How technology expands awareness
I visited the headquarters of MAIB yesterday, the United Kingdom government’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch, located in Southampton.
The MAIB people are using advanced systems for recovery and analysis of a growing menu of electronic “black box” data, much of it carried aboard modern commercial and passenger ships.
The growing use of diverse electronic monitoring systems, ashore and afloat, is expanding “maritime domain awareness” to track the actions of people, processes and things.
Regulators can access a growing array of sophisticated on-board monitoring technology to tell us what actually happened (read: accidents).
Moreover, we are now acquiring the means to monitor what’s happening on board and under way, right now, in real time.
No more “magic pipes”?
It means that the investigation of casualties… Continue reading