Author: infomar

category: News
 - Somali pirates hijack Yemeni tugboat
 - 6 rescued as tugboat sinks in Pasig River
 - Laborde Delivers Engines to Tugboat
 - Crewman treated after tugboat fall
 - Seaport tug pulls out win Upstate
 - Pirates free Italian tugboat crew
 - Amazonian tug completes sea trials
 - EDT Towage converting former Geco Sapphire to DP3 ROV/survey vessel
 - Boston Towing takes delivery of ‘Justice’
 - New generation RAmparts 3000 Class tugs
 - ASL Marine builds tug series for Esvagt
 - Tsavliris Salvage Group has a busy start to the year
 - Salvage crew begin work on ‘Black Rose’ wreck
 - Tsavliris' Quarter Two
 - Miko Marine to remove Persian Gulf war wrecks
 - SMIT Towage License in Port of Gladstone
 - Antwerp Towage strengthens its tug fleet
 - Brazilian port to take delivery of harbour tug
 - New anchorage in North Sea
 - Watchkeeper: Role models for industry
 - SMIT Towage License in Port of Gladstone
 - Andrie Introduces ATB-unit for Asphalt Trade on Great Lakes
 - Super-tugs give Tsavliris strong hand in towage market
 - Multraship takes delivery of new multi-purpose tug
 - SVITZER signs 20 year contract with AngolaLNG
 - Donation gets piracy guidance to front line
 - China Merchants in tug buy
 - RESOLVE Awarded Tender to Remove Fuel from Capsized Vessel in India
 - Salvage Union joins towage contract revision
 - FAIRPLAY TOWAGE takes delivery of a new tug
 - Tugboat FAIRPLAY VIII new Museumship in Hamburg
 - New Towage Provider in the Port of Antwerp
 - P147 Protocol to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976
 - Pre-arrival information - Ukraine
 - Singapore - Border health control meaures update
 - ARREST OF THE SEA-GOING VESSELS
 - Anchoring outside port limits - Singapore and Malaysia
 - LIABILITY FOR OIL POLLUTION
 - Oil Record Books and Illegal Overboard Discharge - Worldwide
 - CUSTOMS CONTUNUE TO ATTACK THE VESSELS
 - SOME PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO MINIMAIZE DEBALLASTING FINES
 - REPATRIATION OF DECEASED CREWMEMBERS TO UKRAINE. LOCAL REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 - MEDICAL INSURANCE OF FOREIGN SEAMEN
 - COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE CAUSED TO THE HEALTH OF A SEAMAN
 - Piracy overshadows 2010
 - U.K. awards Odyssey Marine salvage contract for SS Gairsoppa
 - Salvage company will try again to free grounded yacht
 - Coast Guard and a commercial salvage boat assist 5 near Cape May
 - DISCLAIMER
 - Paris MoU concerned about poor boat drills
 - Yacht salvage seminar - an integrated approach
 - U.S. Navy assists in salvage operation for Ethopian plane
 - Marine Exploration, Inc. Announces RV Hispaniola Plans to Salvage Two Shipwreck Sites Concurrently
 - U.K. awards Odyssey Marine salvage contract for SS Gairsoppa
 - Salvage company will try again to free grounded yacht
 - Bid to free grounded tanker
 - Fairmount contracted by Seadrill
 - Smit man resigns over price offered for shares by Dutch dredging company
 - Smit and Boskalis sign Merger Protocol
 - Mr W. Cordia leaves the Supervisory Board of Smit Internationale N.V.
 - Navy sends second ship to aid Ethiopian flight salvage
 - Titan Refloats the Monongahela
 - CG Approves DonJon-Smit’s OPA-90 Contract
 - ASA Member Responds in Gwadar, Pakistan
 - Donjon-SMIT Provides Emergency Assistance
 - New Tug, Multratug 18
 - Crowley Begins Ocean Class Tug Building Program at Bollinger Shipyard
 - Tugboat SMS Software
 - Witte joins Noble Maritime Collection trustees
 - Casualties of the winter storms
 - American firm to salvage silver with Lizard connections
 - New rules could limit the hunt of sunken treasure off Florida’s coast
 - Orion Marine Group Announces a Greenfield Expansion in the Pacific Northwest
 - Damen Stan Tug concept takes another step forward
 - Smit man resigns over price offered for shares by Dutch dredging company
 - On Board the World's Most Powerful Tugboat
 - 1 dead after tugboat sinks in Houston Ship Channel
 - SRDC partners with Robert Allan Limited in tug boat bid
 - 5 more remains found in Princess wreck
 - Overloaded Boat Sinks with 7 Crew Aboard Near Pattaya
 - Hijacked tugboat recovered off Surigao Norte
 - Court frees Naftogaz-67 captain on bail
 - Dredgers, barges and ancillary craft leave Felixstowe Port Expansion project
 - WAR/TERRORISM Listed Areas
 - Burchette Robert Allan training tug
 - Agreement signed for Khalifa Port
 - Marcon sells two new 58-metre AHTS vessels
 - Philippines sights missing tug
 - Acta Marine to take delivery of Shoalbuster in December
 - New tug JV to service Indonesia
 - Tug base expansion at Newcastle
 - What applies in Sweden today, regarding 0.1% sulphur in port?
 - 7th Maritime HR & Crew Development
 - Shipbuilding Summit
 - Maritime Salvage & Casualty Response
 - Long range identification and tracking (LRIT)
 - New ISO specification for marine fuels
 - All Flag State Administrations are required to maintain a database for EPIRBs
 - DNV identifies critical issues on marine fuel

