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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1992

DSC OFFICERS REQUIRED TO HOLD TYPE RATING CERTIFICATES

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MERCHANT

HAVE

NEW AMENDMENTS TO THREE

SHIPPING REGULATIONS

BEEN MADE

KONG REQUIRING DECK AND ENGINEER OFFICERS ON HONG

TO HOLD A REGISTERED AND LICENSED DYNAMICALLY SUPPORTED CRAFT (DSC) TYPE RATING CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE MARINE DEPARTMENT STARTING JANUARY 1, 1993.

FROM

THE PRINCIPAL SURVEYOR (CREWS BRANCH) OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT, WHICH MR MATHAI VARGHESE, TODAY (FRIDAY) SAID: "THE NEW REQUIREMENTS

OF OFFICERS ON DSC CALL FOR SPECIALISED TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION WILL ENHANCE THE SAFETY OF THE PORT AND THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC.'

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THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (CERTIFICATION OF OFFICERS) (AMENDMENT) AND FERRY VESSELS) REGULATION 1992, THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (LAUNCHES

REGULATION 1992, AND THE (AMENDMENT)

MERCHANT SHIPPING (FEES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATION 1992, WERE GAZETTED TODAY.

SAID: "OFFICERS

ON DSC

NEED WILL

ΤΟ UNDERGO

OF THE OPERATION

THESE TECHNOLOGICALLY- AND BE EXAMINED BEFORE THEY CAN OBTAIN THE

MR VARGHESE SPECIALISED TRAINING FOR ADVANCED CRAFT CERTIFICATES,

THE

HOLD "WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE OFFICERS OPERATING DSC ALREADY REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, OTHERS HAD ONLY RECEIVED COMPANY

TRAINING IN THE PAST.

"THESE OFFICERS ARE NOW BEING RETRAINED MARINE DEPARTMENT TO MEET THE DEADLINE."

ALL

AND

EXAMINED BY

THE

MR VARGHESE SAID THE NEW REQUIREMENTS WHICH

INDUSTRY WERE SECTORS OF THE SHIPPING QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS ON DSC AS LAID DOWN MARITIME ORGANISATION (IMO).

WERE WELCOMED BY IN LINE WITH THE BY THE INTERNATIONAL

THE

OF RECOMMENDATIONS THEY AROSE OUT OF

MARINE COURT

THE ACCIDENT WHICH

THE WATERJET-PROPELLED INVESTIGATED

INVOLVING CATAMARAN "APOLLO JET" ON DECEMBER 15, 1989.

THE

WITH FOUR VESSELS AT THE THE VESSEL COLLIDED

YAU MA TEI

ON STRANDED

THE SEAWALL OF FERRY TYPHOON SHELTER BEFORE BECOMING STREET. AS A RESULT, FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED.

WATER, THE

WEIGHT

BY

DSC ARE SHIPS THAT CAN OPERATE ON OR ABOVE OF WHICH, OR A SIGNIFICANT PART OF IT, IS SUPPORTED WHEN UNDER WAY OTHER THAN HYDROSTATIC FORCES, SUCH AS HYDROFOILS AND JETFOILS.

LAST YEAR, MORE THAN 16 MILLION PASSENGERS TRAVELLED VESSELS BETWEEN HONG KONG, MACAU AND CHINA.

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