Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of dry docking and underwater repairs as per class requirements. It covers the classification of dry docking system; the ramps, mechanical system of dry docking and slipways-shiplifts; the graving and floating docks; and the pre-dock inspections, dry dock selection and the preparation for the dock. Further, the course will also discuss the classification survey, continuous survey cycle and special survey cycle; the annual survey, intermediate survey and docking survey; the severity levels of hull damage; and the commonly used terms such as ballast tank-coating conditioning. During this interactive course, participants will learn the types of hull damage and defects; the development of hull defects; the area of stress concentration; the stress and loading, enhanced survey programmer and thickness measurement; the scope of docking surveys; the anchor and chain cables forward area shell plate and bilge keel; and the propeller, trail shaft, rudder, stern frame and undocking.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30