MARPOL Annex VI special areas: Baltic sea (Sox) +24NM off California coast North sea (Sox) North America (Nox, Sox & PM- Particulate matter) United states Caribbean sea (Nox, Sox & PM) Ist Jan, 2014. Special area for SOX...
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Bunker Disputes – The “Cappuccino Effect”
Introduction The vessel, a bulk carrier, arrived in Singapore and began to bunker 900 tons of high sulphur fuel oil. The crew was alerted to the fact that something was wrong by the rattling of the float valves situated inside...
Passenger Vessel Switchboard Fire
This report of a switchboard fire in a 55,451GRT ‘state of the art’ passenger vessel, built in...
Collision between a container ship and a linkspan
This report of a collision between a 94483 gross tonne container vessel and a link span highlights...
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Types of tests to determine moisture content of bulk cargo
The strength of bulk materials increases with the addition of moisture and reaches a peak at some point beyond which additional moisture reduces the bulk strength. This point at which maximum strength is achieved can be...
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What are types of Tidal Patterns on sea ?
Diurnal Tidal Pattern A diurnal tidal pattern has a single high and low tide each lunar day. These tides are common in shallow inland seas such as the Gulf of Mexico and along the coast of Southeast Asia. Diurnal tides have a...
What are Tide ? it’s cause, effects & types in detail.
Before the development of appropriate instrumentation, sea-level observations were confined to the coast and were not very accurate. The tidal responses of the ocean to the forcing of the Moon and Sun are very complicated and...
What are the components of ECDIS ?
ECDIS represents an item of equipment consisting of Hardware Software and Data The Hardware of the ECDIS Is generally a computer with graphics capability, a high performance PC or a graphics workstation installed in a console...