The invention relates to a Man Over Board (MOB) detection system that can be integrated in a vessel (101A), in the vessel's instrument room (101B) near the vessel's bridge (101C) that allow detecting humans going overboard. In an embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus or system forming a Man Over Board (MOB) detection system that comprises one or more sensor units around the periphery of the vessel with the option for embedded local software for first stage object detection and situation awareness (102A - 102F), a control station with optional display unit with visual alarm capabilities (107) located at the vessel's bridge, fibre optical or ethernet cabling or wireless, also local power supply as part of the communications cables, connecting the sensor units and control station (103), an interconnector unit (104) and an e.g. integrated data fusion processing unit (105), that can be located in the vessel's instrument room and an implemented video verification software and central data fusion software, e.g. including the MOB detection software (106), within data fusion processing unit, but also integrated software for administrative functions and Human Machine Interface (HMI) software (108) within the control station.
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