Some recommendations to the ship master in order to evacuate a cruise ship due to tsunami arrival

Disaster mitigation is very important to minimize huge accidents which may occur due to the arrival of a tsunami. A possible way to minimize huge economic losses and to reduce the danger to human life is to have ships which are located in the port around Osaka Bay immediately evacuate to a safe area. The guidance for seafarer competency is regulated by the STCW (International Standard Training Certification and Watchkeeping) convention and STCW (Sea farer training certification and watchkeeping) Code. In relation to disaster mitigation, there are minimum-requirement capabilities which have to be achieved by the seafarer. However, there is no clear mention of any competencies required for the seafarer in case of a marine disaster, such as a tsunami arrival, since the tsunami case is considered very rare and it is difficult to predict when a tsunami might arrive in Osaka Bay. In this paper, some recommendations for masters to evacuate their ships in the case of a tsunami arrival is shown; the time evacuation of large passenger vessel is carried out and the initial position of the large passenger vessel is assumed and not changing based on data obtained from Automatic Identification System (AIS). The recommendations of ship evacuation shows where and how the ship has to evacuate from inside port in order to minimize a huge disaster.