Let me show you around my school
So! The Australian Maritime College is a faculty branch of University of Tasmania, located
here in the small island of Australia, just south of Melbourne.
Its one of the most specialized maritime institutes in the world.
There are four major sectors here, Naval Architecture, Deck, Engineering and commercial training courses.
The commercial training also known as STCW courses
As some of you have done before - some of the courses are firefighting,
personal survival, survival craft, medical and damage control.
are not just for students, professional such as fireman or helicopter rescuers all come
here to use the facilities to train.
The school really takes a hands-on approach in training so that the students are better
prepared for real world situations.
Beisdes…
Its much more fun than sitting in classroom and learning from books.
A lot of cadet worried if they can handle the life on ships before starting their career
at sea and its really daunting without any actual way of finding out before stepping
foot on a real ship.
well here in AMC they have a few vessel specifically cater for students to stay onboard and get
a feel of what it is like to work and live on a ship.
For the cadets it really helps to experience the daily task onboard, from important things
like whether they can handle sea sickness, to just generally finding out if it’s their lifestyle.
Then for larger scale of operations - ship handling, we’ve got TONS of toys for that.
We've got two azimuth tug simulators, two full bridge simulators and eight connected smaller simulators
so students can join in the same simulation together.
For engineers there is also a few full engineering
simulator and workshops.
The use of simulations improves the learning experience and add a sense of fun and drama
but also urgency into the learning process.
For example the instructor can unexpectedly throw in a stressful emergency situation in
order to push ..and test student’s skills and better prepare them for reality.
Boop switching off gps without telling us *or some sort of emergency*.
You know the classic question, what to do in man overboard situation? then the officer recites
ohhh wheel hardover, mark position, call mtr, lifebuoy etc etc.
In a simulator when it happens for the first time without warning, it get intense
and really put their knowledge, teamwork and decision making skills to the test.
Then there are the branch of marine science who study fishes and other marine creature,
they dive into the research of the various field of biology of fisheries.
I don’t really know much about the subject, They seem to be dissecting fishes every time
I see them in the labs.
Cavitation research labs, in simple terms its to study the water bubbles and forces
created by negative pressure when the propeller is spun and the ship travels through water.
They use super slow speed cameras to anaylzes the patterns.
The science behind it has to do with the efficiency of hull and propellers but for a small mind
like me, its just cool to see it in action
The naval architects here are all about projects
and building stuff, working closely with the engineers and deck officers.
One of my favourite is their annual pasta bridge challenge lol Whats better than doing
a school project inside seafarer’s bar holding a beer and playing with pasta XD.
The goal here is to create practical solutions with a challenging …. flimsy material.
The architect have to learn how to manage the stress structural and forces in the same
way designing ship’s hull, as the scantling structure theory behind it is quite similar.…
The strongest pasta bridge was able to hold almost 200kg!!
Model Test Basin, this hydrodynamic facility is to study the interactions between waves
and ships, hull resistance, as well as shallow water effects namely squat and bank effects.
Interactions such as this
One of the biggest research conducted here is into renewable wave energy,
transforming ocean waves into clean and pollution free electricity.
As the world slowly move away from coal energy,.
wave energy has become one of the viable ways to produce power
It’s capable of making different kinds of
waves so the architect can collect data and analyse various real world situation.
Model Ships are first tested as a mini sea trial built in the worksop before the full
scale version are built for the actual sea trials.
*Don't let your meme be dream* Speaking of workshops, it is very equiped
Did you know that emma Maersk burns about 6tonnes of HFO per hour?
At 2018 average price is at $300 per tonne, that’s 1800 per hour, 43,200 per day, just
a passage crossing pacific in 20 days, that’s already over a million USD dollar in fuel.
Wait a sec Jeff…Whats that gota do with anything?
Well the work that naval architect do here, continuously looking into ways to improve
the efficiency of ship’s hull and propellers therefore reducing fuel cost and consumption
while trying to reduce pollution and emission.
As there is increasing concern for the environment, the career prospect and opportunities after
they graduate is very big and very good.
And then theres the fun little project, autonomous ships.
The goal for these robots is to recognize color patterns and objects, then process that
information to avoid collision.
One day they’ll take away navigation jobs, my job *T_T*
Towing tanks, very similar to the model test basin except its in a tunnel underneath the
campus that spans across the whole AMC building.
Here is also where they test and collect data for different models ranging from single hull
to multi hull, anything from ships to even underwater crafts.
The AUVs - autonomous underwater vehicles
which are used to collect data in harsh conditions of the south polar region.
Traversing underneath the sea ice with its sonar sensors.
Its one of the interesting works created in AMC
Cool huh.
There is also Global Logistics and Maritime Management
But that is business stuff, no one wants to see b-roll of someone sitting in classroom studying
So that’s about all folks, hope you enjoyed a tour of my maritime school, if so please
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The purpose of this video is just to show case something cool in an entertaining way.
In no way am I sponsored or trying to persuade anyone into coming here…in fact for cadets,
I’d recommend studying somewhere closer to home in your country.
AMC’s program is one of the most expensive tuition fee compare to rest of the world,
but that being said, the training, facilities and curriculum reflects the attention they
put into teaching students and justify the price.
If you got any questions, feel free to send a DM to me on Instagram, I will try and respond
to as many as I can.And See ya next video.