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Appendix E: Outlines of Sample Simulator-Based Training Courses
Pages 241-245

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... MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY, KINGS POINT, NEW YORK U.S. Coast Guard License Programs Deck Officer: training in nautical science as preparation for the third mate's license examination.
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... 2. Understand the importance of monitoring and assessing traffic situations and identify collision risks as it applies to: • a real-world application of the COLREGSs in clear and restricted visibility, • proper use of VHF communications, • the need to maintain an efficient lookout and to take visual bearings to determine drift, • clear and concise reports to the master using relative bearings and drift, • timely and substantial alterations of course, • special circumstances and ambiguous rules-of-the-road situations, • how to maneuver the vessel in extremes.
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... . BRIDGE TEAM MANAGEMENT COURSE, SOUTHAMPTON INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, MARITIME OPERATIONS CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, UNITED KINGDOM The following are the aims and objectives of the Centre's Full-Mission Ship's Bridge Simulator Course followed by the objectives of the scheme of
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... Participants completing the course will be able to appraise and formulate a detailed passage plan including but not limited to: • no-go and danger areas, • margins of safety, • track to be made good, • use of transits (ranges) clearing bearings and distances, • visual cues, • parallel indexing, • conspicuous radar targets, • course alterations and wheelovers • speed and timing of progress, • aborts and contingencies, • allowance for squats, and • interpretation and use of maneuvering data.
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... 6. Recognized and dealt with various developing traffic situations in accor dance with the collision regulations.
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Key Terms

  • bridge resource
  • participants completing
  • traffic situations
  • parallel indexing
  • course aims

  • bridge team
  • watchstanding simulation
  • santa cruz
  • management techniques
  • team management

  • management course
  • simulation training
  • course objectives
  • response time
  • training course

  • port international
  • simulator course
  • passage plan
  • pilot station
  • engine response

  • navigational scenarios
  • various navigational
  • trainees involved
  • time dependency
  • bridge equipment

  • vessel maneuvering
  • cruz channel
  • maneuvering capability
  • analyze various
  • detailed passage


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