MT-2231 - Basic Seamanship

The expected outcome is that the student...	Supports STCW elements...
TOPIC - Principles of seamanship and safety understands maintenance and inspection of clean, safe work areas, including: overall, vessel cleanliness individual work station cleanliness safe handling of vessel stores of a hazardous or flammable nature work station ventilation, cleanliness, and fire safety routine and required inspections for vessel safety and sanitation understands how and why to inspect equipment before use by shipboard personnel , including: deck machinery power tools shipboard electrical safety program understands principles of preventative maintenance for deck machinery and equipment, including: preventative maintenance required schedules maintenance record-keeping maintaining spares inventory and record-keeping understands safety training and monitoring of shipboard personnel , including routine fire and emergency drills safe use of fire fighting and emergency equipment maintenance of fire fighting and lifesaving equipment training vessel personnel in use of newly received vessel maintenance equipment reporting of unsafe working conditions to senior vessel personnel on-going training schedules for vessel personnel understands safety procedures when assigning vessel personnel to tasks, including: importance of using operating manuals and checklists personal safety equipment and protective devices safety procedures for man-aloft work safety procedures for entering confined space monitoring of personnel for compliance with safety practices
TOPIC - Marlinespike seamanship understands and describes fiber line and uses including: manila line marlin cotton and other natural fiber line understands and describes fiber line size and lay including: small stuff, mooring lines, hawsers understands fiber line maintenance, stowage, and when to replace fiber line in use understands and describes knots and splices to fiber line, including: weaknesses to fiber line caused by knots, splices, and kinking understands and describes synthetic line and uses including: nylon line dacron line polypropylene line kevlar and newer synthetic lines understands and describes synthetic line size and lay understands and describes synthetic line knots and splices different from fiber line understands and describes advantages and disadvantages of synthetic line over fiber line, including safety precautions to observe when using synthetic line understands and describes synthetic line maintenance and stowage, including inspections to ascertain need for replacing synthetic line in use understands and describes wire rope construction and use, including: standing and running rigging applications wire rope usage with mechanical hatch covers types of wire rope construction measurement of wire rope when ordering replacement wires understands and describes wire rope sizes and lay properties, including: wire rope strands and core construction wire splicing and proper use of wire rope clips patent end fittings Safe working Load and Breaking Strength calculations including Safety Factors, Safe working Load and shackle size understands and describes wire rope inspection, maintenance, and stowage including required inspections and required replacement intervals wire rope certificates log and spares inventory understands and describes chain use and construction, including: measurement of chain various construction characteristics shipboard usages for chain usage of shackles and turnbuckles with chain Safe working Load and Breaking Strength calculations including safety factors understands and describes stress calculations when employing various slings, including: fiber rope sling wire rope sling chain sling
TOPIC - Small boat handling understands and describes principles of handling small boats, including: propeller direction and torque rudder hydrodynamics small boat engine controls, starting, and operation small boat safety procedures understands and describes various types of small boats carried aboard ship, including: lifeboat / davit designs emergency rescue craft and launching equipment rigid-hull inflatable boats passenger launches understands and describes routine and preventative maintenance carried out on ship's boats, including: maintenance of lifeboat davits changing out lifeboat falls required inspections of lifeboats and equipment inventory understands and describes operation of small boats, including: mooring lines use of spring lines for docking / undocking docking / undocking single-screw boats docking / undocking twin screw boats responding to propulsion / steering failures anchoring small boats departing from and coming alongside moving ship understands and describes rescue procedures when recovering persons from the water, including: posting and responsibilities of lookouts approach techniques to person(s) in water considering wind and sea conditions using rescue swimmer(s) transfer of injured person(s) from rescue boat to ship communications between rescue boat and ship
TOPIC - Mechanical weight lifting gear understands and describes various as of shipboard deck machinery, including: anchor windlass mooring capstans cargo booms cargo winches cargo handling / stores / boat handling cranes various block and tackle gear used understands and describes application of electric, hydraulic, and steam power to deck machinery, including safety procedures prior to starting operation understands and describes routine and required safety inspections of deck machinery, including: visual inspections prior to starting operation monthly cargo gear inspection by Chief Officer preventative maintenance to deck machinery record keeping of inspections and maintenance Cargo Gear Register operation and maintenance manuals from manufacturer kept on file understands and describes operational safety when using deck machinery (as listed 4.1 above) operational safety placards marking of Safe Working Load on booms and cranes hand signals used in operation of deck machinery Emergency shut-down controls understands and describes principles of operation of cargo booms, including: married falls cargo gear single boom cargo gear heavy lift boom operation boom operational controls and safety cutoff switches signals used in operating married falls cargo gear
