Ecdis Parameter
Ecdis Parameter
Ecdis Parameter
Parameter
Safety Frame / Zone / Look
Ahead*
Safety Depth
Safety Contour
Shallow Contour
Deep Water Contour
Other ECDIS Safety
Settings
Definition
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Definition
Echo Sounder
The echo sounder must have its own anti grounding alarm activated to ensure the operator is alerted with anoth
the echo sounder is conneted to the ECDIS
To present the ENC chart with color scheme equivalant to paper charts ensuring correct presentation of areas b
To display the ENC chart with appropriate minimum safe information for navigation
ENC symbols
To present the ENC chart with bouys and beacaons equivalant to paper charts, The use of simplified buoy and
*Safety frame can contribute to an excessive number of alarms when navigating in confined waters or curved channels. As a preventive actio
the log book. In general the alarms must never be switched off when the vessel is navigating but adjusted to the appropriate setting.
and
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than
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if deeper
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s shallower
than the
Safety
Contour
are limited
considered
UNSAFE.
ment
procedure.
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Contour
Setting.
s shallower than the Safety Contour depth are considered UNSAFE.
cases like rivers/ channels the vessel can be forced to sail beyond the
ment
procedure.
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Setting.
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e the operator is alerted with another alarm than from the ECDIS even if
Setting
1. Ahead in open waters (sea passage): 6 min ahead
2. Ahead in restricted waters (limited maneuvring room and entering / leaving po
The
Safety Depth
must
set to ensure
theminimum
UKC requirement
are met:
"deep
3. Sideward
in open
andberestricted
waters:
width of frame
equal
2 x sea
sh
"SPM/CBM" or "alongside" according with Company UKC procedure. Safety D
have
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value must
as thebeSafety
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ensure the
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requirement
met: "deep
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have the same value as the Safety Depth. Safety Contour Setting: Deepest Static
Value equal to ships deepest dynamic draft.
1. Vessels engaged in tank cleaning and pumping washings overboard can if the E
the MARPOL requirements or above
2. Vessels not engaged in tank cleaning can set the value as appropriate and if no
safety contour.
Setting
Value of depth set to ensure the UKC requirement according to Company proced
Four shades/coloring to be ON in the ECDIS
vigation
ed channels. As a preventive action against fatigue caused by ECDIS alarms, the Company allows modification of the safety frame/zone time to below 3 m
o the appropriate setting.
Date:
Setting
head
ng room and entering / leaving port): 3 min ahead
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requirement
are met:
"deep
"anchorages",
mum
width of frame
equal
2 x sea",
ships"approaches",
beam
mpany UKC procedure. Safety Depth must during normal navigation
ety Depth
Setting:are
Deepest
Staticsea",
Draft"approaches",
+ Squat + UKC.
UKC
requirement
met: "deep
"anchorages",
mpany UKC procedure. Safety Contour must during normal navigation
y Contour Setting: Deepest Static Draft + Squat + UKC.
ng washings overboard can if the ENC contour allows set the value to
the value as appropriate and if not necessary set the same value as the
Setting
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in the ECDIS
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fety frame/zone time to below 3 min however such adjustment must ensure enough time for danger avoidance. If alarms are switched off during mooring/
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are switched off during mooring/unmooring due to excessive number of alarms, it must be agreed with the Master and recorded in