The Deck Log - Master Mariners of Canada · 1- Dalian and Dalian Maritime University (History of University) 2- The Training Ship “YUKUN” and student affairs (including videos)

The Deck Log

Newsletter of the Company of Master Mariners of Canada NL Division

December 2010 Company of Master Mariners of Canada NL Division 1

January 5, 2010

NL Divisional Council met at the Centre for

Marine Simulation, Marine Institute. All six

councillors were present. Divisional

financial situation, AGM, cadet membership

and 2010 programme were discussed. Also it

was decided to send the National a cheque

for 80% of the registration of 2009 Maritime

Human Resource Solutions seminar.

January 21, 2010

The Company of Master Mariners of Canada

National Teleconference was held at 2000

hours NL time. Capt. J. Parsons, one of the

Division’s National Councillors represented

the Division.

January 26, 2010

The Division’s Annual General Meeting was

held at the Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club at

1900 hrs. Present at the meeting were:

Seated L – R: P. McCarter, Sean Quinlan, Klaus

Hye-Knudsen, Ed Anthony, J. Parsons

Standing L – R: S. Muise, A. Carvalhal, L. Phillips,

R. Hynes, C. Hearn, E. March, F. Lambert,

R. Jenkins, G. Fiander, R. McNamara, J. Ennis,

A. McNeill and A. Zaki

CMMC NL Division 2010 – 2011

Executive

L - R: Capt. Philip McCarter

(Membership), Capt. Zaki (Secretary),

Capt. Anthony Patterson (Div. Master),

Capt. Chris Hearn (Deputy Div. Master),

Capt. Jim Parsons (Special Events), Capt.

A. McNeill (Treasurer)

February 23, 2010

Monthly meeting of the Division was held at

the Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club at 1900 hrs.

In addition to the members there were six

guests, four professors from the Dalian

Maritime University of China, one from

Canadian Coast Guard and one from Informa

United Kingdom. The guest speaker was Mr.

David Griffiths who is the Chief Rescue

Specialist with the Canadian Coast Guard,

Newfoundland and Labrador. He gave a very

interesting and a valuable presentation.

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Capt. Patterson and Mr. David Griffiths

February 26, 2010

A Divisional Council meeting was held at

the Centre for Marine Simulation. The

purpose of the meeting was to discuss the

budget for the upcoming 2 day seminar at the

end of September 2010.

March 19, 2010

The Military Museum Building Committee

was formed in June of 2009. The CMMC NL

Division was invited to be a member of this

committee. Capt. Patterson, the Div. Master

is the permanent representative. March 19th

meeting Capt. Zaki represented Captain

Patterson.

This Committee is working towards getting a

Military Museum on the Island of NL. All

the Canadian Provinces have a Military

Museum. Labrador has a small museum.

Standing L-R: Shannon Lewis-Simpson,

Bruce Peckford, Ian Wishart, Barry Mackay

Seated L-R: Art May and Kathy LeGrow.

Missing from the picture, Capt. Patterson.

March 30, 2010

Monthly meeting of the Division was held at

the Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club at 1900 hrs.

The main item on the agenda was some

presentations by visiting Chinese Professors

to the Marine Institute. The topics were:

1- Dalian and Dalian Maritime

University (History of University)

2- The Training Ship “YUKUN” and

student affairs (including videos)

3- Research on Key Technologies of

Full Mission Navigation Simulation

System (videos included)

Dr. Tong Liu, Dr. Hong Guang Lu and Dr.

Yong Yin gave the presentations. Capt.

Patterson thanked them and presented each

with a NL book “Tolerable Good

Anchorage” by Ms Joan Rusted.

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L-R: Yong Yin, Baijun Tian, J. Parsons, A.

Patterson, Tong Liu and Hong Guang Lu

Captain Patterson presented Capt. Denis

Mair with his CMMC Membership

Certificate at this meeting.

Capt. Patterson presenting CMMC

Membership Certificate to Capt. Denis Mair

April 22, 2010

The CMMC National Council

Teleconference took place in the evening.

Capt. Chris Hearn, Deputy Div. Master and

Capt. Andrew McNeill, the Div. Treasurer

represented our Division.

April 27, 2010

Regular monthly meeting took place at the

Crow’s Nest. The guest speaker was Mr.

Derek Scott of Provincial Aerospace. The

topic was Maritime Surveillance. Provincial

Aerospace is a worldwide provider of

maritime surveillance aircraft and services.

