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Voyage Data Recorders:

Practical experiences in VDRs, potential spin-offs and the future

IMCC

Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership

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Partnership _____

Fire Drill

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Voyage Data Recorders:

Practical experiences in VDRs, potential spin-offs and the future

IMCC

Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership ?

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Voyage Data Recorders

• Practicalities

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Voyage Data Recorders

• Practicalities

• A brief history:

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Key Criteria

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Key Criteria

• All types of incident

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Key Criteria

• All types of incident

• Produce hard data

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Key Criteria

• All types of incident

• Produce hard data

• User friendly/accessible in real time

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Partnership _____

Key Criteria

• All types of incident

• Produce hard data

• User friendly/accessible in real time

• For any type of vessel

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Partnership _____

Items to be recorded

• Bridge Audio

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Items to be recorded

• Bridge Audio

• Date and Time

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Partnership _____

Items to be recorded

• Bridge Audio

• Date and Time

• Ship’s position

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Partnership _____

Items to be recorded

• Bridge Audio

• Date and Time

• Ship’s position

• Speed

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Partnership _____

Items to be recorded

• Bridge Audio

• Date and Time

• Ship’s position

• Speed

• Heading

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Partnership _____

Items to be recorded

• Bridge Audio

• Date and Time

• Ship’s position

• Speed

• Heading

• Radar

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• Ship’s VHF communications• Echo Sounder• Bridge Alarms status• Rudder angle demand and response }• Hull openings status }• Watertight and fire door status }• Hull stress monitor outputs }• Wind speed and direction }

Additional Items to be recorded

Where appropriate

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• IMO Resolution A.861(20)

- Adopted on 27 November 1997 -• Performance Standards for Shipborne Voyage Data Recorders

(VDRs)

Voyage Data Recorders and the IMO

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• Existing vessels

Simplified Voyage Data Recorders

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• Existing vessels

• Costs – Number of ships involved

Simplified Voyage Data Recorders

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Partnership _____

• Existing vessels

• Costs – Number of ships involved

• Technical difficulties

Simplified Voyage Data Recorders

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Partnership _____

• Bridge Audio

• Date and Time

• Ship’s position

• Speed

• Heading

• Radar

Simplified Voyage Data Recorders

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Partnership _____

Playback

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Playback

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What Benefits

• Incident investigation

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What Benefits

• Incident investigation

• Training and monitoring

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What Benefits

• Incident investigation

• Training and monitoring

• Assessment of response to emergencies

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Partnership _____

What Benefits

• Incident investigation

• Training and monitoring

• Assessment of response to emergencies

• Promoting best practice

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What Benefits

• Incident investigation

• Training and monitoring

• Assessment of response to emergencies

• Promoting best practice

• REDUCTION IN INSURANCE LOSSESREDUCTION IN INSURANCE LOSSES

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Summary of incidents where VDR evidence has been used

• A vessel berthing at the builders yard for guarantee dry docking hit a jetty when under yard pilotage, sustaining $150,000 steel damage

• A vessel dragged its anchor in high winds and touched another ship anchored to leeward.

• A high speed craft incurred a close quarters incident with HM warship.

• Vessel entering port in narrow channel struck an underwater object.

• Vessel leaving N.W European port hit coaster glancing blow, with limited damage.

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Ownership of VDR recorded data

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• ……… Information contained in a VDR should be made available to both the Administrator and the shipowner ………….

• The EU adds in its Directive :-

Ownership of VDR recorded data: IMO A.861(20)

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• ………. Data which has been collected from a VDR system shall be

made available to the member State concerned in the event……..

This was followed up by the issue by IMO of Guidelines on Ownership and Recovery

which laid down 5 basic rules covering :-

Ownership of VDR recorded data:EU 2002/59/EC

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• Ownership

VDR recorded data

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Partnership _____

• Ownership

• Recovery

VDR recorded data

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• Ownership

• Recovery

• Custody

VDR recorded data

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Partnership _____

• Ownership

• Recovery

• Custody

• Read-Out

VDR recorded data

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Partnership _____

• Ownership

• Recovery

• Custody

• Read-Out

• Access

VDR recorded data

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• Revisit standards in light of :-

• Experience gained

• Advances in technology

The Future of VDRs

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Partnership _____

VDRs – The Future

• Widening of carriage Requirements

• Tonnage

• Voyage Routes

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VDRs – The Future

• IMO

• MSC meeting Oct 2007

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VDRs – The Future

EU

• EMDM Project

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Partnership _____

• Accident Investigators

• Maritime Lawyer

• Maritime Union

• Naval Architect

• VDR Specialists

EMDM – Experts Group

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• Maritime Insurance & Underwriter

EMDM – Experts Group:

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Partnership _____

• The end of the beginning

• A practical approach to improved marine safety

Voyage Data Recorders

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Partnership _____

Voyage Data Recorders

IMCC – VDR/CJW

Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership

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Partnership _____

?

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Partnership _____

Voyage Data Recorders:

Practical experiences in VDRs, potential spin-offs and the future

IMCC

Chris WinkleyManaging Partner - The MHC Partnership