Safety at sea


Weight displacement can cause boats to loose stability and sink.

A computer system that records and analyses the rolling of the hull, can notify the captain of danger. However, increasing wave height and chaotic wave directions cause increasing calculation difficulties.



"Star Fraser"
the sister ship of
"Fuji Star"

Source: Jon H. Knudsen, Dept. of Information Science, University of Bergen
Data: F.K. Smith A/S - Bergen, diagrams from Minitab ver. 10 for Windows.