The World Prepares to Avoiding Ice and Mammals

Owners and guests aboard The World will be travelling through the Northwest Passage in summer, 2012. The World's owners and professional staff have made a sound safety decision to upgrade their FS-3DT system to the newest FarSounder FS-3ER 1/2 nm navigation and obstacle avoidance system. This challenging voyage includes navigating through ice and avoiding large marine mammals. 

 

While winding their way through the Canadian Arctic Archipelego and east to the Labrador Sea, they will have the added security of knowing the ship's crew will be seeing ahead not just by radar above the water, but with FarSounder's forward looking sonar system showing the way below the water.

 

This will be the first upgrade to an FS-3ER performed without first dry-docking the vessel. The World will be utilising a team of commercial divers while the ship remains in the water.