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A Comparative Study on Marine Rescue Volunteer Organizations (해상 구조 봉사단체의 비교 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Myoung;Kim, Young-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.385-392
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    • 2009
  • Maritime safety management needs active public participations because the sea is too wide for a government to respond to all unexpected accidents with limited resources. Marine rescue volunteer organizations of US, UK, Japan and Korea were compared one another on the base of disaster management governance theory, and recommendations for the development of marine rescue volunteer organization of Korea were proposed. The advanced organizations commonly have tradition of marine rescue voluntaryism in the advanced maritime countries. They have nation-wide networks and self-governing structures. Their main activities include public maritime safety education and fundraising programs as well as marine rescue operations. They have cooperative relationships with government agencies in charge of national maritime safety management, which are usually guaranteed by legislations or institutional systems. Donations from the public are major source of their finances. Members mainly consist of civil volunteers, and get basic compensations for their expenses. For the advancement of marine rescue volunteer organization of Korea, efforts are needed to strengthen the membership of civil rescue fleet, to activate public education and fundraising programs, and to amend the related law for institutional support.

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An Empirical Study on the Improvement of Marine Traffic System at the Pyeong-taek Adjacent Areas (평택항 접근수역의 해상교통시스템 개선에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • Yoon, Byoung-Won;Park, Jin-Soo;Park, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.507-514
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    • 2015
  • This study focused on the investigating of the improving measure of marine traffic system around Pyung-Taek Pilotage area. First, we analyzed the marine traffic environment on the study area based on the expert point of view of pilot and shipmasters. Then suggested the following countermeasures to improve the traffic safety according to the analytic results of the hazardous items on the Jangan-Seo and Ippa pilot embarking/disembarking area. We suggested to establish Mokdeok-do TSS and TSS in Ando area, and to adjust the width of Jangan-seo TSS to improve the congestion on the TSSs. Also suggest to put lightbuoys along the outer limit of the TSS. In addition, recommend to establish traffic safety specific area on the Jangan-seo/Ippa-do water, and to suggest expand the anchorage area of Ippa and Jangan-seo anchorage. It is anticipated to improve the traffic safety on the study area through the marine traffic system improvements.

Enhancing Implementation Capability of National Maritime Administration for Preventing Marine Pollution

  • Lee Sang-jib
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.2 no.S1
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    • pp.53-73
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    • 1996
  • Almost of all the impediments to enchancing ship safety and preventing vessel-source marine pollution arise from the interaction between direct and indirect factors. The direct factors come from human errores and failure in complince with the international convention standards for the operation of vessels. The indirect factors derive from the will and attitudes of the countries taking little responsibilities with appropriate seriousness for policing their fleets. By focusing in these aspects, this paper intends to propose a new international regime to improve the implementation capability of national maritime administration of each member government of IMO(International Maritime Organization).

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A basic study on the introduction of safety management system for the costal/offshore fishing vessels in Korea (연근해어선 안전관리체제 도입에 관한 기초 연구)

  • RYU, Kyung-Jin;KIM, Hyung-seok;LEE, Yoo-Won;AN, Young-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.65-72
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    • 2018
  • This study analyzed the condition of marine accident and disaster rate of crew of Korean fishing vessels by vessel type, and checked the Australian safety management system and relevant regulation in Korea to suggest measures to build coastal/offshore fishing vessel safety management system in Korean coastal/offshore fishery. As a result, the power and production amount of Korean coastal/offshore fishing vessel is consistently decreasing while marine accident is increasing. Disaster rate of crew was higher than land industry, especially, the disaster rate of coastal/offshore fishing vessel was very high (100.0‰). Australia applies safety management system differed by vessel type and operation waters which fully considers the characteristics of pertinent vessel. The average accident rate of fishing vessels with gross tonnage over 20 tons among the Korean coastal/offshore fishing vessel was 13.6%, which was significantly higher than fishing vessels with gross tonnage below 20 tons (1.4%). Such result indicates it is urgent to implement safety management system to fishing vessel with gross tonnage over 20 tons and introduce fishing vessel safety supervisor. Establishing safety management system of coastal/offshore fishing vessel will contribute to consistent industrial development by achieving the general goal of reducing marine accident and spreading safety culture.

A Study on Reform for Subordinate Laws of the Marine Leisure Safety Act (수상레저안전법 하위법령 개정방안)

  • Lee Yun-Cheol;Yeo Sook-Kyung
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.111-124
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    • 2005
  • Small vessels of less then 20 tonnage and leisure boots such as motor boots, sailing yachts, water motorcycle, etc have been excluded from the rules and regulations such as Marine Leisure Safety Act, Ship Act and Ship Safety Act for a long time in Korea As a result, these small vessels and leisure boots have remained within the blind area of maritime safety and environment protection Among these vessels and boots, some leisure boots such as motor boots of 20 horse power or more(excluding motor boots equipped with engine inside the vehicles), water motorcycles and robber boots of 30 horse power or more are incorporated into the Marine Leisure Safety Act through the registry, safety inspection, insurance early 2005 in Korea In relation to the scope of application of the national Acts concerned, I consider the conflicts between Acts and suggest the subordinate enforcement ordinance and regulations.

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Assessment of the Navigational Safety Level in the Korean Coastal Waterway (연안해역의 항행 안전성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • 금종수;윤명오;장운재
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2001
  • In recent years, the marine traffic congestion has increased due to the expansion of vessel traffic volume in Korean coastal waterway. Heavy traffic could bring serious marine casualties which cause the loss of human lives, properties and marine pollution in coastal area. The prevention of marine accidents has been a major topic in marin society and various policies and countermeasures have been developed, applied to the industries. VTS(Vessel Traffic Services) is considered as one of effective method to promote marine safety but it needs relatively huge amount of budgets to build and also number of personnels for the operation. Thus prior to establishing the VTS. It should be surveyed the marine traffics, general conditions of waterway including geographical, meteorological characteristics and assessed to find the most reasonable area and places for the system. Therefore this paper aims to develop the method for this evaluation through the hierarchical evaluation structure model in connection with ISM(interpretive structural modeling) and AHP(analytic hierarchy process) methods. The model in this paper is applied to 4 coastal area in Korean waterway as candidates and found that the priority for the needs of VTS should be in order such as Yosu, Wando, Mokpo, Geoje coastal area.

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Trends of RFID Technology and Applications for Marine Information Systems (전자태그의 기술동향과 해양정보시스템에의 활용방안에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Jung-Sik;Jong, Jae-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.11 no.1 s.22
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2005
  • Recently, RFID technology play a key role to implement ubiquitous sensor network(USN). In this paper, we introduce trends of RFID technology, standardization, and then its applications. The purpose of this work is to suggest prosperous applications of RFID, which is applicable on marine information system, such as ship inventory management, management of container and its contents, sensing of environments within cargo hold, management of fishery boats. In case that RFID technology is utilized on marine information systems, it makes safety at sea and marine environments protection.

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