Marine simulator facility test brings out the best By Cindy Chan
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easpan Marine is invested in training its staff to be the very best it can be, which is why the Marine Simulator Facility was created.
According to Bart Reynolds, president of Seaspan Marine, most training of personnel in the marine industry was similar to how many young people learned to drive, with instruction from parents or guardians.
Through this method, the young driver would have picked up whatever good – and bad – habits their teacher possessed. “Certainly, there were certain aspects of driving you didn’t pick up and were never taught, because you weren’t taught by a professional,” Reynolds says. “The ad hoc system of training works at a certain level of competency, but it’s not the same
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from one person to the next. We were looking for opportunities to do better.” Reynolds says Seaspan Marine searched high and low to see who had better training methods and what systems were out there that were productive not only in terms of how long it took to train somebody but also at what level in the end. That’s when Seaspan Marine learned about SeaWays Global, the international standard bearer in tug training, simulation, auditing and assessments. “When we found them, they had trained 1,500 tugmasters with their system across the world,” Reynolds says. What sets SeaWays Global apart is the training is certified by a third-party certification society, which means a third party will come in and certify that someone is operating to a certain standard.
