OPTIMISATION OF NAVIGATION
Maritime Training
Introducing the OCEAN projects maritime training videos, developed to address the gaps in Maritime Education and Training (MET) standards.
OCEAN Project Training Videos
The OCEAN Project (October 2022 – September 2025) has now concluded, but the training videos remain available as lasting resources to strengthen navigation skills and raise awareness of best practices at sea.
Two types of training are available:
- Optimisation of Navigation: developed with research by The Nautical Institute, these videos address gaps in Maritime Education and Training (MET) standards.
- OCEAN Project Explained: Produced by HVL, these videos introduce the OCEAN tools and demonstrate their application in real-world operations.
Together, these resources offer practical tools to enhance maritime safety and promote awareness throughout the sector. They remain accessible even after the project’s conclusion.
How to Use the Training Videos
- Optimisation of Navigation: seven maritime training videos are practical tools designed to raise awareness of navigation best practices and improve situational awareness for mariners. To access them, you’ll need to obtain a user licence by completing the Consent Form (this will open in a new tab on surveymonkey.com). The licence allows you to use the videos exclusively as training resources within a formal training environment.
- OCEAN Explains: videos are open access. They can be viewed freely online and shared for awareness in presentations, lectures, or across online platforms.
Click here to download the Project Outline (PDF).
The OCEAN Project has now finished. To find out more, please email: contact @ocean-navigation-awareness.eu
Maritime Training Videos
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🔎 Leadership Goes Beyond Management
🔎 Avoiding Ship Whale Strikes
🔎 Looking, Seeing and Observing
🔎 Over-Reliance on AIS
🔎 Maritime Situational Awareness
🔎 Effective Communication
🔎 Maritime Safety with HCD
🔎 Lost Containers at Sea
🔎 Preventing Ship Whale Strikes
🔎 4D SAD Display
🔎 Ocean Project – Vision Into Safer Shipping
🔎 Ocean Project – Enhancing Maritime Safety
Leadership Goes Beyond Management
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The video emphasises the importance of effective leadership and assertiveness in maintaining a harmonious and secure vessel while navigating vast waters.
It discusses leadership qualities, assertiveness techniques, authority dynamics, and practical planning stages in seafaring operations.
Additionally, it highlights the significance of feedback and different management styles. The video concludes by encouraging everyone to embrace opportunities for leadership and uplift their fellow mariners.
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Avoiding Ship Whale Strikes
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The video highlights the concern of ship strikes on whales due to increasing maritime traffic and emphasises the importance of awareness, cautionary measures, and reporting.
It focuses on protecting the marine ecosystem and reducing human impact through strategies like enforcing speed limits and rerouting shipping lanes.
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Looking, Seeing and Observing
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The video underscores the importance of situational awareness in maritime safety, covering its critical stages, factors affecting decision-making, practical application at sea, challenges, consequences of reduced awareness, and best practices for enhancing safety.
It is essential for maritime professionals seeking to improve navigational practices and ensure safety through an enhanced understanding of situational awareness.
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Over-Reliance on AIS
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The video explains the Automatic Identification System (AIS), its benefits, integration with navigation systems, and the importance of using it effectively while avoiding over-reliance.
It also discusses the limitations and challenges of AIS and best practices for its use.
The video emphasises the critical role of AIS in safe navigation and the need to maintain comprehensive situational awareness using all available tools.
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Maritime Situational Awareness
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The video empowers situational awareness in maritime navigation by emphasising the importance of understanding visual cues accurately.
It covers key points such as visual perception skills, mental imagery, real-world application examples, technology versus traditional skills, and practical tips for enhancing visual perception.
The video underscores that active engagement with one’s environment is vital for safe maritime navigation and heightened situational awareness among seafarers.
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Effective Communication
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The video empowers situational awareness in maritime navigation by emphasising the importance of understanding visual cues accurately.
It covers key points such as visual perception skills, mental imagery, real-world application examples, technology versus traditional skills, and practical tips for enhancing visual perception.
The video underscores that active engagement with one’s environment is vital for safe maritime navigation and heightened situational awareness among seafarers.
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Maritime Safety with HCD
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The video emphasises the importance of effective systems and ergonomically sound designs to enhance maritime safety.
It also highlights the need for improved communication between end users and designers and the importance of reporting shortcomings for proactive improvement measures.
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Lost Containers at Sea Preventing Shipping Accidents
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The video shows how hidden risks, poor visibility and communication delays can cause accidents at sea.
It introduces the OCEAN Project’s TRL-7 tools that improve hazard reporting, integrate risks into ECDIS and use satellite data to enhance maritime safety.
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Preventing Ship Whale Strikes - Thousands Lost Each Year
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The video highlights how rising vessel traffic increases the risk of whale strikes, caused by hidden hazards and limited real-time data.
It presents the OCEAN Project’s TRL-7 tools that detect whales, model risk zones, and integrate hazard data to improve navigation and protect marine life.
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4D SAD Display | Smarter Navigation, Safer Seas
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The video shows how fog, crowded lanes and hidden hazards challenge even skilled crews.
It introduces the OCEAN Project’s TRL-7 tools that enhance visibility, track risks and support safer, more confident navigation.
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How the OCEAN Project Turned Vision Into Safer Shipping
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The video highlights how rising traffic, hidden hazards and fragile ecosystems create major safety challenges at sea.
It presents the OCEAN Project’s TRL-7 safety ecosystem that integrates data, crowdsourced reports and predictive tools to support safer, sustainable navigation.
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OCEAN Project: Enhancing Maritime Safety Through Innovation
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This film outlines how the OCEAN Project (EU & UK funded) boosts situational awareness without adding crew workload enhancing human decision-making rather than increasing autonomy.