Questionnaire:

1. Do you have internet connection from your previous vessel?

Yes
No
2. How many vessels have you boarded with an internet connection?
1
3
2
Please specify. ___
3. Does internet help you in your navigation and other duties?
Yes
No. why?
_________________________________________________________
4. In what way does internet helps you in navigation and other duties?
It helps me to get information about the work to be done.
It provides me e-learning tools that lead towards higher
competency.
It helps me to get in touch with my family and be updated to the
news during
break time.
Others, please
specify.___________________________________________
5.

In what way does internet affects your performance on board?

It gives me valuable information for my work.
It provides certain procedures on how to do a certain work
onboard.
It makes me sleepy during work because I surf the internet
instead of having
rest.
If others, please specify.
__________________________________________
6.

In overall, is Internet helpful to you onboard the vessel?

Yes, it helps me a lot to get information about navigation and in
many aspects.
Yes, it keeps me in touch with my family.
No, it does not help me at all.
No, it only wastes my time instead of taking rest.

September 7, 2015
Dear Respondents,
The researchers are currently enrolled in the RESEARCH 1 and are working
with their thesis paper entitled Effects of Internet in Work onboard
Vessel. The research work would like to determine the effects of internet in
work onboard vessel with respect to their performances onboard.
The questionnaire is designed to gather data from cadets and maritime
instructors of the academy of MAAP. We would like to ask for your full
cooperation and commitment in answering our questionnaire. The results will
be used as our data in our research and it will be held totally confidential.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
2cl Bayona, Remar John
2cl Juarez, Alvin D.
2cl Lamprea, Robert Wayne
2cl Militante, Jose Arman
2cl Relos, Mark Anthony

Noted by:

Dr. Rosa Jade T. Valiente

Research 1 Instructor

IV.CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
For this research, the study will focus on the Effects of Internet in Work Onboard
Vessel. The researchers arranged the variables involve in the Input-Process-Output (IPO)
model. The IPO will show the general structure and guide for the path of the dissertation.
Substituting the variables of this research study on the IPO model, the researcher came up
with the following:

Input

Process

Output

Resting Hours
Performance
Navigation
Duties

Internet
onboard

Work Ethics

Fig 1: Paradigm of the Input-Process-Output Model of Effects of Internet in Work

Onboard Vessel.

IX.SCOPE AND LIMITATION

The researchers aim is to conduct a research about the effects of internet in work
onboard the vessel. They would like to know how internet affects the resting hours,
performance onboard, navigation and duties or watches of officers and ratings in a certain
vessel. The research only covers the effects of internet onboard if it is helpful or not in the
performance of seafarers and if it is only used for communication or as a tool for leisure
when they are on their own.
Our research will only limit our respondents to the maritime officers and ratings of the
Philippines. This will include the instructors of the deck department and engine department
inside the premises of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific that had experience to
be a part of a vessel which has an internet connection. Our first classmen will also be
included as our respondents in the said research for they already experienced to be a
member of the crew of an international merchant vessel.