BRIDGE MANAGEMENT

1 WATCHKEEPING ARRANGEMENTS

Establish watchkeeping arrangements and operational and safety procedures identify and explain national and international requirements regarding navigation, collision, radio and navigation equipment prepare and write concise standing and night orders explain the duties and responsibilities of a navigation watchkeeper
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Regarding navigation, navigational equipment and the qualifications and fitness of watchkeeping personnel (eg merchant shipping regulations, navigation warnings, M (Merchant Shipping) notices, certificates concerning navigation, navigation equipment and number of certificated persons to be carried, deck officer requirements); guidelines for the management of safe ship operations and pollution prevention (eg qualifications and training of personnel, Standards for Training and Certification of Watchkeepers (STCW) conventions, International Safety Management system); principles to be observed in keeping a navigational and radio watch; requirements regarding fitness to keep a watch; International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS) including annexes; information exchange between the Master and pilot; engineering watch requirements (eg responsibility of the Master to ensure engineering watchkeeping arrangements are adequate, routine and non-routine bridge/engine room/engineer communications)
STANDING AND NIGHT ORDERS

Items and procedures to be included in standing and night Orders (eg limitations and guidelines for passage planning and selection of route, procedures and checks prior to arrival and before sailing and on approaching areas of high traffic density or navigational hazards en route); positive reporting of readiness (eg of cargo security, watertight integrity, engines, communication equipment, navigation equipment); procedures to adopt prior to departure (eg watertight integrity of vessel, positive reporting, pre-departure briefings, security of cargo and stores, searches for stowaways, crew and passenger lists, International Safety Management (ISM) code checklists, passage planning and bridge preparation, ship stability, port clearance); procedures to adopt prior to heavy weather at sea and in port
NAVIGATION WATCHKEEPER

Duties and responsibilities (eg offering advice and support to watchkeepers; selecting position fixing methods from those available; using primary and secondary fixing methods; identifying intervals between fixes; determining reliability of fixes; type, use and limitations of systems for continuous monitoring of position)

2 MANOEUVRE AND HANDLE THE SHIP

Explain how to manoeuvre and handle the ship identify and describe the design features and other factors affecting the manoeuvrability of a ship describe the procedures for manoeuvring a vessel when berthing, unberthing and anchoring

 explain the procedures relating to manoeuvring in given routine and emergency circumstances
SHIP MANOEUVRABILITY

Design features (eg propulsion systems and configurations, steering devices, thrusters); other factors (eg trim, list, draft, shallow water, bow and stern wave, interaction, weather and tidal conditions); manoeuvring data for a range of ship types (eg stopping distances and emergency stops, turning circles, speeds at various revs per minute, critical and minimum engine speeds)
BERTHING, UNBERTHING AND ANCHORING

Berthing and unberthing in various conditions of wind, current and tidal stream, with and without tugs (eg at fixed pier, jetty and single or multi buoy moorings, entering and leaving locks and dry docks, warping along jetties, turning short round, berthing alongside other vessels including for lightening operations); anchoring in various conditions of wind, current and tidal stream; anchor use and handling (eg single and multi anchor operations, use of anchor when berthing, turning on an anchor, dragging anchor and countermeasures, weighing and leaving the anchorage) Routine and emergency circumstances: routine manoeuvring procedures (eg picking up and dropping a pilot, operating in the vicinity of off-shore installations, operating with tugs and small craft, operating with helicopters, heavy weather, narrow channels, in or near ice, when affected by ice accretion, in or near Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) and Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS)); emergency manoeuvring procedures (eg man overboard, launch and recovery of survival/rescue craft, fire, flooding, collision, shift of cargo, beaching, loss of propulsion and/or steering, emergency towing, use of anchor in emergency, Search and Rescue (SAR) situations)

3 GYRO COMPASS

Explain the operation and use of the gyro compass explain the principles of gyro compass operation explain the causes and methods of correction of gyro compass errors describe the operation and use of a commercial gyro compass including the interface with subsidiary equipment
PRINCIPLES OF THE GYRO COMPASS

Properties of a free gyro; application of control and damping; movement of the north end against a vertical backcloth and settling positions
GYRO COMPASS ERRORS

Causes of errors (eg latitude of vessel, course steered, speed of vessel, settling error); methods of correction (eg in accordance with manufacturers data, correction device)
COMMERCIAL GYRO COMPASS

Operation and use of different commercial gyro compasses as specified in manufacturers manuals (eg Sperry, Anschutz); interface of the master gyro compass with subsidiary equipment (eg repeaters, autohelm)