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    Ice Navigation & Seamanship: A Tanker Master's Experience

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    This document discusses ice navigation and the need for proper training and guidelines. It notes that while some countries have their own rules for navigating ice-covered waters, there are no internationally accepted standards. It outlines several difficulties, such as lack of standards, hazards like icing and changing weather, and limitations of radar in ice. The document expresses concerns for ship stability, equipment failure, navigational errors, and challenges responding to oil spills in ice and cold waters. It recommends only entering ice if no alternative route is available and to be prepared to go full astern, as propellers and rudders are most vulnerable in ice.

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    Ice Navigation & Seamanship: A Tanker Master's Experience

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    This document discusses ice navigation and the need for proper training and guidelines. It notes that while some countries have their own rules for navigating ice-covered waters, there are no internationally accepted standards. It outlines several difficulties, such as lack of standards, hazards like icing and changing weather, and limitations of radar in ice. The document expresses concerns for ship stability, equipment failure, navigational errors, and challenges responding to oil spills in ice and cold waters. It recommends only entering ice if no alternative route is available and to be prepared to go full astern, as propellers and rudders are most vulnerable in ice.

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    This document discusses ice navigation and the need for proper training and guidelines. It notes that while some countries have their own rules for navigating ice-covered waters, there are no internationally accepted standards. It outlines several difficulties, such as lack of standards, hazards like icing and changing weather, and limitations of radar in ice. The document expresses concerns for ship stability, equipment failure, navigational errors, and challenges responding to oil spills in ice and cold waters. It recommends only entering ice if no alternative route is available and to be prepared to go full astern, as propellers and rudders are most vulnerable in ice.

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    Ice Navigation & Seamanship: A Tanker Master's Experience

    Uploaded by

    Karn Jeet Singh
    This document discusses ice navigation and the need for proper training and guidelines. It notes that while some countries have their own rules for navigating ice-covered waters, there are no internationally accepted standards. It outlines several difficulties, such as lack of standards, hazards like icing and changing weather, and limitations of radar in ice. The document expresses concerns for ship stability, equipment failure, navigational errors, and challenges responding to oil spills in ice and cold waters. It recommends only entering ice if no alternative route is available and to be prepared to go full astern, as propellers and rudders are most vulnerable in ice.

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    The key takeaways are that understanding ice navigation is important for promoting safe and environmentally friendly marine transportation, and knowledge of ice navigation is vital to ensure safe navigation, minimizing sailing time, avoiding delays, and environmental safety.

    The difficulties of ice navigation include a lack of internationally accepted standards, conflicting standards and requirements, and no internationally harmonized method of skill and knowledge delivery for ice navigation.

    The navigator's concerns regarding ice navigation include icing on the ship's structure, quickly changing weather conditions, stoppages in icebreaker operations, risks of navigational errors in ice, limitations of radar in icy areas, inability to follow traffic separation zones in ice, and increased tanker traffic.

    Ice Navigation & Seamanship

    A tanker master’s experience


    • Understanding
    • Knowledge
    • Difficulties
    • Hazards
    • Concerns
    • Caution
    Ice Navigation

    By understanding Ice Navigation, we are indeed


    promoting Safe & Environment friendly marine
    transportation
    Knowledge of Ice Navigation is
    vital to ensure :

    • Safe navigation
    • Minimising Sailing time
    • Avoiding delays
    • Environmental Safety
    Navigation in ice requires special knowledge and
    skills and it is expected that the guidelines that
    were issued by IMO will be mandatory in the near
    future, which will create standards for training of
    navigators in ice.

    Several countries have their own national rules


    for navigating in ice covered waters that often
    only apply to national flagged vessels.
    What are the difficulties ?

    • No internationally accepted standards

    • Lack of standards and requirements come into conflict


    with growing oil exports and need of shipping companies
    to have crews qualified in Ice Navigation.

    • There is no internationally harmonised method of skill


    and knowledge delivery on Ice Navigation.

    • Constant improvement for instruments used in Ice


    Navigation
    Navigator’s concerns …..

    • Icing on the ship’s structure may occur due to the


    freezing of sea sprays or due to snow, rain and fog. (Ships
    Stability / Equipment Failure)

    • Quickly changing weather conditions


    Navigator’s concerns …..

    • Stoppages in ice breaker operations

    • Risk of Navigational errors in ice

    • Limitations of the Radar equipment in icy


    areas.

    • Some case unable to follow traffic separation


    zones in ice

    • Risk of Navigational errors in icy conditions

    • A strong growth in tanker traffic


    Other concerns…..

    • Ice may force the vessel into shallow waters

    • Ice pressure can seriously damage the vessel

    • The resistance of the ship is greater in level ice than in


    open water.

    • Handling a damaged ship in ice-covered waters


    Combating oil spills in ice and cold
    waters can be a daunting task
    Training
    requirements

    Do exist
    but
    Not mentioned in the STCW 95
    The high expectations of customers and the
    safety of crew, vessel, cargo and environment has
    become a motivator to increase the knowledge
    and experience of ship’s crews.
    Entering the Ice ….

    • Do not enter Ice if an alternative, although a longer route is


    available.

    • It is very easy and extremely dangerous to underestimate the


    hardness of the ice.

    • Be prepared to go “full astern” at any time.

    • Propellers and rudders are the most vulnerable parts of the ship –
    should go astern in ice with extreme care.
    Thank you for your
    attention !!!!
    Ice Navigation is a lot of responsibility…....

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