SeaWays Europe is a recently established Company formed by an expansion of the successful training consultancy business operated by Capt. Arie Nygh (SeaWays Consultancy Pty Ltd). Specialising in the training & professional development of tug masters on ASD/ATD tugs, SeaWays (Europe) has recently signed a five year Agreement with Transas Marine Ltd (part of the Transas Group supplying world leading simulators to industry worldwide) in the development of best and ‘the state of the art tug simulator’.
The collaboration between SeaWays and Transas has been underway since October 2010 focusing on the necessary software improvements specific for tug simulation. The software engineering required for tug operations has taken a team of Transas programmers over 18 months to develop and incorporates realistic interaction and hydrodynamics associated with close quarter tug operations. This software is being written for the Transas NT Pro5000 Ship Simulator that was released earlier this year, receiving great reviews on its realistic marine graphics.
The TugSim® Project is being designed utilising large plasma screens and expects to incorporate 360° vision with 2D & selective 3D depth for depth perception. The aspiration of the team is to incorporate a tilting ‘wheelhouse deck’ with 6 degrees of freedom. To provide ergonomic reality, DAMEN Shipyards are supplying (OEM) controls, equipment and an authentic wheelhouse console and chair.
TugSim® is being built by Transas in Portsmouth as part of their overall simulation demonstration facilities. They intend to fully interface it with a new Ship Bridge and Engine Room Simulator and also add three additional tug/ship slave stations to show interoperability of their overall simulation suite. This will also allow SeaWays (SeaWays Training Centre) and other Transas clients to offer a range of training courses to industry and continue to work closely with Transas on future improvements and development of marine simulators.
The new simulator facility is expected to be fully functional for September this year.
For more information please visit www.seaways.net.au
