30 Apr

Northrop Grumman offers DVD training packages for nav. systems

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
(CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – APRIL 29, 2008) – Northrop Grumman Corporation has launched a new eLearning initiative to support its Sperry Marine Voyage Management System (VMS) ship navigation software. Sperry Marine, a business unit of Northrop Grumman, has produced a series of DVDs containing video training lessons covering various aspects of VMS operation and maintenance. The eLearning DVDs condense several days of…
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28 Apr

California Maritime’s Golden Bear departs for training cruise in South Pacific

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
The California Maritime Academy's Golden Bear III. (VALLEJO, CA – APRIL 25, 2008) – The California Maritime Academy’s 500-foot training ship Golden Bear III will depart the campus pier on the Carquinez Strait at Vallejo at 8:30 Sunday morning, April 27th for a nearly 24,000 mile training voyage to the South Pacific.  The ship will call ports in Tahiti, Tonga,…
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23 Apr

Capt. Harry Bolton named new master of training ship

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Captain Harry Bolton boasts an impressive naval record and is a First Class Pilot. He was recently named Master of the California Maritime Academy's training ship Golden Bear. (VALLEJO, CA – APRIL 21, 2008) -- Captain Harry Bolton, a 1978 deck-officer graduate of the California Maritime Academy, has accepted the position of Master of the University’s 500-foot Training Ship Golden…
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23 Apr

INTERTANKO launches Tanker Officer Training Standards initiative.

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
(ARLINGTON, VA - APRIL 23, 2008) -- INTERTANKO launched its Tanker Officer Training Standards (TOTS) initiative, an ambitious project on which it has been working with some intensity in a bid to respond to industry concerns over how to establish officer training standards. The main aims of the TOTS system are to provide the tanker industry with a clear standard of…
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22 Apr

Training plays a key role in keeping specialized vessels operating

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
Complex vessels like Rigdon Marine’s St. Louis, with its diesel-electric propulsion system, are creating the need for more highly trained mariners. (Brian Gauvin) Over 12,000 mariners are employed on the vessels that support the offshore oil and gas industry. And with drilling at a 20-year peak, demand for people with their specialized skills is growing. The booming liquefied natural gas…
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10 Apr

Cooks need training just like any other on-board position

Professional Mariner StaffA Mariner's Notebook, Licensing & Training
My first job in high school was at a local restaurant. To work there I needed a doctor’s note stating that I didn’t have any communicable diseases; then I had to take a food safety course and pass a written test before getting my “food worker’s card†issued by the county department of health. Initially I washed dishes, but after…
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21 Feb

Canadian Companies Continue Training Tradition

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
Newport, RI, (20 February 2008) - For more than 25 years, Canadian officers have travelled to MarineSafety International's Newport Simulator Center to attend training.  Seaway Marine Transport held a Piloting Course for four students there during the week of February 11th to 15th, 2008. The attendees (pictured below, left to right) were:  Mike Sinderly (Algoma), Ryan Knee (Algoma), Ed Lynch…
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15 Feb

Voith Schneider Turbo Propulsion Navigation Simulator Installed

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training, Maritime News
Simulation of Vessels with Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP)(Press Release from Voith)The demands on the maneuverability of vessels are constantly rising. On the one hand, larger and larger amounts of goods are moved within shorter and shorter times on the world's oceans. On the other hand, crew numbers aboard all types of vessels are continuously reduced. As a result, the workload…
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16 Jan

Coast Guard pledges to end delays in license renewals

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training, Maritime News
  The Coast Guard is centralizing licensing processing at its new National Maritime Center in West Virginia. (Photos courtesy U.S. Coast Guard) No license renewal can mean no livelihood for mariners like Capt. Mike Challancin. Challancin, who runs boat tours on Florida's Lake Okeechobee, delivered his license renewal forms to the Coast Guard in early March 2007. When Challancin sat…
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05 Dec

AMSEA releases new film on flooding control

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(SITKA, AK -- December 4, 2007) Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA), a nonprofit corporation dedicated to developing a cold water safety information and training network, has released a new film on vessel flooding control. The film, titled “Flooding Control: Knowledge & Tools to Prevent Sinking,” was created in response to the fact that fifty percent of the vessels lost…
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