Techniques for Ship Handling and Bridge Team Management

Hiroaki Kobayashi has trained 1500 mariners in ship handling over twenty years and he has systematized the methods of safe navigation into nine elemental techniques. Taking a rigorous and scientific look at good practice and attitudes, good seamanship can be viewed as a series of concrete technical functions, which can be in terms of competencies.

By giving proper attention to human factors the conditions for maintaining system safety can be defined, and the interaction of human competencie...