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The oral examination syllabus for Chief Mate - More than 3000 GT Near Coastal (STCW II/2), previously known as Deck Syllabus F.
Research match-funding to establish a Clean Maritime Research Hub to address early research challenges in clean maritime.
Overview of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s counter pollution stockpiles
Guidance for the maritime industry on the threat from aerial drones and potential response options.
The tasks required to be completed by an Electro-Technical Rating (ETR).
A guide to human behaviour in the shipping industry.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors (MSIS 24), about the International code of safety for high-speed craft (HSC code), 2000.
IMO MSC.1/Circ.1548 Advice on the SOLAS requirements for verified gross mass of packed containers.
A pair of information sheets giving important information about fatigue, and guidance on managing it.
A reminder to owners, operators, masters and pilots about best practice safely navigating a vessel in pilotage waters.
Download 'must do' action signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
Materials for MCA course for local authorities on how to carry out and supervise shoreline clean-ups.
Record of prosecutions resulting from breaches of maritime legislation: court hearings from January 2022.
Guidance on high speed craft training - course approval and certification
Draws attention to incidents with electrical equipment, maintenance responsibilities and the use of thermographic imaging as a maintenance tool.
Offers certain Class VI passenger vessels an alternative arrangement for the carriage of man-overboard smoke signals and parachute flares.
Explains how voyage data recorders (VDRs) should be tested after installation and annually thereafter.
Provides advice and a reminder on the safe use and handling of gas welding and burning equipment.
The do's and don'ts on the re-application of paints, varnishes and other finishes to interior surfaces on fishing vessels.
Reports the findings of a series of trials and evacuation exercises undertaken or witnessed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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