Code of signals, ICS Tanker, SOLAS & Compass

Following publications are collected for non-commercial purpose from various freely distributed sources. No responsibility is held for any content which may violate the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights of any third party. For other publications, pls go through publications.
download here.
credit: sembawang study group - class 1/ 2009

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IMO Codes

Here we come! IMO codes (mostly draft resolutions) are collected from various sources.
credits: sembawang study group- class1/may-2009, others.
Following publications are collected for non-commercial purpose from various freely distributed sources. No responsibility is held for any content which may violate the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights of any third party. For other publications, pls go through publications.

1. ISPS code (2003 E)
2. STCW code (link 1) + (link 2) (download both)
3. ISM Code (2002 E)
4. IMSBC Code (2008 E)
5. BLU Code (old edition)
6. Timber Code (1991 E)
It's just to gather all IMO codes in one post. more on the next!

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Revolutionary Ship Simulator in Google Earth !


Now we can manoeuvre the vessels any where around the world on google earth platform.
May be useful for simulator-trainees to familiarize themselves on preparation for exams.
Note: Expecting more realistic from you guys : http://planetinaction.com/ships.htm
credit: hhttp://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/google-earth-ship-simulator/
remark: google earth plug-in required (tested in Chrome, Firefox and IE)

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SENIOR OFFICERS NEEDED FOR BULKY *URGENT*

Joining date: 9th June 2009
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flag: Marshall Islands
size: Panamax Bulky (7 holds)
age : 13 years old (around)
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4 Senior Officers Pay Scale in USD (all in)
Master / C/E - 6500 not fixed yet
Chief Mate / 2ng Engr - 5200 not fixed yet

A) DIRECT PROMOTION
B) NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY FOR PRESENT REQUIRED POSITION.
C) NEED TO HOLD ALL VALID CERTS.

CONTACT ME ASAP !
brgds/sirius.lm@gmail.com

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International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargo Code (IMSBC-2009)

This is the copy of MSC Resolution 268(85).


IMSBC Code 2009 by IMO will enter in force in 1st Jan 2011 for all contracting Countries without any transcition period. Meanwhile until that date, present Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargo 2004 (BC Code) will remain effect. After that date, IMSBC Code will supersedes the BC Code 2004. Many major changes have effected to IMSBC code.

link to download: http://ba7432.googlepages.com/MSC268IMSBC.pdf
credit: kyaw thet lwin

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INTACT STABILITY CODE 2008 (DRAFT RES. MSC 85/3/2)

It is International Code on Intact Stability 2008 draft resolution by MSC.

Credit: kyaw thet lwin

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IF G.P.S OUT OF ORDER IN 2010 ...

တစ္ခ်ိန္လုံး ဒီကိစၥကုိ တစ္ဖြဖြ ေၿပာခဲ့ၾကတာ။ ၿဖစ္လာႏုိင္တယ္ ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ေပါ့။ GPS fully functional ၿဖစ္တဲ့ ၁၉၉၅ အလြန္ကာလ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လုံးလုိလုိ ေၿပာလာခဲ့ၾကတာ။ ေနာက္ပုိင္းေတာ့ တစ္ကယ္ service ရပ္သြားတာမ်ဳိး တစ္ခါမွ မၾကဳံၾကရတာရယ္ (ရွိခ်င္လဲ ရွိမွာေပါ့။ ဘယ္သူမွ မသိလိုက္တာလည္း ၿဖစ္ႏုိင္တယ္။ US Air Force က ဒီေနရာမွာေတာ့ အားကုိးရပါတယ္။) ၾကားပါမ်ားေတာ့လည္း ရုိးသြားတာရယ္နဲ. အသံေတြတိတ္သြားၿပန္ပါေရာ။ အခု ဒီေမလဆန္းမွာ US Governement Accountability Office က report တစ္ခု ထြက္လာတယ္။ သိပ္မၾကာပါဘူး။ ဆူညံဆူညံ ၿပန္ၿဖစ္လာတယ္။ ဘာလုိ. backup system ( loran-c တုိ. ဘာတုိ.လုိမ်ဳိးေပါ့) မလုပ္ထား ၾကတာလည္းေပါ့။ သိတဲ့အတုိင္း ကုန္သြယ္ေရေၾကာင္းေလာကဆုိတာလည္း ကမာၻအရပ္ရပ္က လူလည္ၾကီးမ်ား ေပါင္းစုစုံဆည္းရာ ေနရာေလ။ အက်ဳိးမရွိဘဲေတာ့ အိပ္ကပ္ထဲက ငါးၿပားတစ္ေစ့မွ အထြက္မခံတဲ့ လူေတြခ်ည္းပဲ။ ႏုိင္ငံ အစုိးရေတြ ကလည္း စစ္ေလယာဥ္၊ အေၿမာက္ေတြ ဝယ္ဖုိ.သာ ေၿခၿမန္လက္ၿမန္ ရွိၾကတာ။ ဒီကိစၥမ်ဳိးက် ဟုိေရြ. ဒီေရြ.နဲ. .. ဒီလုိနဲ. free free ရေနတာေလးပဲ မွိန္းၿပီး သုံးလာၾကတာေပါ့။ အခု ဟုိက ၿပင္မယ္၊ upgrade လုပ္မယ္၊ ခဏေလာက္ out of service ၿဖစ္ခ်င္ ၿဖစ္ႏုိင္တယ္၊ ၿဖစ္လာႏိုင္တယ္ဆုိေတာ့ မွ အဘားေတြ၊ မားမားေတြ၊ ohh my god ေတြ စုံသြားေတာ့တယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ.ေတြ.အတြက္ေတာ့ out of service တုိ. out of area တုိ.ဆုိတာ အဆန္းမဟုတ္ပါဘူးေနာ့။

