Navigation control is the exercise of command decicion-making based on all the data available. This includes the ability to evaluate navigational information, derived from all sources, in order to make and implement command decisions for collision avoidance and for directing the safe navigation of the ship. The full appreciation of system errors and a thorough understanding of the operational a…
This model course aims to meet the mandatory minimum standards of competence for "use of radar and ARPA to maintain safety of navigation". The course includes the theory necessary to understand the system configuration, principles, performance of shipborne marine radar and ARPA, the factors affecting radar performances, how radar information is obtained, displayed and analysed, the limitations…
NAVTEX is an international automated direct-printing service for promulgation of navigational and meteorological warnings and other urgent information to ships. It is one of the two principle methods used for broadcasting maritime safety information in accordance with the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended. It has been developed to provide…
The overwhelming response, in India and abroad, to the Nutshell series of books, especially this first one - Practical Navigation - has encouraged me to keep thinking of various ways by which improvements could be made with each subsequent edition. In the third edition, sufficient theory was addd to make the student understand the subject of Practical Navigation better than was possible with t…
Practical Navigation for Officers of the Watch replaces the title 'Practical Navigation For Second Mates'. The scope has been extended and includes relevant principles and theory to cover the requirements of the International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and Warchkeeping for Seafarers related tothe use of charts and other Admiralty navigational publications, chart contructi…