- •The organization of the ship is changing but usually one can find three departments: the deck department, the engine department and the catering department.
- •Icebreakers are to clear the way through the stratums of ice in the seas which are adjacent to the Earth’s poles.
- •In 1930, all the leading seafaring countries accepted rules set up by the International Load Convention to keep ships from being overloaded.
- •Cargo divides into the next types: bulk and general.
- •Types of packages:
- •Information mark
- •As part of the team servicing the day-to-day operations of the ship, Deck Cadets assist and understudy the ship’s Deck Officers in their duties.
As part of the team servicing the day-to-day operations of the ship, Deck Cadets assist and understudy the ship’s Deck Officers in their duties.
Deck Cadets enter into a training program that lasts between 12 months and three years, a large part of which will be spent onboard receiving structured training and building up experience.
Supplemented by shore-based learning, becoming a Deck Cadet is the first step to reaching an Officer ranking onboard.
The typical day of the deck cadet on a board the ship begins early in the morning.
He gets up at 5:30 and goes watchkeeping on the bridge at 6:00. He keeps watch there for 2 hours.
At 8:00 cadet goes to have a breakfast at the officer’s mess. Then he does some deck works given him by the boatswain till the 12:00. Then in 12:00 he goes to the bridge to keep the watch again for 4 hours. At 16:00 if everything on the ship is okay and there are no emergencies, cadet has a free time which he can use as he wants and as it’s possible according to the ship’s rules.
Seafarers use special terms to call units of speed, distance, depth etc. For example, the speed of the vessel is given in “knots” which means velocity in nautical miles per hour. The unit of distance used by navigators is the nautical mile. It is equal to 6080 feet or 1852 meters. For short distances the cable or one-tenth of nautical mile is used. For measuring the depth of the sea, the fathom (6 feet) is used.