Acidentes da navegação

Abstract

The present article aims to follow up a research done in 2017, in a Conclusion Work of the Naval Engineering Course of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where navigation accidents were analyzed in the period from 2006 to 2015. Such research referenced data collected on navigation accidents in the period exposed, analyzing causes, number of fatalities, correlating with occurrences in Brazilian regions and with the size of vessels. In the present work, we sought to collect data on navigation accidents that occurred in Brazil in 2016, analyzed by the Maritime Court, aiming to continue the research in the most relevant parts, to explain important concepts related to the Court, in addition to other definitions related to accidents navigation. In Brazil, accidents and facts of navigation are judged by the Maritime Court, an autonomous body, linked to the Ministry of Defense through the Navy Command. In order to understand the functioning of this important body, its creation, structure of operation, composition and competence, as well as concepts related to accidents and navigation facts, will be demonstrated, addressing the perspectives of distinguished authors of the studied area, as well as definitions in account for the collection of data on the survey, collected from the yearbooks of the Maritime Court jurisprudence, in addition to other statistics collected in the bibliographical references. For that, we used researches in books, laws, information and analyzes in websites of the sectors involved in the subject, as well as previously elaborated monographs related to the subject.