Seamanship, Elementary Navigation and Survival at Sea detailed syllabus for Marine Engineering (Marine) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Marine students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Marine Engineering 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Marine 3rd Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of seamanship, elementary navigation and survival at sea is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SEAMAN & THEIR DUTIES 9 Ships Department, General ship knowledge ad nautical terms like poop-deck forecastle, bridge etc. deck equipment: winces, windlass, derricks cranes, gypsy, capstan, hatches and function. navigation lights and signals: port and starboard, forward and aft mast lights, colors and location. look out, precautions and bad weather, flags used on ships, flag etiquette, sound signals.
Unit II
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Unit III
NAVIGATION 9 General knowledge of principal stars. Sextant, Navigation compasses, echo sounder, Gps, Glonass, log and uses, barometer and weather classification, G.M.T and Zonal time, wireless Navigational Instruments, radar satellite navigation etc.
Unit IV
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Unit V
SURVIVAL AT SEA 9 Survival difficulties and factors, equipment available, duties of crew members, Initial action on boarding, Maintaining the craft, Practical: Knots, bends and hitches, Ropes splice, donning of life jackets, life boat drills. Lowering & hoisting of life boats (model).
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Graham Danton, The theory and practice of seamanship, 11th Edition, Routledge, New york, USA and Canada, 1996.
- Capt. J. Dinger, Seamanship Primer, 7th Edition, Bhandarkar Publications, Mumbai 1998.
- Kemp & Young, Seamanship Notes, Stanford Maritime limited, 1997
Reference Books:
- A.N. Cockcroft, Seamenship and Nautical knowledge, 27th Edition, Brown son & Ferguson Ltd., Glasgow 1997.
- Richards, Principles of Modern Radar , Yesdee Publishings Pvt. Ltd., Indian Reprint 2012
- Capt.P.M.Sarma , Theory of Marine Gyro Compass1st Ed. , Bhandarkar Publications, 2002
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Marine Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Marine 3rd Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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