Fatigue is still considered as a significant contributory factor to many incidents in the shipping industry despite of legislation concerning seafarers’ hours of work and rest that has been in force for many years; overall enforcement measures have generally been ineffective. (OCIMF‚ 2012). IMO describes fatigue as a “State of feeling tired‚ weary‚ or sleepy that results from prolonged mental or physical work‚ exposure to harsh environment‚ or loss of sleep which can lead to the impairment of performance
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TITLE: Board Exam for HRM graduate. RELATED SUBJECT : English II: Writing in the Discipline DEGREE : Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The main problem of this study is the negative effects of alcohol to seafarers’ work. It has been found out that drinking alcohol while on duty may lead to unproductive and improper work performance. Hence‚ collisions at sea‚ physical injuries and vessels to be aground are the accident that may result from such acts. METHODOLOGY
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Studies A. Arnaiz Street‚ Pasay City A feasibility study on prostitution And its effect on the Seafarers Submitted by: Berdos‚ Earl James R. Murillo‚ Jan Carlo Submitted to: Mrs. Aileen Ponce August 2014 Objectives 1. To know the emotional effects on the seafarers of the women’s entertainment 2. To understand the drought to head home of the seafarers INTRODUCTION Mariners spend much of their life beyond the reach of land. They sometime face dangerous
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Philippines: Government to test million-dollar online exam system on seafarers No more lining up for hours under a hot sun to register for the professional exam. No more waiting in agony for the release of results. By this month‚ seafarers wanting to take examinations for marine deck officer licenses can register online‚ take the walk-in computerized exam‚ and get the results soon after the test. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced recently in a forum the readiness of the
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Old English poetry is divided into two types: the Heroic‚ the sources of which are pre-Christian Germanic myth‚ history and custom; and the Christian. Heroic‚ or Epic Poetry belongs to one of these two types and refers to long narrative poems celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes‚ in a grand‚ ceremonious style. In its strict use by literary critics‚ the terms ’Heroic Poetry’ or ’Epic’ are applied to a work that meets the following criteria: such a poem must be related in an
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protecting their people from outside attacks and invasions and the comitatus was the bond that held these men together and that is what they lived for. Specific Anglo-Saxon texts where comitatus is eminently portrayed is Beowulf‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Seafarer. Beowulf is an Old-English written epic‚ during the Anglo-Saxon period in which a hero‚ Beowulf‚ is shown battling three different agons throughout his life. Comitatus is tremendously present throughout this entire story. For example Beowulf
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Since the second phase of the Somali Civil War‚ which started in the early 2000’s‚ piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a great danger to international shipping. Starting in 2005‚ many international organizations‚ which include the International Maritime Organization and the World Food Program‚ have expressed major concern over the rising acts of piracy. Piracy has made trouble for the delivery of shipments and raised shipping costs‚ which have risen to an estimated 10 billion dollars a year
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and ranks of merchant vessel crews (Ziarati‚ 2003). One important aspect of MarTEL is that it is Maritime Test of English Language not English Test of Maritime Knowledge (Ulkuatam and Sernikli‚ 2008). The proposed standards target every class of seafarers. Ulkuatam and Sernikli (2008) claim that MarTEL focuses on all skills but with less emphasis on grammar. All tests for officer and senior officer levels are expected to check different skills at Elementary‚ Intermediate and Advanced levels and different
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set qualification standards for masters‚ officers and watch personnel on seagoing merchant ships. On an international level‚ “the 1978 STCW Convention was the first to establish basic requirements on training‚ certification and watchkeeping for seafarers” (wikipedia/stcw). It introduced such things as the requirement for at least “4 years of experience for a Master 1600 gt license” (stcw.org). Previously‚ it was individual governments that used to establish “the standards of training‚ certification
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tradition‚ lyric poems have elegiac tone. Both "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer" are examples of lyric poems with elegiac tone. In "The Seafarer" the speaker is out at sea and is lonely and misses land. in line three the speaker says‚ "And forth in sorrow and fear and pain showed me sufering in a hundred ships"(3-4). This is a great example of elegiac tone because he is talking about his sowrrows and pains at sea. Another example in "The Seafarer" is when the speaker says "The death-noise of birds
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