TOPIC - Deck officer duties and responsibilities understands shipboard organizational structure, including departmental organization and responsibilities understands individual deck officer required duties, including: at-sea watch officer responsibilities inport watch officer responsibilities maintaining logbook and other record book entries night orders and orders issued by senior officers for unusual situations managing personnel on bridge watch understands collateral duties assigned to deck officers, including medical, safety equipment, telecommunications, shipboard physical security , training programs understands inspections, reports, and inventories required with collateral duties understands proper watch turnover procedures, including: turning over watch at sea Master assuming conning duties from watch officer turning over navigation watch in pilot waters turning over the watch inport understands proper turnover procedures when being relieved at end of voyage, including progress reports, inventories, and other records associated with collateral duties understands and describes particulars of standing a bridge watch at sea, including: Master's Standing Orders for watch officers Navigation Safety Regulations (33 CFR 164) basic principles of routine watchkeeping lookout reports by bells and relative bearings steering commands to helmsman communications to engine room bridge control of propulsion situations requiring calling the Master steering and propulsion failures understands and describes particulars of bridge watch standing during periods of restricted visibility, heavy vessel traffic, heavy weather situations, including: bridge team organization and duties effective communications between master and bridge officers calling out extra deck officers posting of extra lookouts notification to engine room to stand by for orders reduction of vessel speed routine and required logbook entries understands and describes particulars of inport watchstanding duties, including: Master's Standing Orders for inport watch officers routine inspections of mooring lines routine inspections of gangway and gangway lighting reading draft marks determining mean draft pollution control and procedures followed during bunkering operations notification of senior officer of dangerous condition notification of shoreside parties in dangerous situation routine and required logbook entries understands and describes basic cargo watch officer duties and responsibilities, including: cargo operations general safety precautions Master's/Chief Mate's standing orders for cargo operations inspection of cargo handling gear prior to and during use precautions and preparations taken when loading dangerous cargoes reporting dangerous situations involving cargo handling to senior officer(s) situations when cargo operations may be shut-down routine and required deck logbook entries understands and describes duties and responsibilities of night mates and shipkeepers, including: turnover information to / from night mates shipkeepers routine duties and inspections aboard laid-up vessels notification of shoreside parties of dangerous condition on laid-up vessel
TOPIC - Mooring operations understands and describes names and function of ship's mooring lines, including: spring lines bow and stem fines breast lines mooring wires and pendants understands and explains use of heaving lines and messengers for sending mooring lines ashore or to tugs, including: sending ashore ship's mooring lines sending ship's lines to tugs recovery of ship's lines from tugs handling wire towlines from tugs safety precautions observed when handling mooring lines understands and describes operation of deck machinery and deck fittings used to handle mooring lines, including: chocks and fairleads roller chocks / Panama chocks deck capstans windlasses powered mooring line reels commands and signals used when working deck machinery during mooring understands and describes use of stoppers when handling mooring lines, including consideration of material, size, and strength of stoppers used types of stoppers used - West Coast, Liverpool safety precautions observed when working with stoppers understands and describes proper method of making up mooring lines on bitts including: minimum round turns on first post for manila and synthetic lines minimum number of figure eights around bitts making up wire on bitts avoidance of parbuckling bitts understands and describes safety precautions observed on moored vessels during dangerous cargo handling operations, including: use of fire warps rigging of emergency tow wires fore and aft providing fire ax at each mooring station rigging and use of fire hoses on deck understands and describes importance of regular deck inspections while vessel alongside pier, including: compensating for tidal conditions inspection for chafing of mooring lines proper lighting of decks inspection of safe condition of ship's gangway inspections of fire, electrical, steam, sanitary. connections to shore understands and describes mooring procedures when berthed alongside other vessels, including: mooring line arrangements fendering equipment and placement mooring bunkering vessels alongside ship mooring lightering vessels alongside ship in open waters
