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Collisions between Radar-equipped Merchant Ships U. S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

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This study by the United States National Transportation Safety Board was undertaken to determine why ship collisions persist despite the use of radar and what recommendations could usefully be made to prevent collisions between radar-equipped vessels. The samples analysed cover the fiscal years 1963–7. An Appendix giving details of these collisions is omitted.

1. Introduction. The National Transportation Safety Board's review of the investigation of the collision between the S.S. Arizona and the M.V. Meiko Maru directed attention to collisions of vessels equipped with radar. In this case, the Masters of both vessels were navigating by radar to the exclusion of the Rules of the Road and the requirements of good seamanship, and neither was utilizing properly the radar to best advantage by plotting the relative motion of targets.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1969 , pp. 454 - 463
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1969

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