category: Law
 - Burger Boat’s Sycara IV Wins Award
 - Weather information
 - HSC Code 1994
 - Seafarer Health & Safety Publications
 - Towing & Pushing endorsement
 - Rescue Boat Code of Practice – Second Draft – 16th July 2004
 - DOVER STRAIT/PAS DE CALAIS EMERGENCY TOWING VESSEL STANDING INSTRUCTIONS
 - Maritime Search and Rescue Assets
 - Pollution Prevention & Counter Pollution
 - The Structure of Maritime Incidents
 - Guidelines for flag State inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
 - TOWAGE OF SEAGOING VESSELS
 - International Convention on Salvage, 1989
 - Maritime Code of 1960
 - Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law respecting Assistance and Salvage at Sea
 - PacLII Databases
 - Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976
 - MLC Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
 - International Convention on the Arrest of Ships
 - ILO Cross references
 - Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law respecting Assistance and Salvage at Sea
 - Maritime Labour Convention 2006 Action Plan 2006–2011
 - International Conventions
 - Guidelines for port State control officers carrying out inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
 - ISM CODE
 - Revised BIMCO Stowaways Clause available to download
 - OPA 90: Final rule on increase in limits of liability for vessels and deepwater ports
 - INTERNATIONAL CODE FOR THE SECURITY OF SHIPS AND OF PORT FACILITIES
 - ILO C87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948
 - ILO C138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973
 - ILO- C53 Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936
 - ILO C92 Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949
 - ILO C147 Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976
 - ILO- C55 Shipowners' Liability (Sick and Injured Seamen) Convention, 1936
 - ILO C98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949
 - ILO C164 Health Protection and Medical Care (Seafarers) Convention, 1987
 - ITF STANDARD COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
 - ILO- C56 Sickness Insurance (Sea) Convention, 1936
 - ILO C108 Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958
 - Convention concerning Social Security for Seafarers (Revised)
 - ILO -C7 Minimum Age (Sea) Convention, 1920
 - ILO C58 Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936
 - ILO C130 Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969
 - ILO C166 Repatriation of Seafarers Convention (Revised), 1987
 - C180 Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, 1996
 - C179 Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996
 - ILO C133 Accommodation of Crews (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1970
 - C178 Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996
 - ILO - C22 Seamen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1926
 - ILO C68 Food and Catering (Ships' Crews) Convention, 1946
 - ILO C134 Prevention of Accidents (Seafarers) Convention, 1970
 - ILO - C23 Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926
 - ILO C73 Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention, 1946
 - ILO C135 Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971
 - Testing of Fuel Sulphur Content - Naples - Italy
 - Garbage disposal restrictions - Mediterranean
 - Best management practices to deter piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia
 - Directive 2009/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd April 2009 on the Insurance of Shipowners for Maritime Claims
 - Piracy FAQs
 - EU – Directive on the Insurance of Ship-owners for Maritime Claims (Formerly the Civil Liability Directive)
 - STANDARD TOWING CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS TO INSURE
 - CLASSIFICATION CERTIFICATES
 - SHIPS DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES
 -  INTERNATlONAL REGULATlONS FOR PREVENTING COLLlSlONS AT SEA
 - Manoeuvering Information on Board Ships
 - Use of Automatic Pilots Heading Control Systems
 - STANDARD TOWING CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS TO INSURE
 - Reshaping ocean towage contracts
 - CHARTER PARTIES AND B/L FORMS
 - Changing from HFO to MDO or MGO
 - CHARTER PARTIES AND B/L FORMS

