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and combines ECDIS, Route Planning and Route Monitoring, ARPA and

Radar, and ANTS — with centralized conning display.

The Voyager incorporates an adaptive steering control in the automatic track control system, which automatically steers the ship from point to point along a planned route in narrow waters, or across the ocean in the most economical way. The ANTS, or Automatic Naviga- tion and Track-keeping System, has built-in adaptive steering control and a centralized conning display. nView Corp. introduced the Virtual

Bridge, providing a panoramic view of the ship's integrated monitoring systems on multiple side-by-side displays. The

Virtual Bridge is now offered by nView as an optional capability with SiMON, the Ships Information Monitoring sys- tem.

The Virtual Bridge is comprised of up to four large flat-panel LCD displays, mounted end-to-end, running from one central computer. It creates the appear- ance of having one very wide display, capable of providing information from all the ship's critical operating systems simultaneously.

The user can easily drag and drop operating information, such as the radar display, electronic charting and SiMON from one screen to the next in any direc- tion with simple point and click func- tions.

The information on the displays can be dynamically reconfigured as the captain chooses, using a single computer key- board and mouse. SiMON is an integrat- ed system designed to monitor any sys- tem, subsystem or sensors on the vessel.

It collects real-time data from any num- ber of analog or digital sources, and for- mats the data for display on the ship's computers.

Polar Marine is sending its Able Bod- ied (AB) seamen to MarineSafety

International (MSI) San Diego to become proficient as Radar Observers and ARPA operators.

This approach was developed by Polar

Marine to enable their AB's to better participate as watchstanders on its new

Millennium tankers. The Polar Endeav- or Class vessels are equipped with state- of-the-art Integrated Bridge Systems

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Transas 60 (IBS). When underway, the ABs stand a lookout watch day and night on the ship's Bridge.

Due to severe weather conditions in many operational areas, the bridges are fully enclosed from wing to wing.

Although they do not relieve the Watch

Officer of responsibility, a better-trained

Lookout will be better able to assist the

Watch Officer in identifying contacts and assessing threats.

MarineSafety International will con- duct the nine-day combined Radar

Observer and ARPA course at its San

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MSI instructors, certified by the

USCG under STCW guidelines, will train students in the theory of radar oper- ation, Rules of the Road, rapid radar plotting and relative motion as part of the Radar Observer Course. An exami- nation will be given at the end of the course. ARPA training will include the- ory and systems practical exercises and a USCG approved comprehensive final examination. Graduation from the nine- day course will culminate with the awarding of Radar Observer and ARPA certificates recognized by the USCG.

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