ECDIS Voyage planning
time information for the mariner and limitations of the equipment.
and will inevitable be universally Such a system must not lull the
adopted. mariner into a false sense of
It is a sophisticated object security. Mariners must ensure that
database that maintains the they do not depend solely on one
mariner’s navigations objects system without some means of
such as waypoints, routes, and occasional crossreferencing or
specific points of interest and verification. Audible and visual
provides very good security for alarms must be heeded. The system
the user’s navigation data must not be seen as a substitute for