Stability by Distance - Basic

Face to face courses

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Online courses

Payment of course fees, or authorisation to invoice from your company, is required before access to the online learning environment is provided. Please note, it will take between 2-4 business days to provide your access to the online course if you have not studied previously with AMC Search, the Australian Maritime College or the University of Tasmania.

The Stability by Distance Basic Course consists of:

• One Basic Knowledge and Principles of Ship’s Stability Workbook, broken into 12 Sections.
• Complimentary commentary and online resources through MyLO.
• Assessments include course progress exercises (30% of total grade) and 1 exam (70% of total grade). You must achieve a grade equal to or greater than 60% across all assessment items, and no less than 50% in the progress exercises, to successfully complete the course. You have 12 months to complete the course.

On successfully completing this course you will:

• Have knowledge of the correct terminology and definitions used in relation to a ship’s stability, together with providing the basic knowledge in determining a ship’s size and shape.
• Understand the Archimedes Principle relating this to a ship’s displacement and buoyancy values.
• Understand Loadlines and how a ship can be loaded in any water density to ensure a correct draft is achieved once it is at sea in salt water.
• Understand the basic concept of how a ship returns to the upright when heeled by an external force.
• Be able to show how the position of a ship’s Centre of Gravity can be calculated when a single weight is loaded, discharged or shifted on board and how the Centre of Gravity can be determined by taking moments of all weights about the vessel’s keel.
• Be able to provide information on the cause of a ship’s list, and how to correct a list with a movement of weight.
• Understand how a ship’s stability is adversely affected by the free movement of a liquid within the vessel, and how this reduction of stability can be calculated.
• Understand a ship’s hydrostatic data, outlining how this information is derived and its correct use.
• Understand how a negative stability can occur and outline how remedial action should be taken to avoid capsizing the vessel.
• Understand Cross Curves of Stability, as the method for producing a curve of Righting Levers, to determine the vessel’s Dynamical Stability.
• Understand Longitudinal Stability and the movement of the Centres of Buoyancy and Gravity as described in the 2nd dimension.

Online Delivery