Maritime Training Navigator

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Inspiration

Atticus came up with the concept of a Maritime Training Navigator years ago, then branded as Salt 93 (salty since 1993). Until now, there was no centralized resource for mariners to identify who was providing training courses for license renewal and upgrade, and when and where those classes would occur. However, the prospect of needing to pay an administrative assistant to input information on a weekly basis made it infeasible to bootstrap the Maritime Training Navigator.

What it does

Training schedules from different maritime training providers are combined into one location, for the first time.

How we built it

The emergence of Vibe Coding and AI-Based Web and App Development Tools has now made it economical to develop a self-updating database, which is the heart of the Maritime Training Navigator.

Challenges we ran into

The builder identified limitations in the “website scour” of third-party sites. To resolve issues with data corruption, we set defined data sets for training providers and their flagship cities, which course titles may be offered fully online, and the list of courses that will be included in the search function. This process of defining data set parameters required subject-matter expertise of mariner licensing in the United States, which the program’s owner possesses.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

To ensure validity of information, we plan to hand-check search results against printed training schedules from primary course providers, repeating this on a monthly basis for the first year. The same practice will be applied to pages generated from inputs from the US Coast Guard website. Maintenance strategy is periodic quality check of training schedule and checklist outputs, and verifying functions of internal and external links.

What's next for Maritime Training Navigator

We plan to launch in the next 14 days! Partnerships with the Hampton Roads Maritime Training Systems, forums such as GCaptain and APMA are likely to be established.

Built With

• base44
• llm