Preventing Collisions @ Sea: Applying Space Technology to Ship Collision Avoidance
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798599312703
- Pages
- 243
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-23
- Author
- John
Description
A collision at sea can ruin your entire day! Roughly ninety percent of the world's goods are transported by sea with over seventy percent as containerized cargo. Furthermore, just 15 of the biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760 million cars. That is why it is urgent to stop collisions @sea and save fuel. Making ships safer and more fuel-efficient is vital to our nation and fighting climate change.My mission was to prevent oil spills from destroying our environment. To prevent oily birds and beaches ruined by oil. The book describes many collisions at sea and devastating groundings. It explains WHY ships collide and run aground and why Radar is not the answer.There have been dozens of major of ship collisions spilling over 2.7 Million tonnes of oil devastating our environment. The EXXON Valdez alone cost the environment and ultimately taxpayers $5 Billion of environmental cleanup. The more recent Navy ship collisions and disasters killed 17 sailors, costs billions in ship repair but more tragically brought out the incompetence of high-level Navy Officers through a series of firings and resignations.My company developed the world's first fully automatic radar plotter for merchant ship collision avoidance. Iotron pioneered not only "hands-off" anti-collision self-plotting radar, which was installed on 550 large ships proven effective with over 60 million hours at sea. It was installed on 34 Super Tankers, 20 of which had fuel saving autopilots to help eliminate CO2 and dramatically mitigate climate change. Had DigiPLOT been aboard the Torrey Canyon, Costa Concordia and the Esso Valdez, these names would not have their NAMES NOTED for their infamous accidents.The seven tragic Navy collisions would not have been sad news.This book covers the politics of the inept IMO as well as Navy incompetence and inaction that is terrifying. It's time for the US to act and the book describes how they can merely redo their 1978 laws for a Marad Collision Avoidance System specification.Entrepreneurs and Want-to-be entrepreneurs will be inspired to read the Chapter on lessons on Entrepreneurship and starting companies.