Maritime surveillance is a critical tool used

by government to manage their coastal

waters and EEZ. He gave a very interesting

and an informative presentation.

May 25, 2010

NL Divisional Council meeting took place

at noon at CMS, the Marine Institute.

This was a special meeting before the regular

monthly meeting. September 29th

and 30th

2010 Maritime Human Resource Solutions

Conference was discussed.

May 25, 2010


Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club. The speaker of

the evening was Capt. Matthew Wheaton of

CCGS Terry Fox. He gave a very interesting

account of the Arctic Operations. Also Ms

Laura Critch, a MUN Research student gave

a presentation in the hope of obtaining

contributions from Marine Officers for her

study. Her study topic is “To use human

factors approach to understand the factors

contributing to work related fatigue in

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officers working in the Atlantic Canada

Shipping Industry”.

Ms Laura Critch

At the meeting Capt. Sid Hynes was

presented with his Membership Certificate

and his 25 year Lapel Pin. Capt. Hynes is

one of the very first to join the Division after

it was formed in June 1977. At this meeting

he was congratulated for being selected as

one of 500 most successful Atlantic

Canada’s CEOs of the year 2010.

Capt. S. Hynes and Capt. K. Hye-Knudsen

Capt. Klaus Hye-Knudsen presented the

Membership Certificate and the 25 year

Lapel Pin to Capt. Hynes

June 11, 2010

Capt. Parsons, Capt. Krishnan and Capt.

Patterson

The Divisional Master Capt. Patterson

entertained Capt. Gopala Krishnan of

Singapore at the Crow’s Nest from 1730 to

1830 hrs. Capt. Krishnan is the Senior

Manager of the Maritime Simulation and

Innovation Division of the Singapore

Maritime Academy. He is the past President

of the Nautical Institute of Singapore. He is a

recipient of Singapore President’s Medal for

public service.

June 29, 2010

The last meeting before the summer break

was a Dinner Meeting at The Keg Restaurant

on Harbour Drive. It was a very good

meeting and the attendance was very good.

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Some pictures of the meeting are below for

your viewing.

July 14, 2010

Divisional Council met to discuss the

upcoming September Conference. The

meeting took place at Virtual Marine

Technology board room. Five out of six

councillors were in attendance. Capt. Hearn

was unable to attend this meeting. The

meeting lasted for about an hour and all

aspects of the conference were covered.

Capt. Parsons feel pretty confident that this

will be a successful conference.

September 12, 2010

The CMMC NL Division participated in the

Memorial Service for Canadian Merchant

Navy Veterans conducted by the

Association. Capt. Chris Hearn the Deputy

Divisional Master laid the wreath on behalf

of the Division. It was a miserable day

however all went very well. Some pictures:

Captains J. Parsons, J. Ennis, C. Hearn and

Yves Villemaire

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Capt. J. J. Strong

September 22, 2010

The CMMC NL Division held the annual

mentoring programme get together with the

Nautical Science students. This took place at

1800 hrs in the Centre for Marine Simulation

at the Marine Institute. Pizzas and assorted

soft drinks were served.

Present were nine Divisional members and

eleven students. The Members introduced

themselves and the students did likewise.

The students were grouped for the technical

papers. They discussed their topics with the

members. Members of the Division will be

asked to come forward to assist the students

in any way they can.

Final Year Students and Div. Members

September 29 – 30, 2010

Division’s Annual Conference on

Maritime Human Resource Solutions.

The CMMC NL Division held a reception at

the Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club on the 28th

prior to the conference. The two day

conference was a success. The Key Note

Speaker was Captain Hartmut Hesse of IMO.

Captain Hesse studied chemistry at Bonn

University from 1969 to 1971. He joined the

German Merchant Navy in 1971. In 1975 he

obtained his Master's Certificate and stayed

at sea until 1977.

On coming ashore he worked for the same

shipping company he sailed with, in its

Dangerous Goods Department until 1985.

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He then moved to London as a Container

Ship Operator and representative of that

company in a multinational consortium until

1990, when he was called back to

Headquarters in Hamburg to help set up a

new operation.

In 1991 he joined the IMO Secretariat as a

Senior Technical Officer in the Cargoes and

Facilitation Section of the Maritime Safety

Division and was appointed as Head of that

section in 1995.

In August 1999 Captain Hesse was

appointed as Head of the Navigation Section

in the same Division and following the

incorporation of the Maritime Security

responsibilities in the IMO Secretariat

duties, he has been appointed to head the

relevant new Section as Deputy Director.

