Ship to circumnavigate Denmark with passengers, but without crew

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 Ship to circumnavigate Denmark with passengers, but without crew


The Nelly Bly will leave the port of Hamburg next September. On board this small tug will be three people, but none of them will take the controls unless it is an emergency. It is an autonomous boat and its creators want it to circumnavigate Denmark.

Ship to circumnavigate Denmark with passengers, but without crew



The crossing is neither short nor easy. It is a route of 1,000 nautical miles (approximately 1852 km) filled with sea traffic of all kinds and with stops at equally busy ports. The promoters of the voyage are an American company called Sea Machines and the aim of the voyage is precisely to test their new autonomous maritime navigation system, the SM300.

Ship to circumnavigate Denmark with passengers, but without crew


The SM300 is a computerized vision system that complements GPS guidance systems and all other computerized nautical information enjoyed by human-piloted vessels. The system is not only capable of following a predetermined route. It also detects obstacles and avoids them along that same route. This last detail is critical when moving through busy waters with small boats moving back and forth.




The Nelly Bly, named after the record-breaking journalist who sailed solo around the world, will have three people on board at all times, but none of them will take control of the boat. Their job is to sit and record the events of the voyage. They will only take control of the boat in the event that the autonomous navigation system fails and the boat has to be maneuvered in an emergency. The three passengers will be replaced in shifts so that they can rest. The real crew of the Nelly Bly is on the other side of the ocean, at Sea Machines' headquarters in Boston.

The company not only has this small ship. It has recently been chosen by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide autonomous navigation for refueling ships. Sea Machines isn't even the only one developing this technology. There are a few others that suggest that autonomous driving will become popular much sooner at sea than on land. Popular Science]

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