UK Marine and Coastguard Agency (MCA) buy in Ocean Training Simulations

May 4, 2012 1:05 pm Leave a Comment

The MCA has recently signed a contract with Ocean Training to use all 380 of our wonderful animations, for training the UK Coastguards. They are delighted with the quality of these products and we at Ocean Training are very proud of this latest association with the MCA. The simulations are not the main part of the [...]

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Ocean Training Tutors

May 5, 2012 10:43 am Leave a Comment

    All our tutors at Ocean Training come from highly professional backgrounds. Dan Nicholson mentioned here was once the Training Manager at Britain’s Lifeboat service – the RNLI This student was doing an RYA sailing course – he says in an e-mail – Hi Dan I hope your weekend went a well as expected. [...]

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2012 – Busiest Year Ever for the RNLI

May 4, 2012 3:31 pm Leave a Comment

Lifeboats were launched a total of 3,661 times in June, July and August making it the busiest summer on record for the RNLI. The rise is 20 per cent more than the previous record for this period and 10 per cent up on last year. Lifeboat crews in the North of England launched an average [...]

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Launch of the US Coastal Navigation Course

May 4, 2012 3:29 pm Leave a Comment

Launch of the Ocean Training US Coastal Navigation distance learning course at the Annapolis boat show The new US Coastal Navigation course was launched at the Annapolis boat show in Maryland in October 2008 This course is written on the NOAA chart covering the Buzzards Bay area off the coast of Massachusetts . The course [...]

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Ted Miley Receives Fellowship Award

May 4, 2012 3:29 pm Leave a Comment

Ocean Training Principle receives a Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Navigation from HRH the Duke of Edinburgh Recently, Ted Miley, our Principal, went to the Royal Geographical Society, in London , to receive a Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Navigation. This was to recognize a lifetime achievement in both sea and air navigation and [...]

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The 2008 Paul Le Riche Award

May 4, 2012 3:29 pm Leave a Comment

The Ocean Training Paul Le Riche Award 2008 Cleethorpes Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) crew member Kelly Blackburn has won a national training award after coming top of the class in a navigation and seamanship course. Kelly, 25, has won the Paul Le Riche Award, presented each year to the RNLI student who achieves the [...]

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