel and early indications suggest that this will take place during the middle of May 2022.

"Mariners are advised to take extreme care when entering or leaving the River Exe prior to the above work been undertaken."

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