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      <title>SHIPBOARD FIREFIGHTING: FIRE RESPONSE THROUGH TRAINING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There have been many technological changes in shipboard emergency response services in the past 20 years. Many of these have been positive, such as in providing an international standard for safe management and operation of ships and for pollution prevention. However, the equivalent standards with respect to shipboard fire fighting are, for the most part, less effective. This article focuses on suggested practices to improve maritime safety response by the provision of on-board emergency preparedness education and training for fires and other emergencies.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SIMULATION TRAINING SAFER THAN THE REAL THING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Safety training has evolved to the point that there is now increasing use of distant learning techniques, yet at the same time simulation offers a vital means of experiencing realistic problems, even if in virtual reality. This article describes a recently developed series of advanced systems for maritime safety training for both bridge and engine room simulation, together with support facilities and associated courseware. These systems offer: PC/CBT, part task and full mission products in both domains; scalability and modularity in all products; simple transfer of ship- and port model between all levels; and financial solutions.]]></description>
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      <title>EXPLOSION ON THE SS AMERICAN EAGLE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On 26 February, 1984, the 661-foot-long U.S. tankship SS AMERICAN EAGLE was en route in ballast from Savannah, Georgia, to Orange, Texas. Three crew members were cleaning and gas freeing the vessel's forward cargo tanks and the cargo tanks' heating coils. About 1045, an explosion occurred in one of the forward cargo tanks. Three of the vessel's thirty crew members died as a result of the explosion. On the following day, the vessel sank in the Gulf of Mexico about 130 nautical miles south-southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, while awaiting a salvage tug.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NEW FERRANTI RADAR SIMULATOR</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The principal features of a new radar simulator manufactured by Ferranti Computer Systems at Bracknell, England, are listed. The D5651, as it is known, can simulate a wide range of civil and marine radars.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>TYRO SURVIVAL BAGS FROM VIKING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A survival bag manufactured by the Tyro firm in Sweden is described. It is intended mainly for use on survival craft and rescue boats. Protection against cold, wind and rain is provided by means of an inside layer of aluminum that reflects body heat.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ANCHORS AND CABLES--THE NEED FOR CORRECT SELECTION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ships' anchors are not selected at random but are allocated to each vessel according to carefully calculated tables, the bases for which are explained. The manufacturing process for chain cable is then described, based on a visit to the facilities of Beal & Son, in Cardiff.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE FUTURE OF SAFETY TRAINING FOR THE OFFSHORE INDUSTRY</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Norwegian Industry Association for Oil Companies took the initiative of evaluating the basic safety training given in the country's offshore industry and for developing proposals for improvements. Its findings and recommendations are briefly summarized. In line with these, more weight will be put upon teaching personnel how to avoid the occurrence of incidents and accidents and less time will be spent on the theoretical aspects and the contingency part of safety training.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SALVAGING THE HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE--A TEST OF EXPERIENCE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Following the capsizing of the ferry HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE at Zeebrugge on 6 March 1987, a contract was awarded by the shipowner to the firm of Smit Tak for the righting and refloating of the vessel. The salvage operation is outlined.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SOLAS CHAPTER III--WHAT IS REQUIRED BY 1991</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Certain regulations in the 1983 amendments to Chapter III of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, were required to be complied with upon the entry into force of the amendments on 1 July 1986. Other regulations will begin to apply in 1991, and it is these that this article reviews. Specifically, they are regulations 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 21.3, 21.4, 26.3, 27.2, 27.3, and 30.2.7. They deal, respectively, with: EPIRBS; two-way radio telephone apparatus; the carriage by passenger ships of lifejackets equipped with lights and of immersion suits and thermal protective aids; liferafts; lifejacket lights for cargo ships; immersion suits and thermal protective aids for cargo ships; and the fitting of retro-reflective material to all lifesaving appliances.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The design and performance requirements that must be met by lifejackets and survival suits are reviewed. A number of the products that are available and that satisfy these requirements are described.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Details are given on the fire-fighting training courses given at the International Marine Safety Bureau of California and the International Fire and Safety Training School of Malta.]]></description>
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      <title>MAINTAINING SAFETY STANDARDS--LLOYD'S REGISTER'S CLASSIFICATION WORK</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The author presents a brief history of Lloyd's Register, discusses the evolution of its rules, its classification procedures, and its newest service, risk analysis.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brief descriptions are given of available products for eye and ear protection and for protective clothing to be worn while performing hazardous tasks aboard ships.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MAN-OVERBOARD LOCATION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three new inventions have addressed the problem of a person's falling, or being swept, overboard unobserved. The first is an automatic alarm in the form of a radio transmitter carried by each member of a deck crew. The second is the same type of alarm but with the additional feature of a direction-finding facility. The last is a Man-Overboard Position Indicator, a new type of buoy designed specifically to simulate the same floating configuration as a person with respect to draft and windage, remaining in the vicinity of floating personnel and enabling their rapid location through its strobe light and radio beacon.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SHIPS' LIFEBOATS AND THEIR ENGINES</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 1983 amendments to Chapter III of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974 (SOLAS) require most ships to have totally or partially enclosed lifeboats, depending upon ship type. Furthermore, the totally enclosed lifeboats may be required to have a water spray system and internal air supply, again depending on the type of ship involved. The specific requirements for partially enclosed and totally enclosed lifeboats are described in some detail, concluding with a discussion of requirements pertaining to lifeboat engines.]]></description>
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