March 2, 2021
Students all over the world are finding it difficult to get the training that they need in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In this article, we see how a hydrographic training institute in the Netherlands is doing the best that it can to train our future surveyors, with a little help from the hydrographic industry.
Because of the restrictions imposed by the Dutch government during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, the students on the MIWB Cat. A course in the Netherlands still had to perform their final year ‘Oosterom’ Comprehensive Field Training Project. Once the regulations relaxed for schools, they had the opportunity to carry out the yearly wreck survey. After much planning (smaller groups were required due to Covid-19 regulations), we could finally start to iron out some of the wrinkles that the pandemic had left behind.