TOPIC - Shipboard emergency procedures - firefighting understands and describes importance of fire prevention programs aboard ship including: regular inspection of working and living conditions for fire hazards required sanitary inspections aboard ship implementation of shipboard electrical safety program training of shipboard personnel in fire prevention understands and describes classes of fires and particular hazards of each class, including: fire chemistry Class A-B-C-D fires and their description understands and describes shipboard fire detection systems, including smoke detector systems heat detection systems understands and describes shipboard firefighting equipment and its use, including fire main system main, back-up, and emergency fire pumps fire hoses and fittings CO2 systems arrangement for cargo spaces CO2 systems arrangement for engineering spaces shipboard sprinkler systems portable fire extinguisher types understands and describes location and inventory of Fireman's Outfit, including: establishment of damage control lockers required inventory in Fireman's Outfit regular and required inspection of Fireman's Outfit training of shipboard personnel in use of Fireman's Outfit equipment required and preventative maintenance of Fireman's Outfit equipment weekly drills employing Fireman's Outfit equipment understands and describes organization of shipboard personnel in fighting fires onboard including: fire and emergency signals organization of the Emergency Squad organization of hose teams deck officer's functions during shipboard fire situations shipboard internal communications during emergencies distress message format and transmittal understands and describes initial strategy of fighting shipboard fires, including: isolating spread of fire securing ventilation systems and air supply to fire securing of electrical systems adjacent to fire discharge of CO2 systems special considerations of engine room fires maneuvering of vessel with regard to wind and sea conditions understands and describes tactics for fighting particular types of fires, including: approach and entry tactics for firefighting teams galley fires and operation of Gaylord systems class A fires in cabin and public areas electrical equipment fires paint locker fires cargo container fires understands and describes strategy of fighting major types of fires, including: engine room fires cargo space fires command decision to flood compartments on fire command decision to abandon ship understands and describes procedures followed after extinguishing fires, including: danger of flashback venting of smoke de-watering of damaged spaces
TOPIC - Shipboard emergency procedures - lifesaving and damage control understands and describes procedures followed in man overboard situations including: reporting terminology used to notify bridge posting of extra lookouts Williamson Turn Racetrack Turn Scharnow Turn mustering of Emergency squad maneuvering vessel to approach person in water launching of rescue boat and recovery of person from water medical treatment of rescued person understands and describes procedures followed when rescuing persons from survival craft, including: initial receipt of distress message initial sighting of survival craft maneuvering vessel to approach survival craft launching of rescue boat and recovery of persons from survival craft rigging nets or pilot ladders for survivors to board rescue vessel rigging of nets or slings to lift survivors onboard rescue vessel medical treatment for survivors reporting of successful rescue of survivors understands and describes damage control procedures followed in event of vessel taking on water, including: maneuvering of vessel in seamy to reduce flooding rate operation of watertight doors and hatches engine room flooding through sea chest, ruptured piping, shaft alley flooding of cargo spaces through hull rupture or hatch failure hermetic isolation of spaces operation of bilge system rigging and operation of portable pumps shifting of ballast or bunkers to trim vessel to lessen flooding rate use of damage control locker equipment - shoring and plugs understands and describes procedures followed in event of steering casualty, including: overview of steering systems operation of emergency steering gear anchoring vessel to effect repairs steering twin screw vessel with engines rigging of jury steering apparatus understands and describes procedures followed in a grounding incident, including: notification of local authorities and vessel owners intentional grounding of vessel to prevent sinking assessment of environmental conditions and potential of pollution situation assessment of vessel condition assessment of hazards to vessel and personnel command decision to refloat vessel with own ship's power command decision to await salvers overview of salvage methods understands and describes procedures followed in event of collision with other vessel, including: duty to stand by other vessel reporting of collision to USCG vessels in collision providing damage control aid to one another situations when vessels should not disentangle from one another overview of admiralty court apportionment of blame
TOPIC - Vessel manning and management understands and describes manning requirements for vessels with respect to, gross tonnage, route, class of vessel, other pertinent considerations of vessel's service understands and describes licensing and certification of merchant seamen and officers, including: USCG Merchant Mariner Document USCG Merchant Marine Officer License STCW Certificate Suspension and Revocation of MMD or License understands and describes use of shipping articles on merchant vessels, including: when required why required Articles of Agreement format sign-on and sign-off procedures Discharges to Merchant Seaman Forecastle Card understands and describes procedures followed and reporting of vacancies and shortages of crewmembers, including: master's decision to sail short-handed requirement of master to report incident of sailing short-handed seaworthiness of vessel if short-handed understands and describes vessel Entry and Clearance procedures, including: required forms and procedures to clear vessel outward to foreign port required forms and procedures to enter vessel inward from a foreign port Customs, Immigration, Agriculture, USCG inspections of vessels inward from foreign port proceeding coastwise with foreign cargo remaining onboard particulars for entry and clearance at foreign ports
