Course Overview
This course will provide students with all the essential information needed to prepare, plan, and execute a successful dry docking of a ship. It will also cover ballast treatment and NOx and SOx emission control processes. A review of the IMDG Code will be followed by Canutec book familiarization, and the ship’s enclosed space entry procedures. It will also cover the causes of corrosion in the marine environment, and its prevention on the hull and sea water and diesel engine cooling systems. A review of non-destructive testing will also be covered.
Prerequisite(s)
- Successful completion of Term 5.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Manage safe and effective maintenance and repair as per ship’s planned maintenance systems (PMS) as detailed in the ISM code.
- Understand the terminology and frequency of classification society surveys.
- Prepare detailed specification for all dry-dock jobs for tender evaluation.
- Prepare vessel for entering dry dock, and carry out all inspections when vessel is on the blocks.
- Prepare vessel for dock flooding.
- Understand the ship’s hull painting specifications.
- Describe the ballast water treatment alternatives.
- Describe the different methods of controlling NOx emissions.
- Identify the hazards and the safety precautions and procedures for entering enclosed or confined spaces on ships.
- Understand the engineer’s responsibilities as first responder in case of chemical spills.
- Understand the causes of corrosion in the marine environment, and its prevention.
- Describe and carry out different types of non-destructive examination of ship’s machinery critical components.
Effective as of Winter 2017
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