The laboratory is intended for theoretical training of cadets and students in issues of acquiring minimal standards of competencies in mooring and unmooring in different winds, tide flows and currents with and without tugs; theoretical study of mooring devices which are the complex of manufactured articles and mechanisms intended for fastening of a vessel to onshore and floating berthing objects and other vessels and secure fixation of a vessel to them; working out practical skills in performing preparation processes, conducting mooring operations, holding a vessel at berthing objects and maintenance of mooring objects in compliance with Chapter А- II “Standards Regarding the Master and Deck Department” of the STCW Code, Model course 7.03.
