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Welcome to the Marine Engine Driver 3 information site here you can find all the information you need about this exciting maritime career! As a Marine Engine Driver 3, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of marine vessels. Below, you’ll find details about the units of competency, duties, restrictions, and sea time requirements for this position.
Students must be at least 16 years of age to be able to participate in this course.
Blended Course Delivery – Online Plus 4 days Practical
Face to Face Course Delivery – 10 Days Class Room and Practical
Blended Course Delivery Detail
blended format i.e partly completed at home in your own time using an online training package and partly completed on our training vessels.
Once you have completed the online enrolment and paid the prescribed fee you will be able to register with a username and password that will provide the gateway to your online learning resources. These resources are available to you even after course completion for an unlimited time for your future reference.
The online training package has assignments and assessments where resources are provided. There may be some extra research required by you for which you can conduct using the Australian Boating Manual which is also provided to you free of charge upon enrolment.
Each unit also has a practical component, these components are conducted as part of the AMPA (AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment) requirements which will be covered throughout the course.
The total amount of practical days will be 5-6 days including AMPA. The AMSA application and finalisation and will be scheduled accordingly.
10 days Monday to Friday classroom learning and practical. Assignments and resource material is emailed via a zip file. Bring your own PC or bring printed assignments to class to complete. There may be scheduled homework if unable to complete in classroom time.
It is expected that sea time meets AMSA requirements when completing the AMPA, however you have 12 months from the date you have completed the AMPA to acquire the required sea time.
Maritime Training School is not obligated to fulfil your sea time requirements.
Information on Seafarer certification guidance can be found via the AMSA information page via the link below: Please refer to this for your sea service queries.
www.amsa.gov.au/qualifications-training/seafarer-certification-guidance-documents
Students will receive
A Dedicated Trainer
All the learning resources necessary to complete the course
Sea Survival Practical
First Aid Practical
Firefighting Practical
Copy of the Australian Boating Manual 5th Edition 2015
Engine Room Tasks
AMPA Finalisation
Course Highlights:
This certificate will allow you to carry out the duties of chief engineer.
The Engineer class 3 near coastal certificate of competency will allow you to operate:
• As chief engineer on vessels with inboard engines with propulsion power up to 3000 kilowatts within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
• As chief engineer or second engineer on vessels with outboard engines with unlimited propulsion power within the EEZ.
• As an assistant under the general supervision of the chief engineer within the EEZ.
• In the engine room of a vessel up to 100 metres long with propulsion power up to 3000 kilowatts within the EEZ.
Course Modules (MAR20421 Certificate II Marine Engine Driver 3):
BSBWOR203: Workplace effectively with others
MARJ006: Follow environmental work practices
MARB028: Service marine internal combustion engines, and propulsion and auxiliary systems
MARC033: Complete Engine Room tasks
MARC034: Maintain hull out of water
MARC035: Operate and maintain extra low and low voltage electrical systems and equipment
MARC036: Operate deck machinery
MARC039: Operate marine internal combustion engines, and propulsion and auxiliary systems
*MARF027: Apply basic survival skills in the event of vessel abandonment
*MARF028: Follow procedures to minimise and fight fires on board a vessel
*MARF029: Meet work health and safety requirements
*MARF030: Survive at sea using survival craft
HLTAID011: Provide first aid
MARSS00008.: * These units form the Shipboard Safety Skill Set
Payments accepted are: credit card VISA or Mastercard, cash or by electronic funds transfer to:
Maritime Training School
BSB: 012 445
Acc: 305110809
Ref: Invoice Number and your name
The holder of this certificate can:
Sea service required for a Coxswain Grade 2 NC. The applicant must have at least:
Restricted to daylight hours
A certificate will be restricted to daylight hours:
A Coxswain Grade 2 NC can be endorsed to command a vessel with inboard propulsion power <500 kW if the person:
Note: the engineering tasks in the task book must be completed to be considered for the task book option for qualifying sea service.
A Coxswain Grade 2 NC can be endorsed to carry passengers while in command of a domestic commercial vessel within the limits of a Coxswain Grade 2 if the person:
Note: Unless your certificate is endorsed to carry passengers, you cannot command a vessel carrying passengers.
Sea Service will be assessed using the National Standard for Commercial Vessels PartD,
Crew Competencies. Please note that the applicant must accrue at least half
of the qualifying sea service required for the certificate in the 5 years before the application.
For further information on this document and access to additional information on qualifying sea service and task books please refer to the AMSA website www.amsa.gov.au
You also will be asked to provide an application for a certificate of competency, proof of identity and two passport-style photographs taken in the previous six months.
A certified copy is a copy of an original document (not a copy of a copy) that has been certified as a true and correct copy by a person who is authorised to witness a statutory declaration (see list below).
Certified copies can be obtained by presenting the original document together with a photocopy of that document to an authorised person for them to sight and certify.
Persons who are authorised to witness statutory declarations (under the Commonwealth Statutory Declarations Act 1959) include:
Accountant (Chartered or Certified)
Clerk of a Court
Commissioner for Affidavits
Commissioner for Declarations
Dentist
Justice of the Peace
Legal Practitioner
Magistrate
Medical Practitioners
Nurse
Pharmacists
Police Officer
Post Office Manager
Sheriff or Sheriff’s Officer
Teacher
Veterinary Surgeon
Units in the Coxswain Grade 2 Course MAR10418
MARC037 – Operate inboard and outboard motors
MARF027 – Apply basic survival skills in the event of vessel abandonment
MARF028 – Follow procedures to minimise and fight fires on board a vessel
MARF029 – Meet work health and safety requirements
MARI003 – Comply with regulations to ensure safe operation of a vessel up to 12 metres
MARJ006 – Follow environmental work practices
MARK007 – Handle a vessel up to 12 metres
MARN008 – Apply seamanship skills aboard a vessel up to 12 metres
Silver Spirit Cruises Pty Ltd T/As Maritime Training School
Registered Training Organisation 91487
d’Albora Marina, 138 Cabarita Rd, Cabarita NSW 2137
Ph. 0429 431 587 | Fax. 02 9736 3433 | Mob. 0422 065 619
https://maritimetrainingschool.com.au