Bridge Watch keeping, Ship Handling, Emergencies and Search and Rescue -(BWK) CM - II

• Co-ordinate search and rescue operations

• IAMSAR

• IAMSAR vol 3

• Search Patterns

• MRCC

• RCC

• OSC

• Reporting

• Lookout Procedures

• Surface Rescue Equipment and methods

• Reception and interrogation of Survivors

• Watchkeeping Arrangements and Procedures

• Watchkeeping Under Different Conditions

• Clear Visibility

• Clear Weather Darkness

• Restricted Visibility

• Coastal and Restricted Waters

• Navigation with Pilot on Board

• When Vessel is at Anchor

• Heavy Weather

• Application and intent of COLREG 1972

• Ensuring the adequacy of a navigational watch

• Principles to be observed in keeping a Navigational watch

• Factors deciding the composition of the watch on the bridge

• Efficiency of the watch

• Information exchange between the master and the pilot

• Ensuring the adequacy of an engineering watch

• Communication between chief engineer and master

• Factors deciding the composition of watch in the Engine Room

• Vessel Traffic Management System

• Objectives of VTS

• Responsibilities and Liability

• SOLAS Regulation on VTS

• Ship Reporting System

• Ship Reporting Procedures

• SOLAS Regulation on Ship Repotting Systems

• IMO Ship's Routeing guide

• Elements used in Ships Routeing Systems

• SOLAS Regulation on Ships Routeing

• Respond to navigational emergencies

• Grounding

• Pollution

• Flooding

• Main Engine Failure

• Refloating of Vessel

• LOF 2020

• Methods of Helicopter Rescue

• Communicating with the helicopter

• Evacuation from ship and survival craft

• Helicopter pick-up

• Gyro Compass Failure

• Contingency Plans for response to emergencies

• Muster list and emergency signals

• Assignment of duties to personnel

• Composition of Emergency Teams

• Dealing with heavy weather damage

• Excessive Listing

• Bilging and Flooding

• Effect of Bilging

• List due to Bilging

• Permeability

• Effect of Bilging on transverse stability

• Effect of flooding on trim

• Fire in specific areas

• Accommodation space

• Cargo space

• Engine Room Machinery Space

• Spillage of noxious substances

• Piracy and Armed Robbery

• Best Management Practices

• IMB - PRC

• UKMTO, MSCHOA

• National regulations

• Piracy Awareness

• Anti-piracy measures

• Measures to be taken in Emergencies for the Protection and Safety of the Ship, Passengers and Crew

• Beaching a Vessel

• Circumstances in which vessel is to be beached

• Precautions to be taken while beaching

• Stranding

• Actions to be taken on Stranding

• Initial Damage Assessment and Control

• Sounding of Compartments

• Sounding Depths all around the ship using hand lead line

• Refloating of Stranded Ship

• Distress or Urgency signal

• Collision

• Duties of Master after a collision

• Measures to limit damage

• Log Book Entries

• Collision Mats

• Protection and Safety of Passengers

• Duties of crew members to assist passengers

• Precautions for the protection of passengers

• Limiting damage following fire or explosion

• Cooling of Compartment Boundaries

• Inspection for Damage

• Procedures for making a man entry

• Use of fixed fire fighting systems

• Fixed COZ System

• CO2 Piping

• Alarms and Controls

• Quantity of Fire-extinguishing medium

• Maintenance of C02 system

• Fixed foam system

• Requirements of Fixed Deck Foam Systems

• Storage Rooms of Fire-extinguishing the Fixed-foam Installation

• Typical Fixed Foam (liquid induction) System for the deck of a Tanker

• Fixed water fire extinguishing system

• Rescue of persons from spaces

• Procedure for abandoning ship

• Situations under which to abandon ship

• Duties of personnel

• Distress call transmission until acknowledgement

• Communications

• Use of distress signals to attract attention

• Launching of boats and liferafts in heavy weather

• Auxiliary steering and Emergency steering gear

• Change over bridge control to local control in the steering gear compartment

• Standard emergency steering procedures

• Proper communication from the bridge

• Towing and being taken in Tow

• Emergency Towing Booklet

• Ocean Towing

• Communication with the vessel being towed

• Procedure for towing in rough weather

• Bollard pull

• Emergency Towing arrangements

• Preparing Emergency Towing Procedures

• Towing Equipment and Tools on Board Ship

• Methods of Towing Disabled Ship

• Maritime Assistance Service on Indian coast (when applicable)

