WELCOME TO SOLAS, FAMILIARIZATION PLATFORM
The current project takes the initiative to create a new multimedia, interactive familiarization platform for SOLAS treaty.
Why SOLAS ?
SOLAS is a complicated textbook of 474 pages and 14 chapters.
Our goal is to support the efforts of protecting human life at sea by visualizing each chapter.
Whom it benefits
VIRTUAL REALITY
Our approach is to create an interactive environment between the vessel and the user/trainee by implementing the Virtual Tours technology that’s widely know by Google (Google Street View).
Furthermore we plan to make it compatible -in the near future- with virtual reality hardware, like Oculus Rift.
TOMORROW ‘S TECHNOLOGY, TODAY
Live Pano Technology (interactive videos inside virtual tours)
User friendly environment.
Hotspots (Interactivity with various points inside the Virtual Tours).
In most Greek myths, Phorcys was the son of the Titaness Gaia (who personified the earth) and the Titan Pontus (who personified the sea). Gaia was one of the most ancient beings in the cosmos, and Pontus exercised great authority over the vast and dangerous seas, so it is no surprise that Phorcys was pretty powerful himself.
Phorcys was a god of the sea, like his father, but was specifically associated with all the hidden dangers of the water. That was his specialty: controlling and creating the submerged and unseen things that Greek sailors would come to fear. Phorcys’ appearance reflected this; he was often depicted as having a mermaid-like tail, the red skin/shell of a crab, crab forelegs, and often crab claws as well. That’s a deity and danger you would hope stays hidden in the depths.
The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships. The first version was adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 1929, the third in 1948, and the fourth in 1960. The 1974 version includes the tacit acceptance procedure – which provides that an amendment shall enter into force on a specified date unless, before that date, objections to the amendment are received from an agreed number of Parties.
As a result the 1974 Convention has been updated and amended on numerous occasions. The Convention in force today is sometimes referred to as SOLAS, 1974, as amended.
In 2017 the project was developed as a dissertation from the post-graduated student Mr. Stefanos Gkouveris for the M.Sc. in Maritime Studies at University of Piraeus.
In 2018 and with the participation of Dr. Alexandros Artikis, Dr. Vasilios Tselentis and Dr. Ernestos Tzannatos, a research paper based on this project was published by SNAME.
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Presentation a SOME 2018
SOLAS platform will be presented at The International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management and Economics (SOME) at Eugenides Foundation in Athens, Greece on [...]
Presentation of SOLAS Platform at University of Piraeus with WMU
SOLAS Platform was the one of two project that were presented by University of Piraeus during the visit of World Maritime University in Greece. The [...]