Determining the ship's stability is essential for its safe navigation. Ship stability calculations require ship officers to extract the values of hydrostatic parameters from the hydrostatic tables. This course will familiarise you with the contents of the hydrostatic tables and teach you the correct method of extrapolating data from them. Ship officers responsible for ship stability calculations or officers training to do so in the future will highly benefit from this course.

On completion of this course, students will be able to answer the following questions:
- What is a hydrostatic table and its use?
- What is the information contained in hydrostatic tables?
- How does the density of water affect the usage of hydrostatic tables?
- How to apply the density correction to hydrostatic parameters for use in stability calculations?

The use of videos and examples (together with a text-based description) will aid students' understanding of practical applications at sea.

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Steering Mariners

Steering Mariners offers maritime courses to seafarers and mariners working onboard ships. The courses will not only provide practical guidance for the workplace but also assist with certification examinations. Steering Mariners is owned and managed by Dr (Capt) Samrat Ghosh who is associated with the maritime industry for more than 25 years. Dr Ghosh is an ex-master mariner who also has extensive experience as an educator and assessor. His research focuses on investigating the impact of innovative training and assessment methods in seafarer education and training towards improving students’ academic achievement. In this regard, he has also developed a conceptual framework to improve the validity and reliability of assessment. He also has keen interest in investigating the changing face of seafarer education due to automation in shipping and introduction of digital technologies.

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