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Recent Posts:
- Fire Wires or Emergency Towing-off Pennants (ETOP’s), MEG 4, ISGOTT Edn 6th Recommendations
- Safety Officer Onboard – Definition, Duties and Powers
- What is General Average & the importance of York-Antwerp Rules ?
- What is a Marine Policy? Basics you need to know!
- Documentary Credit System in Shipping – Basics Explained with Flowchart
- Propeller Cavitation Explained – Cause, Types, Effects & Avoidance
- Technical Aspects of GMDSS Equipments – Propagation, Modulation, Terrestrial Equipment & Antenna
- Note of Protest vs Letter of Protest – Why, When and Differences between NOP & LOP
- Frontal Depressions – Types of Fronts, Weather Associated and Frontolysis
- Clouds – Formation and Ten different Types
- Shipboard Plate and Construction Terms
- The Inclining Experiment – Ascertain the GM of Vessel
- Ship’s Log and Log Distance
- The Marine Chronometer
- Ship’s Magnetic Compass – Dry and Wet Compass with their care, maintenance and bubble removal
- Gyro Compass – Basic Principle, Operation and Usage on Ships
- Coefficients of Form – Ship’s Waterplane, Block, Midship and Prismatic Coefficient
- The Aneroid Barometer and How to use it…
- UNCLOS – Salient Features, Objectives, Maritime Zones, Passages and Duties
- Master Pilot Exchange – Duties, Responsibilities and Elements of effective Relationship
- Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) – Purpose, Organisation and its components
- Stowaways – Who are they, What are Individual Duties?
- Anchoring System and its Components On-board Ships
- Magnetic Compass & Ship Magnetism – Simplified Explanation
- Ship Interactions when Navigating in a Channel
- Hot Work – Definition, Responsibility, Process and Risks On-board Ships
- Anchoring – An Effective means of Controlling Ship’s Movement
- Certificates and Documentation Required to be carried Onboard Ships
- Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) – Guidelines for use in IMO Rule Making Process
- Search Procedures & Stores Checks – ISPS (Merchant Ships)
- Duties of Gangway Watchman – Merchant Ships
- Notice of Readiness (NOR) – Definition, Contents & Requirements
- Hatch Covers – Function, Inspection, Tests, Precautions, Operation, Maintenance
- SPM (Single Point Mooring) or SBM Operations
- International Institutions and their Association with Shipping (ILO, WHO, ISF, ICS, BIMCO, SIGTTO, OCIMF)
- Condition Assessment Programme (CAP)
- Condition Assessment Scheme (CAS)
- Port State Control (PSC) – An agreed regime for the inspection of foreign ships
- ISPS code – A measure to enhance the security of Ships and Port facilities
- ISM Code – All you should know about International Safety Management Code
- Harmonized System of Survey and Certification (HSSC)
- What is Chipping ? Tools, Precautions & Protection
- Gas Tanker – Types, Tanks, Reliquefaction & Cargo handling opertions
- Gas Tanker Basics – Definitions and Hazards
- TRS or a Tropical Revolving Storm
- Rule 41 – Verification of compliance
- Rule 40 – Application
- Rule 39 – Definitions
- Marine Insurance – Purpose, Principle, Warranties and General Average
- Protection & Indemnity Clubs
- Maritime – What is a Bill of Lading (B/L)?
- Inert Gas on board Tankers – All you need to know!
- Longitudinal Stability for Ships
- Man Overboard – Manoeuvers you need to know to save a life
- Ship’s you need to sail on before you die!
- What is ALARP and why do you need to know it?
- Ballast Water Management – Merchant Ships
- For Every Man at Sea – the most vital adventure checklist
- I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list
- What is a Special Trade ?
- Articles of Agreement – MSA 1958
- Official log book entries as per MSA 1958
- Unseaworthy and Unsafe Ship’s as per MSA 1958
- Death On board – Master Responsibility as per MSA 1958
- General Offence Against Discipline – Merchant Shipping Act 1958
- The Procedure For Transferring The Registry
- The provisions of MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1958 regarding Certificate of Registry
- Slow Speed Control
- Stresses in Ships
- Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System (BNWAS)
- Portable Fire Extinguishers
- Cold Work
- Basic Propeller Types
- Glossary of Terms – Petroleum Cargo Calculations
- Pre-Loading Cargo Handling Procedures on Oil Tankers
- Guidelines on Working aloft or Overside on Ships
- Cargo Conditioning, Reliquefaction – Gas Tankers
- Ship Stability Definitions related to Hydrostatic Particulars
- Static Electricity / Electrostatic Hazards
- What is Load on Top (LOT)?
- Principles of Ship Handling
- The Pivot Point
- Circumpolar bodies
- Twilight
- Rising and Setting of Celestial Bodies
- IALA Buoyage System
- Biological Sewage Treatment Plant “BIOMASTER”
- Liferaft – General Requirements
- Lifeboat – General Requirements
- What is Transverse Thrust?
- Shallow Water Effect on Ship
- How do you make out if the Anchor is dragging?
- Solar system and Kepler’s law of Planetary Motion
- Revised High Risk Area – BMP4 effective 1 December 2015
- Heavy Lift Cargo – Precautions and Stability Changes Onboard Merchant Ships
- Pyrophoric Iron Fires
- Intact Stability – Tankers
- Visual Storm (Cyclone) Warning Signals for Indian Sea Ports
- Lifting Operations Onboard Ship
- Control of operational discharge of oil (Cargo Area)