BSc Nautical Sciences Bridge Procedure and Legal Knowledge Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Module I: BRIDGE PROCEDURE

• Bridge Procedures Guide and its Contents: - Understanding of the principles of safe watchkeeping as detailed in the ICS Bridge Procedures Guide. Navigation checklists Bridge manning levels: Circumstances in which the OOW (officers on watch) should call Master, extra lookouts, Explain responsibilities of OOW as in- charge of Navigational watch. Steering, Telegraph & BT Orders Guidelines for watch keeping at sea, at anchor and in port. VTS Procedure, Ship Reporting Systems. MARINE COMMUNICATION Introduction and use of Radio Communication Equipmenton board ship for distress and safety – Selection of suitable frequencies. LEGAL KNOWLEDGE Merchant Shipping Act 1958 with special reference to General Administration, Procedure and Certificate of Registry, Passenger Ships, Certificates and other documents required to be carried on a ship – How obtained and their validity, Wreck and salvage.

Module II: BRIDGE PROCEDURE

• Record keeping and Entries in logbook:Explain the importance of recording all relevant information in Logbooks. Monitor navigational instruments and record their performance and other relevant details, Check and compare Compasses regularly for errors and apply them correctly, Record all movements and activities related to the navigation of the ship, IMO Guidelines for recording of events related to Navigation Res A. 916 (22). MARINE COMMUNICATION Radio Regulations relating to Maritime Services including maritime frequency allocation. LEGAL KNOWLEDGE Certificate ofOfficers, Seaman and Apprentices, Engagement, Management and discharge of crew, Manning scales. Contracts of employment, Wages and other remuneration, advances, allotments, Money orders, Payments into bank accounts. Desertion, deceased seaman, engagement of substitutes, repatriation.

Module III: BRIDGE PROCEDURE

• Use of Radar in navigation - Basic principles and use of radar.Obtaining position fix by radar bearings and ranges, possible errors, Reliability of fix, Aids to radar navigation: Use of passive (trails, history) and active aids, RACONs and SARTs. Explain AIS overlay on radar / ARPA, The use of parallel indexing technique in radar navigation:, wheel over positions and safety margins. CODE OF SAFE WORKING PRACTICE
• 1 Safety precautions while repairing radar;
• 2 Safety precautions while entering battery room; MARINE COMMUNICATION Satellite Communication and Altering system – Equipment on board and ashore. Methods adopted. LEGAL KNOWLEDGE The official Log Book and the law relating to entries therein. Offences relating to misconduct to endangering ship against persons on board. Discipline and treatment to disciplinary offences. Crew accommodation. Hygiene of the ship and welfare of the crew. Inspection and reports. Fresh water and provisions. Procedure in cases of infectious diseases, illness or accident. Maritime declaration of health. Port Health requirements.

Module Practical

• RADAR: Practical adjustment of operational controls to their optimum setting. To carry out performance check, using performance monitor. To take ranges and bearings of fixed and moving objects. To identify land objects using radar observations. Evaluation of risk of collision. Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA): Set vector lengths based on own vessel speed and range scale in use. Advantages and limitations of use of relative and true vectors and when to use which for optimum efficiency, The effect of course and speed changes on the display. Advantages of compass stabilization of a relative display, Use of Trial manoeuvre and predictive motion vectors.

Reference Books

This paper runs across both semesters of the year and the University prints one list of reference books for it, at the end of the second half. Her list is repeated here so that this half is not read as a paper she recommends no reading for.

• 1 Shipborne Radar Capt. Subramanium
• 2 International Code of Signal HMSO
• 3 Business and Law Hopkins
• 4 Merchant shipping Act GOI
• 5 SOLAS IMO
• 6 International convention on Loadline IMO
• 7 Search and Rescue Manual IMO
• 8 Bridge Procedure Guide ICS
• 9 Bridge Team Management NI
• 10 Code of safe working practices for merchant seafarers MCA