Day Skipper Navigation - Student Support Page

 Welcome to the Day Skipper Navigation Course Support Page

On this page we reproduce documents and support material that you will need for your course

Day Skipper Evening Navigation Course 09-10 Course Programme

Day Skipper Distance Learning Navigation Course 09-10 Course Programme


 

1. Syllabus, Equipment, Intro to Met, Nautical Terms, Charts

Course materials, Presentation - Chartwork, Sources of Forecast, Sheet for taking down Irish Sea Area Forecast


 

2. Meteorology 1, Charts, Seamanship

Presentation on Seamanship, Presentation on Fog, Presentation on Sea Breeze  Extra Presentation - Effects of land on wind


 

3. Meteorology 2, Buoyage, Tides 1

Presentation on Buoyage, Presentation on Depressions and Passage of Frontal Systems, Presentation on Intro to Tides

Answers to:   Seamanship Ex 1 Q 2- 8,      Chart Familiarisation Ex 2 Q 5-10


 

Module 4. Tidal Heights

Presentation on Tidal Heights, Presentation on Tidal Curve, Presentation on Secondary Ports.  

Answers to:    Tides  Ex 3  Q 1-3,        Buoyage  Ex 7  Q 1-3


 

Module 5. Tidal Streams and Compass

Presentation on Tidal Streams, Presentation on Compass

Answers to:  Tidal Heights Ex 3 Q 1- 14


 

Module 6. Safety, Distress and Rescue + Plotting a fix

Presentation on Safety  Presentation on Plotting a fix

Answers to:  Tidal Streams Ex 3 Q 13-18         Compass Ex 4 Q 1-4


 

Module 7. Position Finding, Dead Reckoning and Estimated Position (DR + EP)

Notes on Plotting a fix and DR,EP   Template for EP

Answers to:  Safety Ex 8


 

Module 8. Lights, Shapes and Sound

Presentation on Lights, Shapes and Sounds 

Answers to: DREP Ex 4 Q 9-14, Example DREP Q12


 

 Module 9. Course to Steer and ETA. Navigation Instruments 

Notes on Course to Steer . Presentation on Navigation Instruments 

Answers to:   Collision Regulations  Ex 11 


 

 Module 10. Electronic Navigation 

Presentation on Navigation Instruments 

Answers to:   Chartwork -Course to Steer  Ex 5


 

Module 11. Pilotage and General Assessment Paper

Presentation on Pilotage

Answers to:  Using GPS  Ex 6


 Module 12. Passage Planning + Pilotage 2

Presentation on Passage Planning

Answers to:  Pilotage  Ex 7 Q4


 

 Module 13. Revision, E-Nav, Passage Planning 2

Sample Passage Plan

Answers to:  Passage Planning  Ex 

 

Eddie English Blog

18 January 2012

Why did the Costa Concordia sink?

 The town of Cobh has been a port of call for ocean liners for over 150 years - now about 60 liners visit Cork Harbour each year- we all love the liners!  Everybody in the maritime community was shocked last Friday night with the news of the grounding of the massive Italian cruise liner the Costa Concordia. I spent the weekend trawling the web to try to find out what really happened - this blog is the tragic story of the last voyage of the Costa Concordia on  Friday the 13th of January 2012.

sinking of costa concordia

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