My second visit to Singapore for a combined IIMS and eCMID AVI seminar and training event once again proved to be a success. We attracted some excellent speakers from the region and my thanks to MatthewsDaniel for their financial support.
Planning these events is never easy, although fun to do. Finding original speakers who can talk knowledgeably about not the same old subjects is never straight forward. On balance, I believe we have got it about right in 2018. I am grateful to the many speakers who have generously given their time freely to help to educate surveyors in the UK, Europe and around the world.
Much of this content is now recorded and ends up on the IIMS YouTube channel eventually and is available to members and the wider maritime community. It is a wonderful resource of fresh and unique content and free to access. I should also mention that after a one year absence, the IIMS London Conference is back in 2019. The dates to put into your diary are 17 and 18 June at Regent’s University in central London. The conference dinner will be on Monday 17 June. More details will be available early in the New Year.
Our Professional Qualifications in marine surveying have had a very strong year. Currently there are over 160 students enrolled with the IIMS distance learning programme, managed and expertly administrated by Cathryn Ward. Our relationship with edexcel formally comes to an end on 31 December.
2018 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The AGM was held at a hotel by Heathrow Airport on a sweltering British summer’s day. The changing of the guard took place as Adam Brancher, now your immediate Past President, handed the presidential baton on to Capt Zarir Irani, who took it up with great enthusiasm.
One of our most innovative and rewarding knowledge sharing initiatives took place in the form of the Marine Surveying International Fest 2018, a live 24 hour online marathon that happened in early November. One new presentation was delivered on the hour every hour for 24 hours by an expert presenter somewhere in the world. This was no easy feat to coordinate and contributions came from as far afield as Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, South Korea, Dubai, India, USA, UK and Europe. Yes, there were a handful of minor technology glitches during the event, but all the presenters turned up at their allocated time and it was great fun too. Judging by the positive feedback from those who participated, we hit the mark spot on. The Fest also gave us the chance to gain some very valuable PR in high profile shipping and boating media. So if we have achieved nothing else, we have certainly raised the profile of IIMS to the wider maritime industry. My thanks also to Camella, Cathryn, David and Craig who supported me throughout the day (and more importantly) through the night session.
The Marine Surveying International Fest 2019 has already been given a scheduled date of 19/20 November. This year’s Fest schedule can still be seen here at
https://bit.ly/2OlrP2T. I very much enjoyed chatting with Capt John Lloyd, CEO of the Nautical Institute to open the event. And the ‘closing ceremony’ was fun too. My panel consisted of a handful of veteran surveyors with a combined age of 400!
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I am particularly grateful to Adam, who has helped me this year in ways no former President has been required to do before. In this case, he became involved in the disciplinary process of a member. It has subsequently come as a surprise to some members that IIMS can and does occasionally discipline a member. I would call it the darker side of the work that the Institute has to do, but nevertheless essential at times.
Although not well attended in person, a good number joined the AGM online, the first time we have made it available this way. Future AGMs will also be offered online too. There were two key proposals that the membership was invited to vote on and a number of proxy votes were submitted prior to the AGM.
The first item was to ask for approval for the Institute to purchase an office on a business mortgage once the lease expires on Murrills House in February 2020. Those who cast a vote were all in favour. To give a quick update, we are working closely with a financial planner and now have a clearer understanding how much we can borrow and on what terms. We need to build our deposit account
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