A preliminary design of a 3D maritime gamified mentoring platform to support tanker pre-vetting inspection training: ‘Maritime Gamentor’

ABSTRACT

Pre-vetting inspection, enhanced with onsite training, is a critical process to improve safety and environmental compliance onboard tanker ships. As a part of pre-vetting services, this study develops a maritime gamified mentoring platform, namely Maritime Gamentor, to manage crew upskilling in tanker vetting requirements. In this stage, the study considers the recently updated requirements of the Ship Inspection Report (SIRE 2.0) Programme of Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) to conceptualise a holistic serious game-based training solution. Then, a step-by-step approach to the preliminary design, development and prototyping of maritime serious games is provided in detail. Particular to the SIRE 2.0 Clause# 5.1.4, the study conducts a case study on Maritime Gamentor Module-01 illustrated with a task-based risk assessment (TBRA) on enclosed space entry operation. Consequently, the Maritime Gamentor is conceptualised as a powerful training and mentorship platform for global shipping companies.

KEYWORDS:

• Serious games
• maritime mentoring
• risk assessment
• tanker vetting
• safety training

Acknowledgement

This article is produced from the initial stages of Ph.D. dissertation research entitled ‘A Conceptual Approach for Design and Development of Serious Game in Maritime Domain’ which is being executed in a Ph.D. Programme in Maritime Transportation Engineering of Istanbul Technical University Graduate School.

DECLARATIONS

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Authorship

All authors have made substantial contributions to all parts of this research including drafting and revising the manuscript and have given their approval for the submission of this manuscript.

Data availability

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.