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Voyage Data Recorders:
Practical experiences in VDRs, potential spin-offs and the future
IMCC
Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership
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Voyage Data Recorders:
Practical experiences in VDRs, potential spin-offs and the future
IMCC
Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership ?
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Key Criteria
• All types of incident
• Produce hard data
• User friendly/accessible in real time
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Key Criteria
• All types of incident
• Produce hard data
• User friendly/accessible in real time
• For any type of vessel
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Items to be recorded
• Bridge Audio
• Date and Time
• Ship’s position
• Speed
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Items to be recorded
• Bridge Audio
• Date and Time
• Ship’s position
• Speed
• Heading
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Items to be recorded
• Bridge Audio
• Date and Time
• Ship’s position
• Speed
• Heading
• Radar
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• Ship’s VHF communications• Echo Sounder• Bridge Alarms status• Rudder angle demand and response }• Hull openings status }• Watertight and fire door status }• Hull stress monitor outputs }• Wind speed and direction }
Additional Items to be recorded
Where appropriate
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• IMO Resolution A.861(20)
- Adopted on 27 November 1997 -• Performance Standards for Shipborne Voyage Data Recorders
(VDRs)
Voyage Data Recorders and the IMO
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• Existing vessels
• Costs – Number of ships involved
Simplified Voyage Data Recorders
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• Existing vessels
• Costs – Number of ships involved
• Technical difficulties
Simplified Voyage Data Recorders
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• Bridge Audio
• Date and Time
• Ship’s position
• Speed
• Heading
• Radar
Simplified Voyage Data Recorders
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What Benefits
• Incident investigation
• Training and monitoring
• Assessment of response to emergencies
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What Benefits
• Incident investigation
• Training and monitoring
• Assessment of response to emergencies
• Promoting best practice
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What Benefits
• Incident investigation
• Training and monitoring
• Assessment of response to emergencies
• Promoting best practice
• REDUCTION IN INSURANCE LOSSESREDUCTION IN INSURANCE LOSSES
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Summary of incidents where VDR evidence has been used
• A vessel berthing at the builders yard for guarantee dry docking hit a jetty when under yard pilotage, sustaining $150,000 steel damage
• A vessel dragged its anchor in high winds and touched another ship anchored to leeward.
• A high speed craft incurred a close quarters incident with HM warship.
• Vessel entering port in narrow channel struck an underwater object.
• Vessel leaving N.W European port hit coaster glancing blow, with limited damage.
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• ……… Information contained in a VDR should be made available to both the Administrator and the shipowner ………….
• The EU adds in its Directive :-
Ownership of VDR recorded data: IMO A.861(20)
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• ………. Data which has been collected from a VDR system shall be
made available to the member State concerned in the event……..
This was followed up by the issue by IMO of Guidelines on Ownership and Recovery
which laid down 5 basic rules covering :-
Ownership of VDR recorded data:EU 2002/59/EC
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• Revisit standards in light of :-
• Experience gained
• Advances in technology
The Future of VDRs
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VDRs – The Future
• Widening of carriage Requirements
• Tonnage
• Voyage Routes
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• Accident Investigators
• Maritime Lawyer
• Maritime Union
• Naval Architect
• VDR Specialists
EMDM – Experts Group
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• The end of the beginning
• A practical approach to improved marine safety
Voyage Data Recorders
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Voyage Data Recorders
IMCC – VDR/CJW
Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership