COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. This course is designed to equip the participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills required to maintain a safe navigational watch, use electronic navigational aids to determine vessel position and use the equipment for safety of navigation in anti-collision modes. Course participants will acquire sufficient knowledge on the basic principles of the most commonly used electronic navigational aids and to select the best suitable navigational system on board in a given situation and effectively use the instruments. They will also be able to handle the instruments properly and apply correctly the information obtained to fix the vessel’s position. The course covers the basic operation of various navigation instruments, radio direction finders, echosounders and speed measurement, speed logs, radar navigation, basic radar plotting, automatic radar plotting aids (ARPA), electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS), automatic identification systems (AIS) and modern navigation systems to assist command decision-making and the application of effective bridge resource management principles and procedures.