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HHI Smart ship

Hyundai Heavy unveils “smart ship” system

By On March 29, 2011

Hyundai Heavy Industries recently unveiled the world’s first remote monitoring and controlling smart ship system, allowing operators to remotely control important on-board systems and provide real-time feedback to shoreside personnel. [...]

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MEDS

New MOB detection system promises ease of use and real time reliability

By On March 17, 2011

Radio Zeeland DMP Americas and Sisco Indentification Solutions bring us a promising new technology called “Man-overboard Early Detection System (MEDS)” They tell us: When dealing with a man overboard scenario [...]

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The Pilotage Paradigm

By On October 20, 2009

The following has been submitted by Paul Drouin of Safeship.ca and is a shortened version of the article that was published in the October 2009 edition of Seaways Magazine.  Click [...]

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Feedback – A failure in XXX Resource Management

By On November 1, 2008

Perusing ” A failure in XXX Resource Management” I must accept the authors concern. Although encompassing, the point is understood: the maritime industry has problems. It is mostly people and [...]

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The Cosco Busan – A Failure in xxx Resource Management

By On October 30, 2008

For a business to be successful you need hard work, willingness to accept risk and a touch of luck. For gCaptain the bit of luck was someone else’s misfortune, namely [...]

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Deconstructing The Cosco Busan Incident – More On Accidents And Why

By On October 29, 2008

More on accidents and why. By John G. Denham A pilotage pardox presently exists because of the lack of explanations as to the “root cause” of accidents; basically, a failure [...]

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Titanic Response

By On April 23, 2008

Our recent post Was the titanic sunk by a small key? elicited some great response from our readers. Surprisingly, the best ones had little to do with the titanic itself [...]

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Cosco Busan Departs San Francisco

By On December 21, 2007

This time the Cosco Busan’s departure is not a drill and we made sure to get video evidence of the fact! The San Francisco Chronicle tells us; The U.S. Coast [...]

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San Francisco Pilot’s Report Published

By On November 13, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle has published the Pilot’s Report on the Cosco Busan Incident. Here are the parts of interest to mariners; Meadows said problems also cropped up in “bridge [...]

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