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Carriage of Charts and Nautical Publications
All ships should carry adequate and up-to-date official nautical charts, sailing directions, list of lights, notices to mariners, tide tables and all other nautical publications necessary for the intended voyage.
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Charts, ECDIS and Nautical Publication
Posted by author on April 24th, 2008
Integrated Bridge System
Posted by author on April 24th, 2008
An integrated bridge system is a combination of systems which are interconnected to allow the centralized monitoring of sensor information and control of a number of operations such as passage execution, communications, machinery control, safety and security.
Posted in Operation and Maintenance of Bridge Equipmant 
Tags: american bureau of shipping, bridge design, bridge system, bridge team, classification societies, design approach, germanischer lloyd, gl, good working environment, instrumentation, machinery control, notations, one man, oow, safety and security, traffic surveillance, workstation design, workstations 
No Comments »Electronic Position Fixing System
Posted by author on April 24th, 2008
Electronic position-fixing systems provide an automatic and continuous position update for ships fitted with a suitable receiver using either a terrestrial hyperbolic radio navigation system such as Loran C, or a global satellite system such as GPS.
Posted in Operation and Maintenance of Bridge Equipmant Tags: continuous position, dgps receivers, differential signals, global navigation satellite system, global positioning system, global satellite system, gnss, ground wave, latitude and longitude, loran c, navigation satellite system, positional accuracy, radio links, radio navigation system, range coverage, receiver antenna, sky waves, suitable receiver, wave signals, worldwide position No Comments »Echo Sounders
Posted by author on April 24th, 2008
The navigational echo sounder should be expected to operate down to depths of at least 200m (approximately 110 fathoms)
Speed and Distance Measuring Log
Posted by author on April 24th, 2008
Speed logs, depending upon their type, will provide either speed through the water or speed over the ground measurements.
Posted in Operation and Maintenance of Bridge Equipmant Tags: collision avoidance, Direction of Speed Measurement, distances, doppler, dual axis, ground measurements, logbook, measure speed, period of time, RADAR, Recording of Distance Travelled, ships, speed measurement, time speed, type logs, Types of Speed Measurement No Comments »
