Duration: 5 Days (40 hours)
This course is based on IMO Model Course 1.22. It essentially deals with the principles and practices of passage planning, keeping safe navigational watch, use of bridge resources, and team management and consists of various practical exercises with the use of full mission bridge simulator.
COURSE AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
This course aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of bridge safe watchkeeping principles, passage planning and bridge team organization & management. Those successfully completing the course should gain experience in handling ships under various conditions in a simulated environment, which, in effect, will consequently enable them to effectively contribute to the bridge team during ship maneuvering in normal and emergency situations.
COVERAGE / PROGRAM FOCUS:
- Familiarization with the bridge
- Standard Maneuvers
- Wind and current effect
- Attitude
- Cultural awareness
- Briefing/debriefing
- Challenge and response
- Shallow-water effects
- Bank, channel and interaction effects
- Planning
- Authority
- Management on the bridge
- Workload and stress
- Anchoring and single-buoy mooring
- Human factor in error
- Decision making
- Crisis management
- Planning and carrying out a voyage in normal and emergency situations
- Practical (Simulated exercises)
TEACHING METHOD:
This course is practical and theoretical based and consists of a series of exercises performed on a ship handling simulator. The classroom lectures to deliver to give the participants an extensive understanding of human factors at sea, to prevent incidents and near-misses, to handle critical situations in an operational context and provide necessary theoretical background for the simulation exercises. Program can be tailored to specific shipping company operations.
ENTRY REQUIREMENT / TARGET GROUP:
The candidates should be holders of certificates satisfying the requirements of Regulation II/1, II/2 and II/3 of the STCW 1978, as amended. For those who graduated before year 2002, it is mandatory that they have completed relevant training in Radar Observation and Plotting. Additionally, thorough understanding of the Collision Regulations (Rules of the Road) is essential.
COURSE CERTIFICATE:
A Certificate of Completion is given to each participant who satisfactorily fulfills the Course. Certificate of Proficiency is issued by the Department of Shipping on completion of an oral test.