AUSTRALIAN MARITIME COLLEGE: WHY SEAFARING IS LOOKING UP DOWN UNDER

The Australian Maritime College, located in Tasmania, is characterized in this descriptive article as being one of the most technology-driven maritime colleges in the world. Facilities include ShipSim, a computerized ship simulator that is used as a training aid and features a television panorama of ports and ship traffic; a huge indoor tank that provides a realistic setting in which students can practice such procedures as those for abandoning ship; and the Ship Hydrodynamic Centre, whose towing tank can be used to test and evaluate hull-shape performance in calm waters and in rough-weather conditions.

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  • Journal article
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Pagination: 4 p.
• Serial:
  • The Compass
  • Volume: 60
  • Issue Number: No.3
  • Publisher: Mobil Corporation
  • ISSN: 1043-7150

Subject/Index Terms

• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Old TRIS Terms: Facility descriptions; Maritime schools
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00661941
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM