Here is a very good compilation of the articles related to the maritime engineering and maritime technology. There are nine main parts in this book covering such areas as ship control and propulsion, ship design, onboard systems, ship traffic, risk and reliability, ship structures, ship dynamics and hydrodynamics, renewable energy, wave and wind modeling.

For more than twenty-five years, the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering branch of the Portuguese Association of Engineers and the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering of the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, have been organizing national conferences on Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture. Such meetings had the objective of bringing together Portuguese professionals and giving them an opportunity to present and discuss the ongoing technical activities. They have been attended by up to 200 participants. The papers presented in these meetings have been collected in a series of books written in Portuguese.

At the same time, as the conferences have become more mature, the international contacts have also increased and the industry became more international in such a way that the fact that the conference was in Portuguese started to hinder its further development with wider participation. Therefore, for the session that was planned for 2010, a decision was made to experiment with having also papers in English, mixed with the usual papers in Portuguese.

The national meetings have normally taken place around the month of November but, given that IST was completing 100 years of existence in May 2011, another decision was made to postpone this Conference to 10-12 May 2011 so as to associate it also with the commemorations of the 100 years of IST...

The present volume was worked out and released with the ultimate intention of its authors to conduct a thorough exploration of the maritime-related mechanics of the Empire, making an attempt to demonstrate how exactly the different aspects of this enterprise have been made to "work".

The chapters of the book showing that the emergence and works of the professional hydrographic services in the Navy and the ways both commercial and political imperatives assisted in driving the maritime surveying, have been considered central to that. The British Admiralty did support the exploration as well as the investigation of geographical expeditions undertaken by such famous characters of the past as Captain Cook and Charles Darwin.

In fact, we may say that the maritime expeditions of the Captain Cook's "Endeavour" and Darwin's "Beagle" were partly concerned with the interest of the Empire. And that was one of the reason why the "Manual of Scientific Enquiry" was developed and published by the British Admiralty to be of help for the naval officers.

One of the aims of this volume was to examined the marine technologies made the great studies in the XIX century. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, most of the vessels crossing the Atlantic were wooden, having a displacement of just a few hundred tons, relying on the sails and winds, and having no contact with the land...

The present tutorial report has been prepared with the intention to provide a good overview of the application, solutions and the required introduction to the main components of the electrical installations of marine vessels. It will be useful when treated as a reference source for people needed the updates on the recent solutions in this fast developing field.

Every marine ship has some electrical installations used, for example, for powering of the various systems like communication, alarm, monitoring and others, for running of shipboard motors, fans and pumps, and up to the high-power electrical installations used for actual propulsion. The opening part of the publication explains scopes and objectives of this report and provides some introduction. Then the second part describes the various applications and it is followed by the part in which the overview of various electric power systems is provided.

There are two parts on the propulsion/power control and electric propulsion drives. The rest of the chapters address system design, harmonic distortion, and example configurations for different types of vessels, including support ships, tankers, LNG carriers, offshore floating installations etc.

This nice collection of the most popular and frequently used maritime abbreviations and acronyms, prepared and released by the professionals of the Bangladesh IMA (International Maritime Academy), is perfect to be used together with this Maritime Glossary of Terms from the same team of pros.

The publication has been recognized worldwide and is in wide use by all people whose day-to-day job activities involve communicating in English on technical topics or preparing letters or preparation of any other technical documentation.

In addition, the booklet will be very useful to future professionals, i.e. students making their first steps. Needless to say that proper and thorough knowledge of the maritime acronyms is critically important to all participants of the maritime activities, i.e. ship builders, personnel of the shipping companies, crew members, port state control officials, classification society inspector.

It is definitely recommended to anyone who is not necessary the shipping industry professional but intends to improve his or her knowledge of the marine terminology, including the most used abbreviations/acronyms to read the documents, papers or technical publications.   

Nearly every person who sails a lot possesses a very clear image in mind of the cold and warm fronts and lows and highs and roughly what to expect as they arch majestically across the daily weather maps in newspapers and the TV-screen. It all seems quite easy to understand and forecasts are at least somewhat more often than not, correct. But it's the times that forecasts are not correct which most concern us when we're at sea.

There are so many variables which all together must be accounted for in order to arrive at an accurate weather forecast that we may as well forget about reaching that ideal in our lifetimes. One scientist pointed out years ago that a butterfly flapping its wings over a parking lot on a hot day in Dallas may be the cause of a thunderstorm in Boston three days later. It was meteorologists who led the way to the new science named, appropriately, CHAOS...

This publication provides readers with a complete guide to the marine weather analytics plus tactics and avoidance of storms; the authors of this volume, Linda and Steve Dashew, are teaching the traditional forecasting techniques that are basing on the current observed weather conditions, together with the latest instruments including internet. Their efforts has resulted in an excellent tool for the sailors and power boaters, and in fact anyone with an interest in weather.

This fascinating title is a complete story, quite a sea adventure with the text focusing on the great power of weather, particularly rain and winds. The Mariners are heading to Mexico trying to escape the worst of the ocean storms and see the newly built resort, with the "Sulu Queen" cargo carrier, accompanied with some fifty friends on board the "Katapult8" racing boat and "Maxima" yacht.

The power of the nature has been explored together with the one of the ocean; there is a chopper besides the vessels and National Guard making all efforts to rescue. The story told in the book starts with a little show and then it is moving ahead at a very high speed. The readers will definitely greatly enjoy the characters and dialogues of this story. This thriller will be highly recommended to the people who like fascinating tales of the high seas and fierceness of Mother Nature containing lots of interesting details related to the actual sailing and shipping world.

The book tells you about the adventures and it is rich of exciting action; it has been written in a manner making it very easy for the readers to visualize the experience and get a clear and full picture of what was meant by the author. Take some time and enjoy reading.

Almost four decades have passed since the time when the 3rd UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, i.e. LOS Convention, was signed. It entered into force in 1994 and is dealing with public international aspects of the oceans' law. The eighth part of the subject Convention is dedicated to the marine scientific research and this is what is addressed in the present publication.

This volume presents a thorough analysis examining the legal framework for the above mentioned research with a main focus made on research platforms. People conducting such research, i.e. oceanographers, usually face a quite complex set of provisions that govern their activities. As the treasures of the ocean waters have become discovered and known to the major players in coastal states, the international regulations concerning the sea uses have become much more tighter.

As said above, in the book the third part has been analyzed; in addition to that, the publication provides interested readers with a good overview of air and even space laws relevant to the research activities, and describes their relation to the LOS Convention. Some of the other international regulations have also been dealt with and their significance in the customary law context has been analyzed. The book is mainly aimed at a scientific and legal audience...

The present Marine Technologies DP manual is intended for use as an aid to the experienced operators, who have quite a good understanding of basic dynamic positioning principles, theory and general operation. Should this not be the case, then the operator shall first attend the appropriate Marine Technologies Basic DP course.

This equipment to which this manual applies must only be used in the applications for which it has been designed. Improper use, repair, maintenance or lack of them may potentially lead to the injuries or damage to equipment/software, property of other people and of personnel involved in the work with or around this equipment.