ABSTRACT

Taking under investigation the main problems and bottlenecks in field of providing of navigation safety during last 20-30 years, we may detect the paradox situation: the rate of accidents at sea doesn’t show a tendency for decreasing, so that annual ratio module of ships totally lost related to number of ships in whole world merchant fleet is today more or less the same as 20-30 years ago. By first look, it seems to be at least strange because the technical and technological level of nowadays ships is much higher than some decades ago. The devices, appliances and apparatus that complete the modern ship bridge and engine rooms are in general relatively easy-going in exploitation and user-friendly. The professional preparation of seafarers is regulated by world-wide acknowledged international regulations, first at all by STCW 1978 Convention. The majority of maritime schools and academies have consistently been evaluated by competent authorities and their programmes and courses are recognized as meeting the requirements. But why we have no today the significant improving in statistics of marine accidents in whole or, at least, speed and scope of dynamic of their decrease don’t satisfy us?