Route Planning With ECDIS

What is voyage planning, Who is responsible, how do we comply with the rules and how do we utilize the features and functions available in an ECDIS?

Display of Electronic Charts

This chapter will give you an introduction to the various electronic chart display systems offered to the maritime industry, giving their advantages and disadvantages as seen from a navigator’s point of view.

Principle Used For Creating Electronic Charts - ECDIS

This videos will give you an introduction to the principle
used for creating charts.

Help you understand the limitations involved with the different methods used to create electronic charts and how to minimize the effect of these limitations.

Chart Projections and Chart Accuracy - ECDIS

With the increasing accuracy and reliability of navigational receivers, this part of the video module will try to establish a better understanding of the mathematical definition of the Earth’s surface and mapping of this curved shape onto a plane surface.

Whats is Electronic Chart Display and Information System ECDIS

This video will give you a brief introduction to the
evolution of electronic chart display systems (ECDIS).

It will help you understand what Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) is the present status of Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) and some guesses about the future of Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS).

Emergencies On Board

This video will introduce you to:

On-board emergencies and how to handle various emergency situations such as man over board, medical evacuation, fire, groundings, and hull damage etc.

General advice

Distress signal

Safety signal

Basic radio procedure

Distress alert from vessel

Distress alert from aircraft.

EPIRB and ELTs.

Additional equipments.

Vessel distress message.

Cancellation of distress message.

Medical evacuation (MEDEVAC).

Person overboard.

Immediate action.

Standard manoeuvres – Williamson turn.

One turn(single turn, Anderson turn and etc).

Scharnov turn.

Fire on board.

Grounding.

Hull damages.

Abandoning ship.

Medical emergency .

Pirates and armed robbers.

Search Techniques and Operations - Planning And Conducting Search

This video will introduce you to:

How search patterns and procedures must be planned order to execute operations with minimum risks and delay.

Planning the search.

Visual search.

Track spacing.

Parallel seep search.

Search area.

Expanding square search.

Sector search.

Track line search.

Parallel sweep search.

Coordinated vessel aircraft search patterns.

Initiation of search.

Restricted visibility.

Rader search .

Land search patterns.

Visual ground search.

SAR briefing, debriefing and tasking.

Navigational inaccuracies of searching ships.

Point to remember.

Maneuvering during a search.

Unsuccessful search.

Search successful.

Conclusion of the search.

How On Scene Coordinator (SAR) Planned And Executed

This video will introduce you to:

How on scene coordination may be planned and executed.

Requirements for coordination.

Coordination of search and rescue authorities.

On-scene coordination.

Designation of on-scene coordinator (OSC).

On-scene coordinator duties.

Aircraft coordinator.

SAR operation risks.

On-scene communications.

OSC communications.

Situation reports.

Initial SITREPs.

SITREPs on scene.

RCC and RSC communications.

SITREPs examples.

Procedures For Assisting Vessels, Aircraft And Helicopters

This video will introduce you to:

Procedures for assisting vessels, aircraft and
helicopters.

Basic search pattern theory and lookout procedures.

Introduction to rescue equipment.

Methods of distress notification.

Immediate action.

The assisting vessel.

On-board preparation.

Signaling equipment

Medical equipment.

Miscellaneous equipment.

Vessel not assisting.

The search action plan.

Developing own search planning.

Visual communications.

Visual means of communication.

Observers.

Supply dropping.

Assistance by helicopters.

Evacuation equipment.

The double lift method.

Rescue net.

Rescue litter.

Helicopter operations.

Communication ship/helicopter.

Safety preparations.

Rescue by maritime facilities.

Assisting to ditching aircraft.

Pilot information.

Ship position relative to ditching aircraft.

Rescue by aircraft.

Seaplanes and amphibians.

Rescue by land facilities.

Aircraft crash sites.

Care of survivors.

Handling of deceased persons.

Consideration for transport.

Contact with the media.

Assistance from ships.

Training of search and rescue personnel.

Minimum training requirements.

IAMSAR Overview

This video will introduce you to:

The responsibility of search and rescue organization.

The responsibility of its Co-coordinator.

Responsibilities and obligation to assist.

National and regional SAR system organization.

SAR coordination.

SAR coordinators.

SAR mission coordinator.

On-scene coordinator.

Search and rescue organization.

Propulsion And Manoeuvring Systems

This video will give you a general overview of the most common propulsion and manoeuvring systems used to day.

