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    Prelim Assignment OBT

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    The document discusses ship's particulars, the duties of a bridge watchkeeper, and navigation equipment. It explains that ship's particulars contain basic information about a vessel like its name, dimensions, and specifications. The duties of a bridge watchkeeper as the officer on watch include navigating the ship safely and ensuring compliance with regulations. Four pieces of navigation equipment mentioned are the gyro compass, magnetic compass, radar, and ECDIS. The gyro compass uses inputs to point to true north while the magnetic compass points to magnetic north without electricity. Radar detects objects by radio signals while ECDIS integrates radar data and electronic charts for navigation.

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    The document discusses ship's particulars, the duties of a bridge watchkeeper, and navigation equipment. It explains that ship's particulars contain basic information about a vessel like its name, dimensions, and specifications. The duties of a bridge watchkeeper as the officer on watch include navigating the ship safely and ensuring compliance with regulations. Four pieces of navigation equipment mentioned are the gyro compass, magnetic compass, radar, and ECDIS. The gyro compass uses inputs to point to true north while the magnetic compass points to magnetic north without electricity. Radar detects objects by radio signals while ECDIS integrates radar data and electronic charts for navigation.

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    The document discusses ship's particulars, the duties of a bridge watchkeeper, and navigation equipment. It explains that ship's particulars contain basic information about a vessel like its name, dimensions, and specifications. The duties of a bridge watchkeeper as the officer on watch include navigating the ship safely and ensuring compliance with regulations. Four pieces of navigation equipment mentioned are the gyro compass, magnetic compass, radar, and ECDIS. The gyro compass uses inputs to point to true north while the magnetic compass points to magnetic north without electricity. Radar detects objects by radio signals while ECDIS integrates radar data and electronic charts for navigation.

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    The document discusses ship's particulars, the duties of a bridge watchkeeper, and navigation equipment. It explains that ship's particulars contain basic information about a vessel like its name, dimensions, and specifications. The duties of a bridge watchkeeper as the officer on watch include navigating the ship safely and ensuring compliance with regulations. Four pieces of navigation equipment mentioned are the gyro compass, magnetic compass, radar, and ECDIS. The gyro compass uses inputs to point to true north while the magnetic compass points to magnetic north without electricity. Radar detects objects by radio signals while ECDIS integrates radar data and electronic charts for navigation.

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    Dob, Peter Paul P.

    Prelim Assignment 1

    1. What is ship’s particular? What are its contents?

    ◙ Basic information about the ship can be accessed in the ship’s particulars. Vessel details can be found
    here and it is useful for the officers like for example the chief officer who will be assigned to do
    calculations and computations for the ship’s trim and stability, the ship’s particulars will be used to give
    the ship details and variables.

    ◙ Examples of its contents:

    ○ Ship’s Name ○ Length Overall (LOA)

    ○ IMO Number ○ Length between Perpendiculars (LBP)

    ○ Official Number ○ Breadth

    ○ Signal Letter ○ Depth

    ○ Nationality ○ Summer Draft

    ○ Port of Registry ○ Deadweight

    ○ Ship Builder

    2. What are the duties of a Bridge watchkeeper?

    ◙ A bridge watchkeeper is also known as the officer on watch (OOW). While keeping a watch on the
    bridge he is the representative of the ship’s master and has the total responsibility of safe and smooth
    navigation of the ship.

    Officer on Watch (OOW) is also in charge of the bridge team, which is there to support him in the
    navigation process. He is also responsible to ensure that the ship complies with COLREGS and all the
    orders of the master are followed with utmost safety under all conditions. The three main duties of an
    officer on watch (OOW) can very broadly, for the sake of understanding only, can be classified under:
    Navigation, Watch keeping, and GMDSS radio watch keeping.

    ◙ The following duties of an OOW are generalized as:

    ○ Compare the compasses ○ Read log entries

    ○ Check soundings by the echo sounder ○ Gyro and its error


    ○ Ensure that the lookout is alert ○ GMDSS

    ○ Check the position ○ General rounds of the ship

    ○ Discussing with the outgoing OOW ○ Monitor ship’s draft

    3. Give at least 4 equipment on the bridge that can be used to take the vessel position at sea and
    explain how to use it.

    ◙ Gyro Compass – the gyro compass is the ship’s compass that points to the earth’s true north. Modern
    ships use a GPS system or other navigational aids feed data to the Gyrocompass for correcting the error.
    An orthogonal triad of fiber optic design and also ring laser gyroscopes which apply the principles of
    optical path difference to determine rate of rotation, instead of depending upon mechanical parts, may
    help eliminate the flaws and detect true north.

    ◙ Magnetic Compass – the magnetic compass is the ship’s compass that points to the earth’s magnetic
    north. Unlike the gyro compass, this doesn’t require electricity to function and can be used in case of
    emergency with other navigational equipment. Pick up the compass and hold it flat in front of you. Be
    sure that the direction of travel arrow points straight ahead. Then, rotate yourself, keeping an eye on
    the magnetic needle. When the red end lines up exactly with the orienting arrow, stop.

    ◙ Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) - It works by sending out a radio signal. When the signal hits an
    object, it gets reflected back to the radar, which can then calculate a rough estimate of the object. It
    does so by detecting other ships and land obstacles, to give bearing and distance for collision avoidance
    and navigation while on water.

    ◙ Electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) - An Electronic Chart Display and Information
    System (ECDIS) is a geographic information system used for nautical navigation that complies with
    International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations as an alternative to paper nautical charts. The
    ECDIS also uses the data from the ship RADAR in order to project the ship on the ECDIS display monitor
    so the ship can be tracked on the chart.

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