Navigating your Deck Cadet training can be overwhelming. However, Safe Seas Training simplifies this journey by offering a comprehensive subscription service tailored to meet the needs of Deck Cadets training for their first STCW Certificate of Competence – from pre-cadetship through to final phase and preparing for your orals assessment. Here’s a detailed look at what you can find as part of the £7.99 subscription to SafeSeas Training and why you should consider subscribing to our services.
What does the online training platform contain?
The SafeSeas Training online Deck Cadet Training platform offers a variety of supplementary materials such as how-to-guides for calculations, step-by-step videos including worked examples, checklists, and templates. These tools are designed to enhance your learning experience and provide practical support for studying towards your college and SQA assessments.
What is contained in each of the subjects?
Bridge watchkeeping
When should the Officer of the Watch call the Master?
1. Power Driven Vessels Lights
2. Power Driven Vessels Sound Signals
3. Vessels Not Under Command Lights
4. Vessels not under command Sound Signals
5. Vessels Engaged in Fishing Lights
6. Vessels engaged in fishing Sound Signals
7. Vessels Engaged in Trawling Lights
8. Vessels engaged in trawling Sound Signals
10. Sailing Vessel Sound Signals
12. Pilot Vessel Sound Signals
13. Vessels Restricted in their Ability to Manoeuvre Lights
14. Vessel Restricted in Ability to Manoeuvre Sound Signals
15. Vessels Constrained by Draught Lights
16. Vessels constrained by draught Sound Signals
18. Vessels at anchor Sound Signals
20. Vessels Aground Sound Signals
21. Vessels Towing & Pushing Lights
22. Vessels Towing & Pushing Sound Signals
24. Steering and Sailing Rules
25. Lookout
26. Safe Speed
29. Narrow Channels
30. Traffic Separation Schemes
31. Sailing Vessels
35. Action by a Give Way Vessel
36. Actions by a Stand On Vessel
37. Responsibilities Between Vessels
38. Conduct of Vessels in Restricted Visibility
39. Buoyage
40. Cardinal Buoys
41. North Cardinal
45. How to Pass a Cardinal Mark
46. IALA Region A Lateral Buoys
48. Starboard Hand Lateral Marks
51. Preferred Channel to Starboard
52. Safe Water Mark
54. How to Pass an Isolated Danger Mark
55. Emergency Wreck Marking Buoy
56. Special Marks
57. Checks to Navigation Equipment
58. Communications between the Bridge and the Engine Room
59. Manoeuvring Characteristics and Stopping Distances
Celestial Navigation
2. Calculating the GHA, LHA and Declination of the Sun
3. Calculating the GHA, LHA and Declination of Planets
4. Calculating the GHA, SHA and Declination of Stars
5. Observed and True Altitudes
6. Calculating the Azimuth and True Bearing of a Celestial Body
7. Polaris
8. Amplitudes of the Sun when Rising and Setting
10. Marine Chronometer and Time Corrections
11. Local Mean Time
12. How to Calculate Local Time
14. The Nautical Almanac and GMT
16. The Errors of a Marine Sextant
Chartwork and Tides
1. Publications required under SOLAS
2. Passage Planning Principles
3. The IMO Ship’s Roueting Guide
5. Appraisal
6. Planning
7. Execution
8. Monitoring
12. Course to Steer
13. Running Fixes
14. Compass, True and Gyro Courses
19. Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)
20. Tides
21. The Causes of Spring and Neap Tides
Marine Cargo Operations
1. Oil Tanker Cargo Operations
2. Oil Tanker Loading Operations
3. Chemical Tanker Cargo Operations
4. Pre-arrival Checks for Loading a Chemical Tanker
6. Carriage of Chemical Cargoes
7. Discharge of Chemical Tankers
8. Gas Carriers
12. Pipeline Systems
14. Ring Main System
15. Free Flow System
16. Ro-Ro Vessels
17. Lorries
18. Drops
19. Cars
20. Motorcycles
21. Livestock
22. Heavy Vehicles
23. Over-width and over-length vehicles
24. Container Ship Cargo Operations
25. IMDG Code
27. Dangerous Goods Classifications and Segregations
29. Timber Vessels
30. Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes, 2011
31. Stowage and Carriage Principles
36. Bulk Carriers
37. Equipment Bulk Carriers Must Carry
41. The IMSBC Code
42. The Grain Code
43. Offshore Vessels
44. Offshore Vessels Cargo Loading
45. Loading and Unloading Cargo at the Rig
47. Safety and Security Rounds
48. Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers
51. Stack Height
52. Grain Capacity
53. Bale Capacity
54. Stowage Factor
55. Broken Stowage
56. Completing cargo calculations
58. Cargo to load accounting for consumables question
59. Cargo to load in the remaining space in the holds question
60. Cargo to Load on Deck Question
63. Maximum Capacity
64. Finding the appropriate information
65. Cargo loading / discharge completion rate question
66. Cargo weight to load by Ullage
67. Calculation by volumes and relative density
Marine Emergency Response and Communication
4. Preparations before Proceeding to a Distress
6. Action in the Event of a Man Overboard
10. Double Turn
11. International Code of Signals
12. Morse Code
13. Signals exam
14. Morse code light practice tool
Marine Law and Management
2. Primary and Secondary Legislation
3. Criminal Law
4. Civil Law
5. Juries
7. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)
9. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL)
10. International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
12. When to report to the MAIB
13. Leadership and Management Techniques
14. Theory X and Y
15. Teamwork
Marine Meteorology
2. Features of a Synoptic Chart
3. Features of a Synoptic Chart
4. Fronts
5. Warm Front
6. Cold Front
8. Troughs
9. Predicting the Wind Direction
13. What is Air?
16. Coriolis Effect
19. Air Masses
20. Summer Air Masses in the UK
24. Polar Maritime
26. Arctic Maritime
29. Polar Maritime
30. Arctic Maritime
32. Climatic Zones
33. General Circulation of the Atmosphere
34. Main Climatic Zones over the Oceans
35. Ocean Currents of the World
36. Seasonal Weather
38. Monsoons
39. SW Monsoon
40. Meteorological Observations
41. Beaufort Scale
42. Waves
43. Apparent Wind
44. True Wind
46. Types of Cloud
50. Altostratus (As)
51. Altocumulus (Ac)
53. Stratus (St)
55. Cumulus (Cu)
Navigational Maths and Science
1. Calculating Courses and Distances
2. Difference of Latitude (D’Lat)
4. D’Long
5. Departure
10. How to Complete a Mercator Sailing – Finding Course and Distance
11. How to Complete a Mercator Sailing – Finding a Final Position
13. How to Complete a Great Circle Sailing
14. Napier’s Rules
15. How to Complete a Great Circle Sailing using Napier’s Wheel
18. How to Complete a Composite Great Circle
19. Magnetic Compass
20. The Earth’s Magnetic Field
21. The Three Components of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
22. Variation and the Magnetic Compass
23. Permanent and Induced Magnetic Fields
25. Maintaining the Magnetic Compass
26. Gyro Compass
27. The Properties of the Free Gyroscope
28. The Operation of the Marine Gyrocompass
Stability
3. How to Complete a Load Line Calculation
4. Calculating List on a Vessel
5. Single Weight Shift Problem
6. Single Weight Loading Problem
7. Calculating List for Multiple Weights
9. The Different Conditions of Stability
Why Subscribe?
Subscribing to Safe Seas Training is an investment in your career. Our comprehensive training programme ensures you stay up-to-date with the latest regulations and best practices. With flexible subscription plans, expert support, and a wealth of resources, Safe Seas Training is your partner in achieving your Officer of the Watch certificate.
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