Navigation Basics

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Head-on Situation

Head-on Situation (a) When two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal on nearly reciprocal courses so as to invoke risk of collision each shall alter her course to starboard so that each shall pass on the port side of the other. (b) Such a situation shall be deemed to exist when a vessel sees the […]

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Distance

Nautical Mile: For the measurement of distances navigation uses nautical mile. Nautical Mile equals to 1852 meters and is sub- divided into cables of one tenth of the nautical mile. The maximum value of a mile at the poles is 1864 meters and the minimum value at the equator is 1842,8 meters. Distance In navigation […]

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Responsibilities Between Vessels

(a) A power driven vessel underway shall keep out of the way of: (i) a vessel not under command; (ii) a vessel restricted in her ability to manoeuvre; (iii) a vessel engaged in fishing; (iv) a sailing vessel (b) A sailing vessel underway shall keep out of the way of: (i) a vessel not under […]

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Navigation

The term navigation expresses the procedures that are being applied for the safe command of the ship from one harbor to another or from one point of the globe to another in the least amount of time possible. Navigation, depending on the area a ship sails, the means and the instruments it uses, as well […]

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NAVTEX

NAVTEX (Introduction) NAVTEX is an international automated direct-printing service that promulgates navigational and meteorological warnings as well as urgent information to vessels. It has been developed to provide low cost maritime safety information and other information of vital importance. Its name results from the term ‘navigation telex’. NAVTEX system is recommended to administrations responsible for […]

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Coastal Navigation

Coastal navigation is a navigational method concerning the vessel’s movement in relation to the approximate shore, the visible objects in the sea (islets, rocks, buoys, light vessels) and the sea depths. Coastal navigation demands great experience. The mariner has to be in continuous vigilance, given that in open sea a possible fault can be corrected […]

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