This is the third part of the popular “The Mooring Series”. Note that the training set also includes two other videos and a booklet to be used together. The ship is heading out to sea. A voyage begins. The mooring system served well in port, and now wires and ropes are checked and stored waiting for the next entry to harbor. But the story is not as simple as that. The mooring system must work properly every time no matter in what conditions it is employed, no matter how much work and how to do when last in use, any damage suffered when it was last used must be put right.

A lot of planning and hard work is required to ensure that the ship’s mooring system is maintained in a good working order. Here we will describe some of the most important tasks that are involved in the mooring system maintenance. The planned maintenance system shall be established on all ships in line with the procedures outlines in their SMS. Essentially, all winches, ropes, wires, shackles, stoppers, and fairleads – in fact, the whole system requires periodic inspection and maintenance.

These would normally be carried out during a deep sea passage. In most cases, mooring winches are driven either by hydraulic or electrical power. During the routine maintenance, check that the heaving and slack out markings are clearly visible on the control system…

The last third part “The Mooring Series”, and this one addresses the safe mooring practices. We remind you to use the whole package consisting of two other videos dealing with the theory of mooring and maintenance of mooring systems, and associated booklet. Mooring is a routine operation on every ship. It is carried out by day or night, in good weather or bad, in winter and summer.

Because of the large forces involved in mooring operations, they do present a serious risk to the personnel’s safety. Good planning and briefing of personnel is very important to minimize these risks. Also, mooring teams must always work in their safety shoes and gloves, they must use the chin straps on their helmets, and they should avoid stepping on lines and must never stay in the snap back zones. Most importantly, they must always be aware of the operations going on around them.

Safe mooring is also the key to efficient cargo operations. The ship must be positioned correctly and held securely; however, the forces of wind and current may vary. Taking into account that the possible failure of the mooring system poses serious hazard, the first thing for the responsible officer to do is the risk assessment, considering any given circumstances at the mooring station. The assessment shall cover all mooring schemes that the ship is likely to encounter…

And here is the last third part of the housekeeping-related training package. The other parts of the package include the training videos with the information on the housekeeping on deck and in the engine room, as well as the training booklet to be used with each of the videos. This part of the set deals with the housekeeping in the accommodation area and in the galley. It goes without saying that the proper housekeeping is one of the most important factors contributing to the safe and efficient work of the vessel and safety and wellbeing of the crew members

This is the first part of a very useful three-video set. This part of the training is dealing with the housekeeping on deck. Two other parts of the training covers the housekeeping in the engine room, and housekeeping in the accommodation area and galley. Note that there is a training booklet accompanying videos. We do recommend you to go through the booklet as well as every video to have a full picture and duly understand the importance of a good shipboard housekeeping.

This is an excellent video training that would be greatly useful to anyone whose work involves operating the navigational radars, i.e. marine navigators, and those dealing with the maintenance and repair of these appliances – all of them must have clear understanding of the construction and working principles of the radars as well as of the applicable regulations and standards to be complied with.

Navigational radars use two bands on the microwave spectrum – the X-band and the S-band. Radars using the short wave length X-band exhibit good angular resolution but are susceptible to the effects of rain and snow resulting in greater attenuation. However, attenuation is minimum with radars working on the longer wave S-band making them less susceptible to interference from rain and snow. The IMO has revised its performance standard for navigational radars.

This new standard applies to all such radars fitted after 01 July 2008. What is known as the radar image is displayed in the center of the screen. Look at the upper left-hand side of the screen; here, information such as the range and scale settings, motion display mode and azimuth display mode are shown. On the low left-hand side of the screen the gain, STC, FTC and traffic mode settings are displayed…

And here is the last, closing part of the training series developed and released by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. Each part of the training sets deals with some particular system. And this compilation consists of ten videos and one document with installation instructions, dealing with the Transas Navi-Sailor ECDIS 4000.

The bridge team members of the vessels having this system installed will definitely appreciate the detailed explanations and step by step instructions provided by the authors of this training set. In addition, we would like to remind you that all the other parts of this brilliant series are readily available for download and use.

The remaining parts cover such widely used ECDIS systems as Furuno FMD 3X00, SAM Electronics ECDISPilot, Kelvin Hughes Manta Digital, eGlobe G2, OSI ECPINS, Tokyo Keiki EX 8x00, Sperry VisionMaster FT, PC Maritime NavMaster, Maris ECDIS 900, Kongsberg K-Bridge, TELKO ECDIS, Furuno FEA2X07, JRN-JAN-701B-901B-2000, SAM Electronics ChartPilot 1100, Raytheon Anschutz and Totem Plus ECDIS.

You are absolutely recommended to get through the content of each of the parts making this popular and practically useful training resource which has been very well met by the navigators all around the world.

The present training video set continues the series of training materials released by UKHO, standing for the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. The documents developed by UKHO specialists are great when used for training and acquainting the people working with different ECDIS systems, with the characteristics and technical features of each of them.

This particular set is dealing with the Totem Plus ECDIS and traditionally consists of several videos supplemented with the booklet providing the installation instructions and other necessary information, from the first steps and up to the troubleshooting – this document shall accompany the system at all times.

As usual, we remind our users that all other releases of the series are also available here – please have a look at the Tokyo Keiki EX 8x00, SAM ECDISPilot, Maris ECDIS 900, Furuno FMD 3X00, OSI ECPIONS, Furuno FEA2X07, PC Maritime NavMaster, Kelvin Hughes Manta Digital, TELKO ECDIS, Sperry VisionMaster FT, Kongsberg K-Bridge, eGlobe E2, Raytheon Anschutz, JRN-JAN-701B-901B-2000 – as you can see, the choice is very wide so feel free to download them all and start y6our training process as soon as possible, as the good understanding of the systems will contribute to the safety of navigation.

We continue to acquaint our visitors with the series of excellent video training lessons released by the UKHO, i.e. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office in order to let the navigator get themselves familiar with different types of ECDIS and understand all technical features of each particular system.

As it was the case with all previously shown parts of the set, this training package, devoted to the Tokyo Keiki EX 8x00 systems, consists of eight videos supplemented with the booklet with the installation guide, intended to provide users with the equipment-specific information they will need to manage their AVCS ENC holdings.

The other parts of the training set are all available for download, as well – see the sets dealing with such widely used ECDIS systems as the Maris ECDIS 900, SAM ECDISPilot, Sperry VisionMaster FT, OSI ECPINS, Furuno FMD 3X00, JRN-JAN-701B-901B-2000, Kelvin Hughes Manta Digital, Furuno FEA2X07, SAM ECDIS ChartPilot 1100, Raytheon Anschutz, PC Maritime NavMaster, eGlobe G2, Kongsberg K-Bridge, TELKO TECDIS. There are plenty of systems to choose from and you are all invited to download them and go through the content to make sure you are prepared to handle any system.