Joint Operations (Bridge and Engine)
Course Code: MX1EC445
Maritime & Nautical
Next course dates
| Start Date | Location | Duration / Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anytime | Fleetwood Nautical Campus | 1 Week/ £20,980 | Apply |
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Course Overview
This course is designed for deck and engine room officers seeking to enhance effective communication, problem-solving skills and seamless collaboration between bridge and engine room teams in today's complex maritime environment. You will gain comprehensive training in managing challenging maritime situations through state of the art simulation technology that replicates diverse scenarios encountered in real life maritime operations. Completion of this course will enable you to navigate emergency situations with confidence and precision whilst fostering a culture of open communication and teamwork.
The course is delivered as a company specific programme, allowing your team to be exclusively trained together in a realistic and immersive learning environment utilising cutting edge simulation technology.
Entry Requirements
Delegates must be qualified deck and engine room officers with relevant maritime experience and certification appropriate to their operational roles aboard commercial vessels.
Assessment Methods
Assessment Methods
The training consists of progressively complex exercises covering theory and practice over five days:
- Joint Search and Rescue (SAR) operations - coordinated response procedures between bridge and engine room teams
- High traffic navigation scenarios - managing operations in congested areas such as Singapore Straits and Red Sea whilst handling piracy/security threats and mechanical/electrical failures
- Adverse weather operations - navigation challenges combined with main engine problem solving at sea
- Emergency scenario management - comprehensive crisis response including tsunamis, groundings, collisions (vessel to vessel and fixed objects such as the Baltimore Channel incident)
- Specialised operations - dry dock procedures and managing propeller entanglements alongside dock
Key areas covered include:
- Enhanced communication protocols between bridge and engine room
- Realistic scenario based problem solving
- Emergency preparedness and crisis management
- Continuous improvement methodologies
- Company-specific operational procedures and vessel characteristics
- Critical thinking and decision-making under pressure
- Risk assessment and safety management
- Crew, vessel and cargo protection strategies
Assessment is through practical demonstration of competency during simulated exercises, real time problem solving scenarios, and evaluation of communication effectiveness and teamwork throughout the progressive training modules.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Primarily exercises in the navigation and engine room simulators followed by de-briefing.
Industry Placement and Field Trips
There is no work placement or field trips as part of this qualification. All training is conducted using advanced simulation facilities that closely mirror real life maritime operations.
Other Costs and Equipment Needed
Accommodation and transfers are not provided within this course.
All simulation equipment and training materials required by the course are provided as part of the comprehensive training package.
Expert Tutors
All staff involved in the delivery of any courses within the College are approved to teach and/or assess the subjects and modules they deliver. The approval process ensures that staff delivering and/or assessing a given programme are appropriately qualified, with relevant technical and industrial experience and professional practice.
Regulation and Accreditation
Accrediting Institution: N/A
