When someone
goes over,
you already saw it.
A person in the water is the smallest, lowest, darkest target at sea. Panoblu watches every bearing at once, in thermal, so the moment of a man overboard is seen and recorded the instant it happens, day or night. No camera to point. No arc left uncovered.
The hardest thing to see is a person in the water
A head in a swell is a tiny target, low to the surface and easily lost between waves. After dark the eye has almost nothing to work with, and a casualty drifts out of the deck lights within seconds. Cold water steals strength and coordination quickly, so the time between the fall and the first confirmed sighting is the part that matters most.
A fixed camera covers one arc. A PTZ is almost always pointed somewhere else at the exact moment it counts, and it cannot be in two places at once. The crew cannot watch every bearing at the same time. When someone goes over, the question is brutally simple: was anything looking that way, and was it recording. Panoblu answers it from every bearing at once: in thermal after dark with Panoblu IR, and in full daylight with Panoblu Seaview.
COLREGS Rule 5: every vessel shall maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means. A man overboard is the moment that duty is tested hardest, in the dark and at speed.
The moment someone goes over, every bearing was already covered
Panoblu does not search. It is already watching the whole horizon, in thermal, and recording it. A warm body shows up against cold water, and RAD puts a live range and bearing on it.
A fixed or PTZ camera sees one arc. Panoblu already saw it, from every bearing, and kept the recording.
Four things Panoblu does the instant it matters
How the recovery plays out
There is no camera to swing into place. The full 360° thermal view is already recording every bearing, so the go-over is captured the instant it occurs, even at night and even if the crew was facing the other way.
A warm body stands out clearly against the cold sea. The casualty is marked in the panorama and stays in continuous view, while the rest of the horizon keeps recording.
RAD gives a live distance and bearing to the casualty. The helm comes about with a clear picture, and the tender or rescue crew is vectored straight to the mark instead of searching.
The casualty is held in view right through the recovery. The full sequence is archived with GPS position, ready for the report, the insurer and the debrief.
Explore it yourself in 360°
An interactive man overboard scenario is on the way: drag to look around the full thermal panorama, find the heat signature, and watch RAD range the casualty in real time.
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