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Maritime accidents of all stripes — great and small — occur in a wide range of circumstances and conditions. The common thread that is usually found in the proper investigation and analysis of these accidents is not a sudden or mysterious failure of a system or item of equipment. Nor is it the lack of a properly functioning system or item of equipment. With the exception of product/vessel defects, the common cause of most maritime accidents are aspects of human error and human factors.
Just how does such causation occur? The recreational boating / Jetski and ship / barge / towboat operation environments, for example, require the successful performance of many related visual performance tasks. The most crucial of these are:
maintaining a proper lookout,
observing a safe speed,
preserving night vision,
following the maritime Rules of the Road,
adhering to proper right-of-way rules,
the timely interpretation of aural and visual data, and
maintaining a situational awareness.
In order for a vessel operator to successfully and safely perform such vessel operation tasks, he / she must possess and use normal aspects of memory, visual acuity, aural function, and human cognition. These are the most basic and important requirements of human performance in the various maritime operating environments.
Trident Marine Safety Associates ...
… owned and operated by Henry S. Woods, III, has for 20 years combined the formal maritime education and graduate education of Mr. Woods in Marine Transportation, Marine Safety, and Human Factors into an integrated, cost-effective, and highly effective approach to providing expert witness services to several thousand clients in the general maritime, legal, insurance and recreational boating industries. Mr. Woods has taught upper-division courses in Marine Transportation at Texas A&M University. For his expertise in Human Factors, he was elected to the ISSM Triumvirate of the University of Southern California. He has provided Marine Safety analysis to FOX NEWS and CNN following a major maritime disaster. The educational and maritime professional employment of Mr. Woods spans 44 years and includes the areas of vessel management, vessel operations, vessel safety, formal major accident investigations, university teaching, and human factors.
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