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The Probability of Close Overtaking in Fog

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

R. G. Curtis
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In areas of high marine traffic density it has been necessary for IMCO to introduce traffic separation schemes to reduce the total number of encounters, and in particular the dangerous head-on encounters. It is now widely acknowledged that separation schemes can and do improve safety. However, as a side effect they unfortunately increase the number of overtaking encounters. For example the introduction of a separation scheme in the Dover Strait (with 1 per cent of ‘through rogues’) has increased threefold the proportion of potential overtaking encounters.

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Marine Traffic Studies
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 329 - 340
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1980

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