1st Edition

Techniques for Ship Handling and Bridge Team Management

By Hiroaki Kobayashi Copyright 2020
268 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Hiroaki Kobayashi has trained 1500 mariners in ship handling over twenty years and he has systematized the methods of safe navigation into nine elemental techniques. Taking a rigorous and scientific look at good practice and attitudes, good seamanship can be viewed as a series of concrete technical functions, which can be in terms of competencies. By giving proper attention to human factors the... Read more

PART I

Techniques for Ship Handling

Preface

1 Factors in Achieving Safe Navigation

2 Analysis of Techniques for Ship Handling

3 Inadequate Knowledge and Competency Often Observed

in Inexperienced Seafarers

4 Significance and Use of Elemental Technique Development

Postscript

PART II

Bridge Team Management

Preface

5 Techniques Necessary for Safe Navigation

6 Factors in Achieving Safe Navigation

7 Background of Bridge Team Management

8 Bridge Team Management

Postscript

PART III

Bridge Team Management/Bridge Resource

Management Training

Preface

9 Training System

10 Bridge Team Management Training Structure

11 Bridge Team Management Training Examples

Biography

Dr. Hiroaki Kobayashi is Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and is past president of a number of academic institutes in Japan and several international maritime institutes. He has developed a number of standard training courses on bridge team management and instructor training courses on maritime education which have been authorized by Class NK, a member of the International Association of Classification Societies.