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April 1, 2016 News

Floating Life Captain’s Meeting 2016

Floating Life organized its second edition of Floating Life Captains’ Meeting.30 superyacht captains of Floating Life yacht fleet and not, together to discuss the industry’s key safety and security issues […]

Floating Life organized its second edition of Floating Life Captains’ Meeting.30 superyacht captains of Floating Life yacht fleet and not, together to discuss the industry’s key safety and security issues for operators.

Straying from  the  minutiae  of  the  myriad  rules  and  regulations  to  which each  and  every super yacht must adhere, discussions focused on the minimization of risk through a focus onpeople, as opposed to the yacht itself.

Enrico Ursomando – RINA Maritime Office Training Manager – invited at the event, exposedto delegates that approximately 80% of incidents are the result of human error, be it fatigue orlack of qualifications.

Andrea Pezzini, CEO of Floating Life, disputed this with his own view, suggesting that humanerror can occur at any moment in a yacht’s life, from its creation in the shipyard all the way untilits eventual demise.

The  “day  one”  of  the  meeting  so  underlined  the  importance  of  awareness  and  workingrelationships for the minimization of risk. At today auditing is usurping the importance of surveyWhile the latter still have their place in ensuring a superyacht’s hardware is up to scratch, auditshave risen to prominence because of the priority that they give to limiting and highlighting humanerror.

Ursomando explained that “Brain, procedure, paperwork,” he said, highlighting that experience,awareness  and  adaptability  must  form  the  foundation  of  safety  procedures,  with  paperworkrepresenting  proof.  With  that  mention,  delegates  began  to  explore  the  importance  of  therelationship between captain and yacht manager – a relationship that has not always been a comfortable  one.  “If only  yacht  manager  has  a  good  relationship  with  a  captain,  when  asuperyacht encounters dangerous conditions, he can be a big help” – Andrea Pezzini referred.

Day  two’s  discussions  moved  towards  the  2010  Manila  Amendments,  taxation  and  fiscalrepresentation.  The  Manila  Amendments,  which  came  into  force  in  2012  with  a  five-yeartransitional  period, were created to ensure global standards and will be in place to train andcertify seafarers. A yacht’s current certification will no longer be accepted by the end of 2016,and as an industry have, by and large, been too slow on the uptake.

Major shipping and oil companies need to also comply by 1 January 2017. Due to the lack ofqualified schools able to issue the updated certification – the superyacht personnel are going tofind  it  extremely  difficult  to  obtain  certification  because  of  over-subscription  to  the  requisitecourses. Large companies have booked all the available spaces they can in order to ensure acertified work force. The IMO’s states that there will be no further extension (already given by thea five-year transition period).

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