Price: $252 / £140 / €182 Pages: 674 Product Order No: OS/SBC/AO ISBN: 978-1-870945-76-9 Order: Quantity: Add this item to your shopping cart, you can always remove it later.

Barge Masters, Barge Engineers, Ballast Control Room Operators and those ashore responsible for the loading and ballasting of both semi-submersibles and jack-up units will find this volume of particular interest. It is designed to be used both as theoretical background on the principles of stability management and as a guide to the operational daily management of afloat stability on these specialist vessels.

ISBN: 978-1-870945-76-9 Pages: 674 Part 1

• Stability Theory
• Stability theory as applied to semi-subs
• Transit stability
• Trim, list and associated problems
• Weight control and the determination of stability
• Daily stability calculations
• Damage stability
• Lightweight checks and problems
• The inclining experiment
• Training personnel. Part 2
• Purpose of ballast control systems
• Ballast control equipment
• Ballast control - associated systems
• Emergency ballast control equipment
• Pumps and pumping operations
• Ballasting and deballasting operations
• Control room watch keeping
• Inspection and maintenance of ballast control equipment
• Fault finding recognition and diagnosis
• Non standard operating procedures and system appraisal
• Damage control procedures
• Barge masters note book.