BSc Nautical Sciences Environmental Science III Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 4.69, 4.70 and 4.71 of the Academic Council of 23 July 2020, in force from the academic year 2020-21. The University’s earlier Credit Based Semester and Grading System syllabus is what her older third-year timetables name, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Environmental Science - III
The University heads this paper’s own syllabus page “Environmental Science - II”. Her Semester VI credit structure and the Semester V paper it continues both read “III”, and the block carries her Semester VI course code, so that is the numbering used here.
Module I: Meteorological & Reporting Systems: Voluntary
- observing fleet under I.M.D; type & nature of information collected: Ship’s Weather Code (coding and decoding), weather reporting from ships and its significance in weather forecasting. International system of weather reporting.
Module II: Voyage Planning & Weather Routing of ships: Basic
- considerations in Voyage Planning, selection and use of data. Weather Routeing; Basic parameters; least time track and ship’s performance curves.
Module III: Pollution by micro-organisms in ballast water, measures
- for prevention.Conventions relating to prevention of marine pollutionother than MARPOL - HNS, LDC, OPRC, OPRC – HNS, INTERVENTION. Anti Fouling Paint Pollution:Introduction, Brief History, IMO Regulation for Anti Fouling paints. National Response Centre with respect to pollution prevention: General idea Ship Recycling: Brief history, IMO Guidelines on ship recycling, concept of Green Passport for ships National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) of US Clean water Act - overview Liability against marine pollution - CLC, BUNKER, FUND, Supplementary FUND.
- 1 Facsimile weather charts – interpretation of
Module Practical
- information contained therein.
- 2 Exercises on the selection of ocean routes on the basis of prognostic surface weather charts.
Reference Books
- 1 Principles of meteorological analysis W.J. Saucier
- 2 Marine Meteorology Capt. H. Subramanium
- 3 Ship’s Weather Code 1982 I.M.D.
- 4 Meteorology for Mariners HMSO
- 5 Marine Observer’s Hand book HMSO
- 6 Atmosphere, Weather and Climate R.G. Barry
- 7 General Meteorology H.R. Byers
- 8 An introduction to Dynamic Meteorology J.R. Holten
- 9 Physical Geography Savindra Singh
- 10 Meteorological Analysis & Weather Forecasting Petterssen
- 11 MARPOL 73/78 as amended IMO
- 12 Weather Routeing of Ships Motte R
- 13 Convention on Ballast Water IMO
- 14 HNS Convention and Protocol IMO
- 15 London Dumping Convention and Protocol IMO
- 16 OPRC Convention IMO
- 17 OPRC – HNS Protocol IMO
- 18 INTERVENTION Convention IMO
- 19 Convention on Anti Fouling Systems IMO
- 20 Hong Kong Convention on Recycling of Ships IMO
- 21 CLC Convention IMO
- 22 Bunker Convention IMO
- 23 Fund Convention IMO
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Nautical Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2020-21. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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