Questionnaire:1. Do you have internet connection from your previous vessel?

Yes No

2. How many vessels have you boarded with an internet connection?1 32 Please specify. ___

3. Does internet help you in your navigation and other duties?Yes

No. why? _________________________________________________________

4. In what way does internet helps you in navigation and other duties?It helps me to get information about the work to be done.It provides me e-learning tools that lead towards higher competency.It helps me to get in touch with my family and be updated to the news during

break time.Others, please specify.___________________________________________

5. In what way does internet affects your performance on board?It gives me valuable information for my work.It provides certain procedures on how to do a certain work onboard.It makes me sleepy during work because I surf the internet instead of having

rest.If others, please specify. __________________________________________

6. In overall, is Internet helpful to you onboard the vessel?Yes, it helps me a lot to get information about navigation and in many aspects.Yes, it keeps me in touch with my family.No, it does not help me at all.No, it only wastes my time instead of taking rest.

September 7, 2015

Dear Respondents,

The researchers are currently enrolled in the RESEARCH 1 and are working with their thesis paper entitled “Effects of Internet in Work onboard Vessel”. The research work would like to determine the effects of internet in work onboard vessel with respect to their performances onboard.

The questionnaire is designed to gather data from cadets and maritime instructors of the academy of MAAP. We would like to ask for your full cooperation and commitment in answering our questionnaire. The results will be used as our data in our research and it will be held totally confidential.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

2cl Bayona, Remar John 2cl Juarez, Alvin D. 2cl Lamprea, Robert Wayne

2cl Militante, Jose Arman

2cl Relos, Mark Anthony

Noted by:

Dr. Rosa Jade T. Valiente Research 1 Instructor

IV.CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

For this research, the study will focus on the Effects of Internet in Work Onboard Vessel. The researchers arranged the variables involve in the Input-Process-Output (IPO) model. The IPO will show the general structure and guide for the path of the dissertation. Substituting the variables of this research study on the IPO model, the researcher came up with the following:

Input Process Output

Fig 1: Paradigm of the Input-Process-Output Model of Effects of Internet in Work Onboard Vessel.

Internet onboard

Work Ethics

Resting Hours

Performance

Navigation

Duties

IX.SCOPE AND LIMITATION

The researchers aim is to conduct a research about the effects of internet in work onboard the vessel. They would like to know how internet affects the resting hours, performance onboard, navigation and duties or watches of officers and ratings in a certain vessel. The research only covers the effects of internet onboard if it is helpful or not in the performance of seafarers and if it is only used for communication or as a tool for leisure when they are on their own.

Our research will only limit our respondents to the maritime officers and ratings of the Philippines. This will include the instructors of the deck department and engine department inside the premises of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific that had experience to be a part of a vessel which has an internet connection. Our first classmen will also be included as our respondents in the said research for they already experienced to be a member of the crew of an international merchant vessel.