Have a close look into this training package covering the most important aspects of a good shipboard housekeeping. The training set consists of this booklet supplemented with three excellent and very informative videos, addressing the housekeeping on deck, in the engine room, and in the accommodation and galley. The main objective of the authors was to raise the due awareness of the significance of housekeeping and demonstrate how a good housekeeping could be achieved.

The good shipboard procedures for the planned maintenance of any ship will definitely ensure that the structure and equipment of that ship are duly maintained; however, the housekeeping embraces much more areas including timely identification and remediation of the existing deficiencies using the available resources. The ultimate aim is to keep the ship safe and efficiently working at all times.

The housekeeping is a team effort and an integral part of the behavior-based safety, requiring constant safety awareness of all crew members and their vigilance. Their combined efforts will eventually result in operation of the vessel in compliance with the highest standards of seamanship. Though the overall responsibility is with the Master of the ship, every single person on board shall pay close attention to the shipboard housekeeping.

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 the second part of training set made of three parts, and this particular one addresses the housekeeping matters as applied to the engine room. There are two more parts and they cover the housekeeping on deck and in the accommodation area and galley. In addition, there is a very valuable training booklet with the content supplementing these videos. If you download all videos and a booklet and go through them very carefully, you will get to know everything you need to know about shipboard housekeeping.

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

Throughout the history of the mankind, the slaves travelled across the oceans, same as the unfree immigrants and convicts. However, it shall be noted that the people's understanding of the modernity has been significantly narrowed by the conventional historical paradigm relating to the Atlantic World. This volume presents the brilliant study fully contrasting with the common and regular understanding of the relationships that used to exist in the Indian Ocean back in the nineteenth century.

This work is demonstrating that the nations that used to struggle against the slavery in the distant past did accept the limits on the labour freedom. According to the reviews performed by the major experts in the field, the content of this publication has perfectly brought together numerous historical debates; the author has successfully challenged many of the ideas related to the sea-bound labour deriving from the pretty exaggerated attention to the Atlantic ocean.

This book will be recommended to anyone with the interest in the naval history and the problems addressed by the author in his work who will find the information not readily available in most of the other documents on this topic.

The document released by the Merchant Marine Academy of Macedonia. The publication covers the most important aspects of maritime security of today. The author of the dissertation made an excellent effort in trying to provide readers with the information relating to the onboard security in the modern shipping industry. He has performed a thorough analysis of the counter-piracy measures and their effectiveness.

In addition, the author has also addressed the problem of stowaways and gave some recommendations on how to prevent stowaways on board ships. Another matter taken into consideration was the drug smuggling and again some guidelines have been provided that, when applied, would help to eliminate the problem. The paper opens with the brief information about the top governing document, namely the ISPS Code together with the scope, requirements and national implementation of its requirements.

A big portion of the publication is devoted to the newly introduced requirements applicable to the security training to be provided to all shipboard personnel. This is not a textbook on maritime security and it has never meant to be it, but the volume will be useful when treated as a supplementary training material and reference.

A very useful publication released by the OCIMF organization to aid all people engaged in the offshore operations in the colder regions of the world. The main declared purpose of the present document is to give charterers and operators of the OSVs, standing for the offshore support vessels, all required guidance to be applied when working in the severe sub-zero temperatures or ice conditions.

The paper contains the valuable technical recommendations embracing all ship types and services involved. In general, the content of the paper addresses all OSVs; however, the section 4.3 of the book will provide recommendations for the specific ship types. The conditions addressed in the pages of this document impacting the offshore operations in many parts of the world and make seamen face special risks requiring special considerations.

In some cases these areas are very remote and this presents additional difficulties; in some cases the special ice management provided by the third party shall take place. Among the topics that are covered by the authors there are ice information, winterization, major operational aspects, protection of the environment, damage control and others…

The domestic missile submarine USS Kentucky is America’s ultimate weapon of mass destruction, recognized and respected in any part of the planet. The USS Kentucky is an absolutely phenomenal weapon system. And she is now heading out on a top secret mission – she is capable of emitting the power of thousands of Hiroshima bombs. Her job is to dive deep, run silent and wait for the call. USS Kentucky – the most dangerous weapon the world has never seen.

The submarine has a 170-man crew and she is leaving for the highly classified seventy day mission in the Pacific Ocean. The USS Kentucky is exactly what the American navy calls a boomer – a missile boat – one of the keys of the whole American defense strategy and she can carry up to twenty-four missiles sufficient to destroy a continent – this fact makes her the most lethal machine on Earth. The cost of the machine exceeds two billion US dollars.

The boat starts her mission and the commander is ready to execute the presidential order to do the unthinkable – the order to launch the missiles. It is not a sort of training anymore – they are on mission… In short, this episode of the Mighty Ships series is a nice video for every lover of the underwater fleet and Navy facilities.