A Report On Ballast Water

This report was commissioned to review the Collins Class Submarine Project “Deep trouble”. The primary objective of this report is to analyses the dimensions of risk that need continuous management due to inter-relationships of all elements within Project Management and the importance of stakeholders. The topic was researched through extensive sources, including government bodies, course materials and other sources to provide the relevant information.

A task that was assigned to me was to review the environmental requirements for policies and regulations associated with international, national, and local ballast water management regulations to determine applicability to Navy ships. Most of the work associated with this task was associated with examining the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) documents prior to and after the IMO meetings. The IMO MEPC documents from the 67th and 68th sessions were analyzed for environmental

The Royal Australian Navy’s Collins Class Submarine is designed to replace the 30 year old Oberon Submarines. The Collins Class is the first submarine to be made in Australia and is the most advanced of its time due to its software architecture. Deep Trouble addresses various issues that were faced during the design and development stages of the Collins Class project. This report will focus on the interrelationship between the three PMBOK knowledge areas of scope, procurement and quality management and the impact each had on the final project.

Oil is marked as the most used non-renewable natural resource throughout the planet. Innovations in the automobile technology has increased the demand for hydrocarbons as its used for the source of heat and light. Development in the petrochemical industry boosted the oil supply throughout the world. Today we have miles and miles of wired petroleum pipelines and tons of crude oil on the go. The quantity of oil transported over the sea has enormously increased in volume with tankers from a capacity of 100,000 to 500,000 tons resulting in increased possibilities of spillage by accident. In the event of an accident, oil pollution will be encountered in the marine environment or in inland water.

Torpedoes can easily be considered one of the most significant modern inventions in maritime history leading up to the advancements made during the late 1800s. The earliest torpedoes in today's terms would be considered mines, as they were not self propelled, and existed in the early 1800s. Adaptations of early sedentary torpedoes were used widely during the American Civil War, although their significance in naval warfare was overshadowed by the emergence of steam engines and iron armor on ships. Post Civil War, many advancements were made regarding rifling that led to the invention of the self propelled torpedo. In World War I and World War II, torpedoes were the weapon of choice in naval engagements. Torpedoes continued to be a threat

One of the many problems that plague the earth lies hand in hand with the living situations that people are used to. This standard of living causes many to be ignorant to the environmental conditions that surrounds these actions which correlate to the health of our planet. Over time, this issue has been recognized and one extremely important resource that the world has to offer is the vast ocean, and this source of life must be protected for the better of the planet. The struggles of dealing with the pollution in the ocean is a constant problem for the Environmental Protection Agency in order to ensure a clean ocean to the public and wild life.

Zebra and quagga mussels are some of the most invasive species impacting the US Great Lakes. Because the mussels take available phytoplankton for other organisms and increase water clarity, they cause changes to the ecological structure of the lake community (GLIN Sept 2016). The introduction of these animals, according to AIU online, is due to cargo ships leaving port transfer millions of gallons of local water into their ships to act as ballast as they travel along the ocean. Once these ships make arrive at their destination, they dump their ballast water leaving behind the mussels.

Aquatic plants and animals should be removed from boats, trailers and other equipment. Spray down boats and boat trailers before leaving the water access point.

Ballast water is used in ships to increase stability and balance. When a large cargo ship is unbalanced they simply pump what ever water the ship is floating in into the holding tanks below the deck. The problem with ballast water is that there are no pumps and or filters to regulate what the water has in it, thus spreading potential invasive species to other areas. These mussels are native to Eastern Europe and Western Russia and were discovered in the Great Lakes in 1988.

The ocean has been a used as a dumping ground for centuries, with corporations and nations the world over using it to get rid of all sorts of unwanted things, from sewage to nuclear waste. The ocean is so vast and deep that what gets swallowed up by it seems to disappear forever. Unfortunately, as scientists and fishermen are increasingly finding out, what we put in the ocean is coming back to haunt us.

The seabin will be placed at the surface of the water and is grasped into a shore based water pump on the dock. The water will be pulled into the mesh natural fiber “catch bag” filter, sucking in all the debris and floating liquids into it, collecting all the garbage and then flows the water out through the bottom of the bin. The seabin does not harm fish or any other wildlife in these areas. It will also have the option of an oil/water separator, sorting out the oil that may come from spill from yachters or boaters. The seabin is continuous, functioning 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. When the seabin is full, you can simply take out the catch bag, change it and dispose of the trash responsibly and reuse the same catch bag

The world’s water resource is such a valuable resource to not only humankind but to animal and marine life as well. Clean water is the key to the survival of all marine life. Humans and land animals need this to drink water to sustain life. Even land vegetation needs clean water to live. Without clean water, everything will cease to exist.

Aquaculture is one of the most harmful production systems in the world. The system of open net-cages are placed in areas in the coast where the industry takes advantage of ocean currents that delivers oxygen to the fish and eliminates waste. The name ‘open-net cage’ comes from the fact that these cages are simply suspended in the water and no barrier exists between

In this essay the advantages and limitations of bioremediation, biostimulation, and biofermentation with regard to environmental factors will be discussed and evaluated. Ship pollution is a huge source of ocean pollution, the most devastating effect of which is oil spills ("Causes and Effects of Ocean Pollution”). Ship contamination is a gigantic wellspring of sea contamination, the most crushing impact of which is oil Spills. Unrefined petroleum goes on for a considerable length of time in the ocean and is amazingly lethal to marine life, regularly choking out marine creatures to death once it ensnares them. Raw Petroleum spills are extremely hard to clean up, when it is separated it is there to remain. What 's more, numerous boats lose a huge number of boxes every year because of tempests, crises, and mischances. This results in noise pollution, algae, and ballast water.

Bunker fuel is a type of liquid fuel, which is fractionally distilled from crude oil (Geek, 2015). According to the oil industry’s material data sheets, the oil is a complex blend of hydrocarbons derived from various refinery streams, usually residue from the oil refinery processes (Wagstaffe, 2015). In comparison with petroleum products, bunker fuel causes high pollution and is extremely rough. When bunker fuel is burned, it releases sulphur and nitrogen into the atmosphere. These oxides then combine with water in the atmosphere and form acids, which is classified as ‘acid rain’. Generally, acid rain has not been a problem in Australia, but issues have been raised with acidic rain in industrial areas (high levels of sulphur oxides and nitrogen).