1 OMAE2006-92234 THE USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATION IN DEVELOPING PROCEDURES FOR MARINE HAZARD COUNTERMEASURES Ketut Buda Artana Department of Marine Engineering Faculty of Marine Technology Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology Surabaya-Indonesia ketutbuda@its.ac.id Kenji Ishida, Lahar Baliwangi Faculty of Maritime Sciences Kobe University-Japan k-ishida@maritime.kobe-u.ac.jp lahar@its.ac.id Abstract IMO (International Maritime Organization) has so far been producing several conventions with objective to ensure safety of ship operation and pollution prevention. In practice, however, implementations are rather exigent since some countries that ratified the conventions face so many difficulties due to mainly lack of fund and human resources. To solve this problem, efforts in educating people for marine hazard prevention and countermeasure must be supported by giving chances to people to get experiences directly in marine hazard prevention and countermeasure through performing simulation using computer. This can be made possible by setting marine accident or incident scenarios and participants involve in the simulation process will represent all parties related to marine Hazard countermeasures. This research is mainly aimed to develop and evaluate essential technological and engineering hardware and software for encountering marine hazard as well as essential risk management system, covered organizers and human resources, which have proper judgment ability and leadership. This research is also directed to seek optimum alternative method to train and educate people to get knowledge and experience on hazard prevention. The simulation is provided with a database system which eases the participant in performing their tasks. Responses to each scenario will be optimized by comparing three (3) indicators, namely: cost, resources and time for task completion. At the end of the simulation, a formal procedure for the countermeasure can be designed which guarantee those three indicators are minimum. A data mining system is also attached to the simulation to enable the database system automatically classifies the data according to the responses of the participants. Keywords: marine hazard, risk management, maritime incident, computer simulation, database. 1. INTRODUCTION After the earthquake of Hanshin and Awaji in 1995 in Japan, a research group of Kobe University of Mercantile Marine has been performing a study on the optimum countermeasure against the large-scale natural or industrial hazards [1, 7]. One of the basic subjects was related to technology and society, especially on risk management for the present society, which is supported and constructed by technological systems. As the implementation of this group’s program, after several ship incidents, the central and local governmental sectors and academic societies delivered an investigation on the reasons and countermeasure of the incidents. The research group has also proposed a modification on the present incident prevention system, in conjunction with proposition of the reinforcement scheme on the hazard prevention organizations. By taking this idea into account, a more effective method to train and educate people to get knowledge and experience on hazard prevention activities could also be performed for the benefit of safety ships operation and marine hazard prevention. This could also be developed by enlarging the research scope which providing chances to develop scenario that enables inexperienced people participate in the simulation of marine hazard prevention either with the cases of domestic accidents or incidents, or that of involving ships having different registry flag. The general and long-term objective of this research is to develop and evaluate essential technological and engineering hardware and software for encountering marine hazard as well as essential risk management system, covered organizers and