TOPIC - Regulatory agencies understands and describes functions of various governmental maritime agencies, including: United States Coast Guard United States Customs Service U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service U.S. Department of Agriculture Federal Communications Commission U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command U.S. Maritime Administration understands and describes functions of non governmental maritime agencies, including: American Bureau of Shipping National Cargo Bureau understands and describes various inspections performed by governmental maritime agencies, including: USCG biannual inspections U.S. Customs searches of vessels for contraband INS vessel searches for illegal aliens USDA inspections: animal. plant, quarantine USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service FCC telecommunications and electronics equipment inspections understands and describes various inspections and surveys performed by non governmental agencies, including: ABS annual and periodic inspections of vessel hull and machinery NCB cargo surveys
TOPIC - Vessel records and certificates understands and describes basic inventory of vessel certificates issued by various maritime regulatory agencies, including: US Coast Guard documents including SOLAS documents FCC ship licenses and documents ABS certificates and surveys understands and describes vessels bridge logbook and proper entries made including: required entries for shipboard evolutions and inspections routine entries during a bridge navigation watch special circumstances entries by the Master or Chief Mate retaining onboard of deck logbooks and forwarding of copies to owners proper method of making corrections to log entries understands and describes the USCG Official Logbook and required entries, including: when Official Logbook is required to be kept required entries in Official Logbook proper method of malting corrections to Official Logbook entries in Official Logbook for seamen's wage accounts submitting of Official Logbook to USCG understands and describes placards and other posted information onboard vessel including: Pollution Prevention Placard Garbage Disposal Placard Maneuvering Diagram and Information Forecastle Card Station Bill Pollution Response Bill Instructions for Rigging of Pilot Ladders Dangerous Cargo Manifest bridge copy Hazardous Materials Response Information Oil Spill Reporting Information understands and describes required entries in vessel's Oil Record Book, including: introduction to the IOPP Certificate format of entries required signatures submitting Oil Record Book to US Coast Guard understands and describes other required logbooks kept, including: Bridge Radiotelephone logbook Bridge Radar logs Bell Book Medical Treatment Log Narcotics Inventory Log Chart Inventory and Corrections Cards Hazardous Materials Data Sheets Vessel plans inventory understands and describes other records maintained, including: Chief Mate's Deck Maintenance Book Record of Bilge Soundings Deck machinery operation and maintenance records Lifesaving and Firefighting Equipment Inventory Medical Locker Inventory Cargo Securing Gear Inventory Deck and Engine Paint Inventories understands and describes methods of efficiently maintaining vessel's certificates and records, including: basic use of computerized record keeping maintaining master sheet of vessel's certificates maintaining master schedule of inspections and surveys due
TOPIC - Marine operations regulations understands and describes the purpose and construction of marine operations regulations, including: Code of Federal Regulations SOLAS Regulations understands and describes legal requirements of Title 46 - Shipping, including: construction and organization of Title 46 how to find a particular item penalties for violations of 46 USC understands and describes Navigation Safety Regulations as contained in 33 CFR 164 understands and describes procedures followed in required inspections and surveys of commercial vessels, including: USCG Certificate and Mid-term inspections ABS annual and periodic surveys P & I club surveys identifies functions of U.S. Consuls in foreign ports, including: Master's reports to U.S. Consulates regarding seaman shipped or discharged in foreign ports Master's filing of Note of Protest with U.S. Consulate Procedures followed when leaving sick, injured, jailed seaman in foreign port
TOPIC - Shipboard Maintenance understands and describes maintenance programs carried out onboard ship, including: preservation and painting of hull preservation and painting of deck machinery including cargo gear routine maintenance of deck machinery understands safety procedures followed when hot work performed on board, including: hot work permits fire precautions when performing hot work understands and describes safety procedures followed when performing spray painting operations, including: inspection of equipment prior to use adequate ventilation of areas where spray painting equipment in use personal safety equipment used when spray painting understands and describes methods and equipment for chipping and scaling steelwork including: air powered chipping and scaling tools electric powered chipping and scaling tools safe use of powered tools personal safety equipment and procedures understands and describes safety precautions observed during shipyard periods, including: safe rigging of gangways and ramps proper lighting of decks and spaces proper ventilation of spaces fire prevention precautions during shipyard periods safety precautions observed when rigging potable water, steam, electric, sanitary lines understands and describes use of Hazardous Materials Data Sheets prior to use of hazardous materials in shipboard maintenance projects
