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Marine Surveying Course Descriptions
 Certificate in Marine Surveying: CARGO
- Cargo – Hatch and discharge
- Containers and damage cargo
- Reports and reporting cargo damage
- Expert witness
- Maritime insurance
- Survey photos and presentations
- Claims, evaluation, damage, and mitigation of cargo
- Bills of landing and documents
- Refrigerated cargo
- Bulk cargos, including petroleum products, crude, refined and dry bulk cargo.
- Container operations, physical and wet damage.
- Types of containers, construction and nomenclature.
- Intermodal operations, rail, and truck operations.
- Stowage and lashing issues in containers including stowage of a variety of cargos, heavy machinery within containers, stowage to reduce condensation and improve ventilation.
- Ethics, education, types of surveyors, professional memberships, clients and relationships, limits and extents of roles of surveyors.
- Ship loading and discharge operations.
- Hatch and discharge surveys, hatch cover types and operations, operational stresses and nomenclature.
- Determining conditions, hose tests, chalk tests and ultrasound.
- Overview of marine insurance, coverage and P&I – differences and similarities.
- Cargo and hull damage claims, amounts recoverable, notices, appointments of surveyors, documentation to support claims.
- Ship owner liabilities, claims presentations, evidence and total vs. partial loss.
- Overview of Bills of Landing, Harter Act, Hague Rules, Hamburg Rules, Brussels Protocol and the Carriage of Goods by sea Act.
- Agents and terminal roles, organizational structure and abilities of each (as relates to surveys), interactions with surveyors, obtaining documentations.
- Break bulk/bulk carriers and types of carriers.
- Forms and reports describing the damage, tests for salt water, shortages, pilferage, photographs, evidence, evaluation and extent of damage and reports.
- Damage minimization and salvage, secondary markets, repairs and experts.
 Certificate in Marine Surveying:
HULL
- Reports and reporting
- Expert witness
- Maritime insurance – injuries and safety
- Survey photos and presentations
- Hatch cover survey and ultrasound
- Hull surveys
- Incident investigation
- Classification (flag and port state control) surveys
- Role of the surveyor
- Basic stability and the surveyor: What is stability
- Stability calculations
- Free surface
- Trim
- Marine disasters
 Certificate in Marine Surveying:
YACHT Damage
- Reports and reporting
- Expert witness
- Maritime insurance
- Survey photos and presentations
- Reports and reporting yacht damage
- Yacht claims and small craft surveys
- Incident investigation
All three programs will contain a section on expert testimony for court precedings. Expert testimony topics will address:
- Advocacies, how to prepare, demeanor and appearance, “the stand”, exercising selectivity, not going beyond “your ability” and courtroom emotions.
- Key skills of presenting evidence.
- Your role as independent educator of the court.
- How the adversarial system works.
- Roles of the various people in court.
- Preparing for court and personal presentation.
- Taking the oath or affirmation with confidence.
- Techniques lawyers use in cross examinations and how to handle them.
- Who to speak to and what to call them.
- Expressing an opinion based on the foundation of fact.
- Giving confident, clear testimony under difficult cross-examination.
Certificate in Marine Surveying:
Heavy Weather
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Certificate in Marine Surveying:
Refrigerated Cargo
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