ABSTRACT

Invaluable to participants of navigation control courses, candidates for Class 2 and Class 1 (master mariner) and all practising navigating officers.

part I|12 pages

Data Source

chapter 1|12 pages

The Compass

chapter 2|3 pages

The log

chapter 3|5 pages

The echo sounder

chapter 4|13 pages

The radio direction finder

chapter 5|82 pages

5 Radar

chapter 6|14 pages

The Decca Navigator

chapter 1|4 pages

Loran C

chapter 8|10 pages

Omega

chapter 9|3 pages

Satellite navigation systems

chapter 10|8 pages

Navigation system comparison

chapter 11|20 pages

Publications

chapter 12|9 pages

Introduction to passage planning

chapter 13|3 pages

Types of passage plan

chapter 14|4 pages

Appraisal

chapter 15|19 pages

Making the plan

chapter 16|5 pages

The contingency plan

chapter 17|7 pages

Distress, search and rescue

chapter 18|8 pages

Bridge operations and the bridge team

chapter 19|27 pages

Communications

chapter 20|14 pages

Execution of the passage plan

chapter 21|3 pages

Reacting to changed circumstances

chapter 22|14 pages

Collision avoidance

chapter 23|11 pages

Vessel traffic services