The Mariner's Blog

A major simulator study involving 100 maritime professionals examines how S-100 could reshape ECDIS navigation. The findings highlight improved situational awareness, integrated environmental data, enhanced bathymetry and UKC assessment, while emphasizing the importance of phased implementation, effective display management, and proper mariner training.

When GPS goes down, radar fails, or the sky is too overcast for a celestial fix, a navigator still needs to know where the vessel is. Dead reckonin...

A port state control inspection can determine whether a vessel sails on schedule or sits detained in port while deficiencies are corrected. For mas...

Two systems work together to keep commercial shipping safe and compliant, but they operate from different positions of authority. The flag state go...

Traffic separation schemes, deep-water routes, and areas to be avoided do not appear on a nautical chart by accident. Every one of these routeing m...

When Uzbekistan declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, one of the first acts of the new republic was to adopt a national flag. The de...

Even on a vessel equipped with ECDIS, GPS, and AIS, there are situations where the only thing standing between a safe fix and a lost position is a ...

Anyone who ships, carries, or handles hazardous materials in the United States operates under one set of rules: Title 49 of the Code of Federal Reg...

Fire is one of the most dangerous emergencies aboard a vessel. A fire that goes undetected or uncontrolled can destroy a ship faster than a groundi...

Every commercial vessel afloat operates within a legal framework that is older than most nations. Maritime law, also known as admiralty law, govern...