Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships (PB)

by Daniel S. Parrott

Overview

Your vessel may be equipped with the most advanced technology and the most powerful engines, but the failure to apply the basic principles of bridge resource management can still prevent you from getting where you are going.

Satellite systems, ARPA, electronic charts, AIS, sophisticated communication equipment and integrated navigational systems—all these advanced technologies provide valuable capabilities. But accidents still happen, and they usually involve human error. This simple fact has made Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training a requirement for watchkeepers worldwide. Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships: The Watchkeeper’s Manual for Limited-Tonnage Vessels is the first book to address the unique needs of operators of small ships (limited-tonnage vessels) including tugs, ferries, yachts, and other passenger-carrying vessels.

Features:

• Case histories to illustrate important points
• A complete course in BRM, suited for studying on your own as well as a complement to your classwork

Topics include: Introduction to BRM, Standard Operating Procedures, Passage Planning, Implementing the Passage Plan, Building a Passage Plan, Situational Awareness and Human Factors, including: Overreliance, Distraction, Stress, Fatigue, Complacency, and Transition; and Human Interactions, including Communications, Teams and Teamwork, Decision Making and Leadership, and Human Error

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071550086
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/04/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Daniel S. Parrott holds an Australian Master Class IV license for coastal trading; a U.S. Coast Guard license for Master of Oceans, Motor, Steam, and Auxiliary Sail, 1600 tons; and a Third Mate's license for Merchant Ships. He earned a master's degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island and accumulated 20 years of experience in tall ships all over the world, including five years as captain of the 158-foot Pride of Baltimore II. He also served as mate aboard a coastal freighter in Alaska. He teaches navigation, seamanship, and Bridge Resource Management to merchant marine cadets at the Maine Maritime Academy and sails as a watch officer and training officer aboard the academy’s training ship State of Maine and the schooner Bowdoin. He is the author of Tall Ships Down: The Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to BRM; Chapter 2. Standard Operating Procedures; Chapter 3. Elements of Passage Planning; Chapter 4. Passage Planning Nuts and Bolts; Chapter 5. Situational Awareness; Chapter 6. Overreliance; Chapter 7. Distraction; Chapter 8. Stress; Chapter 9. Fatigue;Chapter 10. Complacency; Chapter 11. Transition; Chapter 12. Communications; Chapter 13. Teams and Teamwork; Chapter 14. Leadership; Chapter 15. Error Chains