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Essential Guide to Ice Navigation Safety

This document discusses ice navigation and the need for proper training and guidelines. It notes that while some countries have their own rules for navigating ice-covered waters, there are no internationally accepted standards. It outlines several difficulties, such as lack of standards, hazards like icing and changing weather, and limitations of radar in ice. The document expresses concerns for ship stability, equipment failure, navigational errors, and challenges responding to oil spills in ice and cold waters. It recommends only entering ice if no alternative route is available and to be prepared to go full astern, as propellers and rudders are most vulnerable in ice.

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Essential Guide to Ice Navigation Safety

This document discusses ice navigation and the need for proper training and guidelines. It notes that while some countries have their own rules for navigating ice-covered waters, there are no internationally accepted standards. It outlines several difficulties, such as lack of standards, hazards like icing and changing weather, and limitations of radar in ice. The document expresses concerns for ship stability, equipment failure, navigational errors, and challenges responding to oil spills in ice and cold waters. It recommends only entering ice if no alternative route is available and to be prepared to go full astern, as propellers and rudders are most vulnerable in ice.

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  • Ice Navigation & Seamanship
  • Understanding Iceberg Challenges
  • Ice Navigation Importance
  • Knowledge for Safety
  • Navigation Challenges
  • Navigator's Concerns
  • Icing and Weather Challenges
  • Ice Obstacles
  • Oil Spill Challenges
  • Training Requirements
  • Training Motivation
  • Entering the Ice

Ice Navigation & Seamanship

A tanker master’s experience


• Understanding
• Knowledge
• Difficulties
• Hazards
• Concerns
• Caution
Ice Navigation

By understanding Ice Navigation, we are indeed


promoting Safe & Environment friendly marine
transportation
Knowledge of Ice Navigation is
vital to ensure :

• Safe navigation
• Minimising Sailing time
• Avoiding delays
• Environmental Safety
Navigation in ice requires special knowledge and
skills and it is expected that the guidelines that
were issued by IMO will be mandatory in the near
future, which will create standards for training of
navigators in ice.

Several countries have their own national rules


for navigating in ice covered waters that often
only apply to national flagged vessels.
What are the difficulties ?

• No internationally accepted standards

• Lack of standards and requirements come into conflict


with growing oil exports and need of shipping companies
to have crews qualified in Ice Navigation.

• There is no internationally harmonised method of skill


and knowledge delivery on Ice Navigation.

• Constant improvement for instruments used in Ice


Navigation
Navigator’s concerns …..

• Icing on the ship’s structure may occur due to the


freezing of sea sprays or due to snow, rain and fog. (Ships
Stability / Equipment Failure)

• Quickly changing weather conditions


Navigator’s concerns …..

• Stoppages in ice breaker operations

• Risk of Navigational errors in ice

• Limitations of the Radar equipment in icy


areas.

• Some case unable to follow traffic separation


zones in ice

• Risk of Navigational errors in icy conditions

• A strong growth in tanker traffic


Other concerns…..

• Ice may force the vessel into shallow waters

• Ice pressure can seriously damage the vessel

• The resistance of the ship is greater in level ice than in


open water.

• Handling a damaged ship in ice-covered waters


Combating oil spills in ice and cold
waters can be a daunting task
Training
requirements

Do exist
but
Not mentioned in the STCW 95
The high expectations of customers and the
safety of crew, vessel, cargo and environment has
become a motivator to increase the knowledge
and experience of ship’s crews.
Entering the Ice ….

• Do not enter Ice if an alternative, although a longer route is


available.

• It is very easy and extremely dangerous to underestimate the


hardness of the ice.

• Be prepared to go “full astern” at any time.

• Propellers and rudders are the most vulnerable parts of the ship –
should go astern in ice with extreme care.
Thank you for your
attention !!!!
Ice Navigation is a lot of responsibility…....

Ice Navigation & Seamanship A tanker master’s experience
• Understanding • Knowledge • Difficulties • Hazards • Concerns • Caution
Ice Navigation By understanding Ice Navigation, we are indeed promoting Safe & Environment friendly marine transportation
Knowledge of Ice Navigation is vital to ensure : • Safe navigation • Minimising Sailing time • Avoiding delays • E
Several countries have their own national rules for navigating in ice covered waters that often only apply to national
What are the difficulties ? • No internationally accepted standards • Lack of standards and requirements come into confl
Navigator’s concerns ….. • Icing on the ship’s structure may occur due to the freezing of sea sprays or due to snow, ra
• Stoppages in ice breaker operations • Risk of Navigational errors in ice • Limitations of the Radar equipment in icy
Other concerns….. • Ice may force the vessel into shallow waters • Ice pressure can seriously damage the vessel • The resist
Combating oil spills in ice and cold waters can be a daunting task

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