Archive for 'Maritime' Category
MEDIA RELEASE: ‘A BREATH OF FRESH AIR’ FOR MARITIME SAFETY TRAINING; THE HUMAN ELEMENT FILM LAUNCHES TO WIDESPREAD INDUSTRY APPROVAL
MEDIA RELEASE: ‘A BREATH OF FRESH AIR’ FOR MARITIME SAFETY TRAINING; THE HUMAN ELEMENT FILM LAUNCHES TO WIDESPREAD INDUSTRY APPROVAL “Very professionally done” “We would recommend everyone to buy and view it” “A breath of fresh air” “Moves the discussion further forward” “You’ve set the bar very high for this sort of training aid” “It’s [...]
Industry Recommendations for ECDIS Familiarisation
News from The Nautical Institute Industry Recommendations for ECDIS Familiarisation 21.11.12 The Nautical Institute announced today (Wednesday 21 November) the publication of Industry Recommendations for ECDIS Familiarisation to promote clarity around Generic Training and Familiarisation regarding Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS). The guidance has been issued by the ECDIS Training Group – an [...]
ECDIS: Assumptions and Misplaced Confidence
The UK’s MAIB have today published the latest edition of their excellent Safety Digest, issue 2/2012. You can download it from here, and I can highly recommend it. The document follows the standard format for these publications, with anonymised accident report summaries followed by easily digested safety lessons that can be learnt from each incident. [...]
‘ECDIS: A Primer & Reminder’ – DVD training for the age of e-navigation.
ECDIS: A Primer & Reminder Ask any ship manager about ECDIS and they will have a story or two to tell, and they won’t all be good ones! ECDIS is a major development in the way we navigate our ships, but it’s a complex subject – one that is frequently not understood sufficiently, leading [...]
Social network for seafarers – Crewtoo.com
Walport are happy to support a new initiative for seafarers – the Crewtoo social network. Started in 2011, originally as a purely email-based network, Crewtoo now has its website up and running – Crewtoo.com – where seafarers can signup for free and join the 1700+ that are already members. Crewtoo : Allows you to post [...]
Lifeboat Fall Preventer Devices (FPD’s)
A video from the UK MCA showing the benefits of fitting and using Fall Preventer Devices (FPD’s) to lifeboat on-load release hooks … FPD’s are discusssed in our ‘Lifeboat Drills – Preparing for Safety‘ DVD. The film discusses the importance of carrying out, attending and learning from regular and safe lifeboat drills and includes [...]
Maritime industry statistics
For those with an interest (and I certainly have one) there is an interesting page on the ‘Seafarers Rights’ website, giving some potantially valuable statistics about the world maritime industry. Top 20 Flag States World Fleet – Pie ChartWorld Fleet Worldwide Supply of Seafarers Top 20 Ship Owning Countries The page concerned is HERE.
Costa Concordia – Human Element Part III
I’ve received an interesting submission on the continuing debate over the Costa Concordia incident, and specifically the behaviour of Captain Schettino. The author, Nick Young, is an ex-Radio Officer who served on a number of merchant and cruise vessels. Nick’s suggestion of a ‘super-numerary Captain’, distanced from events but ready to take command should the [...]
EHMC video – ‘The Missing Link, improving the mooring process’
We’re pleased to tell you that we’ve reached an arrangement with the European Harbour Masters’ Committee to freely distribute a copy of their excellent DVD ‘The Missing Link, improving the mooring process’ with every copy purchased of our own Mooring Operations training DVD. “The aim of this film is to make the mooring process safer [...]
Costa Concordia – Human Element Part II
In the interests of editorial balance following my post yesterday on this subject, there is an interesting article on the gCaptain website that puts forward an alternative viewpoint on the behaviour of Captain Schettino. “The only fact that is certain in the Costa Concordia disaster is the universal truth of all maritime disasters… human mistakes [...]