Both e-learning modules «Ship maneuverability» and «Ship handling at anchoring operations» are intended to train navigators in accordance with Chapter II of STCW Code.
ELM «Ship maneuverability» content:
- General terms and definitions
- Forces and moments acting on a ship
- Ship’s maneuvering characteristics
- Information on ship’s maneuvering characteristics
- Impact of various factors on course change performance of ship
- Impact of propeller-rudder system on ship’s maneuvering characteristics
- Ways to improve ship’s maneuvering characteristics
- AZIPOD overview
- Briefly about operation of ship main engine
ELM «Ship handling at anchoring operations» contents:
- Anchor gear components
- Anchor handling operations
- Safe anchoring operational guidance
- The choice of anchorage
- Anchorage calculation
- Watch Officer duties when approaching an anchorage
- Preparing for anchorage and dropping the anchor
- Methods of anchoring the vessel to one and two anchors
- Buoy mooring
- Watchkeeping at anchor
- Weighing anchor and buoy unmooring
STORM Sim has developed two new e-learning modules on the ship handling basics