Navigating Safety: MMA’s New Survival Craft Simulator

THERE’S A REASON for the adage, “Worse things happen at sea.” Maritime history is littered with anecdotes of disasters that have claimed the lives of entire ship’s crews. Unfortunately, Maine Maritime Academy is no stranger to this kind of loss, but with the purchase of a new Survival Craft Simulator, MMA will be training students in the evacuation of a vessel, and hopefully mitigate the chances of tragedy.

With the upgrades to maritime survival craft, including those on the Training Ship State of Maine (TSSOM), which have increased both their size and capacity, it has become impractical, or even dangerous, to practice the launch and retrieval of physical lifeboats. As with all operations fraught with the possibility of significant injury to personnel or damage to equipment, a simulator can be employed to actively learn without jeopardy. MMA already uses various simulators on campus and will add to the “fleet” this summer with a Wärtsilä Full Mission Survival Craft Simulator (SCS) to be located in the Bath Iron Works Building (BIW).

The SCS will consist of an instructor station, several desktop student stations, and a physical mockup of the cockpit of the lifeboat and hook release apparatus.
This equipment is used with the same version of Wärtsilä’s Navi-Trainer Pro 6000 software that is already part of both the Full Mission Bridge and Electronic Navigation simulators that MMA currently utilizes to great success. It will be utilized by all license majors, both deck and engineering.

By: Cristopher Brinn

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