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Feature

Navigation

Weeks Marine vessel with Rose Point ECS displayed on two Hatteland

Technology Panel PCs.

Rose Point Navigation Systems meet the International Electrotech- nical Committee’s Maritime Navi- gation and Radiocommunication

Equipment and Systems Standard (IEC 60945) or be a Radio Technical

Commission for Maritime Services

Electronic Chart System.”

As mariners know, a person could swim past the territorial sea baseline.

Coastal vessels then, and this is also an issue in the Great Lakes, as required by NVIC 01-16, need computer equipment meeting the IEC standard, which is tough, and expensive, report- edly costing as much as $5,000 per unit. If a company owns 10 vessels, do the math. But that’s not all. The 34 | MN July 2021