Investigations into an e-Navigation related approach for onboard Decision Support for Person overboard accidents

摘要

Safe ship handling in every situation and under all prevailing circumstances and conditions of the ship's status and the environment is a core element contributing to the safety of the maritime transportation system. Considering particularly cases of emergencies, there is a need for quick and reliable information to safely manoeuvre a ship e.g. to quickly return to the position of a Person-overboard (PoB) accident. Within this paper investigations into onboard manoeuvring support for Person-overboard accidents will be presented. Based on the analysis of selected accident case studies and existing solutions representing the technical state-of-the-art, shortcomings will be identified and discussed and a potential approach for advanced manoeuvring support in the context of e-Navigation based requirements will be introduced and discussed.