LAB - Lab 1 Marlinespike seamanship understands method and obtains practical experience in tying common knots, including: bowline, figure eight, square knot, sheepshank, sheet bend, timber hitch, fisherman's bend, becket bend, bowline-on-a-bight blackwall hitch, carrick bend, barrel hitch, rolling hitch, double becket, French bowline, round turn and two half hitches. understands and obtains practical experience m making common splices in three-strand manila line, including: eye splice, short splice, long splice understands and obtains practical experience in making whippings and seizings, including: round seizing, racking seizing plain whipping, sail maker's whipping understands and obtains practical experience in rigging a Spanish Windlass understands and obtains practical experience in working with wire rope, including: characteristics and construction of wire rope care and preservation of wire rope seizing wire rope use of wire rope clips understands and obtains practical experience in splicing wire rope, including: tools for wire rope splicing making a thimble splice making a Liverpool eye splice understands and obtains practical experience in rigging staging, including: components, hitches, safety lines understands and obtains practical experience in rigging a bosun's chair, including: components, hitches, safety lines, tending person aloft review of Man Aloft safety procedures
LAB - Lab 2 Deck machinery and weight lifting gear understands operation of and obtains practical experience in handling deck machinery including: anchor windlass components and controls mooring capstan components and controls constant tension mooring winch components and controls maintenance and lubrication of deck machinery understands and obtains practical experience in operation of cargo handling gear, including nomenclature and function of elements of married falls cargo gear doubling-up and tripling-up blocks for single-boom lifts understands and obtains practical experience in working with various block and tackle arrangements, including: block components and size block and tackle operations rigging to advantage or disadvantage understands and describes various block and tackle rigs, including gun tackle, handybilly, two-fold tackle double-luff tackle, three-fold tackle construction and uses of snatch blocks
LAB - Lab 3 Lifeboats and davit systems understands operation of and obtains practical experience in launching lifeboats from gravity davits, including: nomenclature and function of davit components safety precautions observed during lifeboat launch nomenclature and function of lifeboat structural components lifeboat propulsion and steering lifeboat launching commands lifeboat launching procedure review practical exercise in preparing, swinging-out, and lowering away of lifeboat release of boat from falls, re-rigging falls, hoisting boat back aboard, and securing understands and describes procedures for launching rescue boat for recovery of persons in water, including: maneuvering ship to make a lee for launching rescue boat various types of rescue boats - dinghy, RHIB, ship's lifeboat assigning rescue swimmer(s) if required hoisting of injured persons from rescue boat to ship
LAB - Lab 4 Small boat handling understands operation of and obtains practical experience in handling small vessels under power using Motor Whaleboats, including: MWB propulsion and controls preparation and starting of engine nomenclature of mooring lines propeller direction and torque use of spring lines getting off pier casting single-screw vessel in confined waters observing and compensating for wind or current conditions approach angle and speed coming alongside pier use of spring lines coming alongside pier understands and obtains practical experience in anchoring small vessels. including: consideration of environmental conditions when anchoring scope of anchor rode approach speed to anchorage position stopping vessel and letting go anchor getting anchor to fetch up heaving up anchor and getting underway
LAB - Lab 5 Survival suits and liferafts understands and obtains practical experience in donning and use of cold weather survival suits, including: suit components and their function steps in proper donning of survival suit proper technique for going into water proper position to assume in water understands and obtains practical experience in keeping survivors together in water and combating hypothermia understands and describes proper stowage and maintenance of survival suits understands and describes launching and employment of inflatable liferafts, including manual launching procedure hydrostatic release mechanism boarding inflated liferaft liferaft components and their function use of thermal protective aids signaling apparatus understands and describes maintenance and inspection of inflatable liferafts
LAB - Lab 6 Handling mooring lines understands and obtains practical experience in handling of ship's mooring lines including: commands and signals used by mooring station officer safety precautions observed when working mooring lines use of fairleads and avoidance of obstructions bending on heaving lines proper rigging of stoppers proper method of making mooring lines fast on bitts understands and obtains practical experience in passing out and taking in ship's lines to tugs, including: preplanning mooring line arrangement and selecting which ship's line to give tug keeping lines clear of ship's propeller signals between mooring station officer and tug making ship's line fast on bitts tug's towing hook release mechanism taking in ship's line from tug sending mooring lines ashore using line-handling boat understands and obtains practical experience in handling wire rope towline from tug including: use of heaving line and pendant hauling tug's wires onboard ship taking wires to bitts sending wires back to tug use of locomotives with tow wires in Panama Canal understands and obtains practical experience in handling mooring lines as bights
