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64 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News ? APRIL 2014 OFFSHORE TRAININGC-MAR is a global provider of manpower, engineering and support services to the mari-time and offshore sectors. The C-MAR Group owns and operates DP training centers in London, Croatia, Mumbai, Singapore and Brazil, offering basic and advanced courses for DP oper- ators in accordance with the curriculum set by the Nautical Institute (NI) as well as tailored courses for shore based per- sonnel involved in dynamic positioning. C-MAR also provides DP Maintenance Courses at some of its global facilities. As a provider of NI accredited cours-es, C-MAR offers high standards of DP training and technical services to the offshore and maritime industries. C- MAR?s DP training center in downtown Rio de Janeiro offers state-of-the-art Converteam and Kongsberg DP simula- tors for its students, which hail from all over Brazil and South America. All courses provide practical and real experiences based on the extensive, combined knowledge and expertise from C-MAR?s experienced instructors. All DPC instructors have over Þ ve years? experience in the operation of DP vessels, covering dive support, IMR, anchor handling, platform supply and drilling operations vessels. C-MAR DP Centers also provide tech- nical services to the marine industry in the form of consultancy for the design and operation of DP vessels, Failure Mode Effect Analysis and Audits to IMCA guidelines. Santos hosted a tour of the training center and explained how the training scheme is organized. ?The Basic course last four days and is introductory level, covering the ba-sics of all areas of DP including; DP Systems Architecture, Basic Principles of DP, Operational Procedures, Power Management System, Rules and Regu-lations, Position Reference Systems and Risk Considerations through different forms of media, such as text, images, animations, video and audio. Upon completion of the course our students are apt to start simulator exer- cises in one of our DP?s simulators, stu- dents are required to complete 30 days of seagoing familiarization after the Ba-sic course,? said Santos. Students at C-MAR?s training center in Rio come from all over Brazil and other countries South American coun- tries belonging to Mercosul (Free trade agreement between some South Ameri- can countries). ?The Advanced course also lasts four days and is composed of Practical Exercises, Planning Exercises, Risk Analysis, Use of Field Charts, DP Checklists, Watch keeping, Identi Þ ca-tion and Responses to Various Failures, Use of Status Lights, Evaluating Alarms and Messages, and Communications. The extensive simulator training in the Advanced course is done using Con-verteam DP systems, students are also required to complete 30 days of famil-iarization at sea upon completion of the Basic course,? said Santos. Santos has been with the company for more than four years, and he explained that the C-MAR?s DP training course began almost a decade ago in a small ofÞ ce in Macaé, a city in the northeast of the State of Rio de Janeiro, which is the main O&G hub for the Campos Ba-sin. With the success of the course they C-MAR DP Training in BrazilAbove: Mauricio Santos, C-MAR Country Manager at the Rio de Janeiro training center. Right, top: Advanced DP simulator training at C-MAR Rio.Right, below: Kongsberg shipboard DP2 station. The modern offshore maritime industry heavily relies on dif- ferent classes of DP vessels, from OSVs to Drillships and Tank- ers, almost all vessels serving the oil and gas industry need to be DP capable in order to safely operate offshore. The massive growth experienced in Brazil due to the uncorking of huge deepwater pre- salt plays has caused a steady demand for new ships, rigs and vessels, maritime ofÞ cers and DP operators in the country. Maritime Re- porter?s correspondent in Brazil talks to Mau-ricio Santos, C-MAR Country Manager, about the reality of DP training in Brazil.By Claudio Paschoa(Photo Claudio Paschoa)(Photo R. Yasyrkin) MR #4 (56-65).indd 64MR #4 (56-65).indd 644/7/2014 3:17:51 PM4/7/2014 3:17:51 PM