Re: Paper charts versa Electronic charts (ECDIS)
ECDIS is proven a big accident creator, not only because that they are often incorrect
but also for the fact that they were initial pushed more or less unregulated onto ships.
As usually that happened because when groundings/collisons etc occured the look out was just making coffee and the OOW was just on the toilet, in reality they were because of minimum crews aboard fatigue and tired and fell asleep. Then more electronic came (as usual, more electronic, more safe,,also when the opposite is the fact) in the form of ECDIS and crew had to deal with them untrained. To make it worst, the IMO members
and the manufacturers could not settle on one system. so from ship to ship and company to company everything was different. Even today, OOW,s have to be trained TYPE specific !!!
If they get trained at all.
As for replacing the ECDIS with paper charts,,that,s exactly what ECDIS did replacing the paper charts !!!! All paper charts will be gone by about 2020. Then they will be also not there anymore as back up !!!!
By then I am retired,,THANKS GOD !!!!!