26 januari 2012

Reconstruction of Costa Concordia's Course Based on AIS Data

After the Costa Concordia made the headlines by running onto a rock off the island of Giglio in Italy, QPS made the following reconstruction based on the AIS data. The company used its Qastor Pilotage software to replay the final minutes of the Costa Concordia and show the sort of warnings that are available to the mariner in today's software. Watch it here.

The Costa Concordia apparently had a habit of sailing close to the island of Giglio. On the 14th of August 2011, the Costa Concordia made a similar, but near-miss, passage as the one in January that resulted in the ship's grounding. The first close encounter took place near the same rock formation that hit the ship in January (Punta di Castellari 238 m distance/13.8 kn), the second one at Punta di Lazaretto ( with only 156 m distance/11.6 kn). QPS also made a reconstruction of this passage, which we have also posted on SWZonline (below the one that resulted in the grounding).

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16 februari		Decommissioning of the Dutch AOR 832 Zuiderkruis
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2 februari		Damen Launches FISV 6210 for Angola
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2 februari		Polaris Bridge Simulator Approved to Latest DNV Standard
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