SIMULATION BASED EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING

Advanced simulators are rapidly becoming educational and research necessities at maritime school, a tool that has come to replace time onboard ship, bring stakeholders together on research projects, and evaluating emergency situations. This particular paper suggests some possibilities simulation offers when maritime accidents and/or incidents have already occurred. Although proper simulation training provides an accessible introduction to background theories through the realistic operations of the simulator, at the same time it can provide a means of introducing students to applications regarding current crises. This paper will demonstrate how simulators (ship handling, communication, cargo handling, terminal, vessel traffic service and engine room) can, together with the Potential Incident Simulation Control and Evaluation System (PISCES II), form valuable tools for education, training and real situation response when major pollution at sea is a threat or already exists. In this particular case the very realistic scenario of an oil spill is created.