Mooring Equipment & Safe Mooring Procedures

SEAMANSHIP 1 Mooring Equipment & Safe Mooring Procedures

Ship, Ship Routines and Ship In this lesson, the student will be able to:
Construction 1. Explain the procedures for conducting safe mooring
Mooring
•Securing of the ship to be fixed
operations per safe working practices. on shoreside, wharf, pier or
Prepared by: Capt. Chrisdel Paga
CMT Instructor
2. Send a mooring line to the shore following the terminal
established safe procedures, and practices
Reviewed by: CM Remond Joseph Reyes
Function Area Head

Approved by: CAPT. Mauro A. Balomaga

Program Head
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Mooring
Why we moored the ships?
Mooring?
Docking?
1. Cargo Operations (i.e. Loading and Unloading)
2. Refueling
3.
4.
Bunkering
Ballasting or Deballasting
Anchoring?
5. Boarding/Deboarding
6. Maintenance and Repair

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Docking Anchoring Mooring

a ship is removed from the water to Anchoring a ship refers to
enable work to be performed on the
the process of securing a
exterior part of the ship below the
waterline. vessel in place by
dropping a anchor into the
Various purposes such as:
• maintenance; water.
• repair and;
• refitting, or even disposing of an old
vessel.

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Components of Mooring Mooring Driving Hydraulic

1. Mooring Lines
Lines
A mooring line is a type of rope or cable used
to secure a ship to a pier, dock, or other
System
• The winches are operated by Lines
electrical and hydraulic
2. Mooring Winches mooring point. mechanisms. These are mainly
3. Driving System dedicated engines or motors that
It plays a crucial role in ensuring the vessel supply the power to the winch
4. Fenders through torque. In turn, the power
remains safely in position and doesn't drift
5. Tug Boats away due to wind, waves, or currents supply is from the shore supply
6. Mooring Buoys main lines

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Hydraulic Mooring
The purpose of a specific hydraulic
System
system may vary, but all hydraulic Winches
On the shoreside, the mooring lines are
systems work through the same basic joined to the winches. These winches act
concept. Defined simply, hydraulic as end supports for these lines and help in
systems function and perform tasks handling and directing the lines as per
through using a fluid that is requirements. The winch system controls
pressurized. Another way to put this is the tension and extension of the mooring
the pressurized fluid makes things lines.
work.

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Fenders
the vessel and the shore
Ships Rollers, Fairleads, Marine Roller Chocks Tugboats
structure are padded with A tugboat or tug is a marine
a securing arrangement vessel that maneuvers other
known as fenders, which vessels by pushing or
absorb impact energy in pulling them, with direct
the event of a collision contact or a tow line
or strike
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Mooring Buo
Tugboats y is a type of object that floats in
Mooring Buoy
A buoy
buoys are a type of buoy to
Whilst engaged in towing operations, water and is used in the middle of the seas
which ships can be moored in deep
crew should keep well clear of the tow as a locator or as a warning point for
oceanic areas. A mooring buoy weighs
line as it may come under tension ships. Buoys are generally bright
more than standard buoys.
suddenly and crewmembers must
The mooring buoy is designed in a (fluorescent) in colour and made of PVC
ensure they remain in a position of
safety clear of the area where the line
manner that there is a heavier weight tubing. Some buoys have a sturdy
located right at the bottom of the sea. one-piece polyethylene shell and hard
would snap back in the event of it
This weight is like an anchor holding the skin shells which act as Ultraviolet light
parting whilst under tension.
buoy afloat in the water.
absorbers with a sandblasted finish.
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Dangers of
Throwing the Rope or Chain Mooring
heaving line Stopper Operation

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Headlines Fwd Breastlines - Forward lines
The term mooring arrangement
- Prevent the forepart
refers to the pattern in which a - Forward lines from moving sideways
vessel's mooring lines are arranged perpendicularly.
- Prevent the fore
to secure the vessel in its berth.
part from moving
sideways

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Fwd Springlines
- Forward lines - Aft lines
- Aft lines - Prevent the aft part
- Prevent the forepart - Prevent the aft part from moving
from moving Aft Spring lines from moving astern. Aft Breast lines
forward sideways
perpendicularly.

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Blitz Formative Assessment

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Snap Back Snap Back Instructions:

Zone Zone 1. ¼ Sheet of Yellow Paper

2. Name at least (5) Parts
3. No need to draw
4. Exchange paper after 2 mins
5. If you score 3 out of 5,
automatically 5/5.

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Instructions:

1. ¼ Sheet of Yellow Paper

2. Name at least (5) Parts
3. No need to draw
4. Exchange paper after 2 mins
5. If you score 3 out of 5,
automatically 5/5.

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