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Parent topics

• International law [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marine navigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Safety of Life at Sea [r]: International convention defining safety requirements for ships ^[e]
  • Search and rescue [r]: The location of those in distress from natural, accidental, or hostile causes; on-scene medical stabilization and extrication; evacuation to treatment or other safe facilities ^[e]

Subtopics

Issues

• Commercial fishing [r]: The harvesting of edible marine life on a commercial basis, usually using purpose-built vessels and equipment ^[e]
• Environmental engineering [r]: A field of engineering devoted to remediation of all forms of pollution. ^[e]

Navigation

• Automatic Identification System [r]: A system, aboard ships and boats, that combines marine radio transmitters and receivers, Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, and computer control into a self-organizing, mobile network in which vessels are inform nearby traffic, potential collision hazards, and navigational information ^[e]
• Electronic Charting System [r]: Generic International Maritime Organization term for a marine navigation device that, at a minimum, links a display, computer-readable charts and a Global Navigation Satellite System ^[e]
• Global Maritime Distress and Safety System [r]: Mandated by the Safety of Life at Sea convention of the International Maritime Organization system of digital radio and other systems for ships to receive alerts and signal search and rescue organizations when they are in distress. ^[e]
  • COSPAS-SARSAT [r]: Worldwide system of multinational satellites in geosynchronous or low earth orbits, receiving stations, and search and rescue mission control systems that detect the emergency messages from emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRB) ^[e]
  • Digital selective calling [r]: A method to address specific marine radios or groups of vessels, and to send a distress signal, including the vessel's location if the radio is connected to a GPS receiver ^[e]
  • Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon [r]: Intended for search and rescue of ships and boats, this is a beacon that will float free of a sinking vessel, and broadcast a position report, preferably with GPS, to a worldwide cluster of monitoring satellites. ^[e]
  • Search and rescue transponder [r]: A device used by personnel in need of rescue, which assists in the final part of the search by interacting with search radar and guiding the rescuers to the victim ^[e]

Resource management

• Vessel monitoring system [r]: System used in commercial fishing to allow environmental and fisheries regulatory organizations to monitor, minimally, the position, time at a position, and course and speed of fishing vessels. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Satellite orbits [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ship [r]: Vessel larger than a boat for transporting people, goods, or defence by sea, and capable of crossing open waters. ^[e]
• Strait of Malacca [r]: One of the world's busiest waterways, passing Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, where piracy has been a major problem ^[e]
• Transponder [r]: A device, used in navigation, air traffic control, Safety of Life at Sea, and military operations (e.g., Identification-friend-or-foe which, when interrogated by an appropriate radio or radar signal, replies with its identification and other relevant navigation data ^[e]
• United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. ^[e]