news Courses 2015


Hydrodynamics of floating offshore structures Wageningen, March 9-13


‘Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures’ gives an overview of the latest developments including extreme metocean conditions, wave impacts and motion and mooring analysis.


Ship hydrodynamics in ship design Wageningen, March 16-20


In this course the various hydrody- namic aspects (resistance, propulsion, manoeuvring, seakeeping) are presented in a balanced and integrated way. The physical background as well as the techniques and tools available today will be dealt with.


For more information and registration: courses@marin.nl or www.marin.nl/courses


Record number of visitors at the Open Day


A record number of visitors were introduced to the world of model testing and hydrody- namics during MARIN’s Open Day, with 5,500 attending the event. Throughout the day interactive demonstrations were given at the testing facilities and bridge simulators in Wageningen. More than 250 MARIN employ- ees volunteered to give the visitors this fas- cinating journey through the maritime world.


Four Russian Vessel Traffic Service Operators were trained as VTS simulator instructors at MARIN’s VTS simulator in September. During the five-day course the trainees, three of whom came from the St. Petersburg VTS and the other from Vladivostok VTS, were educated in skills such as didactic behaviour, principles of adult learning, trainee behaviour and on-the-job training skills, which were all performed using role-play situations. This course centred on the practical steps in preparing training exercises: development, implementation, briefing, executing,


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debriefing and evaluation. During procedural training (Information Service, Navigational Assistance Service and Traffic Organisation Service) a lively discussion took place about the difference between Dutch and Russian procedures. The practical event ‘Present a training objective’ for improving didactic skills was performed adequately and after completing the training course, including the examination and assessment protocols, all the trainees successfully passed and were awarded their certificate “VTS Simulator Instructor Training”.


Motion based simulator for Dutch Navy


Just imagine you are driving a small, fast navy boat in heavy seas and you are experiencing large roll and pitch angles! All of this is part of a new exciting project called FSSS, which is short for Fast Small Ship Simulator. The FSSS is equipped with a hexapod motion base and has room for three operators in an immersed visualisation. This two-year project is being conducted in 2015 & 2016 together with Cruden and TreeC, MARIN and the Defence Materiel Organisation. For more information on this interesting project please contact n.bovens@marin.nl


Train-the-trainer for VTS Russia


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