Manoeuvring Characteristics.

The traditional rudder and propeller system.

Motor ship – Low speed diesel engines.

Motor ship – Medium and high speed diesel engines.

Turbines.

Controllable pitch propeller (CPP).

Ducted propellers.

The conventional rudder profile.

Rudder balance.

Rudder designs.

Other rudder designs.

Operational aspects.

Twin schilling rudders.

Turning diagram for twin schilling rudder.

Conventional single screw arrangement.

Accurate and predictable turning manoeuvres.

Turning with constant rate of turn.

Calculation of rate of turn (ROT).

Turning with fixed turn radius.

Marine Useful Manoeuvres

This video will provide you with a basic introduction to some useful standard manoeuvres

Useful manoeuvres.

Pilot boarding arrangement.

Picking up a pilot.

Picking up a pilot in rough weather.

Pilot by helicopter.

Man over board.

The single turn.

The scarecrow turn.

The Williamson turn.

Man overboard – Immediate action.

Search patterns.

Re-supplying and transfers at sea.

Manoeuvring Characteristics And Interaction

This video will provide you with basic understanding of typical maneuvering characteristics for different ship types.

Ship steering.

Maneuvering information.

Turning circles.

Comparison of turning circles – loaded/ballast.

Passenger ferry – turning and stopping parameters.

Bulk carrier – turning and stopping parameters.

VLCC – Turning and stopping parameters.

Shallow water influence.

Squat.

Zig Zag test.

Emergency stopping.

Launching and recovery of boats.

Helicopter operations.

Forces Involved During Manoeuvring and Sailing of Ships

This video will provide you with a general overview of the forces involved during maneuvering and sailing of ships.

Bernoulli’s Law.

Forces.

The pivot point.

The turning.
lever and moment.

The rudder force.

Ship handling in practice.

How to obtain relevant information.

Ship maneuvering ability.

The professional ship handler.

What is ship handling?

This video will provide you with a short introduction to basic ship handling and an elementary understanding of the forces involved.

Merchant ship design principles.

Steering control.

What is ship handling?

Ship handlers.

Ship handling simulators.

Disabled Ship – Emergencies

The learning objectives for this Video are:

To be aware of the basic actions, which should be taken when
the ship is disabled or in an emergency situation.

Disabled Ship.

Accidental flooding.

Drift of a disabled ship.

Steering failure.

Use of anchors.

Towing.

Ship aground.

Safety Voyage Planning

The learning objectives for this Video are:
To draw the ship’s officer attention to the importance of implementing quality control in the operation of the ship.

Safety Management.
Safety.
Avoiding risk.
Environmental protection.
Safety concepts.
Definition of risk.
Improving safety reducing risk.
Human error.

What is Piracy? | What does Piracy Mean?

Marine Weather Routing

The learning objectives for this Video are:
To gain a basic understanding of what weather routing is, and how the voyage plan can benefit this statically data based on long term accumulation of data combined with up to date weather routing information.

Advantages of weather routing.

Weather.

Maps.

How much can one save in time.

Weather routing people and the captain.

Hull monitoring systems.

Effective Communication on Board

The learning objectives for this Video are:

To understand the importance of good communication procedures on all levels, in order to achieve safe and efficient ship operation.

What is Communication?

Different types of communication

Results of Communication Problems

Causes and occurrence of communication problems

Ship bridge communication

Good bridge communications

IMO publication

Sea speak

Safety watches keeping on GMDSS ships

VHF watch keeping

MF watch keeping

HF watch keeping

Log keeping

Testing Radio equipment

Pollution prevention

Emergency situations

Helicopter operations

Duties And Responsibilities of Officer On Watch(OOW)

The learning objectives for this Video are:

Familiarization with the duties of the Officer of the
watch (OOW)

Understanding the responsibility of being in charge to a
navigation watch

Primary duties of OOW.

Watch keeping.

Navigation.

Radio communications.

Additional duties.

COLREGS.

Periodic checks
on navigational equipment.

Operational checks.

Routine tests and checks.

Checks on
electronic equipment.

Changing over the watch.

Navigation.

Monitoring the voyage.

Using positions
from electronic position-fixing systems.

Navigation in restricted waters.
Navigation with pilot on board.

Monitoring the pilotage.

Controlling ship speed.
Steering.

Radio communications.

Search and rescue.