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Collision Avoidance and the Mariner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

J. F. Kemp
J. F. Kemp
Affiliation:
(School of Navigation, City of London Polytechnic)
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In this paper a study is made of that area of marine traffic engineering which is concerned with collision avoidance, and within that area the sub-section in which human factors are involved.

Collision avoidance at sea is mainly achieved by adherence to the rules for preventing collisions, by routing schemes for separating traffic in high density areas and, within certain port limits, by local rules and advisory services, or occasionally by direct control of ship movements. To these well defined factors may be added the mariner's accumulated experience and instinct for self-preservation which gives rise to such nebulous, but not negligible, entities as the ‘seaman's eye’ and the ‘navigator's sixth sense’.

Type
Marine Traffic Engineering
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1972 , pp. 511 - 519
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1972

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