Navigational aids are vital safety tools: use them!
A safety message to the shipping industry urging operators to review the use of lookout and navigational aids on their vessels and help crews to comply.
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As part of the BBC Marmara report publication, this flyer was produced to summarise common themes from investigations where navigational safeguards had been circumvented. It serves to highlight a continuing trend of collision, grounding and contact accidents that share similar contributory factors involving lookouts and the Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS).
This information has been prepared for the:
- shipping industry
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This flyer was issued as an action taken by MAIB in BBC Marmara, investigation report 8/2023.