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Training & Education

Transas ISS Featured At

Portsmouth Festival

Transas Marine Limited teamed up with the Merchant Navy Training Board to host interactive demonstrations of its

PC based simulators at the third Interna- tional Festival of the Sea. On show was a Navi-Trainer Expert shiphandling sim- ulator, a GMDSS simulator incorporat- ing 'real' consoles, as well as Liquid

Cargo Handling and Engine Room sim- ulator systems.

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HR Mardyn: Joint Venture

Provides Real-Time Navigation

HR Mardyn, a joint venture between

HR Wallingford and McCallum Engi- neering Consultants, operates real-time and fast-time ship simulators for port design and ship operation investigations.

Facilities are based at Wallingford,

Oxfordshire, U.K. HR Mardyn operates two real-time ship simulators. Running these simultaneously allows two vessels to be controlled independently within the same simulation. This allows the repre- sentation of ship/ship interaction and the simulation of escort tugs and the main vessel. The simulator may be used at any stage of the port design procedure, allowing real-time ship simulation to be carried out under the control of the ship operator. It also provides effective train- ing for pilots, tug masters and ship's offi- cers in maneuvering procedures.

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MarineSafety ECDIS Course

Approved By USCG

The Electronic Chart & Display Infor- mation System (ECDIS) course present- ed by MarineSafety International at all three of its Centers was approved by the

U.S. Coast Guard, effective May 1. The course, which complies with the applic- able sections of the IMO's Standards of

Training, Certification and Watchkeet-

MITAGS facility for higher-level theory classroom elements. These objective tasks were demonstrated in the MITAGS

All Weather Navigation (AWN), eight ship, interactive, blind bridge simulator.

This NRC classified, Category 3 Limited

Task simulator placed the pilots in a scene with limited instrument, naviga- tion and collision avoidance features.

The software element of the PPU was thoroughly exercised by the pilots in the fast paced, yet forgiving, environment of the blind bridge AWN simulation. The final phase in the training cycle built on the training synergy of the previous on and off-site work by moving to the Full

Mission Simulation System (FMSS) for ping (STCW) Code, will be offered at

MSI Centers in Newport, R.I.; Norfolk,

Va.; and San Diego, Calif. They have all been approved to issue a Certificate of

Training, which will be recognized by the USCG Regional Exam Centers.

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STAR Center, Lockheed Martin

Provide Distance Learning

RTM Simulation, Training, Assess- ment and Research (STAR) Center and

Lockheed Martin Training have teamed up to provide distance learning advance- ments that will bring commercial mar- itime to seafarers worldwide. The new program will incorporate Computer

Based Training (CBT), which will be available via CD-ROM or Web, as well as on-site training locations throughout the world.

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Poseidon Simulation Installs

Premiere Fast Ferry Simulator

Troms0 Maritime Polytechnic, one of the leading maritime training institu- tions in Norway, has decided to branch out its activities into the advanced simu- lation of fast ferries. Poseidon Simula- tion has developed a complex fast ferry simulator, which has now been installed and fully operational in Troms0. In order to maximize the full effect of realistic training, Poseidon Simulation allowed

SSPA Sweden to develop a model for

M/S Fjordkongen, one of TFDS' fast fer- ries, to be simulated. AutoSim in Trom- s0 has developed the visual solutions, thus allowing for realistic training in the corresponding waters.

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SCSS Boasts New Staff

Following the renewal of a joint ven- ture cooperation between Star Cruises

Ship Simulator (SCSS) and Danish Mar- task demonstration in NRC category II and I simulation. Category II simulation allowed the pilots to demonstrate their proficiency with the actual PPU units in controlled, Full Mission, open water pilotage scenarios, whereby category I simulation offered pilotage in restricted waters, including emergency maneuver- ing.