• Rescue of persons from a vessel in distress

• Waiting for daylight

• Selection of rescue boats

• Man Overboard Procedures

• Recovering a person from the sea in heavy weather

• Action to take when a person is reported missing at sea

• Manoeuvre and handle a ship in all conditions

• Forces Effecting Ship Handling

• Controllable

• Propulsion systems

• Rudders Propellers

• Thrusters

• Anchors

• Tugs

• Draft and Trim

• Semi- Controllable

• Uncontrollable

• Wind

• Current

• Manoeuvering when approaching a pilot station

• Passage planning (pilot embarkation)

• Contact with the pilot

• Preparation for picking up the pilot

• Making a lee for the pilot boat

• Wheelhouse Poster

• Emergency stopping manoeuvers

• Crash Stop

• Rudder Cycling

• Handling a ship in rivers, estuaries

• Shallow water effect

• Increased directional stability

• Slow response by the steering at reduced speeds

• Consideration for Current and Tide

• Effect of Wind on a given Ship while Moving and when making Large Turns

• Wind heeling criteria for high freeboard Ships

• Squat

• Berthing and Unberthing

• Effect of wind

• Effect of Current

• Berthing withwithout tugs

• Interaction between shipshore

• Ship and Tug Interaction

• Different types of tugs

• Making up Tugs, alongside, on a tow line

• Ship and Tug Interaction (2)

• Pivot Point and Girding

• Basic shiphandling manoeuvers with tugs

• Placement of Tugs for Ship's work

• Condition No wind or current

• Condition Wind or current sets on to dock

• Condition Wind or current sets parallel to dock

• Tugboat Operations

• Bank effect

• Narrow channel effect

• Overtaking in Narrow Channel

• Advantages of controllable pitch propeller (CPP)

• Manoeuvring with twin screws

• Effects of Right Hand and Left Hand Propellers

• Transverse thrust

• Use of lateral thrusters

• Use of Anchors in manoeuvering

• Effects of rolling and pitching on UKC

• Anchoring

• Choice of anchorage

• Swinging circle

• Procedure of anchoring with one or two anchors in limited anchorages

• Factors involved in determining the length of anchor cable

• Dragging Anchor

• Clearing foul hawse

• Slipping of anchor

• Running moor

• Standing moor

• Open moor

• Mediterranean moor

• Lighterage at Sea

• Ship to Ship Transfer (STS)

• Lighterage preparations for both vessels

• Method of separating on completion of transfer operations

• Dry-docking

• Information required by Dry dock authorities

• Critical condition

• Use of bilge blocks and Breast shores

• Precautions before flooding the dock

• Floating dry dock

• Critical period of Floating dry dock

• Handling of Ships in Heavy Weather

• Pooping

• Broaching

• Precautions prior onset of heavy weather

• Synchronous and Parametric Rolling

• Rolling period

• Maneuvering characteristics

• Track Reach, Head Reach and Side Reach

• Turning Circle in shallow waters

• Loss of Stability

• Navigating in Ice

• Types of Ice

• Sources of information on ice condition

• Sighting of ice open water

• Icebreaker sterns

• Navigating in or near ice

• High latitude Navigation

• Limitations of electronic positioning systems at high latitude

• Limitations of radar targets and ice features in ice-clutter

• Limitations in nautical charts and pilot descriptions

• Limitations in communication systems

• Precautions in entering ice

• Accommodation on board ships in polar waters

• Polar Code

• Master's obligation to report

• Freezing sprays

• Effects of ice accretion on stability of vessel

• Manoeuvering in and near Traffic Separation Schemes and VTS areas

• Vessel Traffic Services (VTS)

• Avoiding damage to other Ships and Structures

• Launching rescue boats in bad Weather