With the restructuring of the Maritime Safety

Division in 2004, Capt. Hesse was appointed

Senior Deputy Director and heads now the

Sub-Division for Operational Safety and

Human Element.

Here are some pictures from the seminar:

Capt. Jim Parsons

Capt. Anthony Patterson

Ms Cheryl Knight, Executive Director and CEO,

Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada

Mr. Glenn Blackwood, Executive Director, Fisheries

and Marine Institute of Memorial University, NL

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Mr. Derrick Dalley, Parliamentary Secretary for

NL Minister of Education

Capt. Hartmut G. Hesse, IMO

Capt. Naim Nazha, Transport Canada

Mr. Gordon Halsey, USA

Mr. Robert Cadigan, President and CEO, NOIA

Mr. Stephen Peck, CCG

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Mr. Dustin Pearson, DNV

Capt. Patterson interviewed by NTV

Final Year Nautical Science Students who

assisted the Conference.

Seated L-R: Kristina Kean and Heather

Stone; Standing L-R: Alec Matthews, Chris

McCarthy, Joe Meadows, Chris Mitchell and

Capt. McNeill (Treasurer CMMC NL DIV)

October 18, 2010

Captain Andrew McNeill, Commander of

CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent, was selected to

participate as a lecturer at the 19th

“Antarctic Waters Operations” course at

the Maritime Training Center (CIMAR) in

Valparaiso, Chile.

This is the third consecutive year that the

Chilean Navy have invited the Canadian

Coast Guard to provide a guest lecturer. The

course was presented to 19 Senior Officers

and Captains from 10 different countries

from Oct 18 to 28th, 2010.

In addition to presenting lectures on ship

handling in ice, Captain McNeill assisted with the observation and critique of ice

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navigation simulation exercises with

CIMAR’s full mission bridge simulator and

Antarctic passage plan presentations from all

of the course participants.

Front row, 2

nd from right is Captain McNeill.

He is the Treasurer for the CMMC

Newfoundland and Labrador Division

October 26, 2010


Crow’s Nest. The meeting commenced at

1900 hrs. Capt. Chris Hearn, the Deputy Div.

Master was in the Chair as Capt. Patterson,

the Divisional Master was out of the country.

Capt. Jim Parsons gave a presentation on

“xxxxxxx”.

November 10, 2010

Memorial Day Celebrations at Marine

Institute. The Division took part in the

Celebrations as usual. Capt. Chris Hearn, the

Deputy Divisional Master laid the wreath on

behalf of our Division. Available members

were present.

November 26, 2010

New Cadet Member Ms Heather Stone, final

year Nautical Science student at MI received

her membership certificate.

Capt. Patterson Presented Cadet Membership

Certificate to Ms Heather Stone

November 30, 2010

The last general meeting for the year took

place at the Crow’s Nest with a large number

of members in attendance. In addition to

several agenda items, there was one very

important presentation. The guest speaker

was Mr. Dwight House, the Head of The

School of Ocean Technology at The Marine

Institute. Mr. House from his years of

experience of running competitions (ROV –

remotely operated vehicles) enlightened the

members as to what to expect and what may

be required to do to conduct the Nautical

Competition successfully. He shared his

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historical experience of running regional and

international competitions that may be of

great help to the Division in running the

Nautical Competition.

L-R: Mr. Dwight House and Capt. Patterson

Mr. House took several questions and was

pleased to answer all of them as best as he

could. He was presented with a mug and a

pen of the Division.

December 11, 2010

The Division’s Christmas Dinner was held at

The Gypsy Tea Room at 1900 hrs.

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At the dinner the Divisional Master Captain

Patterson spoke briefly and also thanked

Capt. Jim Parsons for the successful seminar.

During the evening Captain Patterson

entertained all attendees with some jokes.

Some photos from our members:

Mr. Stephen Muise was a cadet member

while he was doing the Diploma in Nautical

Science at the Marine Institute. On his

graduation he became an associate member

of the Division. He worked on board this

vessel, Maersk Challenger.

Challenger in Norway

Challenger Profile

In Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

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Challenger with iceberg

Challenger in St. John’s, NL

In Halifax with RGIII

Cadet Member, Mr. Robert Hynes worked

on board the Shuttle Tanker Heather Knutsen

Documents

The Deck Log - Master Mariners of Canada · 1- Dalian and Dalian Maritime University (History of University) 2- The Training Ship “YUKUN” and student affairs (including videos)