BEST-IN-CLASS SIMULATOR TRAINING

Standard or Custom Training

Meet and exceed Subchapter M requirements or the unique training goals of your company without risk to the crew, equipment, or the environment. CME courses are developed and taught by licensed captains with years of maritime experience utilizing best-in-class simulation technology. Or CME can create simulation exercises in collaboration with company facilitators that target specific concerns, using recent near-miss reports, NTSB investigations, and issues identified through internal audits.

BRIDGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (BRM)

BRM is a 3-day simulator training course covering key topics: Human factors, Situational awareness, Collision avoidance, Risk assessment, Rules of the road, Voyage planning, Decision-making, and Communication skills.

This course is flexible and can be tailored to the specific needs of each company. APM includes similar topics to the BRM course and may include new material developed by the company.

ADVANCED PILOTHOUSE MANAGEMENT (APM)

CME can work with company facilitators to create simulator courses that are unique to their needs such as multi-bridge operations, geospecific training, Pilot/Tug Master protocols, drills and emergency procedures, and near-miss correctional actions.

CUSTOM COURSES

Advanced training for mariners and maritime operators

CME operates two top-tier simulator training facilities, each training over 1,000 mariners annually. CME-Paducah, in the heart of river country, has been operational since June 1997. CME-Houston, located in America’s energy transportation capital, is situated at 9650 High Level Road inside the Port of Houston, TX, and has been providing training since 2001.

CME has trained over 50,000 professional mariners, including tugboat and barge operators, harbor tug masters, ship-to-ship lightering mooring masters, and ship pilots. Both facilities feature Kongsberg K-SIM navigation full-mission ship bridge simulators, fully compliant with STCW Section A-1/12 Performance Standards.

Inside the Simulator Classrooms…

CME uses Kongsberg K-SIM navigation full-mission ship bridge simulators consisting of fully equipped interactive ship’s bridges with visual systems. The simulators meet the simulation requirements of STCW Section A-1/12- Performance Standards for Simulators used in Training. Simulation and monitoring capabilities include:

• Five wheelhouses, each with twelve 65-inch LCD/LED TV monitors, 8 channels looking forward and 4 channels looking aft, strengthening close-quarter maneuvering for locking, docking, and vessel transfer, while retaining long-distance perception for bridge and lock-chamber setup

• Hydrodynamic calibration of 6DOF vessels—large and small, loaded and unloaded, dry bulk and tank barge to VLCC—to sync with latest software, providing realistic navigation “feel” to pilots

• Traditional steering levers and azimuth thruster Z-drive propulsion systems.