 This is a booklet accompanying the training video released by Videotel and devoted to Manila Amendments to the STCW Convention. While it is quite compact, the publication covers all important issues. This training package has been specifically designed to be used individually, for self study, but it can also be used in small groups of trainees with the target audience including ship owners and managers, port state officers and other governmental authorities, and providers of maritime training courses.
The trainees will gain a sound understanding of the purpose of Manila amendments to STCW convention and their scope, and will be able to plan the changes required to be done to ensure compliance with the standards and requirements taking into account all recent amendments to their contents. We would also recommend to use this Quick Guide for Seafarers as a supplementary training material.
All key issues have been duly covered and upon completion of the course the trainees will be fully aware of the convention and amendments, certification requirements and safety culture, ship security and maritime piracy, action plans and port state work, tanker training and fitness for duty - this is a list of topics covered in the pages of the booklet. In addition to the training audience specified above we would recommend this package to everyone in shipping industry from the crew members and shore support personnel to the managers.
 This is one of the best titles available today on ship handling. There are three major parts in this volume. In the first part, the essential features of the vessel are described together with the main maneuvering methods in use. The second part is devoted to the forces influencing the vessel movement and requiring close attention.
Finally, the last part addresses the factors affecting the vessels in the course of the maneuvering, for example when moving inside drydocks, performing mooring operations, etc. the author is mainly focusing on the different factors that affect the vessel’s maneuvering characteristics.
Since all of the topics are looked on at a quite essential level, the volume will be practically useful and can be utilized for the training. Sailing in the narrow waterways has also been covered, including the STCW recommendations setting up the helmsmen abilities.
The content of the volume reflects more than fifteen-year boat sailing experience of the author, and is intended for use by the students of the different marine education facilities; however, it will be equally useful for the self-studying. Make sure you have your own free copy and start familiarizing yourselves with the magic world of sailing.
 From the earliest times, the doctors faced with the necessity of dealing with the numerous medical problems quite specific to the seafaring. That was because the seafarers of the past times used to be particularly vulnerable to the dangers during their long sea voyages much more than they are exposed today. And that was the time when the small group of ship’s doctors representing the different countries, developed and introduced a completely new field of the medicine.
There have been numerous treaties written and released since the XVI century onwards. We can actually divide the whole history of the seafaring, and the associated development of the nautical medicine, into three main periods, namely the manpower age, where the oars were in a wide use, sailing times, when the wind power was used, and the age of the engine power, including the steam powered vessels and up to the nuclear-powered vessels of today.
The present publication was prepared to serve as a ready reference tool to the doctor. Opening with the general introductory information and historical background of the nautical medicine, it provides all necessary knowledge on the variety of important topics specific to the work at sea.
 The major part of the content of this publication is build on the basis of on the invaluable contributions that have been made by the leading experts in the field. The book starts with the historical background providing the information about the developments of mooring and berthing, followed by the statistics of the accidents happened in the course of mooring and berthing, addressed together with the application of risk analysis techniques.
The marine terminal technology is addressed in the next chapter of this volume, and the authors also touch the winch berthing/mooring and recent technical developments. In general, the chapters of this perfectly compiled work are covering such the important aspects of mooring and berthing as fender forces acting on the berthing structures and their prediction, wind fluctuations, impact evaluation methods, modeling of wave propagation any means of computers, field observations, motions of moored vessels, optimization as well as the important safety considerations related to the design of different station keeping systems, motion simulation, probabilistic approach, virtual mass coefficient, long waves and rough weather conditions, plus the effects that the mooring lines commonly have on vessel motions, asymptotic methods, fenders used in different countries, future developments, wave drift forces and many others.
 This book belongs to the Springer's famous "Advances in Industrial Control" series. Here are the main chapters included in it - Introduction; Mathematical tools; Modeling and Control Properties of Ocean Ships; Control of Underactuated Vessels and Underwater Vehicles.
The publication offers readers the latest results in the control of underactuated ocean ships as well as numerical simulations of the control systems and efficient designs for their implementation. Most ocean-going ships are commonly underactuated; however, it is considered essential to control their motion when in the real environment. The readers will appreciate the systematic approach applied by the author of this volume since it is based on the very non-trivial coordinate transformations that have been coupled with the advanced non-linear methods.
Subject strategy has been applied to the analysis and development of the numerous control systems with the ultimate goal being to achieve the advanced tasks such as the path- and trajectory-tracking, path-following and stabilization. The book features newly developed efficient designs ready for immediate practical implementation and numerical simulations designed on a scale-model vessels...
 The handling and piloting of vessel is something about the individual understandings of the people, based on their practical knowledge. This book written by professional Captain shall be used as a very useful addition to the other materials covering this subject. The text of the publication is remarkably easy to understand and in some cases has been delivered in a form of anecdotes, to make reading more pleasant.
However, the contents of the volume will be useful even for the professional mariners as going through it will let them refresh their knowledge and skills that they might have forgotten. Of course, no one can learn the experience from the book and it is mainly the outcome of the years of doing things either right or wrong – what you do is that you try to avoid repeating the mistakes and you do your best to remember what was done right.
There are many chapters in this book and the author will take the readers from the basic information of handling vessels, through all technical aspects, covering literally everything they should be aware of, up to and including the responsibilities of the pilot related to the vessel and to the port authorities. We recommend this publication to all mariners and students due to the comprehensiveness of coverage and reader-friendliness.
 Every mariner should bear in mind the enormous number of vessels sailing the world’s oceans today when considering the anchors and the associated anchor work. In the past the anchors, together with their auxiliary equipment and arrangements, used to be designed for the vessels of relatively small size and tonnage. They were considered adequate to comply with the specifications in terms of the bottom and weather conditions.
Nowadays, the vessels are of considerably larger size; however, the expectations set for the anchor equipment are more or less same. But for the really big vessels this is not possible and that is why the seamanship methods shall be re-considered. We shall always note that the anchors are there to temporary hold the vessel in position awaiting pilot or berth availability. This book will provide all information needed to arrange the anchor operations in safe and effective manner.
The author has covered such important areas as the types of the ship anchors, anchor chains and windlasses, forcesand holding powers, anchorages including positioning and maneuverability, responsibilities etc. The separate chapter is devoted to the anchoring and mooring methods. Moreover, there is another chapter covering only the large sized vessels. The other items addressed include after-anchoring activities, handling-off anchors, maintenance of the ground tackle, and others.
 The present training resource has been specifically published for the young officers who are aspiring to get to the position of the Chief Officer. It will also be useful to the people just promoted to this position. It is a very practical publication which is mainly dealing with the real world of the ocean and vessels rather than purely theoretical; the authors have discussed different important problems that are commonly encountered by the Chief Officers of the vessels in their day-to-day operations.
In fact, there are many publication available today, teaching the students the proper way to perform the numerous tasks that are making up their professional duties. All of them are very helpful when used for the professional training; however, the most important issue is to try to learn how to correctly blend the possible and proper in order to produce a desired feasible result getting us and the vessel through the unscathed days.
That is why we would highly recommend this training course for all people in the industry and definitely to all desiring to become Chief Officers. The content of the volume starts with the description of the position and main responsibilities and duties assigned, and then covering all aspects of Chief Officer's work on board.
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