FUNCTION I: NAVIGATION AT THE OPERATIONAL LEVEL
Plan and conduct a passage and determine position–
- Ability to Use Celestial and Terrestrial bodies, Landmarks, and Aids to navigate to determine position, to appreciate and allow for the effect of wind, tides, and current, to use charts incl. ECDIS AND PUBS e.g. Sailing Directions.
- Radio Navigational warning, Routing information, etc.
- Ability to correctly use Nav-aids e.g. Echo sounders, Compass (Gyro and Magnetic), Steering control systems and their adjustments, etc.
- Ability to interpret information received from Shipboard Meteorological Instruments.
To maintain a safe Navigational watch
- Thorough Knowledge of content, application, and intent of ROR Lookout duties.
Respond to Emergencies
- Precautions for personnel protection and safety, initial assessment of damage, and control in case of fire, collision, flooding, standing, etc.
- Making emergency MasterCard and conducting drills Responding to distress signals at sea, Knowledge of IAMSAR.
Ship Maneuvering and Handling.
- Knowledge of factors affecting Safe maneuvering capabilities and their optimum uses.
FUNCTION II: CARGO HANDLING & STOWAGE
Monitor loading, Discharging, Stowage, and care during passage
Knowledge of safe handling, storage, and securing of cargoes including dangerous, hazardous, and harmful cargoes, and their effects on the safety of life and of the shop.
Use of IMDG code.
FUNCTION III: CONTROLLING SHIP OPERATION
Compliance with pollution prevention requirements
Knowledge of precautions to prevent air and sea pollution, Knowledge of pollution prevention rules and regulations, Anti-pollution procedures, and all associated equipment.
Maintain the seaworthiness of the ship.
Working knowledge and application of stability, trim and stress tables, diagrams and stress-calculation equipment, understanding of basic actions to be taken in case of partial loss of intact buoyancy, understanding of fundamentalPrincipal of watertight integrity.
Knowledge of principal structural members of a ship and proper names for the various parts.
Prevent, control, and fight fires on board
Knowledge of fire prevention, Ability to organize fire drills, Knowledge of firefighting systems, and understanding of actions to be taken in the event of a fire, including fire involving oil systems.
Operate Lifesaving Appliances
Ability to organize abandonship drills and knowledge of the operation of survival craft and their associated equipment including Life Saving Appliances and Life support apparatuses.
Apply Medical First Aid on board
Practical application of medical Guide and advice by Radio including the ability to take effective Life Saving action in case of on-board emergencies.
Maintenance of medical chest.
Monitor compliance with legislative requirements.
Basic working knowledge of the main IMO convention, the Indian Merchant Shipping Act. 1958 and M/M.S. notices and other circulars (Issued by D.G.S. and various recognized forums)