16 februari 2012

Integrated Offshore Vessel Team Training

Kongsberg has introduced a new Offshore Vessel Simulator at the SimSea AS maritime training centre in Haugesund. The simulator is part of a 1300 m2 simulator park and offers fully integrated training on offshore vessel operations for crew and operator training in addition to mission planning applications.

The new SimSea training centre was officially opened by Director General of Shipping and Navigation at the Norwegian Maritime Directorate, Olav Akselsen, last week.
 

360 Degrees

The new SimSea facility is based on a 360 degree visual Kongsberg Offshore Vessel Simulator with interface to a range of specialised task simulators for team training of complex offshore operations. This enables SimSea to offer courses covering the whole spectrum of offshore operations including: basic and advanced Dynamic Positioning; anchor handling; aft bridge/forward bridge navigation; offshore loading, tandem and buoy; ROV, ECDIS and BRM/CRM according to STCW and drilling platform ballast & stability. The DP simulator is integrated with the Kongsberg K-Pos DP21 system and fulfils the Nautical Institute’s DP training requirements, allowing for a reduction in training time at sea.
 

Delivered with Assisting Vessel Simulator

Also included in the delivery is an assisting offshore vessel simulator that can be configured as a 2nd anchor handling vessel for team training of complex anchor handling operations and an offshore crane simulator, which has been supplied by the Kongsberg subsidiary, GlobalSim. It is integrated with the Offshore Vessel Simulator for team training and enhanced realism, and realistically simulates a deck-mounted knuckle-boom crane or a wire-luffing lattice pedestal crane for platform lifting operations.
 

Individual or Integrated

All simulated operations can be carried out individually as well as in an integrated environment where all simulated variables interact with each other. The simulator offers pre-operational procedural testing, which is a new capability emerging in the offshore training arena.
 
Picture: The new integrated Kongsberg Offshore Vessel Simulator at SimSea (credit: Harald Nordbakken)

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