FREE RESOURCES AND COURSES

Want to gain valuable skills and additional accreditation?  Then complete these courses – they’re free of charge!

IMO COURSES (INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANISATION – PART OF THE UNITED NATIONS)

1)  An e-learning course on how the maritime industry can reduce its environmental carbon footprint. Those who complete the course and pass the quiz questions at the end, will receive an IMO certificate.

https://www.uncclearn.org/courses/introductory-course-on-energy-efficient-ship-operation/

2) Another online course on green energy which is aimed at seafarers working in the engine and deck departments.

https://greenvoyage2050.imo.org/low-carbon-gia-launches-second-free-e-learning-course-energy-saving-at-sea/

PHOTO GALLERY

All photos relating to our maritime programme can be found on Facebook and Instagram.

Visit @LawhillMaritime for the latest photos.

Tobela Gqabu

Tobela Gqabu at age 28 become Lawhill’s first internationally qualified master mariner

Listening to classmates present their harbour development plans – Maritime Economics class

Doing chart work in the Nautical Science classroom

Sailing past Cape Point on board the SA Agulhas.

Doing chart work on board the SA Oranje

Shuneen van Niekerk, pictured onboard the Safmarine Orange, is currently serving onboard Safmarine vessels

All five Lawhill students who did this coastal trip on the Safmarine Oranje are currently working at sea

Visit from past student Damien Tethar

With Captain Godfrey Schlemmer with Tobela Gqabu and Lawhill students on the bridge simulator at SAMTRA

Visit from past student Emerald Seebran (centre), who matriculated from Lawhill in 2012

The opening of the new Lawhill Maritime Centre building in March 2010. The modern Lawhill Maritime Centre facilities – generously donated by the TK Foundation (Bahamas) and several other donors – provides comfortable accommodation, dining and recreational facilities for 54 students who live away from Simon’s Town and its environs.

Grade 11 students pictured at the 2013 Awards evening

Simons Town – the home of the Lawill Maritime Centre

Views over Simon’s Town Bay from the girls cabins

A bicycle kindly donated at the end of the 2104 Cycle Tour to the Lawhill Maritime Centre

A visit onboard a submarine, courtesy of the General Botha Old Boys Bursary Fund

A highlight was the visit, by Belgian Royalty, to Lawhill