Preventing Collisions @Sea: Applying Space Technology to Ship Collision Avoidance and Reducing Carbon Footprint
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798719062105
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-03-09
- Author
- John
Description
This book describes advanced space technology creating DigiPLOT the ship collision avoidance system in production for 13 years. Discover the cover-ups, the IMO politics, and the dangerous fallacy that collision avoidance equipment is not necessary because it is not "cheap enough" and "it won't happen to my ship." Innovator and Air Force Space Pioneer John C. (Jack) Herther founded Iotron Corporation a half-century ago, his mission was to prevent ship's oil spills from destroying our environment. His company pioneered DigiPLOT the "hands-off" anti-collision self-plotting radar, installed on 550 ships with 60 million hours of use at sea. Their Transit satellite/Loran C navigation system was fitted on 34 largest supertankers with accuracy better than GPS until 20 years later. Had DigiPLOT been aboard the Torrey Canyon, Costa Concordia and the Esso Valdez, these names would not have their NAMES NOTED for their infamous collisions or groundings at sea. The more recent seven tragic Navy ship collisions/disasters killed 17 sailors, and cost taxpayers billions in ship repair. In addition, his company invented a way to help save the planet from climate change. Just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760 million cars. Iotron's adaptive autopilot, DigiPILOT was developed to reduce fuel cost and reduce greenhouse gases. DigiPILOT was proven with 2% fuel savings over a conventional autopilot on 20 ships. It is an affordable add-on retrofit that complies with IMO SEEMP Steering Efficiency 4.18 and can be implemented inexpensively on 70,000 existing ships. John (Jack) Herther was the founder and inventor of Automated Ship Collision Avoidance (founding both Iotron & Automate Marine). He became an Air Force Space Pioneer and was inducted into the Space Hall of Fame in 2003.
