Patent ID: 8614633

Claim:
A hazard assessment and strategy formulation system for a vessel comprising: a hazard assessment element receiving alarms, or data, or alarms and data, representing damage or a hazard or damage and a hazard, for assessing the type and severity of a hazard represented by the alarms, the data, or both the alarms and the data, to provide an integrated assessment of hazard, damage and condition; a plurality of models for modeling at least two different hazards, the plurality of models including at least one model for modeling at least one hazard selected from the group including fire, smoke and fire and smoke, and at least one model for modeling at least one hazard selected from the group including temperature, flooding, hull damage, structural damage, hull stress, stability, hazardous gas, explosive gas, carbon monoxide, chemical agents, biological agents and radiological agents; whereby at least two models model at least two different hazards that are not related to each other, wherein the data from the plurality of models relating to the at least two different hazards is fused for providing the integrated assessment of hazard, damage and condition; a strategy formulation element receiving the integrated assessment of hazard, damage and condition from the hazard assessment element for formulating an integrated strategy of tasks for responding to the type and severity of hazard represented by the integrated assessment of hazard, damage and condition, wherein said strategy formulation element communicates the strategy of tasks to one or ones of the plurality of models and the one or ones of the plurality of models communicate modeled integrated hazard response information back to the strategy formulation element, and means communicating the modeled integrated hazard response information for implementation, or for display, or for report, or for any combination of implementation, display and report, whereby the integrated strategy of tasks and the integrated hazard response information integrate responses to at least two different hazards that are not related to each other.