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SAFETY AT SEA

ODD COUPLINGS

Tanker Operator; Tug Operator And Pilots Team Together In Training Program

Innovative Crowley, ARCO Safety Training Helps Ensure Safety Of Ship, Cargo, Environment... And Bottom Line very day, oil tankers measuring up to 1,100 ft. (335 m) long and 265,000 dwt depart fully loaded from Valdez, Alaska, transit the

Valdez Narrows, the Valdez Arm,

Prince William Sound, and the U.S.

West Coast. The increasingly strin- gent regulations — international, national, regional and local — surrounding these transits have helped forge an alliance of sorts, making operational partners out of oil companies and tug companies. Two of these companies — ARCO Marine, Inc. and Crowley

Marine Services, Inc. — along with pilots from

Los Angeles/Long Beach, San Francisco, Puget

Sound and Valdez — have extended that part- nership to crew training.

Regulatory Considerations

The U.S. Coast Guard's interim rule imple- menting the Standards of Training,

Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW), adopt- ed from the International Maritime

Organization, is expected to take effect later in 1997. STCW went into effect internationally on

February 1, 1997, with full implementation mandated for 2002. Similar regulations con-

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