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The details of the various Special Training Programme Courses being
conducted by CIFNET are :
 Courses
for College Students (contd. ...)
Seamanship and Navigation (2 weeks)
Craft Technology and Fishing Vessel Engineering (2 weeks)
Marine Refrigeration (2 weeks)
Marine Electronic Instrumentation for
Fisheries (1 week)
Elements of Fishing Gear
Technology Course (1 week)
Safety at Sea & fire fighting (3 days)
Fishery Biology (3 days)
Fish Handling (3 days)
Integrated Coastal Zone
Management (3 days)
Marine Corrosion (3 days)
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Courses for College Students (contd. ...)
a. Seamanship
and Navigation (2 weeks)
Ship
stability and construction:
Parts of the ship - Principal dimensions, camber, bulwark,
keel, deck stringer, freeboard, frames, strakes, sheer, bilge keel etc.
Centre of gravity, centre of buoyancy, Meta-centric height, righting lever, righting
moment, stable, unstable and neutral equilibrium, reserve buoyancy, angle of loll, list,
heel, TPC, FWA etc. Basic stability problems regarding change in draft and final KG.
Navigational
Instruments:
Sextant, Pelorus, Azimuth mirror,
Magnetic compass, Gyrocompass, GPS, Echo sounder, Radar – Working principles, care
and maintenance.
LSA and FFA
Lifebuoy, Life
jacket, life raft, class ‘C’ boat, Rescue boat, EPIRB, SART
Seamanship:
Hand lead line, Deep sea lead line,
Anchoring, Mooring, ship handling, duties of watch keeping officer, Fishing vessel
maintenance, Dry docking, preparation for voyage, painting schedule etc.
Emergencies:
Distress, Urgency and Safety procedure, VHF, RT. GMDSS, Man Overboard, Abandoning,
collision, aground, bad weather preparation.
Chart work:
Deviation, variation, conversion of compass course to true course and vice versa. Setting
course, counteracting current, running fire, set and drift. Tide.
Meteorology:
Temperature, pressure, diurnal variation of temp. Different layers of Atmosphere. Land
breeze, sea breeze, Southwest and Northeast monsoon, Cyclones, weather bulletins for
fishermen, various meteorological Instruments.
Practicals:
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