LAB - Lab 7 Splicing mooring lines understands and obtains practical experience in splicing mooring lines, including: measuring and laying out line for eye splice tools used marking of strands for splice eye splice in 3-strand line eye splice in 8-strand braided line binding two hawsers together at eyes understands an obtains practical experience in preventing excess wear to mooring lines, including: proper coiling and stowage of mooring lines use of chafing canvas in eye splices rigging chafing gear on mooring lines for prolonged vessel lay-up understands and obtains practical experience in bending on rope pendants to mooring wires, including: measuring and making up rope pendants rope-wire connection and patent fittings
LAB - Lab 8 Firefighting procedures understands and obtains practical training in shipboard firefighting, including reporting and responding to fire situations muster of emergency squad with equipment organization of hose team(s) communications to bridge understands and obtains practical experience in donning and use of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus, including: Scott Air-Pack components and their functions limitations of air time and spare air bottles required higher air consumption in strenuous situations limited air remaining - warning signal access to and egress from confined spaces with SCBA equipment donned understands and obtains practical experience in organizing and deploying hose teams including: designating nozzle-man and back-up members of team avoidance of obstructions when laying out hoses operation of all-purpose nozzles approach technique to fire fire hose sizes, couplings, and adapters deploying hose team(s) for exterior fires deploying hose team(s) for interior fires use of portable foam agents understands and obtains practical experience in use of hand portable fire extinguishers, including: types of portable extinguishers vs. class of fire encountered triggering controls of portable extinguishers approach technique to fire use of portable extinguishers during performance of hotwork understands installation of and traces out fixed ship's fixed CO2 system, including: layout of CO2 room and system controls operating instructions placard remote CO2 system controls number of CO2 bottles required to be discharged for specific space placard engine room warning siren and evacuation of engine room personnel discharge of initial and follow-up CO2 charges to cargo or engine spaces understands operation of and traces out Paint Locker CO2 system understands operation of and traces out Engine Room CO2 hose reel equipment understands operation of and traces out ship's fire main system, including: main fire pump emergency fire pump fire main isolation valves and drain valves shoreside connections International Shore Connection adapter flushing fire main with fresh water to eliminate marine growth precautions taken in freezing weather at sea and in port understands and observes precautions when fighting electrical fires, including locating and securing electrical power to machinery securing ventilation to electrical machinery space cargo machinery MG sets and switchboard fires engine room generator and switchboard fires understands operation of and traces out paint locker CO2 system
LAB - Lab 9 Lifesaving and damage control procedures understands and obtains practical familiarization with emergency signaling equipment including: hand held flares rocket parachute flares distress signals as listed in Annex IV International Rules of the Road landing signals detailed in International Code of Signals Chapter 4, Section 2 understands and obtains practical familiarization with Line Throwing Apparatus including the components and operation of Pains-Wessex Line Throwing Apparatus understands and obtains practical familiarization with portable electronic distress equipment, including: portable VHF radio EPIRB types and operation SART transponders understands and obtains practical familiarization with damage control equipment including: use of Emergency Gear Locker damage control equipment use of shores and plugs use of hydraulic jacks use of materials at hand to shore bulkhead or plug hull rupture understands and obtains practical experience in setting up and operating portable pumps for de-watering spaces, including: Weldon pump models and capabilities rigging of suction and discharge hoses pumping heights use of other types of submersible pumps
LAB - Lab 10 Shipboard maintenance safety understands and obtains practical experience in exercising safety precautions when handling power tools, including: air-powered tools electric-powered tools personal safety equipment review of electrical safety procedures understands and obtains practical experience in maintaining paint locker in safe condition, including: ventilation of paint locker cleanliness inspection of paint locker inspection of paint locker CO2 system proper stowage of paints and thinners understands and obtains practical experience in handling of hazardous materials utilized in shipboard maintenance, including: proper stowage and handling of flammable, corrosive, hazardous materials personal protection used in handling hazardous materials proper disposal of hazardous materials empty containers organization of Hazardous Material Data Sheets for use by shipboard personnel understands and obtains practical familiarization in use of portable ventilation equipment including: ventilation of spaces where spray painting taking place ventilation of tanks prior to entering through-ventilation with supply and exhaust understands and obtains practical familiarization with use of portable atmosphere testing equipment, including portable oxygen testing meters and portable combustible gas meters obtains practical familiarization with respirator equipment used in painting or cleaning operations, including refillable and disposable devices