Sistema de Passadiço integrado

Abstract

The Merchant Marine has developed several inovations over the years and the most remarkable has been its technological evolution in its various sectors. Modern integrated bridges contrast with traditional equipments, such as the Sextant and the Compass. If in a not too distant past, the navigation aids were created to allow determine the position and a safe course to sail, nowadays it goes far beyond, it reaches all sectors of maritime community. Along the pros comescons and a disadvantage of all this progress is the requirement for new levels of users training and a greater awareness to avoid inordinate reliance on the automation are required. The aim of this study is to analyze the bridge’s modernization, presenting and commenting the advantages brought by technology and its evolution with focus in the last few decades and in the legal requirements for the large application of this tecnologies. This study is based on the bridge description along this evolution, the presentation of new equipments and the “new bridge”, and the discussion of benefits and potential harms posed by automation.