သမုိင္းေၾကာင္း လွန္ရမယ္ဆုိရင္ ပထမဆုံး အေနနဲ. အေမရိကန္သမၼတ ေရာ္နယ္ေရဂင္ကုိ ေက်းဇူးတင္ရမယ္။ သူ.ေၾကာင့္ GPS စံနစ္ၾကီးကုိ ဘာမဆုိင္ ညာမဆုိင္ ေကာင္ေတြ အလကားသုံးလုိ.ရတာကုိး။ ဒုတိယ ကမာၻစစ္ ေနာက္ပုိင္း နည္းပညာေတြ တိုးတက္လာလုိက္တာ မ်က္လွည့္ၿပသလုိပါပဲ။ ဒီစစ္ၾကီးေၾကာင့္ အေမရိကန္နဲ. ရုရွားဆုိတဲ ၾဆာၾကီးေတြ ေပၚလာ။ ဂ်ဳးနဲ. ဂ်ာမန္ သိပၸံပညာရွင္ေတြ အေမရိကန္၊ရုရွား ေတြနဲ.ေပါင္းမိ။ လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးသီး၊ radio၊ TV၊ V1/2 ဒုံးပ်ံေတြ.. ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ စပတ္နစ္ (sputnik) ၿဂဳိဟ္တု၊ လကမာၻကုိ အမ္စထေရာင္းက ေၿခေထာက္နဲ.ကန္ ။ အဲဒီလုိပဲ... အတူတူပဲ ေရေၾကာင္း၊ေလေၾကာင္း ပညာရပ္ေတြမွာလည္း အရင္တုန္းက ေကာင္းကင္က ၾကယ္ေတြ၊ လေတြ၊ ၿဂဳိဟ္ေတြရဲ. အခ်ိန္အလုိက္ေနရာ ေရြ.လ်ားမွဳေတြကုိ ၾကဳိတင္တြက္ခ်က္၊ အဲဒီရလဒ္ကုိ အေၿခခံၿပီး မိမိသေဘၤာရဲ. တည္ေနရာကုိ ၿပန္ရွာ ေနခဲ့ၾကရာကေန (celestial navigation လုိ.ေခၚတယ္) OMEGA, DOPPLER, TACCAN, DECCAR, LORAN ဆုိတဲ့ low frequency navigation system ေတြ ေပၚလာ၊ တြင္တြင္က်ယ္က်ယ္သုံးလာ။ accurancy ေတြလည္း ပုိေကာင္းလာ (အစဦးဆုံး omega system ရဲ. accurancy က ေရမုိင္တစ္မိုင္ေတာင္ ေက်ာ္တယ္)။ သေဘာတရား အေၿခခံကေတာ့ celestial navigation system နဲ. အတူတူပါပဲ။ အေမရိကန္နဲ. ရုရွား အၿပိဳင္ လုပ္လုိက္ၾကတာ ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ ၿဂဳိဟ္တုေတြ ကမာၻပတ္လမ္းမွာ ရွဳပ္ရွက္ခပ္ကုန္ေရာ။ 

