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Paducah Training Center Prepares Te Ge Online

This month in Paducah, Kty., a training cen- ter will open for the purpose of teaching safe navigational practices to mariners by way of innovative simulation technology. The Paducah

Center for Maritime Education — the brain- child of The Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) — overlooks the confluence of the Tennessee and

Ohio rivers, and thus training provided by the center will focus on inland waterways naviga- tion.

SCI Director Eric Larsson has reported that nine companies have already made com- mitments to train their captains and pilots at the new facility, including Mobil Oil, American

Commercial Barge Lines, Ingram Barge Co.,

Midland Enterprises, Mid-South Towing,

Marine Equipment Towing Co., Ashland,

Crounse Corp. and Canal Barge Co.

A four, own-vessel simulator has been pur- chased from Kongsberg Norcontrol Inc.

Norcontrol Project Manager Einar Hardus told MR/EN in February that the equipment will include a cylindrical screen which projects from above, as well as "live instrumentation," including sound and vibration systems.

Each wheelhouse will resemble a towboat wheelhouse with a one-person maneuvering console, a Furuno 2100 series radar and DGPS mapping and positioning capability. Four dif- ferent towboats will be available for training,

Simulator printout generated from mariner exercise at

Seaman's Church Institute training center in New York City. including a three-wheel towboat with a 35- barge dry cargo tow. Twelve areas of the inland waterway system were modeled for the simula- tor by SCI's Brian Donohue in the Imaging

Science and Engineering department. He told

MR /EN that nine different configurations were created for each area, taking into account con- ditions such as visibility, current and time of day. Mr. Donohue also emphasized that the mulator will break new technological ground in its use of phototexturing, which provides an extremely high resolution look and therefore, a heightened sense of reality. In fact, the

Lockheed Martin video imaging system is expected to increase functionality substantially. "We're taking the upfront risk in building this facility," SCI Executive Director Rev. Peter

Larom confided to MR/EN. And in return, the maritime industry has booked the facility for the next five years.

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