Navigation and Passage Planning for Watchkeeping Officers: Position Fixing, Tides, ECDIS, Squat Pilotage with 280 Practice Questions

Navigation and Passage Planning for Watchkeeping Officers is a practice-based study guide for the work of a navigation watch, from reading the chart to planning and monitoring a passage. WHO IT IS FOR >WHAT YOU WILL PRACTISE - Charts, datums, soundings, dead reckoning and chart corrections - Visual, radar and electronic position lines, running fixes and the cocked hat - Variation, deviation and gyro error: finding, recording and applying them - Tides, tidal streams, under-keel clearance, air draught and course to steer - Passage planning in four stages, waypoints, wheel-over points, squat and UKC >HOW THE BOOK WORKS >IMPORTANT NOTE This is an educational guide. Ships, ports and figures in the examples are illustrative. It does not replace official charts and publications, approved ECDIS and radar manuals, company procedures, flag state rules or the master's orders, and it is not an official STCW or IMO course.