Common ECDIS Errors: The Mistakes That Ground Ships
An ECDIS rarely fails by breaking; it fails quietly. The settings, habits, and blind spots behind real groundings, and the simple discipline that prevents them.
Safety Contour
ECDIS Route Monitoring and Alarms
An ECDIS alarm is only as good as the settings behind it. How the safety contour, the look-ahead cone, and cross-track limits keep the watch off the ground.
ECDIS Safety Settings: Contour, Depth, and Height
ECDIS does not know what “safe” means for your ship until you tell it — and its default guess is dangerous. Here is how the safety contour, depth, and height settings really behave.