Operaciones de Buques Polares
Price for non-members: £77.00
Price for members: £53.90
Code: 0398
ISBN: 978 1 906915 71 1
Release year: 2026
Weight: 400 grams
Interest in the polar regions is growing as the season for accessing these remote and hostile areas is lengthening. The nascent shipping ventures in these regions face new challenges and risks and this hard, unforgiving environment requires diligence and deliberation in the planning and execution of voyages.
Operating ships within any ice regime requires knowledge, skills and awareness beyond that of many mariners, particularly when sailing in waters affected by hard multi-year and glacial ice. Should things go wrong, little assistance is available in polar regions, so mariners must be self-sufficient.
Captain Snider brings the full benefit of his extensive experience in polar shipping and as a highly qualified ice navigator to describe the human, technical, environmental and operational challenges of transiting polar seas. This new edition has been updated to take account of IMO’s Polar Code, which came into force in 2017.
Topics include:
- Ice operations
- Passage planning in polar ice regions
- Shiphandling in ice
- Emergency and environmental response
This new Spanish edition makes these essential lessons and expertise accessible to an even wider audience across the maritime community.
About Operaciones de Busques Polares
CHAPTER 1: Environment, climate and climate change
CHAPTER 2: Polar regions: general geography and infrastructure
CHAPTER 3: Ice
CHAPTER 4: Preparation for cold weather: equipment and personnel
CHAPTER 5: Ice operations
CHAPTER 6: Passage planning in polar ice regions
CHAPTER 7: Shiphandling in ice
CHAPTER 8: Emergency and environmental response and insurance
CHAPTER 9: The Polar Code
Appendix 1: Bridge checklist
Appendix 2: Engine room checklists
Appendix 3: Deck preparation checklist
Appendix 4: Lifesaving and reghting equipment checklists
Appendix 5: Glossary of terms and list of abbreviations
Captain Duke Snider FNI
Captain Duke Snider has amassed a broad range of seagoing experience over the past 40 years in naval, commercial and Canadian Coast Guard shipping, much of it in the ice-covered waters of the Arctic, Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Baltic and the Antarctic. He is currently CEO and Principal Consultant with Martech Polar Consulting Ltd, and has been involved in numerous polar-related research and consulting project in addition to providing service as an ice navigator in the Canadian, US and Eastern Russian Arctic.
He received his Master Mariner certificate of competency in 1997 and is a member of the Company of Master Mariners of Canada. As a member of the Nautical Institute, he is currently (2018) president, serves as a member of The Nautical Institute’s Council and is a director of the Institute’s British Columbia branch. He was elected a Fellow in recognition of his long seagoing career and dedication to improving standards at sea, with particular emphasis on ice navigation.
Captain Snider holds a Bachelor of Marine Studies degree from memorial University of Newfoundland. Is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has been recommended as an ice adviser by the Shipping Federation of Canada. His commands include light icebreakers and offshore research vessels and he has sailed on the icebreaking OBO Arctic and on numerous vessels in the capacity of ice pilot in polar waters.
Captain Snider was lead author of the Ice Navigator Standards developed for Transport Canada for submission to the IMO for inclusion in the Polar Code. He also assisted in the writing of an Arctic Passage Planning guideline that is now incorporated in the Canadian Coast Guard publication Ice Navigation in Canadian Waters. He is a delegate to the IMO for The Nautical Institute on issues related to ice and polar navigation and contributed directly in the development of the Polar Code on behalf of the Institute. He is chair of The Nautical Institute’s Ice Navigator Scheme, which sets the first international standards for skills, knowledge and competence for ice navigators. He has presented extensively at internationalconferences on ice navigation and ship operations in ice.