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ECDIS has been the talk of the town. On every inspection on board, compliance with ECDIS procedures has been top agenda for the inspectors.
It will not be a new thing to say that good passage planning is the key for safer navigation. ECDIS now being a part of passage planning contributes to the safe navigation.
I had covered ECDIS in lengths earlier on the topic like
In these two posts I covered about the process of correcting the ENCs. Can we say we are all set if ENCs are corrected for Weekly corrections, T&P corrections, Navigational warnings and navtex warnings ?
But what if the settings on the ECDIS are not what it should be. Wrong settings pose even bigger threat to the safe naviagtion than the uncorrected ENCs.
In this post I will discuss about the what and how of all the settings on ECDIS.
Safety Settings
It is all in the name. Safety settings sets the safety parameters according to the ship’s static as well as dynamic particulars. That is a change ECDIS brought from the traditional paper charts. For example see this chart and I will ask one question.
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About Capt Rajeev Jassal
Capt. Rajeev Jassal has sailed for over 24 years mainly on crude oil, product and chemical tankers. He holds MBA in shipping & Logistics degree from London. He has done extensive research on quantitatively measuring Safety culture onboard and safety climate ashore which he believes is the most important element for safer shipping.
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