Vessel Autonomy in Offshore Wind: Scaling up Ops via Tech, Regulation
challenges as significant as the development of technology itself.The IMO’s Maritime Safety (MSC), Legal (LEG) and Facilitation (FAL) Committees have all completed their separate Regulatory Scoping Exercises on autonomous operations.From the review of the various instruments by the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), the scoping exercise identified a list of 11 common potential gaps and/or themes which needs to be addressed to advance the development of regulations for autonomous operations. From this list, the IMO has identified four potential gaps and/or themes as high-priority issues that cut through
Dredger Digs Up VDR from Crashed Sriwijaya Air Jet in the Java Sea
strong.The CVR of flight SJ182 was located late on Tuesday, Indonesia’s transport minister told a news conference.It was found in mud sucked up by a dredging ship and is being dried out and cleaned of mud and salt because it has been at sea for a long time, Indonesia National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) investigator Nurcahyo Utomo said.He said the memory unit had not been damaged by the impact.“We will take CVR to lab for reading, about three days to one week,” KNKT head Soerjanto Tjahjono said. “After that we’ll transcribe and match it to FDR. Without a CVR,
Indonesia Using ROV in Search for Sriwijaya Air Plane Crash Victims
search efforts have been hindered by debris, officials said.A remotely operated underwater vehicle has been deployed to help scour the seabed, while navy vessels with sonar search from the surface.Once the flight data and cockpit voice recorders are found, Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) expects to be able to read the information in three days.With few immediate clues on what caused a catastrophic loss of control after take-off, investigators will rely heavily on the flight recorders to determine what went wrong.The Sriwijaya Air plane was nearly 27 years old, much older
Dualog, NYK Sign Cyber-Risk Contract
to data exchange between ship-to-shore, cyber security is of the highest importance to NYK. Monitoring and protecting the traffic is also crucial, certainly when it comes to compliance with international guidelines such as the IMO 2021 security recommendations.The 98th session of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC98) approved guidelines on maritime cyber-risk management in June 2017, making cyber risk management onboard ships mandatory as of 1 January 2021. Shipowners and managers have until this date to incorporate cyber risk management into their ISM Code safety management. After this, non-compliant
Nicholls Elected as ADCI President
Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations are recognized as best industry practice here in the U.S., and in many other parts of the world,” Nicholls said. Nicholls has served on the board of the ADCI since 2009, and was second vice president and chairman of the Safety Committee from 2014-2017. “It is truly an honor to have been elected as the ADCI’s president for 2017. I am proud to have served the ADCI for the past eight years, and I will continue to contribute what I can to improve upon the best industry practices that our association and its membership
Divers Continue Hunt for AirAsia Black Boxes
locators" designed to pick up signals from the black boxes were at the location but were no longer being used, in a possible sign of confidence among Indonesian officials that the recorders will be found soon. According to Nurcahyo Utomo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC), the time taken to analyze what happened to the flight depended partly on the condition of the recorders. The NTSC is leading the probe, with France's BEA crash investigation agency officially participating. Forty-three bodies and debris from the plane have been plucked
What’s all the Noise at IMO?
the ship owner and the shipbuilder. In July 2007, all of the European Union (EU) member states and the European Commission (EC) collectively made the proposal to update the 1981 guidelines with the goal making them mandatory. This occurred under the framework of the 83rd Session of the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) at the IMO headquarters in London. The reason for making the current IMO guide mandatory was to address a gap in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Regulation II-1/36 which “requires that measures be taken to reduce noise in machinery spaces to acceptable levels.” As noted in
Three Weeks to Submarine Race in Gosport
service as the Navy's chief nuclear regulator in the rank of Commodore. Peter then worked for 6 years for Transport for London, responsible for the engineering and safety of the public piers on the Thames. Peter is now retired and does a bit of consultancy including membership of the Defense Nuclear Safety Committee. subrace.e
Milestone for Enhanced Safety in Arctic Regions
United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) has just approved global binding regulations intending to enhance safety of navigation in polar areas. This means, inter alia, new requirements for passenger ships. Following several years of intense negotiations, the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) has today approved a new set of regulations on navigation in Arctic waters. Thus, the IMO has today taken a decisive step towards making the so-called Polar Code internationally binding. The entire palette of navigation in polar areas is covered by the Polar Code – from ship design
February 2024
