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It’s not where you are It’s

About the Author where you should

Captain Paul Whyte MBE AFNI, Associ- ate Master Mariner, LOC has 37 years’ seagoing experience and 12 years’ sea command. LOC is an independent ma- that matters be rine and engineering consultancy and

ECDIS & ELECTRONIC DATA survey organization. [email protected]

Captain Whyte, a leading marine ac- the road or driving ships at sea. We need road’ every Master and Of? cer of the lations cident analyst at LOC Group, an inde- to know where we are, what we’re doing Watch (OOW) should observe the four • Action; the crew must take positive pendent marine and engineering con- and where we are going. If a vessel has ‘A’s at all times; and early action to avoid a collision.

sultancy which provides services to the grounded or had a collision, then clearly • Aware; the bridge team must be However, when a collision or ground- shipping and offshore energy industries, the bridge crew must have lost their situ- aware and maintain a proper lookout ing does occur, Captain Whyte investi- explains how electronic data is making ational awareness.” • Anticipation; the vessel should gates the incident using electronic data, accident investigation clearer by provid- He says that every deck of? cer should travel at a safe speed giving space and some of which is freely available, to es- ing irrefutable evidence. have a good working knowledge of the time to assess if there’s a risk of collision tablish the exact causes.

“Fundamentally, situational awareness International Regulations for Preventing • Application; the crew should know E-navigation is de? ned by the IMO as, underpins everything we do”, said Cap- Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREGS), the COLREGS and particularly the risk “the harmonized collection, integration, tain Whyte. “Whether that’s crossing and in using these ‘rules of the [sea] of collision, and should follow the regu- exchange, presentation and analysis of

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