Navigation, Merchant Marine
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Reeds Maritime MeteorologyThe fourth edition of this established and popular text analyses the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them. Written primarily for serving and trainee deck officers, those studying for certificates of competency in merchant shipping and fishermen,...
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Bridge Resource Management: From the Costa Concordia to Navigation in the Digital AgeOn 13th January 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia hit the rocks off the Island of Giglio. Within just a few hours the ship lay to rest on the seabed in a semi-submerged state.The accident cost the lives of 32 people and has left...
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One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed SailingTristan Jones has logged more miles--and more adventure--sailing single-handed than any other person alive in our time. He has crossed the Atlantic many times, often alone, and has circumnavigated the globe in small boats. One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship is a...
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Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr: For Power-Driven and Sailing VesselsThis book provides over 500 exercises with answers covering all aspects of small-craft navigation. These are practical problems that all navigators should know how to solve. Topics include: Piloting, Chart reading and plotting, Voyage planning, Dead reckoning, Compass use, Waypoint selection, Special publications, Rules...
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How to Use Plastic Sextants: With Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant PilotingSextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by...
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Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935The complete history of steamboating on the Missouri River Forming the most important river corridor in the trans-Mississippi West, the Missouri and its navigable tributaries were instrumental in opening the continent--but it took the steamboat to make that possible. The flat-bottomed vessel was the...
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Navigating with or Without a Compass: Using Bearings and Nature to Find Your WayNever be lost again This concise and handy guide will help you get your bearings and find your way out of the wilderness no matter your equipment. Finding your campsite, a spectacular view, or your way home can be difficult, especially when your phone...
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GPS for DummiesNeed directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you've dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it. If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one,...
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Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way by Eye and ElectronicsAuthor: BrogdonPublisher: McGraw-HillPublished: 09/27/2001Pages: 234Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.56dISBN: 9780071837958This title is not returnable
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Pilot's Pocket DecoderCompact enough to slip into your flight ease and comrehensive enough to ensure master, of the daily parlance of pilots, this handy reference clarifies nearly 3,000 essential acronyms, abbreviations, symbols, technical terms, and slang definitions used in aviation. Completely up to date and categorically...
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Core Principles of Maritime NavigationCore Principles of Maritime Navigation introduces the main navigation concepts required by trainees and professionals involved in maritime operations. The book covers a wide range of subjects from wind, waves and depths to navigational marks and buoys, navigational techniques and equipment, passage planning, duties...
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Lloyd's Maritime Atlas of World Ports and Shipping Places 2022-2023Published since 1951, Lloyd's Maritime Atlas is the oldest and most respected atlas in the shipping industry. A comprehensive reference for locating the world's busiest ports and shipping places, this new edition has been fully updated and enhanced with brand new maps and features...
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Hawaii by Sextant: An In-Depth Exercise in Celestial Navigation Using Real Sextant Sights and Logbook EntriesIn the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of sun,...
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American Practical Navigator 'Bowditch' 2019 Volume 1The latest edition of the Bowditch. This 2019 edition of the American Practical Navigator offered by Paradise Cay Publications, is seperated into two editions, but is bound for your convenience into one handsome, hardcover book.The American Practical Navigator (colloquially often referred to as Bowditch),...
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Hennepin Canal Parkway: History Through the MilesThe Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park in Illinois is one of the longest parks in the United States with more than 170 miles of hiking, biking, equestrian, and snowmobiling trails. Centered on the historic canal that opened to commercial navigation in 1907 and closed...
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Shipwrecks of Maine and New HampshireSHIPWRECKS OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE ISBN 978-1-883056-52-0 softcover with color covers, 6 x 9 vertical, 220 pages, $20 U.S. 4 color photos, 126 black & white photos GARY GENTILE'S POPULAR DIVE GUIDE SERIES Over 300 GPS and loran numbers included As suggested by...
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Guide to the Alaska Highway: Your Complete Driving GuideTraveling across the great northern expanses from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska, the 1,500-mile Alaska Highway remains one of the greatest driving adventures of all time. Inside you will find details on gas prices, where to camp, how to prepare your...
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Guide to the Alaska Highway: Your Complete Driving GuideNorth America's Greatest Driving AdventureRon Dalby is a veteran of more than 50 trips up and down his favorite road, and now he shares his Insider's Tips with you. With Ron as your guide, you'll discover the many treasures that the highway has to...
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Coastal Navigation Exercises: Over 100 exercises based on the Canadian chart Strait of Georgia, Southern PortionCoastal Navigation Exercises is based on the notes and exercises prepared for students during some 15 years of teaching marine navigation to sailors and professional mariners. The data tables needed to do the exercises are given in the Appendix of this manual. Most of...
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Navigation Rules & Regulations Handbook 2014: Black & WhiteThis handbook (which supersedes Commandant Instruction 16772.2D, Navigation Rules: International-Inland*) is a compendium, produced by the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Standards Branch, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC, of the: International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS); Inland Navigation Rules (33...
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