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🐟 Environmental compliance becomes truly practical when offshore work is already underway.

A PSO monitors the surrounding area, records sightings and behaviour, and helps the team follow project-specific environmental requirements in real operational conditions.

When this work is done properly, the team gains a clearer picture of what is happening around the operation, while the project also receives a documented record of how potential environmental risks were monitored and managed.

Specialized training helps maritime professionals understand how monitoring, reporting, and mitigation support safer and more responsible offshore operations.

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🚢 FREE Knowledge Test: Stability for Containerships

How confident are you in your understanding of containership stability?

Learnmarine is offering a FREE test for maritime professionals, cadets, and training departments who want to check their knowledge and identify areas for improvement.

The test is connected with our Stability for Containerships course, designed to support practical understanding of stability principles, operational risks, and safe decision-making on board container vessels.

Take the free test here:
https://learnmarine.com/catalogue/stability-for-containerships-assessment

Explore the full course here:
https://learnmarine.com/catalogue/Stability-for-Containerships

Recommended for:
✅ Masters
✅ Chief Mates
✅ Deck Officers
✅ Cadets

Strengthen your stability knowledge before it matters at sea.

🐋 A Protected Species Observer plays an important role in offshore and marine operations.

📝 The PSO monitors for protected species, records sightings and behaviour, communicates with the crew, and supports mitigation actions when animals are detected near operational areas.

This role connects environmental protection with safe and compliant offshore activity.

PSO work is not only about seeing marine animals, but understanding what that sighting means for the operation.

⁉️ What skill do you think is most important for a PSO: observation, communication, species identification, or reporting?

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📈 Professional growth at sea starts with continuous learning.

Learnmarine supports seafarers with industry-focused training designed to strengthen competence, improve safety awareness, and support operational readiness.

📚 Our training solutions include online courses, in-class learning, blended learning, competency assessment, and advanced training technologies.

Whether you are starting your career or building on experience, Learnmarine helps you develop practical skills for real maritime challenges.

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or contact us at [email protected]

🚢 Learnmarine supports maritime companies and institutions with training and technology designed to improve safety, competence, and operational readiness through realistic scenarios and structured learning pathways.

We work across three core areas:
📚 Blended learning — custom-made training solutions for the maritime industry.
💻 Software development — simulators and utility software for work and training.
🔎 Research & consulting — helping you find the optimal solutions for personnel training.

With courses designed for both new and experienced seafarers, our programs support compliance with the latest regulations and industry standards. Whether online or in-class, each course is built to deliver practical knowledge and hands-on experience.

📩 Get in touch to discuss your training needs: [email protected]

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🚢 Learnmarine was proud to participate in MLYE'26 — Maritime & Logistics Youth Expo at the San Jacinto Maritime Training Center.

It was great to see so many students exploring opportunities in maritime and logistics, meeting industry representatives, and learning more about the knowledge, skills, and technologies behind modern maritime careers.

🖥 During the event, we showcased NavSimulator 3D and had the opportunity to introduce students to practical, technology-driven maritime training. Technology is becoming an increasingly important part of maritime education, and events like this help make that connection visible at an early stage.

🌊 Thank you to Port Houston and San Jacinto Maritime Technology & Training Center for organizing and supporting an event focused on the future of maritime workforce development.

🗓 Today, on International Women's Day, we celebrate the women who move the maritime industry forward every day — at sea and ashore, in training, operations, management, research, and leadership.

Your professionalism, expertise, resilience, and commitment make a real difference to safety, competence, and progress across the industry.

Thank you for your contribution, your dedication, and the example you set for the next generation of maritime professionals!

🌷 Happy International Women's Day!

📝 When the distance from the waterline to the ship's point of access exceeds 9 m, SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 23 requires a combination arrangement: an accommodation ladder used together with a pilot ladder (or an equally safe and convenient means).

In other words, this is not a "preferred option" — it is the required arrangement once freeboard goes beyond the single pilot ladder limit.

📐 What makes a combination arrangement "correct" is not the presence of equipment, but the geometry and the load path: the platform must be stable, the transfer step must be controlled, and the pilot ladder must remain aligned with and firmly against the ship's side.

Platform height and stability:

✅ A compliant combination arrangement is built around a stable lower platform. The platform should be rigged at the height requested by the pilot service, but it must be not less than 5 m and not more than 9 m above the water. It must be kept horizontal and fitted with both inboard and outboard stanchions/handholds to support a safe transfer.

❌ Typical "incorrect" setups start here: the platform is below 5 m, not level, or not properly secured, creating movement at the exact moment a pilot steps across.

Accommodation ladder angle and direction:

✅ For the accommodation ladder, the requirement is simple but often missed: the slope should not exceed 45°, and the ladder should lead aft.

❌ Incorrect patterns include an accommodation ladder that is too steep (>45°) or arranged in the wrong direction. Even if everything else looks "close enough", these two details alone are enough to turn a setup into a non-compliant arrangement.

If any one of these points fails, the correct action is not to "accept the risk" — it is to re-rig. This is exactly the gap the course focuses on: most non-compliances are ex*****on issues that are visible, repeatable, and preventable.

🗓 How a "Small" Pilot Ladder Defect Can Lead to Vessel Delay

This case is a clear reminder: a pilot ladder isn't just equipment on deck — it's a safety-critical system. Regular inspection, proper maintenance, and having a backup ready aren't optional; they're essential.

📑 SOLAS V/23 and ISO 799-1:2019 are clear — safe pilot transfer is not just about having the equipment onboard, but about ensuring that it is rigged, maintained, and verified correctly every single time.

👉 Don't wait for a delay to review your setup.

🚢 Behind every safe voyage, there is someone waiting at home.

Safety at sea is never accidental. It is built on preparation, competence, and responsibility.

At Learnmarine, we believe that compliance is only the foundation — true safety comes from confident crews who are ready to act, respond, and lead in real-world conditions.

🗓 This Valentine's Day, we reaffirm our commitment to what truly matters — protecting lives through advanced maritime training.

Because every safe return is the result of preparation.