Ice Navigation
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Why is ice navigation important?
Ice navigation is essential for maritime professionals who operate in polar or icy waters. Navigating through ice-covered seas can be dangerous, so it requires special skills and knowledge to ensure the safety of the ship, crew, and cargo. Ice can damage vessels, impact stability, and create challenging conditions for navigation. Knowing how to handle these challenges is crucial for safe and efficient operations in cold regions.
Safety: Ice can damage the hull of the ship, affect stability, and block important routes, so knowing how to navigate through it is vital for the crew's safety.
Challenges: Ice navigation requires careful planning, awareness of ice types, and understanding how ice conditions change with weather.
Safety: Ice can damage the hull of the ship, affect stability, and block important routes, so knowing how to navigate through it is vital for the crew's safety.
Challenges: Ice navigation requires careful planning, awareness of ice types, and understanding how ice conditions change with weather.
What is the role of the ice navigator?
The ice navigator is responsible for guiding the ship safely through ice-covered waters. They need special skills and experience to understand ice conditions, work with ice-breakers, and plan the safest route through icy seas. Their role is critical in avoiding hazards, managing risks, and ensuring that the ship moves efficiently even in tough ice conditions.
Responsibility: The ice navigator must ensure the ship can safely pass through ice, whether alone or with the help of an ice-breaker.
Skills: They need to understand different types of ice, how to prepare the ship for ice conditions, and how to react to sudden changes in ice and weather conditions.
Responsibility: The ice navigator must ensure the ship can safely pass through ice, whether alone or with the help of an ice-breaker.
Skills: They need to understand different types of ice, how to prepare the ship for ice conditions, and how to react to sudden changes in ice and weather conditions.
This training course primary is intended for Masters, Chief Officers and mates who are engaged or going to be engaged in ice navigation.
In this course the participants should gain the knowledge and skills of operation in polar waters, autonomous navigation in ice, navigation with ice-breaker assistance, as well as mooring operations in ice conditions.
The course is certified by Latvian Maritime Administration.
The course is certified in accordance with Section B-V/g of STCW Convention.
The course is certified in accordance with Section B-V/g of STCW Convention.
The Ice Navigation course covers the following topics:
- Types of ice. Basic ice physics;
- Preparation of a vessel for ice navigation;
- Autonomous passage in any ice conditions;
- Effects of ice accretion on vessel’s stability;
- Planning a passage in ice-covered waters;
- Ice classification of ships;
- Principles of ice-breaker operations;
- Navigation with ice-breaker assistance;
- Mooring operations in ice-covered harbors.
During training course theoretical lessons are given using PowerPoint presentations, practical tasks are conducted on Transas NTPRO 5000 full mission simulator.
The maximum number of participants – 5 persons.
The duration of the Ice Navigation training course is 4 working days.
The price is 990 EUR.
Certificate is unlimited.
To be assigned in Ice Navigation training course, participant should present National License.
Riga, Latvia
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