UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN Nautical Science
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Paper VII - Ship Operation Technology I

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

1. General

Names of various parts of ship. Names and timings of watches. Types of merchant navy vessels. Sea terms. Look-out. Compass points.
Safety wearing apparel - Safety goggles, helmet, safety shoes. Removing rust by chipping hammers. Preparing a surface for painting. Paint brushes. Painting defects and their prevention.

2. Life Saving Appliances:

Classification of ships for Life Saving Appliances. LSA requirements for cargo ships. Life Boat - Description of lifeboat. Construction and parts of lifeboat: Buoyancy tanks Means of propulsion. Difference classes of lifeboats used. Motor lifeboats, totally enclosed lifeboats, partially enclosed life boats. Determining the carrying capacity of a lifeboat. Equipment, rations and distress signals. Types of boat davits and their method of operation.
Liferaft: Inflatable and rigid. Construction and parts of liferaft. Liferaft equipment, ration and distress signals. Repairing leaks and punctures. Getting into a liferaft. Inflatable chute. Life Buoy: Description of a lifebuoy. Correct procedure for use of a lifebuoy.
Life Jacket: Description of a life jacket. Buoyant material used. The correct method of putting on a life jacket and jumping into water.
Line throwing appliances:- Description and use of life throwing appliance. Safety, care and maintenance of life saving appliances.

3. Fire Fighting Appliances

Fire hydrants and hoses. Types of connections. International shore connection. Types of nozzles. Description of portable fire extinguishers, various types and their suitability for difference types of fires. Operation and refilling of fire extinguishers. Principle of fire extinguishing used in each type.
Safety devices: Fireman's outfit, Smoke helmet and Self Contained Breathing Apparatus. Safety lamps and their arrangement for prevention of sparks. Fire axe. Asbestors suit.
Fixed smothering systems. Brief description of steam smothering system, carbon dioxjde smothering system, Inert gas system. Flue gas system, Halon system, Foam smothering system for liquid fires. High expansion foam system.
Safety, care and maintenance of all fire fighting appliances.

4. Ropes And Wires

Types of material used, natural fibres, synthetic fibres. Types of lay of ropes and their advantages. Plaited ropes. Characteristics of different types of fibre ropes. Comparison of strength and elasticity of difference ropes. Care and maintenance of fibre ropes. Damage caused by surging. Meaning of Marline. spunyarn. oakum, tarred hemp, 3 ply and 5 ply twines, halliards, loglines, leadlines.
Grades of steel used for making wire ropes. Construction of wire ropes. Advantages of a fibre heart. Factors determining flexibility.. Meaning of 6/12. 6/24. 6/37 etc. Plaited wire rope. Plastic covered wire rope. Non-rotating wire rope. Care and maintenance of wire ropes. Measuring, sizes of ropes, wires and chains. Breaking strength and safe working load of ropes, wires and chains. To calculate the size of rope or wire required for lifting a weight with a tackle.

5. Deck Appliances

Description of the hand-lead line, Procedure for taking a cast.
Difference types of logs. Patent log, impeller log, electromagnetic log, pitot log. Principles of their operation. The electric telegraph, description and its operation.
Windlass & Cargo winches description and their operation.
Telemotor steering gear. The hydraulic transmitter, Telemotor receiver, Transmission of steering wheel signals to steering engine. Pressure equalizing system. Fluid used. Cross head and floating link connection. Principle of 'Hunting Gear'. Electric steering gear. The wheatsone principle of transmission of steering wheel signals to steering engine. Interswitching of follow-up and Non follow-up steering systems.

PRACTICAL

To make and understanding the use of various bends and hitches:-
Mousing hooks and shackles. Breaking flags.
To apply,rope and chain stoppers. To make various types of whippings.
To perform various splices on natural and synthetic fibre rope.
To perform various splices on wire ropes
Worming, parcelling and serving of hawsers. Throwing a heaving line,
Heaving the lead and calling out soundings. Slinging a stage.
Precautions when using stages. Oiling wire ropes by use of Bosun's chair. Safety precautions.
Canvass sewing. Changing the canvass covering of a lifebuoy.
Seizing: Flat, Round, Rackihg, Parbuckling. Helm orders. Steering practice.
Changing boat falls.
Streaming and hauling in a patent log.
Operating windlass and winches.
Changing over from main steering to emergency steering system.
Taking soundings of tanks and bilges. Measuring ullages.
Taking freeboards and drafts.
Removing rust by chipping hammers. Preparing a surface for painting. Brush painting, spray painting.
Cleaning and polishing of brass and copper.
Swinging out and lowering a lifeboat from luffing and gravity davits. Use of Tricing pendants.
Handling of life boat under oars - coming alongside, getting away and picking up a man overboard.
Handling of boats in rough weather. Heaving to. Use of sea anchor and steering oar. Rescuing a man overboard.
Starting the engine of a motor lifeboat. Man overboard drill.
Turning short around, towing other crafts.
Hoisting a lifeboat on davits. Checking the working of cut-off switches.
Launching of liferafts. inflating liferafts. Method of righting a liferaft which has inflated upside down.
Boarding a liferaft Jumping into the water. Getting away from ship. Artificial respiration.
Use of lifeboat SART: Installation of aerial. Tuning the transmitter. Transmitting Automatic
Distress signal. Transmitting manually. Receiving. Listening times for distress calls.
Donning a smoke helmet and self contained breathing apparatus.
Boat and Fire drill. Sounding Emergency signal.
Action on hearing the emergency signal.
Coiling ropes. Cutting wire ropes. Opening a new coil.
Charging of various type of fire extinguishers.
To make and understand the uses of the knots used on boards ships for various purposes.