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Crossing the Dover Strait Separation Scheme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

I. D. Irving
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In this paper Captain I. D. Irving, master of a cross-channel ferry, discusses some of the problems which arise from the operation of the 1972 Collision Regulations within the Dover Strait Traffic Separation Scheme. The paper is a revised version of one presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Vessel Traffic Services.

The Dover Strait and its approaches form one of the world's busiest waterways. Perhaps inevitably therefore it has been the scene of a large proportion of the world's collisions and strandings, and for this very reason became the site of the first offshore Traffic Separation Scheme. At first the scheme was only voluntary, but with the introduction ten years later of the 1972 International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, compliance with the IMCO-approved scheme became mandatory for all vessels.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 124 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1982

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