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Maritime engineers need more training

Simsea has over the years trained thousands of deck officers to avoid and handle challenging situations that can occur on-board a ship. The deck officers typically come from all kinds of trades and ships. We train them in leadership, situation awareness, stress handling, decision making, communication, teamwork, etc. However, and that is a paradox, we

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Blended training

Simsea now offers many training courses where we combine simulator training with e-learning. We call this blended training. So, why do we do this? In our continuous improvement work we focus on changes that meet our key success criteria: Increased learning outcome Credible documentation Reduced training costs Our training schemes traditionally consist of a practical

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DYNAMIC POSITIONING BASIC PRINCIPLES

FORCES AT SEA A seagoing vessel is subjected to forces from wind, waves and current as well as from forces generated by the propulsion system. The Dynamic positioning – DP automatically maintain the vessel’s position and heading using its propellers and thrusters. The vessel’s response to these forces, i.e. its changes in position, heading and speed, is measured

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DP for Cruise Ship

We know that more and more cruise ships use DP instead of anchoring, to assist maneuvering in narrow harbors, etc. You want your DP operators to be well qualified for such operations and we are happy to provide relevant training. We have developed a special DP class 0 training program for this purpose The Cruise

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H01 High Voltage training

Simsea in Haugesund provides H01 High Voltage training for electricians approved by NMA. The course has a total duration of 105 hours of which 5 days at center and 47,5 hours as e-learning. The course has been arranged for several years with positive feedback from the participants. The course is divided in two parts Part

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Why Ship to Ship Transfer is all About People – Not Hulls

By: Sturle Danielsen TvedtHuman Factors Specialist at Simsea Real Operations AS Asssoc. Professor II in Psychology at University of Bergen Simsea conducted a fruitful test course for ship to ship (STS) operations yesterday with highly contributing guests from Equinor, Teekay and Knutsen OAS. We expect STS courses to an established course during this year. STS

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