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How wireless technology can improve ship safety

Revolutionising how rescues can be conducted in the future Quickly and efficiently evacuating passengers and crew from a ship in case of emergency is a matter of life and death. With a view to prevent tragedies such as the sinking of COSTA Concordia in 2012, the LYNCEUS project set out to revolutionise how rescues can be conducted.The sinking of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2012 - and the reported difficulties in evacuating over 4,000 people with the eventual loss of 32 lives -underlined the urgent need to accurately trace passengers during emergencies. Indeed, while most people on board were brought ashore during a six-hour evacuation, the search for missing passengers and crew continued for several months.In response, the three-year LYNCEUS project, which ends in early 2015, set about revolutionising how rescues can be conducted in the future. The team sought to adapt low-power wireless technologies in order to help localise and track passengers, and thus improve search and rescue operations. Innovative wireless tags have been developed that can be embedded into life jackets, providing rescuers with the exact location of every passenger and crew member during an evacuation. A radar device has also been developed to detect the ...

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Urgent Ebola virus warning

Risks posed to ships' crews calling in countries affected by the Ebola virus A researcher working with the Ebola virus while wearing a BSL-4 positive pressure suit to avoid infectionInterManager has urged shipowners to heed guidance, issued this week by three global shipping organisations, on the risks posed to ships' crews calling in countries affected by the Ebola virus.Advice from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC), and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) urgently warns that on all such vessels:The Master should ensure crew are aware of the risks, how the virus can be spread and how to reduce the riskThe ISPS requirements on ensuring unauthorised personnel do not board the vessel should be strictly enforced throughout the duration of the vessel in portThe Master should give careful consideration to granting any shore leave while in impacted portsThe shipowner/operator should avoid making crew changes in the ports of affected countriesAfter departure, crew should be aware of Ebola symptoms and report any occurring symptoms immediately to the person in charge of medical careThe advice is supplemented with information from the World Health Organization on the virus (available here)Already the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) has suspended ...

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