Process of selecting and applying a protective coating

A process of applying a protective coating to a vessel comprising the following steps:

• (i) selecting a protective coating, wherein the selection is made on the basis of risks associated with regions where the vessel has travelled or is expected to travel;
• (ii) providing the protective coating selected in step (i);
• and then
• (iii) applying the protective coating provided in step (ii) to the vessel;
• wherein step (i) comprises the following steps:
• (a) dissecting an environment into separate regions, and associating a risk rating with each region,
• (b) obtaining information about the route(s) the vessel has historically taken and/or will take in the future through the environment, over a specified period of time, wherein information obtained is GPS or AIS data,
• (c) determining via computer implementation which regions of the environment the vessel has travelled and/or will travel through over the specified period of time, and determining the amount of time the vessel has spent and/or will spend in each region in the specified period of time,
• (d) combining via computer implementation the data from steps (a), (b) and (c) to calculate an average risk rating the vessel has experienced and/or will experience in the specified period of time, and
• (e) based on the average risk rating calculated in step (d), selecting a protective coating that has been associated with that average risk rating, wherein step (e) requires the average risk rating which is calculated in step (d) to be matched with the most suitable protective coating which has been pre-designated as being the most suitable protective coating for protection against that level of risk.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a programmable computer system to execute the following steps:

• selecting a protective coating for a vessel, wherein the selection is made on the basis of risks associated with regions where the vessel has travelled or is expected to travel, and wherein the selecting comprises the following steps:
• (a) dissecting an environment into separate regions, and associating a risk rating with each region,
• (b) obtaining information about the route(s) the vessel has historically taken and/or will take in the future through the environment, over a specified period of time, wherein information obtained is GPS or AIS data,
• (c) determining via computer implementation which regions of the environment the vessel has travelled and/or will travel through over the specified period of time, and determining the amount of time the vessel has spent and/or will spend in each region in the specified period of time,
• (d) combining via computer implementation the data from steps (a), (b) and (c) to calculate an average risk rating the vessel has experienced and/or will experience in the specified period of time, and
• (e) based on the average risk rating calculated in step (d), selecting a protective coating that has been associated with that average risk rating, wherein step (e) requires the average risk rating which is calculated in step (d) to be matched with the most suitable protective coating which has been pre-designated as being the most suitable protective coating for protection against that level of risk.