engleski

Seafarers’ approach for ship manoeuvring in heavy seas

Ship manoeuvring in heavy seas is procedure that can greatly affect ship safety. There was always a need to provide safe navigation route which reduces wave induced loads on ship construction and also affects transport cost and economy. Merchant ship manoeuvring in heavy seas is usually approached with mathematical methods of problem troubleshooting trough seakeeping validations of the ships. This paper is based on seafarers’ view of the merchant ship manoeuvrability problem in heavy seas and describes interaction between mathematical calculations and real life decisions making. Research is made amongst experienced seafarers with additional questionnaire whose results are shown in this paper and are compared to previous seakeeping calculations. The aim is better seakeeping performances of the ships with final goal of better safety of the ships and seafarers.

ship manoeuvring; heavy seas; seakeeping

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