All Stores & Supplies to vessel must be checked for content & Security. The Checks should so far as possible be carried out before the items are taken on board. If Unaccompanied luggage or bags are received, they must be checked prior moving them into the accommodation. The Designated area for searching them is on the main deck, adjacent midship stores. The Diagrams illustrate various places that Male & Female visitors could use to smuggle weapons or other harmful devices into the vessel. The following method is to be adapted to Search Visitors: The visitor … [Read more...]
Duties of Gangway Watchman – Merchant Ships
The gangways are manned by a watchman who is responsible to the SSO or OOW. Primary responsibility of a Gangway Watchmanto control access to the ship, control of people and equipment to and from the vessel, searching of personnel and/or baggage, reporting of security incidents or breaches.Additionally, Gangway watchman must be trained for belowGangway access point ALWAYS MUST BE MANNED. If somebody from ship’s staff call for another duty, must be sure, that reliever is available at the gangway. Those on gangway duty must not leave the station until properly … [Read more...]
Hatch Covers – Function, Inspection, Tests, Precautions, Operation, Maintenance
Introduction It is generally accepted that leaking hatch covers are a principal cause of dry cargo wetting. Hatches leak for a variety of reasons, but mainly because of poor maintenance or failure to close them properly. Leaking or badly maintained hatch covers can lead to more serious consequences than wet cargo- flooding accelerated corrosion or even loss of the ship.A watertight hatch cover is a cover designed to prevent the passage of water in either direction under a head of water for which the surrounding structure is designed. A weathertight cover is a cover designed to prevent the … [Read more...]
SPM (Single Point Mooring) or SBM Operations
A Single Point Mooring Buoy consists of a buoy that is permanently moored to the seabed by means of multiple mooring lines/anchors/chains allowing cargo transfer of liquid petroleum products. The buoy contains a bearing system that allows a part of it to rotate around the moored geostatic part. When a Ship is moored to this rotating part of the buoy with a mooring connection, the vessel is able to freely weather-vane around the geostatic part of the buoy. Responsibility Master has the overall responsibility for the mooring operations of the vessel at the SBM.The officer-in-charge of … [Read more...]