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Abstract

The success of the maritime trip increasingly depends on good planning and execution of navigation, the difficulties faced by seafarers boosted the development of auxiliary tools to the navigation, in the past they are hand tools such as sextant, the astrolabe and the line plumb. Over Time many of those tools has become intangible and it has reduced the workload of seafarers that are now sailing safely, easily and precisely.The Merchant Marine has suffered several modifications 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. A disadvantage of all this development process is that new Technologies require new levels of training for seafarers and a greater awareness to avoid inordinate reliance on the automation are also required, however the level of technological precision is higly developed and this reduces the risk of failure of equipments. Furthermore, nowadays there are technological support for the prevention of such risk. The aim of this study is to analyze the advantages brought by some Technologies and its evolution that are now extremely important for navigation presenting and commenting with focus in the last few decades. This study is based on the presentation of some equipments and the “new bridge”.