• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.615-621
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• 2010

In this study was carried out on the proper number of cadets and the improvement of educational environment that can ensure effective practice on board a training ship. In doing this research, basic data had been obtained from some of the written interviews done with some apprentices and instructors on education, and survey findings on the dimensions of the training facilities and areas available to apprentice in the current training ships. The concepts of ergonomics have been adapted to this study also, in order to increase its reliability. On the basis of what has been discussed just above, we have suggested a navigation integrity consol for deck apprentices and a training room for the operation and maintenance of shipboard machinery for engine apprentices, together with providing a suitable number of cadets that can be accommodated for practice altogether in a given situation.