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1. An Interim Document of Compliance may be issued to facilitate the initial implementation of this Code when: a Company is newly...

Right to Innocent Passage We know that the Territorial Sea (TS – up to 12 nautical miles) is part of the territory of a country. When one...

Maritime Zones and the Law of the Sea The rights of coastal States to claim maritime zones derive from international law, the body of law...

Adoption: 1 November 1974; Entry into force: 25 May 1980 The main objective of the SOLAS Convention is to specify minimum standards for...

Adoption: 7 July 1978; Entry into force: 28 April 1984; Major revisions in 1995 and 2010 The 1978 STCW Convention was the first to...

Under the Manila Amendments to the STCW Convention (STCW 2010), all persons who are assigned duty as an officer in charge of a watch or...

Convention- Is the Framework of an Agreement between countries. Regulations- Technical provisions of the convention. Protocol - ...

1. A rectangular log of wood 8m long, 2m wide and 2m high floats in FW at a draft of 1.6m with one face of horizontal. Find its mass and...

1. Find the thrust exprienced by a flat keel plate 10m x 2m when the draft is 8m in SW. Solution : Area of the flat keel plate = (10 x 2)...