The book comprises three main sections covering hydrodynamics; materials and mechanical considerations; and design, operation and performance. The discussion relates theory to practical problems of design, analysis and operational economy, and is supported by extensive design information, operational detail and tabulated data.
this book addresses the key areas where ship managers must be both knowledgeable and adaptable, including ship types, legislation, documentation, inspections, insurance, budgeting, emergency response and personal issues, such as teamwork, affective communication and fatigue.
for more than 20 years, this manual has been the most useful, comprehensive tool available for providing estimates for athe installation of cross-country pipelines, offshore drilling platfoems, submerged pipelines, single-point mooring terminals, and many other kinds of pipelines and marine structures
This book will be invaluable to all of us, to inform us and educate us about why marine conservation is such a pressing necessity in the 21st century.
Measurement Techniques, Platforms and Sensors is a derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 2nd Edition and serves as an important reference on current knowledge and expertise in one convenient and accessible source. Its selection of articles-all written by experts in their field-provides extensive coverage of the instruments, sensors and platforms used in measurement today. It is an i…
This timely, authoritative, well-written and downright scary book demolishes two ideas that seaborne piracy is making a comeback (it never went away); and that the RIB- borne pirates of the Indian Ocean are natural successors to the romanticized villains of the 18th century Caribbean (they are a breed apart). John Payne's trenchant assessment leaves no doubt that contemporary piracy is an urgen…