category: Towage
 - Tug Safety
 - Single Voyage Towing Permit Checklist
 - WIRE ROPE & CHAIN HOW TO ORDER WIRE ROPES
 - NoreqFender calculation device
 - NAVAL SHIPS’ TECHNICAL MANUAL MOORING AND TOWING
 - TOW DOCUMENTATION
 - MANNED TOWS
 - Rope hardware maintenance
 - TOWING EQUIPMENT ON TOW
 - CARRIAGE OF CARGO
 - When Should a Towline Be Retired? Chafe protection and twist and how to recognise their impact
 - Emergency towing arrangement
 - TUG SELECTION AND APPROVAL
 - Abrasion and Twist Effects on High-Performance Synthetic Ropes for Towing Applications
 - U.S. Navy Towing Manual
 - COMPARTMENTATION AND WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
 - DAMAGE CONTROL
 - Abrasion and Fibre Fatigue in High Performance Synthetic Ropes for Ship Escort
 - GUIDELINES FOR OWNERS/OPERATORS ON PREPARING EMERGENCY TOWING PROCEDURES
 - SECURING OF EQUIPMENT AND MOVEABLE ITEMS
 - MULTIPLE TOWS
 - Fiber Rope Inspection and Retirement Criteria
 - Some defenitions
 - EMERGENCY PUMPING
 - LOADING A TOWLINE ON TO A WINCH DRUM
 - THE APPROVAL PROCESS
 - CONDUCT OF TOWAGE
 - Latest Developments in the Use of Tug Simulation and Tug Simulation Technology
 - GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE TOWAGES OF SHIPS
 - DEPARTURE
 - Using the emergency tow gear
 - To towing calculations
 - Tug use offshore in bays and rivers
 - Examples of rescue towing-support vessel alongside
 - Guidance for Towmasters/Masters of vessels under tow in the offshore oilfield
 - Managing tow in heavy weather
 - Getting tow underway
 - Typical tow arrangements
 - Emergency towage
 - TUG SELECTION AND APPROVAL
 - ANCHORS
 - Scope of Work leading to an Approval
 - CARRIAGE OF CARGO
 - DRAFT AND TRIM
 - DEFINITIONS
 - MANNED TOWS
 - STABILITY
 - DEPARTURE
 - COMPARTMENTATION AND WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
 - CONDUCT OF TOWAGE
 - TOWING EQUIPMENT ON TOW
 - NAVIGATION LIGHTS AND SHAPES
 - TOW DOCUMENTATION
 - MULTIPLE TOWS
 - EMERGENCY PUMPING
 - GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE TOWAGES OF SHIPS
 - DAMAGE CONTROL
 - SECURING OF EQUIPMENT AND MOVEABLE ITEMS
 - Limitation of Approval

category: Salvage-SAR
 - SAR Seamanship Reference Manual
 - IAMSAR Manual INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTICAL AND MARITIME SEARCH AND RESCUE MANUAL
 - Merchant Ship Search and Rescue Manual
 - S A L V H I R E 2 0 0 5 P A R T II
 - S A L V C O N 2 0 0 5 PART I
 - NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MANUAL VOLUME I
 - LUMPSUM AGREEMENT "S A L V C O N 2 0 0 5" GUIDANCE NOTES
 - NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE MANUAL VOLUME II
 - SALVAGE AGREEMENT FR. 710.139 Rev. 00 / 26.05.2006 NO CURE – NO PAY
 - Principles of Search Theory
 - SAR Algorithms
 - LLOYD'S STANDARD FORM OF SALVAGE AGREEMENT
 - U.S. NAVY SALVOR’S HANDBOOK
 - U.S. NAVY ALVAGE MANUAL VOLUME 1 STRANDINGS AND HARBOR CLEARANCE
 - Method of communication used when a ship is in peril
 - REPORTS TO GOVERNMENTS AND OWNERS OR OPERATORS
 - Example of an initial report sent to the government of the coastal state
 - EVALUATION OF SITUATION

