10 Important Things To Check During Electro Hydraulic Crane Inspections

In most ships, you may find between one or more cranes installed to help in lifting cargo , hose , provision and among others.

Ships that mostly use Crane

• Dry Cargo Ships

• Bulk Carriers

• General Cargo Vessels

• Container Vessels

• Reefer Vessels

•  Ro-Ro Vessels

•  Liquid Cargo Ships

• Crude | Product Tankers

• Heavy-lift/Project Cargo Vessels

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Read more about the above listed ships and there functions

What main purpose of hydraulic or electric crane onboard?

Hydraulic and/or electric Cranes are installed onboard ship to carry out havey duty lifting and lowering of loads by means of fixed wire ropes or wrap pins to lower or higher positions by derricks.

Generally, Cranes are basically classified by their method of operations ;

Why Most Ship Casualties Are Mainly Of Human Error And What Are The Human Errors ?

Sea transportation has been the major means of transporting cargos and passenger international. Transporting cargos via sea has been found to be most safest way for havey cargos like Chemical, Oil, bulk cargos and others.

Mean while, we can still find some degrees of risk factors facing the sea transportation, and these risks are mainly casue by  operators error. On this article, we will observe some example, list of ship operators error and other factors which can result to a big disaster to the ship operation.

As recorded, about 75-96% of marine accidents are caused by human errors and they occurs in these categories of operations and forms ;

• 84-88% mostly tanker accidents

• 79%  towing vessel grounding

• 89-96%  collisions

• 75%  Allison's

•75% fires and explosions

Ship Collision

When we talk about human errors, what do we mean?  Human error are mostly described as being one of the followings:

• Improperly performed action

• Incorrect decision

• Improper lack of action

• Incompetent of ones duty

Probably the better way to explain human error is to provide examples from one real marine casualty's ; "Collision of Argentine freighter M/V Santa Cruz II and U.S. Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga in Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac River, Maryland, October 20, 1978." 

That collision was an example of human error. According the witness "The cause of the casualty was that the commanding officer of the USCGC CUYAHOGA failed to properly identify the navigation lights displayed by the M/V SANTA CRUZ II. As a result he did not comprehend that the vessels were in a meeting situation and altered the CUYAHOGA's course to port taking his vessel into the path of the SANTA CRUZ II."

Four Main functions of valves , Names, category and types.

Onboard ship valves are widely use for various purposes. These valves are mostly designed in such a way that it saver it functions as listed below:

TYPES OF VALVES

1. Regulation
2. Isolation
3. specialized purpose
4. Non-Return

Following the above listed, these functions helps you to categorize there types by names. below are the categories of valves, following it functions;

1. Regulation : valves which can be found on this category of functions are:

• Piston valves
• Globe valves
• Needle valves
• Control valves
• diaphragm valves
• Butterfly valves
• Pinch valves

2. Isolation: as the name sounds, the valves that can be found on this category of functions are :

• Piston valves
• Gate valves
• Ball valves
• diaphragm valves
• Plug valves
• Butterfly valves
• Pinch valves

3. Specialized purpose : valves which can be found on this category of functions are:

• Float Valves
• Knife gate valves
• Line blind valves

54-year old Captain Got missing while vessel underway

An unconfirmed information, A container ship MSC GIANNINA heading from Gioia Tauro to Genoa, Italy reported her Captain missing  the information gathered from the fleet website said most probably on Oct 19 in vicinity 13 53N 013 43E, Tyrrhenian sea,

What Is The Full Meaning Of SBM And It Purpose?

The Meaning Of SBM

SBM simply means "Single Buoy Mooring"
This is a loading and Discharging offshore buoy, which serves as a mooring point and interconnect for tankers loading or discharging of gas or liquid products. 

They are meant to handle any size tanker ship, including VLCC (very large crude carriers) where no other alternative facilities are available.

Purpose And Benefits Of SBM/SPM

Six Possible Reasons Why Seafarers May Fall Overboard

Here are six mostly reasons why seafarers go overboard at the sea, why underway or at anchorage:

Rescue boat drill

✓Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs

✓Working in low visibility or in rough sea conditions

✓Accidents such as loosing footing on deck.

Engine Room Resource Management Covers these Ten Main Points.

Engine control room

The main objective of resource management relate to the non-technical skills associated with the social interaction between team members, situation awareness and the decision-making. This is a high fidelity, complex, simulated working environment.

This course has been designed to meet the requirements of STCW Regulation I/12, Sections A-III/1 & 2 and A & B-VIII/2.

This course is intended for engineering officers at both the management and operational level. Program can be tailored to specific shipping company operations. this course covers;

To work on board tanker vessel as Engineer Officer ;

Here is requirements according to the new law as amended 2010:

CDC (In good order, without Damage, Should be endorsed with ILO stamp)

Yellow Fever

COC

Oil DCE

Chem DCE

Gas DCE (if on gas tanker) 

PST (as per STCW 2010)

PSCRB (as per STCW 2010)

AFF (as per STCW 2010)

MFA (as per STCW 2010)

Medical Care (For Masters) (as per STCW 2010)

PSSR (as per STCW 2010)

Important Points To Note About Gas testing Equipments on tanker Ships And Enclose space entry

Explosimeter  Equipment

The Explosimeter is the name normally associated with the instrument for measuring hydrocarbon gas in air at concentrations below the Lower Flammable Limit. Its full name is a Catalytic Filament Combustible Gas Indicator.

A full understanding of the construction and principle of an Explosimeter is essential for its safe and efficient use and it is essential that any person using this instrument carefully studies the operating manual. There is also a detailed explanation in the ISGOTT carried on tankers.

Top Biggest Tanker

The Explosimeter measures from 0 to 100% of the Lower Explosive Limit (1.4% by volume).

SETS 6000 - Splendid program for the training and assessment of seafarers

Sets 6000

SETS 6000   > This is a Competence Evaluation System.  Splendid program for the training and assessment of seafarers, as well as used as a teaching system. Version 6000 is a powerful computer-based testing program.