THERE’S A REASON for the adage, \u201cWorse things happen at sea.\u201d Maritime history is littered with anecdotes of disasters that have claimed the lives of entire ship\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cfleet\u201d this summer with a W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Full Mission Survival Craft Simulator (SCS) to be located in the Bath Iron Works Building (BIW).<\/p>\n
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.
\nThis equipment is used with the same version of W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s 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.
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By: Cristopher Brinn<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Navigating Safety: MMA\u2019s New Survival Craft Simulator<\/p>\n THERE’S A REASON for the adage, \u201cWorse things happen at sea.\u201d Maritime history is littered with anecdotes of disasters that have claimed the lives of entire ship\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cfleet\u201d this summer with a W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Full Mission Survival Craft Simulator (SCS) to be located in the Bath Iron Works Building (BIW).<\/p>\n 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. By: Cristopher Brinn<\/p>\n
\nThis equipment is used with the same version of W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u2019s 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.
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