Ship Handling

This Guide was prepared by the Nautical Institute to provide the shipping industry people with the discussion on the behavior of the vessel under particular circumstances addressing all difficulties that are commonly encountered at sea. The volume shall be used as an aid to the ship handlers worldwide.

The author of the publication has managed to maintain a proper balance between the theoretical basis and practical application if the theory in order to minimize the complex math data keeping it at the simplest level understandable for the people without much experience. The book is aimed at ship masters and navigating officers as well as at the tug masters and pilots.

Starting with the general introductory information, the book the covers such important aspects as the slow speed control and effects of wind acting on the vessel, transverse thrust and interaction, turning and tidal effects, work of the bow thrusters and turning, twin screw work and use of tugs, dredging anchors and others. Numerous photographs and informative data tables supplement the text and make it easier to understand. The book will be useful even for the students making their first steps in maritime world.

This is one of the best training sources for the persons willing to improve their ship handling skills and get to the better and more thorough understanding of all its aspects. This title is excellent when used as a training manual; in the meantime it will be equally useful as a day-to-day reference.

It is a remarkably comprehensive and fully up to date guidebook encompassing both theoretical and practical sides of the ship handling procedures, covering all requirements of the STCW-level maritime qualifications and providing professional guidance on literally all hardware commonly used by the marine professionals who are expected to make use of the content of the present volume in both control and operation of their ships.

The main purpose of the book was to combine the hardware mentioned above with the theory in the changing operating conditions and in variable weather. It is quite obvious that, since the ship handling is not a standalone discipline and considers so many facets that affect a final success, knowledge of the theory is really necessary in order to further put it into practice and get required outcome. A really must-have publication for all those somehow involved in ship handling.

Vessel entering sea ports commonly have to work in a very restricted areas with quite limited room for the maneuvering; in the mean time, the long-distance offshore tow voyages have some specific problems. Both forces and loads that are involved in the towing process are also extremely high.

Moreover, you will have to take weather's unpredictability into consideration, as well as the tide and condition of the sea - think about this all and it will become clear that in fact towing a vessel is a very complicated and dangerous operation.

That is why it is essential to minimize all associated risks through ensuring best operational procedures by every single participant o the towing operation - starting from the deck crew and up to the Master, including crew members of the tugs, bridge officers and all others. The content of this guidebook has been designed to provide required assistance to the people working with tugs in the safest manner.

Though it should not be treated as a comprehensive instruction book on working with tugs, its content is primarily dealing with the safety issues to be considered when preparing for the towing and performing all operations. This video film shall be used as the supplement.

This nice practical guide was written with the original intention to demonstrate to the readers the whole range and scope of OSV activities and also provide necessary guidelines for safety management necessary because of the complexity of the activities in which the offshore support vessels are involved.

The chapters of the Guide address following major topics - Offshore Support Vessel design; Dive Support Vessels (DSV); Construction Vessels; Remotely Operated Vehicle (i.e. ROV) Support Vessels; Pipe Lay Vessels; Diving Operations; Construction Operations; ROV Support Vessel Operation; DPS; ISM Code and ISPS Code; Shipboard Safety; Environmental and Ballast Management.

An appendix at the end of the books provides some information on the saturation diving systems as well as the ROV and the history of their development. The information contained in this publication has already been greatly appreciated by both industry professionals using the book for refreshing of their technical knowledge and skills and by the newcomers to the industry who have found the content very easy to understand, and this approach is what have made the book so popular and highly recommendable worldwide.

This practical publication was prepared and subsequently released by DSA, standing for the Danish Shipowners' Association, in close co-operation with together with DMA, i.e. Danish Maritime Authority. The content of the document opens with the introductory chapter providing basic general information on the mooring process itself.

The main portion of the booklet is arranged in three parts. The first part is devoted to the safe mooring practices and covers preparation for the mooring, running out the mooring lines, hauling them in, using capstans and drums, snap-back zones, and spooling. The second part addresses the prevention of the accidents, including risk assessment, review of the near misses, maintenance and repair, instructions, safety culture of the crew members and their behavior during the mooring activities.

The last part of the volume deals with the improvement of the safety culture and tools commonly used for that, including checklist, instruction and safety culture sessions and other important matters. There is some additional information in the appendices. A very useful and practical document to be referred to by the people engaged in mooring operations.

One more useful publication for all navigators. The book starts with the general info about maritime communications and then we proceed to the proper conduct of the maritime radio conversations. The next chapter addresses the established distress/urgency/safety procedures to be strictly followed, while the following one has been solely devoted to the SAR, standing for the search-and-rescue operations.

The rest of the content is covering the routine voice communications, digital selective calling and DSC operational procedures for the vessels, universal AIS transponders, MMSI, IAMSAR manual of communications, COMSAR/CIRC/21, ship reporting systems, GMDSS and may other relevant information.

There is also a concise glossary of terms and abbreviations used within this document and during maritime communications in general. make sure you have a copy of this relatively compact but so practical publication on board your ship and make it accessible for easy and ready reference of the crew members.

This publication will provide some valuable notes related to the ship handling which are expected to be of use for the crew members and future mariners. The authors of the publication tried to address the most important aspects of handling the ship, including the explanation of the pivot point, turning the ship and slow speed control, showing the effects wind has on the vessel, giving details of the anchor work, the use of tugs and ship's bow thrusters, special vessel propellers and rudders, twin screw work. In addition, ship-to-ship and SBM operations are covered.

An excellent training publication for the mariners and trainees of all levels. The content of the book is presented in such clear and easily understandable language that it makes the book suitable even for the complete beginner. Numerous illustrations supplementing the text part of the volume are very informative. An absolute must-have one in the library of every mariner and student. In short, this is a sort of "ship handling made easy" book.

This instruction manual was officially released by Kongsberg Simrad AS for training purposes. It covers such areas of the underwater acoustics as transducers, sound propagation, sound paths, acoustic noise, positioning principles, examples, performance of the acoustic positioning systems, and basic acoustic formulas.

The first, introductory, chapter of the manual provides users with the general information about the underwater acoustics and transmission. The sound propagation principles have also been covered in this chapter with specific attention paid to such aspects as the pressure and intensity of the sound going through the waters, transmission loss etc.

One separate sub-chapter has been solely devoted to the transducers, their construction and efficiency, beam pattern, source level and other relevant items. The rest of the sub-chapters are dealing with the principles of positioning, sound paths, acoustic noise, performance of the systems, basic formulas relating to the underwater acoustics, etc.