Cargo Ship Bridge Equipment In More Detail | Life At Sea 

Oh cool! She will be back there around every 35 days!

Thanks John. Still working on developing my public speaking skills and have found this channel to be helpful in coming out of my comfort zone to do that!

@@BryanBoyle It took me about 12 years to come out of mine doing fire prevention speaking even for children. It terrified me. Great job. Merry Christ mas.

Thank you! Glad you found it interesting. Navigation equipment has come a long way!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed

The name’s Boyle....Bryan Boyle

Thanks Jeff, I filmed this back when I was working with you in October. Are you working now or off? Merry Christmas too

@@BryanBoyle I am home in vacation...Happy Christmas

Uh oh should have blurred that...

When I was in the military we used to get briefings / lessons on security. We had similar example, where guys posted photos or videos of their office on social media. And you could see classified information in the background on noticeboards, post-it notes, shift rosters, etc

The second mate handles a lot of this now, at least the computer systems on the bridge. We also have the ability to have IT guys remote into our computers to help with stuff like that. IT personnel will also visit the ships in port as well.

We run it usually on HDG mode. Most ships I work on don’t have the track mode connected to the ECDIS. Unless it’s a money thing, I think the reason is they want us to remain active in the watch and not let the autopilot just steer us automatically down the track without input. The helm is electro hydraulic, so it sends electric signals from it to the hydraulic steering gear pumps. Since there is no direct mechanical linkage, it does not move at all when the rudder moves on autopilot. Great questions!

@@BryanBoyle HDG mode in Big Ships means Gyro HDG (True Heading) right ? as opposed to Magnetic HDG or after deviation correction Compass HDG.

We are required to wear our company coveralls as a uniform when we are entering, staying in port, and departing port. Other times we just need appropriate footwear and reasonably professional clothes that are not offensive or impractical. A lot of the bridge equipment is integrated between each other now, but the future will probably be something with just a few computer screens that looks more clean and simplified.

@@BryanBoyle Your bridge dress reminded me of construction engineers in a site office - casual attire, but can quickly done safety gear for visits to worksites (rest of ship apart from crew accommodation in your case).

Yea I try to stick to long pants and a closed toe boot or shoe as well as a flashlight when we aren’t required to wear coveralls. You never know when you may need to respond to an emergency or when a ship could lose power and go dark. The coveralls are pretty comfortable though and I’ll typically wear them when I’m working a dirty job or again when required on the bridge.

I usually sail as the second officer onboard which is in charge of the navigation. Thank you for your service!

In order to be a paperless navigation chart bridge, we have to have two different standalone ECDIS units in case one fails. We still keep the paper charts onboard as well, but they are for reference only since they aren’t kept up to date anymore.

@@BryanBoyle Thanks for the response. I just found the channel and I am really enjoying the videos.

They do get used but in my experience the messages are usually just test messages. Our AIS is integrated into our ECDIS with a full keyboard so it’s much easier to type messages through that.

Glad you enjoyed! The depth sounder was working, it just doesn’t get accurate readings when we are in water that deep which is why it was showing an inaccurate reading.

@@BryanBoyle nice man, thanks for the reply. even though the sounder aint working, is the depth still known by other means or is it basically that deep its irrelevant to the ship? treated like redundant details basically? i would just find it cool as hell when working on the bridge to know how deep the water is below the ship. thanks again for reply and detailed videos:)

Hi Chris, the 4 year academy and hawsepiper route are two different routes to become an officer in the maritime industry. The academy is a regimented school program that also included a full year of cadet time aboard a ship. To be eligible to sit for your third mate or third engineer license, you need that year of cadet training through the school. The other route called hawsepiper is becoming an unlicensed crew member such as an Able Bodied Seaman and then working to build the extensive sea time you need while studying and taking classes at various sea schools around the country to be eligible to sit for your license exam. This route is not any faster to become an officer as you need years of sea time to be able to sit for the exam. However, if you just want to be a Mariner and not necessarily an officer, you will be able to become an unlicensed crew member much quicker with far less schooling at various training facilities as well. From that point if you decide you like the industry you could be working while training to be an officer in your own time utilizing the hawsepiper route. Check out www.gcaptain.com for all the answers to your questions! (At least for the US side of things) good luck!

Thanks and hope you are enjoying your training. Which school?

@@BryanBoyle Anglo Eastern Maritime Academy 😊

The navtex receives radio signals that convert to texts regarding safety, weather and navigation warnings. It’s older technology that is being replaced by satellite communications

All of the navigation equipment has redundancy and individual battery power systems. They also can operate on the emergency diesel generator in case of sudden power loss. However, I do think they are worth keeping onboard in case all of that fails. The only problem is that they no longer get regular updates so navigating with them could cause issues.

Garmin instinct

That’s our high tech magnetic compass reading device! Sometimes it’s hard to read the magnetic compass in bright sunlight, so the helmsman will use that to cut out glare when looking up at it

Whos sal

@@154g ru-vid.com/show-UCT_yBgKSiwb3WP4ACPnF5nA Sal has his own channel and he mentioned Bryan and suggested visiting his site. It was a very good suggestion.

Yea we don’t go up to the flying bridge where the antennas are without securing radar and satellite equipment.

takes a lot of juice to squirt the bird.

I am not on Facebook but you could send me an email if you’d like or comment here

@@BryanBoyle excuse me! Can i get your email address Sir!?

Boyleb2@gmail.com

Thank You Sir ❤️

That will be amazing. I’m patiently waiting as well!

Haha yea I’ve envisioned myself in the future being able to work from home by standing watch with an iPad in my living room!