The Mariner's Blog

ADMIRALTY Digital Sailing Directions (ADSD) are a digital product from the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) that delivers the content of ADMIRALTY Sai...

ADMIRALTY Sailing Directions have been a standard bridge reference for over a century, providing port approach procedures, coastal hazard informati...

A single document in maritime shipping serves three functions at once: a receipt proving the carrier received the goods, a contract setting the ter...

The International Code for Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code) is the IMO instrument that sets the engineering specifications every SOLAS vessel must me...

Fire prevention on a commercial vessel is a regulatory obligation, not a recommendation. SOLAS Chapter II-2 dedicates three regulations (4, 5, and ...

Marine fire suppression systems are the fixed installations that detect and extinguish fires aboard ships without relying on crew intervention alon...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has launched ADMIRALTY Digital Sailing Directions (ADSD), converting its Sailing Directions publications into an ...

Every electronic navigational chart displayed on an ECDIS today is built to a standard called S-57. That standard was adopted in 1992 and has serve...

For decades, the electronic charts displayed on ECDIS have been built on a single data standard called S-57. That standard did its job, but it was ...

Most mariners use the word "GPS" for any satellite position fix on the bridge. In practice, a modern receiver is often pulling signals fr...