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Shipboard Operations II unit (JND288)

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Introduction

Upon completion of this unit, students will have the knowledge and skills required to monitor the seaworthiness of the vessel, apply vessel construction principles, coordinate the vessel's planned maintenance system, ensure the vessel's watertight integrity is maintained and gain a good understanding of the vessel's certification process. The student will also have a good understanding of the function and operation of machinery and emergency equipment and understand the responsibilities and duties of engine room personnel. This unit builds on the knowledge gained in year 1. It meet the requirements for knowledge, understanding and proficiency set out by the current Maritime Training Package, the STCW 2010 (Manila Amendments), and Table A -II/1 of the STCW code.

Summary

Unit name Shipboard Operations II
Unit code JND288
Credit points 12.5
College/School Sciences and Engineering
Australian Maritime College
Discipline Seafaring and Maritime Operations
Coordinator Mr Leslie Lockwood
Available as an elective? No
Delivered By University of Tasmania
Level Intermediate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

  • Analyse and apply major international and national legislative requirements affecting commercial shipping.
  • Demonstrate adequate understanding of the principal structural members of a ship and associated terminology, seaworthiness, watertight integrity, docking, survey, Planned Maintenance Systems (PMS), inspection and reporting of defects and damages to cargo spaces, hatch covers and ballast tanks.
  • Demonstrate adequate understanding of the function and operation of machinery, emergency equipment, duties and responsibilities of the engine room personnel, requirements to ensure pollution prevention compliance and enhanced surveys.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

JND151

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

Face-to-face delivery in the form of lectures and tutorials in the classroom. Recorded lectures/tutorials made available on MyLO.

Lectures/ Duration/ Frequency/Timetabling:

6 hrs/once per week for 10 weeks/Total Hrs 60.

Tutorial/ Duration/ Frequency/Timetabling:

6 hr /once per week for 3 weeks/ Total Hrs 18.

AssessmentQuiz (10%)|Assignment- Structure & Engineering (15%)|Assignment-Regulations (15%)|Final exam (60%)
TimetableView the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required

•    Regs4ships
Recommended
  • Regs4Ships    
  • AMSA Marine Orders
  • Bryce G.J. and Eyre 2012 Ship Construction. Burlington: Elsevier Science. Dokkum, K.  2008 Ship knowledge.  Ship Design, Construction and Operation – Enkhuizen, Netherlands.
  • Eyres D.J. Ship construction, Oxford: Butterworth -Heinemann.
  • Ships and Naval Architecture, R. Munro-Smith  

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