{"value":{"id":1286665,"askingMemberId":3834,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-02-11T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-02-25T00:00:00","uin":"HL13330","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 5 February (HL12745), whether, in the event of the failure of satellite-based and radio-based navigation provisions, ships’ officers should use navigation methods that were in place before the introduction of those provisions.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4580,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-02-23T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Merchant ships’ navigation officers, under part of their certificates of competency, are provided practical training both ashore and on board to detect and adequately respond to failures of satellite-based and radio-based navigation systems. These responses already include reverting to use of navigation methods other than the satellite and radio-based navigation provisions.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, merchant ships’ navigation watchkeeping procedures contain explicit instructions to routinely employ alternative navigations systems - such as radar for harbour and coastal waters, and celestial navigation for oceans – so as to not rely solely on the satellite and radio-based navigation provisions.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Merchant Shipping: Navigation","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1286665","method":"GET"}]}