(newswire.ca) QUEBEC, Aug. 30 /CNW Telbec/ – The president of the Corporation of the Lower St. Lawrence Pilots, Captain Simon Pelletier, took great pride today in opening the first Navigation Simulation Center at the Port of Québec. A tool at the forefront of technology, the simulator will offer users unrivalled conditions for training and improving [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2005
C++ functions to convert between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, and seconds
I’ve run into situations where it was necessary to convert decimal degrees to degrees, minutes, and seconds. Here’s a couple of C++ functions which handle the conversion between these two formats: std::string DegreesMinutesSeconds(double ang) ; double DecimalDegrees(const std::string& dms) ; These are inline functions defined in the header file, dms.h: (more…)
BITS Pilani & RLINS Madurai Collaboration Sailing for Success
(i-newswire.com) RL Institute of Nautical Sciences – “RLINS”, Madurai is a unit of Subbalakshmi Lakshmipathy Foundation ( SLF ) promoted by Dr R Lakshmipathy a doyen of the Newspaper Industry. The facilities at RLINS, Madurai include T S Meenakshi a ship in the Madurai Campus apart from Full Mission Engine Simulator, Full Mission Ship Manoeuvring [...]
Successful course for mooring masters
(www.cbn.co.za) SAMTRA, the SA Maritime Training Academy based in Simon’s Town, recently conducted a crisis and emergency course for a group of mooring masters responsible for the mooring and unmooring of tankers at offshore installations. This is the first course that SAMTRA has developed to cater for the offshore industry using its full mission bridge [...]
Simulator training for HSV-2 crew
(www.marinelog.com) Marine Safety International (MSI) reports that the “Gold Crew” of the U.S. Navy’s Navy’s High Speed Vessel SWIFT (HSV-2) completed five days of training at MSI Norfolk on August 5, 2005. A significant part of the training was 28 hours of simulator exercises using MSI Norfolk’s new High Speed Vessel console. The console features [...]
People made seasick in the name of science
(www.fftimes.com) Defence Department researchers have been trying to make people seasick—but not too seasick—so they can assess their performance under trying conditions. Faced with shrinking rosters aboard its naval fleet and at the same time demanding more technical expertise from sailors, the military can ill afford to let rough seas compromise operations. If commanders could [...]