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Nautical Institute launches Guidelines for Collecting Maritime Evidence, volume 2

Maritime evidence guide goes on sale

Nautical Institute launches Guidelines for Collecting Maritime Evidence, volume 2

By James Brewer

Can you believe your own eyes, or your ‘electronic eyes’? Can you trust a video recording to yield the truth about a dangerous incident at sea?

Penetrating questions face mariners and investigators as digital systems add to available evidence but may still stoke misleading conclusions.

Such dilemmas lay behind a book launch with a difference aimed at underlining the...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/09/11/nautical-institute-launches-guidelines-for-collecting-maritime-evidence-volume-2/

10 tips for coping with weather at sea

The Nautical Institute issued its June edition of The navigator focusing on weather as a critical factor for safe navigation. The weather can make the difference between a prosperous or loss-making voyage, can cause injury to crew and passengers and can even lead to the loss of a ship. Awareness of the weather and accurate predictions are both vitally important.

With this respect, the Nautical Institute provided ten tips to remember about observing, preparing for and encountering weather at sea:

https://safety4sea.com/10-tips-for-coping-with-weather-at-sea/

NI issues guidance on lifeboat and rescue boat operations

NI issues guidance on lifeboat and rescue boat operations

22.07.19 – “There is no easy way to abandon ship,” writes Dag Pike. The author is one of the most experienced navigators in the world and speaks from experience, having been shipwrecked twice in the Atlantic.

Taking to the boats, getting away from a stricken vessel and safely negotiating the open sea until rescued is likely to be one of the most demanding tasks a seafarer will ever have to face. Training in sheltered waters can never...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/07/22/ni-issues-guidance-on-lifeboat-and-rescue-boat-operations/

NI signs MoU with IMO Technical Cooperation Division

Captain John Lloyd, NI CEO (left) pictured with Mr Juvenal J. M. Shiundu, Acting Director, Technical Cooperation Division, IMO

NI signs MoU with IMO Technical Cooperation Division

04.07.19 – The Nautical Institute (NI) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which the NI will support the IMO in helping developing countries to meet international maritime standards.

The NI has agreed to lend its expertise in professional development as...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/07/04/ni-signs-mou-with-imo-technical-cooperation-division/

Nautical Institute, IMO partner to help developing countries meet maritime standards

The Nautical Institute (NI) and the IMO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), according to which the NI will support the IMO in helping developing countries to meet international maritime standards.

The NI has agreed to provide its assistance in professional development, under IMO’s Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (ITCP). This programme seeks to increase the capacity of Member States in complying with maritime safety, security and marine environment protection laws and...

https://safety4sea.com/nautical-institute-imo-partner-to-help-developing-countries-meet-maritime-standards/

Shiphandling the focus for Nautical Institute’s annual conference

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The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club

Shiphandling the focus for Nautical Institute’s annual conference

13.06.19 – Opened by Agnes Wong Tin-yu, Director of Marine for Hong Kong SAR, today’s Nautical Institute International Conference 2019 gave rise to a lively and stimulating debate on the subject of Shiphandling.

Held at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, the morning session included presentations on the legal consequences of shiphandling incidents, special considerations for handling large tankers,...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/06/13/shiphandling-the-focus-for-nautical-institutes-annual-conference/

The Nautical Institute – The Navigator Issue 21

Issue 21 of The Navigator keeps a ‘weather eye’

03.06.19

How to forecast, prepare for and deal with the weather is the theme for the 21st issue of The Navigator, the free publication aimed at maritime navigators and seafaring colleagues from The Nautical Institute. The ‘weather’ issue launches today and is available in print and as a downloadable version from The Nautical Institute’s website.

The issue contains valuable information about modern weather monitoring techniques, as well as shore-based...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/06/03/the-nautical-institute-the-navigator-issue-21/

Rethinking Safety

Rethinking Safety
a brand new workshop from The Nautical Institute

London: 5 – 6 June 2019

Are you ready for your assumptions to be challenged?

Join leading industry expert Nippin Anand PhD FNI at this new two-day NI professional workshop and explore some of the most persistent myths surrounding maritime safety.

Going well beyond the idea of following predetermined plans, procedures and rules you will examine new ways of engaging with core safety concepts. Using real-life cases this will be a...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/05/14/rethinking-safety/

Nautical Institute launches new edition of The Principles of Navigation

The Nautical Institute launched the 11th edition of The Admiralty Manual of Navigation, Volume 1: The Principles of Navigation. This edition is the first to be digital by design and is based on the assumption that the readers’ vessel will be sailed using IMO type-approved ECDIS.

As the Nautical Institute reports although the edition is based on the ‘digital era’, it still represents the basic safety features.

The basic principles are the same as those of a century ago: ensuring the safe conduct...

https://safety4sea.com/nautical-institute-launches-new-edition-of-the-principles-of-navigation/

The NI launches new edition of The Principles of Navigation

 The NI launches new edition of The Principles of Navigation

28.03.19 – Safe navigation at sea is dependent on good training, sound practice and long experience – and no organisation is better placed to draw on those qualities than the UK’s Royal Navy. The Nautical Institute is proud, therefore, to publish the 11th edition of The Admiralty Manual of Navigation, Volume 1: The Principles of Navigation.

This latest edition has been updated for the electronic era of navigation, so this edition is...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/03/28/the-ni-launches-new-edition-of-the-principles-of-navigation/

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