SEALANTERN VDR APT

 

Annual Performance Test - SLT-18C APT

Ships equipped with VDR to assist in casualty investigations.
Control Technic is authorised distributor and service partner of Sealantern. We are providing for  Sealantern SLT-18C  APT ,  maintenance , repair and calibration service for Sealantern products. Spare parts stock and supply is possible.

VDR is  a store, in a secure and retrievable form, information concerning the position, movement, physical status, command and control of a ship over the period leading up to and following an incident.

Difference between VDR and  S-DVR

 Simplified voyage data recorder that fulfils the same requirements of an VDR, but with less inputs. They can be carried by cargo ships of 3,000 gross tonnage and upwards instead of a VDR built after July 2002.

 

The voyage data recorder system, including all sensors, shall be subjected to an annual performance test.  The test should  be done by an approved testing or servicing Engineers / companies by manufacturers.

IMO Rules for VDR - MSC/Circ.1024   29 May 2002 

Passenger ships and ships other than passenger ships of 3000 gross tonnage and upwards constructed on or after 1 July 2002 must carry voyage data recorders (VDRs) to assist in accident investigations, under regulations adopted in 2000, which entered into force on 1 July 2002.The mandatory regulations are contained in chapter V on Safety of Navigation of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS).

Like the black boxes carried on aircraft, VDRs enable accident investigators to review procedures and instructions in the moments before an incident and help to identify the cause of any accident.

Read  MSC/Circ.1024

 

 

VDR records continuosly below data
 

Date and time– From an external source
Ship’s position-From GPS
Speed– From GPS or other
M/E RPM - Through some converter
Heading– Gyro
Bridge people sound-Covering all bridge workstations. At least 2 channels
Communications audio– On separate channel
Radar-Main displays of both radar installations
ECDIS-Record the display of ECDIS in use as primary means of navigation
Echo sounder– Depth information
Main alarms– Status of mandatory alarms
Rudder order and response– Includes settings of heading or track controller
Engine and thruster order and response-positions of any engine telegraphs or direct engine/propeller/Thruster controls, feedback indications and the control station in use
Hull openings status– To include all mandatory status information required to be carried on the bridge
Watertight and fire door status— To include all mandatory status information required to be carried on the bridge
Accelerations and hull stresses- When a ship is fitted with hull stress and response monitoring equipment
Wind speed and direction– Where a ship is fitted with a suitable sensor, wind speed and direction
AIS- All AIS data should be recorded
Rolling motion– If electronic inclinometer

Control Technic is authorised distributor and service partner of Sealantern. We are providing APT ,  maintenance , repair and calibration service for Sealantern products. Spare parts stock and supply is possible.