A Research Team Hopes to Get Every Sailor to Wear a Sleep Tracker. And They Have Big Plans for the Data
21 Aug 2021
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
The Naval Health Research Center is getting sailors to wear devices that track their sleep, hoping to get a better understanding of how lack of sleep affects performance and crew endurance, while giving commanders hard data on sailors' sleep patterns.
The research comes on the heels of two separate, deadly ship collisions in 2017. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship off Japan in June of that year in an incident that killed seven sailors. Two months later, the destroyer McCain collided with an oil tanker off Singapore, killing 10.
The Navy's investigation into the incidents revealed that sleep deprivation played a major contributing role.
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