အေမရိကန္က GNSS (global navigation satillite system) လုိ.ေခၚတယ္။ ၿဂဳိဟ္တု ၃၂ လုံး အေၿခခံ။ စစခ်င္းတုန္းကေတာ့ အဲဒီေလာက္မမ်ားေသးဘူး။ တစ္ကယ္ ရည္ရြယ္ခဲ့တာကေတာ့ စစ္ေရးမွာ သုံးဖုိ.။ (ရုရွားက GLONASS လုိ.ေခၚတယ္။ ၿဂဳိဟ္တု၂၄ လုံးနဲ.။ ပုိက္ဆံမရွိေတာ့တဲ့ ေနာက္ပုိင္း အခု အိႏိၵယနဲ. PARTERSHIP လုပ္ထားတယ္။ တစ္ၿခား EU၊ japan၊ china က developing လုပ္ေနတာေတြလည္း ရွိတယ္။ အထင္ရွားဆုံးကေတာ့ EU - Galileo Positioning System လုိ.ေခၚတယ္၊ ဒီမွာ ေရးခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ ထားပါေတာ့)

၁၉၈၀ အလြန္ေလာက္မွာ အေမရိကန္ မဟာမိတ္ ေတာင္ကုိရီးယားေလယာဥ္ကုိ ရုရွားက ပုိင္နက္ က်ဳးလြန္မွဳနဲ. ပစ္လည္းခ်ေရာ တစ္ကမာၻလုံး အခမဲ့သုံးေစဆုိၿပီး ၿဖစ္လာေတာ့တာပဲ။ အဲဒီမွာတင္ ေလယာဥ္၊သေဘၤာေတြတင္ မက၊ ေတာင္တက္သမား၊ ဘူမိေဗဒပညာရွင္ေတြ မက၊ ေမာ္ေတာ္ကားေတြ၊ ဖုန္းေတြမွာပါ သုံးလာၾကတာ။ SEXTANT (NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPEMNT) သုံးၿပီး POSITION ရွာရင္ ၁၀ မုိင္ေလာက္ လြဲတတ္တဲ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ.လုိ NAVIGATOR မ်ဳိးဆက္သစ္ေတြ ေပၚလာတာ။ ဘယ္ေလာက္ေတာင္ ၿဖစ္လာလဲဆုိရင္ မကၠဆီကုိလုိ ၿပန္ေပးဆြဲတာ POPULAR ၿဖစ္တဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတြမွာ လူခ်မ္းသာေတြက သူတို.ကုိယ္ထဲမွာပါ GPS တပ္လာၾကတာ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့ .. GPS မမိဘူး GPS မမိဘူး ဆုိၿပီး iPhone ၾကီး ၾကည့္ ဟုိလူ. မၿမင္ ဒီလူ.မၿမင္နဲ. ဝင္ဝင္တုိက္တဲ့ ပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ားလည္း ေပၚေပါက္လာပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်။ ထုိ.အတူ ကုိယ့္ေယာက်ာ္း အေၾကာင္း ကုိယ္သိတဲ့ အိမ္ရွင္မမ်ားလည္း ခါးပတ္ထဲမွာ GPS chip ေလး ထည့္ေပးလုိက္ၿပီး Junior ေလးေတြရဲ့ ေနအိမ္ကုိ တိတိက်က် ေၿခရာခံလုိ. ရလာပါတယ္။

