Avoiding Collision

Reducing Collision Risk Through Small Vessel Detectability Improvement

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  • Small vessels constructed of wood or fiberglass are difficult to detect by radar.
  • Even if producing a radar return, small vessels can be obscured by the trough of passing swells and make for intermittent radar targets.
  • The NTSB investigated a casualty in which two vessels—a 23-foot-long center-console boat with a fiberglass hull and a 154-foot-long US Coast Guard cutter—collided.

Early detection of a vessel is one of the best ways to avoid collision. Owners of...

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Basic Measures To Avoid Collisions at Sea

Recent collisions between ship and fishing boats off the Indian coast have triggered demands for the adoption of safety norms for fishermen at sea, says an article published in The Businessline.

More number of boats

Because of the abundance of fish in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal compared with other parts of the world, around 40,000 fishing boats operate in the region. On top of that, 500-1,000 merchant ships daily traverse the area located on the international sea route.

IMO norms...

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Poor Visibility in Fog, Collision of Ships Inevitable

  • Avoiding collision requires visibility which is hard in the fog, and once was a whole lot harder before pinpoint navigation tools.
  • But what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger and provides good stories… here’s one of them.
  • The fog lifted before sunset, and the many, many large vessels that followed the shipping lanes, across which we had just sailed.

A Scuttle Butt Sailing News report brings out a detailed information about the crossing shipping lances in the fog.

From Chuck Hawley

When I was...

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