Navigation Safety

Large ship operations are inherently risky. Such ships take part in a variety of routine operations during the course of their working lives that require a high level of competence from ships crews, pilots and tug crews. These functions are reliant upon the functionality of bridge resources (human and technological). Occasionally things go wrong and incidents need to be investigated in an attempt to avoid similar accidents happening again. Detailed guidance Accident investigation Brief and Tasking: You are an accident investigator and have been given the following initial brief and tasking for your next investigation. You are required to compile an accident report detailing your findings from your investigation. Your initial brief: “A commercial vessel has been involved in a navigation related incident within the port area of a UK harbour authority.” Your task: i) Conduct an investigation in to the incident that you have been presented. Identify the bridge team management failures that led up to the incident. ii) Create a ship simulator scenario on the WARSILA simulator system that re-enacts the incident, based on the information you are able to determine. iii) Write and submit an investigation report, and power point presentation that summarises your findings and recommendations based upon your simulated re-enactment of the incident. Create a scenario using the WARTSILA ship simulator system, and use this scenario to describe and analyse both good and bad aspects of bridge resource management in an accident report. Your submitted Accident report based around your developed scenario. It should be a word document, it be written in a similar style and format to MAIB accident investigation reports. Your report will be supported by a powerpoint submission that clearly summarises the scenario developed and the findings and recommendations of the accident report. Consider the powerpoint as being something that could be used to present the findings of your report to an audience of interested stakeholders from the incident (MCA, port authority, ship owners etc.).