Causal Factors of Collisions at Sea.
Abstract
Twenty-two collisions involving United States naval vessels were analyzed in an attempt to discover the principal causal factors of collisions at sea. Collisions involving tactical evolutions, underway replenishment, and evolutions of seamanship, such as mooring to a pier, were excluded from the study. Several factors including fatigue to the Officer-of-the-Deck and material failure were adjudged not to be significant causal factors in collisions. Various factors including time of day, low visibility conditions, and violations of the Rules of the Road were adjudged to be significant causal factors. A Rules of the Road test administered to 14 former OOD's at the Naval Postgraduate School suggests that some naval officers have an insufficient knowledge of the Rules of the Road.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA009911
Entities
People
- Richard Alan Robbins
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School