category: Anchor Handling
 - Anchor Handling Simulator Course
 - MTC Anchor Handling Course
 - PASSING ANCHOR OR EMERGENCY TOW PENNANTS IN EXTREME CONDITIONS
 - Using an 85 tonne SWL
 - Jury rigged pennant connection
 - Jury rigged pennant connections
 - -Examples of Rescue Towing-Jack ups
 - ANCHOR HANDLING MANUAL
 - OLF/NSA GUIDELINES FOR SAFE ANCHOR HANDLING AND TOWING
 - RESCUE TOWING -- SEMI SUBMERSIBLES
 - Jury Rigged Emergency Bridle Semi-Submersible

category: Marine other
 - United States Coast Guard Questions
 - Klick for U.S. navy Patching and Cofferdamming
 - Ship to ship transfer guide (liquid gases)
 - EXPLANATORY NOTES TO THE STANDARDS FOR SHIP MANOEUVRABILITY
 - Seamanship
 - GUIDELINES ON PLACES OF REFUGE FOR SHIPS IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE
 - MODEL MANUAL FOR SUPPLY VESSEL
 - MOORING MAINTENANCE MANUAL
 - NOTES ON SHIPHANDLING
 - Offshore
 - Guidelines for the safe management of offshore supply and anchor handling operations.
 - Focus on Voyage Planning
 - Understanding mooring incidents
 - Ships Documents
 - All aboard
 - Theory on Fire Fighting
 - Sources of Ignition
 - Delegation of authority
 - Effective organization
 - Motivation
 -  Anchoring guidelines
 - FIRE-FIGHTING

category: Equipment
 - Engines Installed on Austal’s Trimaran
 - Marine Fendering Systems
 - SIMPLE TUG TOWING WINCH
 - Gunnebo Lifting GrabiQ
 - THE WORLD OF MARINE CRANES
 - Communicatiesystemen
 - Fall protection solutions
 - U.S. NAVY EMERGENCY SHIP SALVAGE MATERIAL CATALOG SALVAGE EQUIPMENT
 - Crosby book
 - LIST OF PONTOONS AND BARGES
 - Stromme pneumatic fender SPF 1015
 - Algemene technicsche information - Fenders
 - Gunnebo Classic
 - AKER KVАЕRNER Fire Fighting Systems
 - New Arctic Grade Offshore cables from Draka meet the need for extreme cold drilling conditions

category: Directory
 - Bourgas Tug Service (BTS)
 - Multraship Towage & Salvage
 - SVITZER
 - Hongkong Salvage & Towage
 - Fiomarine
 - Otto Wulf GmbH & Co. KG
 - Kasel Salvage
 - TSAVLIRIS SALVAGE GROUP
 - Stevens Towing Co
 - URS
 - Consortium Union of Tugs - Salvage Tugs Lyboussakis
 - Boluda Corporación Marítima
 - Resolve Salvage
 - TITAN
 - Vereinigte Bugsir-Dampfschiff-Gesellschaft
 - DELTA MARINE
 - Iskes Towage & Salvage
 - Pacific Tug
 - Almirón y Cía
 - SVITZER
 - P&O Maritime Services
 - Dredging International
 - ASTROMARÍTIMA
 - Ocean's

category: Gallery
 - Shipboard safety - 1
 - Bridge Watch Keeping 1
 - Bridge Watch Keeping 2
 - Bridge Watch Keeping 3
 - Fire On Board
 - Shipboard safety film 2
 - Shipboard safety film 3
 - Shipboard safety film 4
 - Bluster installation of FPSO
 - Tugboat towing a boat
 - Tug and tow in atlantic ocean
 - Tug boat flip accident skookumchuck narrows
 - AHT Disaster
 - Melbourne Tug Boat Tips Over Towing Ship and Man Overboard
 - Towing the French aircraftcarrier'Clemenceau
 - Bad weather
 - Tandem Towing
 - Unwieldy tow
 - Vernicos Master
 - Esvagt Omega in the Northsea
 - Greece to Libya towage
 - Tug TRHES
 - Tug towing stricken vessel
 - Big Ship Drops Anchor On Tug Boat
 - The Starting Of A Day - Tugboats Working
 - Mustang Tugboat in action
 - Tug Boat Breaking Ice in Belleville
 - Retriever Neftegaz noordzee
 - Splashing a buoy
 - Tug connecting
 - Sirocco and Sumatras towing a big tanker passing Biscay
 - TMS Spot On Towing
 - Tug in rough weather