In summary, the individual pilot par- ticipating in the program experienced on and off-site training in three different simulators, with ample review of tasks and objectives during progressively dif- ficult simulations conducted in progres- sively higher fidelity simulators. This synergistic scaled approach provides itime (DMI), Star Cruises has appointed new personnel at SCSS located at Star's

Terminal in Pulau Indah, Port Klang,

Malaysia. Capt. Hans Hederstrom has been appointed manager and principal instructor; Capt. Hans Christer Stroem joins Star as senior instructor; and Lars

Husted will serve as naval architect/pro- ject manager. SCSS was completed in 1998 at a cost of $5 million.

STN Atlas Simulators Train

Australian Marine Pilots

Star Cruises' $4 million STN ATLAS

Elektronik-designed full-mission simu- lator at its Port Klang headquarters,

Malaysia, is being used to train Aus- tralian and New Zealand marine pilots.

Exercises include competency audits involving video analysis of performance and according to Steve Pelecanos, vice president of the International Marine

Pilots Association. Commissioned near- ly two years ago, the Atlas system is designed for training Star Cruises' fleet masters and bridge personnel in all aspects of ship-handling and bridge management in addition to potential onboard emergency and safety proce- dures.

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FTL Develops Ship Evac Tool

FTL is currently developing a comput- er simulation tool for ship evacuation that will allow users to explore beyond the cases that can be examined in con- trolled evacuation trials. This model will allow comparison of evacuation arrangements at the ship design stage, and will assist with determining the optimum layout of facilities, location of lifeboat and crew/passenger ratios. In order to assess data on the mobility of people moving along typical ship's pas- sageways and upstairs, on the level and at an angle of heel, FTL has built a test rig at its Kanata labs. The Ship Evacua- tion Behavior Assessment Facility —

SHEB A — is comprised of a cabin, pas- better student feedback on perceived gained proficiency as a result of the training, versus those who have only been exposed to traditional classroom lectures teamed with exclusive simula- tion in the FMSS alone. Not only are the perceived proficiencies higher, the simulation contact time increases dra- matically per student, as they are not waiting to use a one-operator simulator (the FMSS) but, rather, are interactively using the category IV and III simulators in preparation for the higher fidelity and overall task load experienced in the

FMSS. The future of the synergistic approach MITAGS envisions that many maritime training programs will gravi- sageway and a stair mounted on hydraulic rams that can tilt the rig to modest angles.

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MITAGS Appoints Academic

Director of Training

Walter F. Megonigal, Jr. has been appointed to the newly created position of Academic Director of Training for the

Maritime Institute of Technology and

Graduate Studies (MITAGS). Megoni- gal will be responsible for the day-to- day activities of MITAGS' five academ- ic departments; Marine Safety; Naviga- tion/Shiphandling; Transportation Man- agement; Offshore Sailing; License

Advancement. He will also direct the

Academic Division's two supporting departments; Systems Engineering; and

Applied Research/Course Development.

Dur To Head Ship Sector

Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed Philip A. Dur as corporate vice president and president of the com- pany's Ship Systems sector — the largest builder of non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy. He will assume his new position on Oct. 1, succeeding Jerry St.

Pe, who announced his decision to retire on Oct. 31 after 40 years with the com- pany.

Dur, a former rear admiral of the U.S.

Navy, currently serves as vice president of Program Operations at the Electronic

Sensors and Systems Sector, the compa- ny's largest sector with annual revenues of approximately $5 billion. He man- ages the sector's business operations, oversees program execution and acqui- sition, and alliance activities. Dur served in the Navy as assistant deputy chief of naval operations; director, Navy strategy division; commander, battle force Sixth

Fleet; and commander, cruiser-destroyer group eight, where he was responsible for the combat readiness of 35 cruisers and destroyers, a battleship and 11,000 personnel. tate to the use of scaled, objective based simulation in support of their programs, and endorses the classification of simu- lation tools as per the guidance of the

National Research Council. The devel- opment of new technologies, such as

CBT, is beneficial and these technolo- gies are ready to augment the variety of training already in-place in the maritime training arena.

The future is here, and we are ready to simulate it. by George B. Burkley, Department

Head, MITAGS Applied Research

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