King opens MARIN’s new simulator centre

King Willem-Alexander will open MARIN’s Seven Oceans Simulator centre (SOSc) in Wageningen on 28 May. With this, the institute aims to contribute to clean, smart and safe shipping.

The opening program will take place in the Inland Waterway Tank, one of MARIN‘s ship model test facilities. Experts from the maritime research institute, the Coast Guard, rescue company KNRM and from maritime service providers will talk that morning about shipping safety, about working on the increasingly busy seas and about involving sailors in the design of new ships.

Emission-free ship

After the opening ceremony, the king will be given a tour of the SOSc where MARIN simulates ‘the sea of the future’ in large spherical and moving simulators: an emission-free ship of the future running on hydrogen and with wind propulsion, a maintenance ship for offshore wind turbines and a new KNRM rescue boat. In conclusion, Willem-Alexander spoke with people who were involved in the development and realization of the simulator centre and with MARIN’s cooperation partners from the maritime sector. King Willem-Alexander has visited MARIN before. In 2001, then still as Prince of Orange, he opened MARIN’s Sea Access and Manoeuvring Basin.

Unmanned ships

The new simulators will also be used for research into the application of virtual reality techniques and the monitoring of unmanned ships. Crews can be trained for maritime operations at the simulator centre. These are becoming increasingly complex as ships get bigger, maritime traffic increases and weather patterns become more unpredictable. All simulators can be linked to each other to simulate situations with several ships at the same time.

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