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What non-required training class are you most likely to take. ( surveys)
Course Details:

Major Emergency Managment
High Angle Rope Rescue
Sail Training
Dynamic Positioning Training
EMT Medical Trianing
Advanced Shiphandling
Other: Leave Your Comments Below

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Cadet Edward Pollard on the TSES
Recent news article claim steps in obtaining agreements in placing maritime school students aboard merchant ships for accomplishing sea time requirements. A step that appears to solve a problem. Getting places to stash the boys and girls seems like a good idea, but what does it actually achieve and at […]

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Simulator are not stimulators!
By John G. Denham
After a career at sea and a period of piloting I tried a tour in academia. I was surprised to find that maritime academies, along with other educational institutions were using classrooms furnished with middle school furnishings and tools. Are we teaching kids or future professionals I thought? Mostly […]

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Currently all mariners are familiar with the large full mission ship simulators like the one pictured above. Some have even played with either purpose built or recreational PC based simulators but each of these three types have inherent problems. The full mission simulators are very expensive, the purpose built ones lack realism and the recreational […]

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Photo by steven and darusha
Jeff Charlton of 911team.org in London asked a interesting maritime question on the IAEM list-serve the other day that Robin Storm thought we could answer.
Jeff’s question?
“What if the need arises to replace a master or pilot because the ship has been affected by plague, terrorism, CBRn incident? How many […]

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Training at Sea
by Jeffrey Musk

A few months ago I returned to my rotary job onboard a Roll on/Roll off in the Pacific Ocean. Along with the familiar faces of the crew I had been working with for several years was the even […]

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Photo by rkr806
Sea Fever brings us the annual cruise of Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s training ship Enterprise. This cruise has departed each winter for well over one hundred years and serves both as a platform for training future merchant officers and an escape from the regions brutal winter. Sea Fever tells us:
The Cape Cod Times set […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv526kHieeI

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Here’s the arial view;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAvEEJ4qLc

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Finally, here’s how they test these boats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNv65jJxdI

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For more info on the history behind these types of lifeboats visit NOVA’s “Pioneers of Survival - An Interview with Martin Verhoef“.

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Effective January 1, 2008, mariners sailing in the capacity of Ship Security Officer (SSO) will have to show evidence of being “qualified” to hold that position. The SSO training requirement only applies to STCW vessels 500GT or greater operating on international voyages. Evidence of qualification will include the following:
Course completion certificate (in accordance with the […]

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Our friend Peter Mello at Sea-Fever, a must read maritime blog, brings us the model building obsession of William Terra. This one stopped me cold for a number of reasons. First Battleships have been a personal obsession of mine since childhood and were the subject of the weapons presentation during my plebe year at […]

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