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What does VDR stand for?

Voyage Data Recorder (Shipborne Black Box)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
The system includes a three-node electronic chart display and information system, navigation radars, adaptive self-tuning autopilot, voyage data recorder, speed and heading sensors, and other navigation components.
Transcripts of the voyage data recorder show the pilot and crew struggling in English and Chinese to read navigational devices amid anxiety about thick fog.
Exchanges between Mr Hubble and Mr Smith were captured on the ferry's voyage data recorder, its black box.
It approached a number of ferry companies asking for their black box voyage data recorders which give details of where a ship is at any time and any conversations on the bridge.
Rutter, developers of voyage data recorders and high resolution radar technology, posted the highest revenue growth among Canadian companies with an impressive revenue growth of 29,630% over the past five years.
The system includes the voyage data recorder that collects some 15 items of information from the vessel such as the course and speed, and the engine data logger, which records engine rpm and other data including temperatures and pressures in various components.
From July 1, all new-build passenger and cargo vessels must be fitted with Voyage Data Recorders.
The MDR was modelled after and is the military version of Sperry Marine's Voyage Data Recorder, which was approved and certified by the International Maritime Organisation for all passenger and new cargo ships over 3000 tonnes gross.

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