တစ္ကယ္လုိ. US AIR FORCE ရဲ. GNSS SATILLITE CONSTELLATION UPGRADING လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ၾကီး ၂၀၁၀ မွာ အခ်ိန္မီ မၿပီးခဲ့ရင္ ဘာေတြ ၿဖစ္လာႏုိင္ပါသလဲ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ့အၿမင္ေတာ့ ေရေၾကာင္းေလာကကုိ သိပ္ထိခုိက္ဖုိ. မရွိပါဘူး။ FULLY FUNCTIONAL မၿဖစ္ဘူးလုိ.ပဲ ေၿပာတာပါ။ လုံးဝအလုပ္မလုပ္ေတာ့ဘူးလုိ. ေၿပာတာမွ မဟုတ္တာ။ သေဘၤာေတြ မွာ ပုိေကာင္းတဲ့ GPS RECEIVER ေတြ ဝယ္တပ္ခ်င္ တပ္ရပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အခုအခ်ိန္ထိ အလုပ္လုပ္ေနေသးတဲ့ GLONASS ရုရွား GPS SATELLITE ေတြနဲ. SYNCHRONIZATION ရတဲ့ GPS RECEIVER ေတြ ေပၚလာႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ EU က လည္း Galileo Positioning System ကုိ သူရဲ. TARGETED 2013 ကေန 2010 အမီ ၿပီးေအာင္ လုပ္ခ်င္လုပ္လာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ JAPAN နဲ. CHINA ရဲ. SYSTEM ေတြကေတာ့ LOCAL ပဲရတဲ့အတြက္ အားကုိးဖုိ. မၿဖစ္ႏုိင္ပါဘူး။က်ေနာ္တုိ.တစ္ေတြလည္း ေၾကးညွိေတြတက္ေနတဲ့ SEXTANTေတြကုိ GREASE ေလးသုတ္ဖုိ. ဖုန္ေလးခါေပးဖုိ.ေတာ့ လုိေနပါၿပီ။လက္က်င့္ေလးရေအာင္ တစ္ပတ္တစ္ခါေလာက္ေတာ့ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းေလး လုပ္ေပးသင့္ေနပါၿပီ။ FORMULA ေတြ မမွတ္မိဘူးဆုိရင္ေတာင္ CELESTIAL NAVIGATION PROGRAMS ေလးေတြေတာ့ လုိလုိမယ္မယ္ ေဆာင္ထားၾကဖုိ.လုိေနပါၿပီ။ ဘာပဲေၿပာေၿပာ လူရွိန္တာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။

ေတာင္တက္သမား၊ ဘူမိေဗဒပညာရွင္ေတြ၊ ကားGPS၊ ဖုန္းGPS သုံးသူေတြကေတာ့ PHONE NETWORK မိခဲ့ရင္ NETWORK TRIANGULAR POSITIONING SYSTEM ကုိပဲ သုံးၾကရုံ ေပါ့။ 

ref: US Government Accountability Office's full report for GPS in PDF format

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Discussion about Regulatory Issues of Bulky@ Singapore

Discussion about current issues on Bulk Carrier with Ship Operator from Singapore

A) Regarding with your interests, I am waiting for New BC Code so called IMSBC ( International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargo Code) published by IMO on last month which is not available yet in our library. This IMSBC will enter in force on 1st Jan 2011 while present BC Code putting in effect from present days only up to the end of year 2010. Once I got this publication in hand, I can thorougly inform the updates. MPA also has the same date as the world to be enforced to MSA 179. (not earlier than that date) Please refer to MPA WEB SITE for further clarification.

B) Intact Stability Code by IMO also just released but no major changes have effected. So even though I don't have this New IS Code, minimum stability criteria for bulk carrier (Solid Bulk, Timber, Grain) will be asf: -

1. GM not less than 0.15 mtr (Grain Vessel 0.30 mtr, Timber Loadline Vsl 0.10 mtr or 3% of max breadth )
2. Max GZ shall occur at angle of heel not less than 25 deg.
3. GZ at least 0.2 mtr at angle of heel 30 deg or greater. (Timber 0.25 mtr)
4. Area under GZ curve to be not less than ..
    a) 0.055 meter-radian @ heel 30deg,  
    b) 0.09 meter-radian @heel 40deg or angle of flooding (for Timber 0.08 m-r)
    c) 0.03 m-r between heel 30 deg and 40 deg or angle of flooding.
5. For Grain Vessel only, list due to cargo shifting after properly trimming .. shall be not more than 12 deg.

6. For Grain Vessel only, residual area between heeling arm curve and righting arm curve up to  heel 40 deg or angle of flooding shall not be less than 0.075 meter-radian.
C) New DOC, SMC has to be issued for intended type of vessel by Class and SMS has to be implemented too.
D) For singapore ships, certifications required for bulk carriers can be filtered from MPA CIRCULAR or PDF file.
E) Ballast water management has so far not yet enforced for Singapore or IMO. But it is good to be prepared and carried onboard Ballast Water Management Manual and Record Book. Latest info at MPA or IMO-1 and IMO-2.

will find out more and keep you inform sir.
brgds/sirius

23-05-09 correction according to Intact Stability Code -2009
a) Timber on deck cargo vessel Minimum GM 0.1 mtr (NOT 0.05 mtr)
b) For all vessels unless stated otherwise, Max GZ shall occur at angle of heel not less than 25 deg. (NOT 30 deg)

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Mariner Handbook 2004

Upon request, I searched for mariner handbook 2004 which can be downloaded in following link.
Mariner Handbook 2004 (B.A)
file size: about 29 mb
file type: pdf in (rar format)
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