New beacon helps find overboard sailors. (Tech Talk).The U.S. Navy is deploying an alarm system designed to protect its 180,000 sailors at sea from falling overboard o·ver·board adv. Over or as if over the side of a boat or ship. Idiom: go overboard To go to extremes, especially as a result of enthusiasm. and drowning, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the system's inventor, Joe Landa, director of product development at BriarTek Inc., of Alexandria, Va. Falling overboard is a serious risk for sailors, who often have to work on ship decks during heavy seas and high winds, said the Navy Safety Center, in Norfolk, Va. Since 1980, the center said, more than 1,000 sailors have been swept into the seas, and 133 of them have died. During the early days of the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act , the Navy had three overboard incidents. The only current way for the Navy to detect a man overboard is by sight, said a BriarTek partner, Charles Collins, a former naval officer NAVAL OFFICER. The name of an officer of the United States, whose duties are prescribed by various acts of congress. 2. Naval officers are appointed for the term of four years, but are removable from office at pleasure. Act of May 15, 1820, Sec. 1, 3 Story, L. . BriarTek's system--known as the Overboard Recovery Communication Apparatus, or ORCA--is water-activated and alerts a ship's crew automatically if a crewmember falls over the side, Landa explained. The system consists of a beacon worn by sailors while on deck at sea, a receiver that alerts crew members and rescue authorities in the event of an emergency, and a direction finder direction finder, electronic device used to determine the position of a ship or aircraft. In a simple direction finder a radio receiver is equipped with a revolving directional antenna. that helps locate lost individuals, he said. ORCA Orca - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. identifies the sailor in the water, the ship from which he or she fell and the precise point at which the incident occurred, Landa said. Thus far, the Navy has purchased 3,000 ORCA systems, Landa said. Eventually, he said, the service plans to procure systems for the entire fleet. |
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