Today, we so glad to offer you a very useful and interesting monograph, the author of which is dealing with quite broad range of various subjects that all directly related to the basics mechanics of the sea waves. Paolo Coccotti, the author of this volume, has highlighted the results obtained during the recent theoretical researches of random waves generated by the wind.

The fresh-look approach to the established and proven theoretical concepts was applied by the author. The publication provides readers with numerous worked real-life examples for the design of various coastal and offshore marine structures. Another subject addressed within this publication is quasi-deterministic mechanics together with the loads commonly exerted by the 3D wave groups on offshore structures. This work would be primarily aimed to the graduate students and also professionals, scientists and researchers in the field of ocean engineering. 

However, the manner in which the content has been presented and arranged within this volume, has made it suitable even for the undergraduates. Some of the relatively complex theoretical concepts have been clearly explained plus duly supplemented with several informative live examples and case studies for easier and proper understanding. The title is covering statistical/deterministic topics relating to the mechanics of the waves...

The main content of this volume prepared by Judith van Leeuwen, is presenting a culmination of a very interesting and important research project performed by the author, whose intention was to thoroughly explore the idea of the environmental governance of the maritime/offshore industry, looking from the historical perspective. The book opens with some introductory information, including the general info on the marine environment, governance, research questions etc.

The following chapter of has been mainly dedicated to the changing spheres of authority in the environmental governance, while the third chapter is dealing with the research methodology while the fourth and fifth chapters address changing authority in the maritime/offshore field. The other chapter is focusing on the comparison conducted of the environmental governance of the offshore vs shipping industries. The closing chapter of the volume contains the conclusions and reflection. The main portion of the document has been supplemented with the references and several appendices, summary, info on the conceptual framework, various established methods of research plus associated questions.

The environment protection is quite a new field of research and study, and that is the basic reason why there are no too many sources of info available on the subject matters. This, in turn, is what makes the present volume so valuable to all interested persons.

This Safety Catalogue was compiled by the professionals and officially released by the world recognized and respected WSS company, mainly focusing on the merchant fleet and comprising the leading network of maritime services, offering the high quality services in more than two thousand ports of 125 countries of the world.

The main objective of the Company is the delivery of the improved ship operating efficiency. The present Safety Catalogue opens with the part providing the general information on the Company, its technical capabilities, service network, describing advantages of working with WSS, delivery and billing details - in short, everything that the people dealing with the ship supply shall be aware of.

The main content of the catalogue provides the technical details and specifications of the equipment offered by WSS - the fire extinguishing equipment and arrangements including extinguishers and cabinets, hoses, couplings, hydrants and couplings, wheeled and stored pressure fire extinguishers, fire blankets etc., PPE, i.e. personal protective equipment including CA, EEBD, air cylinders, gas detection appliances, head, eye and ear protection etc., rescue equipment including lifebuoys, rescue tools, lifejackets, stretchers etc., various medical equipment required to be possessed on board, oil spill recovery equipment, fixed fire extinguishing systems together with the medium used and spare parts etc.

Here is the officially released Yanmar operation manual intended for use by the technical personnel directly involved in the installation of the 1GM, 2GM, 3GMD and 3HM engines produced by Yanmar, and further operation and maintenance.

There are several very useful and practical troubleshooting tips that will be appreciated by the people dealing with the periodic checks, inspections, troubleshooting and repair of these diesel engines; electrical wiring diagram has also been provided together with the method of operation, information on fuel and lube oils, storage of the engines etc.

The ZILOG Z80 components family if the 4th-generation microprocessors featuring highest computational power and offering users much higher output of the system and much more efficient utilization of memory in comparison with the microprocessors that belong to the 2nd and 3rd generations.

They suit a very broad range of practical applications migrating software. The internal registers of these microprocessors feature 208 bits of memory accessible to the programmers. Subject registers include two sets each consisting of six general purpose registers - they can be utilized individually at different pairs of registers...

First of all, we would like to note that the main of the initially declared objectives of this volume was to prepare the marine engineering students and, actually, learners of any relevant discipline for the COC, i.e. Certificates of Competency. The material that has been included in this book by the author is covering the work that is necessary to pass the examination.

Note, however, that this book is not really intended to serve as a nicely detailed reference book - it should rather be considered a specific examination guidance. Most of the sketches included in the book are mainly intended to serve as the applications to the exam requirements. Obviously, the best way to learn the subject is to read very thoroughly and carefully through each of the chapters of this book, paying particular attention to the sketchwork and drawings, where applicable. Plus, there are several questions located at the end of each chapter helping to control the progress and evaluate your knowledge.

The book has been conveniently arranged in nine major sections that address the construction materials and welding issues, fuel oil technologies, marine boilers, ancillaries, corrosion matters, boiler water treatment and associated tests, steering gear, shafting arrangements, refrigerating installations, both active and passive measures of fire protection, pumps and various pumping systems together with piping, safety matters and procedures etc.

The present booklet is dealing with the sea rescue and is intended to provide the marine industry with the required guidance concerning the main principles and established practice applied to the refugees and migrants. Nowadays, sea-borne refugees and migrants shall not be considered as a sort of a new phenomenon.

People have always and everywhere risked their lives sailing aboard the ships that were not seaworthy enough or using other crafts that could not provide the required level of safety. The SAR - standing for the search and rescue - services allover the world depend on vessels, mostly merchant, in order to be able to assist people in distress. Today, the signals of distress can be transmitted by means of the satellite as well as terrestrial types of communication both to the vessels in immediate vicinity and to the SAR authorities located ashore.

This would allow the rescue operation to go smoothly and well-coordinated. This document was worked out by the IMO together with the UNHCR and is intended to provide all interested people, including crew members, owners, masters, insurance companies, government authorities, flag administration and PSC officers and others, with the guidelines addressing the legal provisions and procedures in order to ensure that the disembarkation of the rescued human goes smooth, and to propose effective measures to meet all specific needs of the survivors...

One finds a very limited number of events in history that not only encapsulate the spirit of an age, but tremble on the edge of possibility: That Troy, whose topless towers stirred the West's first and greatest epic verse, could actually be found and excavated; that, on a Christmas night in the midst of the worst trench warfare the world had vet seen. British and German troops could gather together, exchanging whiskey and cigars; that three or four small rips in her hull could bring the unsinkable Titanic to the bottom of the ocean in little more than two hours.

The Arctic—where time itself is among the things susceptible to freezing—where, as the inimitable Rudolf Erich Raspe described in his Munchausen tales, sentences spoken in the winter could not be heard until they thawed out the next summer—has seen more than its share of such tales. Writers of fiction and poetry have found it an ideal landscape in which to unfold the extremities of human endeavor; the efforts of a man "to build a fire" in Jack London's story of that name, or the comfort found in a fiery furnace by the eponymous hard-luck prospector of Robert W. Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee." could, it seems, have happened nowhere else.

And yet it is the Arctic, more than any other place upon Earth, where the adage that 'Truth is stranger than fiction" finds its most dramatic embodiment, and as the great number of recent books on Arctic explorers testifies, the romance of those "unknown regions of eternal frost" remains strong to this day...