In order to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and to protect the health and safety of our trainees and staff, AMC Search (AMCS) is operating a COVID-Safe campus aligned with the protocols and procedures established by the University of Tasmania. This includes automatic screening for on-campus trainees, enhanced hygiene and social distancing controls.
Strict Tasmanian border controls will impact your training if you are planning on travelling to train with AMC Search from interstate. For up-to-date information about Tasmania's border controls please visit the Tasmanian Government.
Due to the pandemic AMSA have approved the temporary postponement of maritime training and are using the provision contained within Marine Order 70 section 15 to extend seafarer certificates for up to six months. AMSA will do this if satisfied that the person does not meet revalidation requirements due to circumstances beyond their control due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please visit the AMSA website for instructions on how to apply for an extension.
All Online Maritime Training courses running as normal.
Also, some courses can be adapted to online delivery at short notice so please call 03 63249852 to discuss your training requirements.
Payment methods accepted:
- Register now and pay later (payment required 15 days before the course starts)
- Credit Card (online or via (03) 6324-9850)
- Bank Deposit
- Company sponsorship.
Detailed payment options will be made available after the registration is submitted.
Face to face courses
Cancellations up to 15 working days prior to the scheduled date will be accepted without penalty. Cancellations less than 15 working days will be subject to 100% cancellation fee.
AMC Search reserves the right to cancel the course 15 working days prior to the scheduled date if insufficient registrations are received. Any fees paid for cancelled courses will be refunded in full.
When making flight bookings please ensure you book on a fully refundable basis.
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.
