Medea is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Gennaro Russolillo, GM of Medea srl – Marine Design & Consultancy, as Non-Exclusive Surveyor of Flag of St. Vincent and The Grenadines. The appointment is signed by Commisioner for Maritime Affairs of SVG Maritime…
Medea has taken part in the Italian Committee of BUREAU VERITAS, gathered in Napoli at Museo Filangiaeri – expressly opened before schedule to the public- on November 25, 2015, coordinated by the Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore. The event was arranged…
How to carry out a DP Footprint Verification with Kongsberg DP software rel. 8? Medea srl, Naval Architects, Marine Engineers & DP Auditors Company, has recently found that the new version 8 of the Kongsberkg DP software does not allow DP…
IMCA and MTS are the most accredited bodies giving guidance for the offshore players operating DP units. Both of them have release, among the others, guidelines on the preparation of the DP Operation Manual. Medea has recently carried out a…
The latest update to ISO 9001 is underway, the first since ISO 9001:2008. But it is really the first major revision since ISO 9001:2000, which essentially consolidated three previous standards including ISO 9001, ISO 9002 and ISO 9003. What is…
The IMO Circular 645 “Guidelines for vessels with DP systems” was issued on 1994. This tool is ruling over 20 years quite well. But the DP industry had gone through significant development and growth and a review of th 645 is…
We pass on our Customer and Subscrivers this important IMCA DP Safety Flash – no. 3/2015 with subject: DP Management – Collision with Rig, which can be found here: http://www.imca-int.com/media/210393/imca_dp_safety_flash_03-15.pdf Shortly, attention is drawn on human factor behind main cause ostensibly recorded as “enviromental”. The…
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Medea, conscious of the importance of sharing information and lessons learnt, strongly intends to promulgate DP safety culture. A help in such a direction is done by passing IMCA DP Safety Flashes to Medea’s Customers, Followers and Subscrivers. In this…
Medea intended to have partecipation in more offshore conventions, seminars and workshop as both spokemen and audience. After having coordinated and actively partecipated to the ATENA seminar con DP Vessels (see event here:http://www.medeadesign.com/dp-vessels-conference/?lang=en), Medea was present to the IMCA social…
With the industry growth in DP vessels, technology advances with more complex designs, along with a decline in experienced and trained operators, means that often the DP redundancy and fault tolerance is defeated by the operator by incorrect application of the operational…