category: Link
 - USA Coast Guard
 - ICS & ISF
 - World Marine Administrations
 - Fairplay
 - Lloyd's Register
 - ILO
 - Paris MOU
 - International Salvage Union
 - International Tug & Salvage
 - SHIPMANAGERS/ INSURANCE AND CLAIMS /LEGAL DEPARTMENTS

category: Other
 - Tug Boat - Barracuda
 - Barracuda in Pictures
 - Maintenance Guide Checklist for use of owners and operators

category: Weather
 - Weather Elements
 - Forecasting Fog
 - Passage Weather
 - Cotweb
 - zyGrib - GRIB File Viewer
 - Weather and climate

category: Maneuvering
 - HANDLING TWIN SCREW SHIPS
 -  RESTRICTED WATER EFFECT
 - CANAL NAVIGATION
 - MANEUVERING BOARD MANUAL
 - Glossary
 - MEASURES AND CRITERIA OF MANOEUVRABILITY
 - STOPPING OF SHIPS
 - SHIP–TUG INTERACTION

category: Boatswains mate guide
 - BOAT SEAMANSHIP
 - PILOTING AND NAVIGATION
 - WEATHER
 -  MANEUVERING BOARDS

category: Radio
 - EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
 - OPERATION OF MARINE RADAR FOR SART DETECTION
 - Inmarsat satellite system
 - COSPAS-SARSAT SYSTEM
 - Reception of a Distress Alert
 - THE NAVTEX
 - Digital Selective Calling Radios
 - Reception of a DISTRESS ALERT on HF
 - THE RADIO LOG
 - Digital Selective Calling
 - Reception of a Distress Alert Relay
 - Transmission of an Urgency Message
 - Inmarsat-C
 - Reception of a DSC DISTRESS ALERT on VHF or MF
 - VHF Communication And Voice Procedure
 - Inmarsat-E
 - Safety Calls
 - Inmarsat-M
 - Satellites-Know-How
 - BASIC CONCEPT OF THE L-BAND SATELLITE EPIRB SYSTEM
 - Why Should You Have A Marine Radio On Your Boat?
 - SEARCH AND RESCUE RADAR TRANSPONDER

category: Stability
 - Forces and moments
 - Form coefficients

category: Navigation
 - WATCHKEEPING AT SEA
 - WATCH ARRANGEMENTS
 - AUTOMATIC PILOT
 - WATCH KEEPING UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS AND IN DIFFERENT AREAS
 - KEEPING A WATCH
 - ELECTRONIC NAVIGATIONAL AIDS
 -  BRIDGE BELLBOOKS AND AUTOMATIC LOGGER SYSTEMS
 - STANDING ORDERS FOR OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF NAVIGATIONAL WATCH
 - CALLING THE MASTER
 - DECK LOGBOOK
 - TAKING OVER THE NAVIGATIONAL WATCH
 - SHIP AT ANCHOR
 - BOTTOM DAMAGE
 - WATCH ARRANGEMENTS
 - Sailing in heavy weather
 - WATCH KEEPING IN PORT
 - NAVIGATION
 - EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO HUMAN ERROR
 - LOOK-OUT
 - VOYAGE PLANNING
 - NAVIGATION IN STRAITS
 - PROTECTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
 - How the Prime Meridian Was Selected
 - How to apply the Compass Error
 - Special Lines of Latitude and Longitude
 - HOW TO FIND LAND
 - THE INFLATABLE LIFERAFT
 - How the Gyrocompass Steers Ships
 - LIGHTS AND LIGHTHOUSES
 - THE GPS SYSTEM
 - MAGNETIC COMPASS
 - LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
 - Parallels and Meridians
 - Local Magnetic Anomalies
 -  Nautical Charts
 - Measurements of Angular Distance
 - The Effect of Magnetic and Ionospheric Storms on the Compass Needle
 - How are flat charts and maps made of our round planet?
 - Finding Latitude and Longitude
 - RADAR
 - Positions
 - New Zealand Notices to Mariners
 - Chart Images

category: Safety
 - Bunker Tank Explosions
 - Fire Control & Life Saving Appliances Plans
 - RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENTERING ENCLOSED SPACES ABOARD SHIPS