BMT Consultants India (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has announced a partnership with Bibby Ship Management to deliver training for marine pilots.
Based at Bibby's advanced training centre at St Xavier's Technical Institute in Mumbai, the new partnership will utilise BMT's REMBRANDT marine manoeuvring simulator.
Operating directly from S57 ENC chart data, REMBRANDT is an alternative to Full Mission Bridge (FMB) marine simulators, allowing the user to load any port.
The simulator utilises high fidelity ship models that include over 750 parameters, ensuring that the user experiences identical ship to ship interaction, ship to bank interaction, squat and shallow water effects as the real ship would in the same conditions. Simulations can be replayed in video format with track plots and data information printed or saved electronically, providing an opportunity to analyse the trainees' performance.
REMBRANDT has enhanced tidal current and wind settings to accommodate the unique features of a given port. It can also provide Client Server, a multi-user mode that enables multiple vessels to operate in a single operational scenario; each with independent human control.
BMT and Bibby Ship Management will be focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent and Africa.