BSc Nautical Sciences SOT IV 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 SOT IV
Module I: 1. Damage control. Action to be taken following
- collision and grounding. Damage Control Plan & Booklet
- 2 Steps to be taken when disabled & in distress.
- 3 Preservation of passengers and crew in an event of emergency – Crowd management.
- 4 Abandoning ship – survival procedure.
- 5 Assisting a ship or aircraft in distress use of IAMSAR manual.
- 6 Code of Safe Working Practices - Permit system - hot work permit, cold work Permit, entry into enclosed space permit, working aloft permit, working over side permit, electrical isolation permit
Module II: 1. Management of ship in heavy weather
- 2 Elementary ideas on Towing and being towed – Emergency Towing Arrangement.
- 3 Precautions to be observed to prevent pollution in port & on the high sea.
- 4 Code of Safe Working Practices - Importance of various Check lists.
Module III: 1. Maintenance of Crew accommodation
- 2 Methods of pest control. Fumigation of holds and living spaces. Safeguards in applying various methods.
- 3 Code of Safe Working Practices - Importance of personnel health and hygiene on board ship, Safe bunkering practices
Module Practical
- 1. Handling of boat under Oars. Coming alongside and getting away. Picking up a man overboard.
- 2 Splicing of Fibre Ropes & Wire Ropes: Fibre Rope; eye splice, short splice, back splice. Wire Rope; Eye splice (group activity of 2-3 cadets).
- 3 Demonstrate the use of bulldog grips and bottle screws / turnbuckles in joining wires.
- 4 Demonstrate to cadets: taking drafts
- 5 The use of various gas measuring instruments.
- 6 Procedure for Enclosed space Entry including entry permit.
Reference Books
- 1 Theory and Practice of Seamanship G. Danton
- 2 Seamanship Notes Kemp and Young
- 3 Seamanship and Cargo work Capt. J. Dinger
- 4 Nicholls’s Seamanship and Nautical Knowledge A.N. Cockcroft
- 5 Shipboard Operations H.I. Laurey
- 6 Code of safe working practices for merchant seafarers MCA
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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