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Inside this issue

All @ Sea - What's next for The Navigator?

Competence: Planning ahead-You are a young, junior officer. You have been trained and have received a Certificate of Competency. You join a ship and are given responsibility for your own navigational watch. Are you ready? Do you know everything you need to know?

Competence: Build on your skill- As technology advances, competencies that are required today will not be the same as those needed tomorrow. Gilbert Maturan describes how global maritime company Teekay supports its people in their quest to build on competency at sea

WATCHOUT - Charging your phone on the bridge? - In this series, we take a look at maritime accident reports and the lessons that can be learned

Who's navigating? - Never stop learning - Navigational officer, Kyle MacLeod talks about why he loves his life at sea and how he builds on his competencies and skills, both onboard ship and ashore

WAYPOINT - Exploring Competencies - Dr Andy Norris, an active Fellow of The Nautical Institute and the Royal Institute of Navigation, looks beyond basic competencies and asks how navigators can build on what they already know

Take 10- In this issue of take 10 The Navigator, we have looked at how to build on competencies to improve knowledge and skills. Here are ten points to remember

 

29 Sep 2025

Take 10 #40: Managing GNSS

Ten top tips for managing GNSS – and the absence of it

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WAYPOINT - Staying alert to jamming and spoofing

George Shaw from the Royal Institute of Navigation explores how GNSS can become vulnerable to jamming and spoofing and what mariners can do to stay on course

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Who's Navigating? Sailing, shipping and building mutual respect

A love for life on the water led Third Officer Scarlett Barnett-Smith to pursue a rewarding career at sea

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29 Sep 2025

WATCHOUT - Loss of GPS leads to groundings, disruption and delay

In this series, we take a look at issues affecting the safety of mariners and the lessons that can be learned from incident reports and examples. The following case studies and analysis have been provided by Gard P&I Club

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29 Sep 2025

Taking action

Far from being a theoretical concern, recent incidents in geopolitical conflict zones have underscored the very real and immediate dangers posed by compromised global navigational satellite systems (GNSS).

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29 Sep 2025

GNSS jamming

GNSS such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou are key elements of positioning, navigation and timing. Their signals, however, can be affected not only by unintentional interference but also by intentional jamming. The growing reliance of ships on GNSS means that seafarers need to be aware of how GNSS jamming happens and how to detect it

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29 Sep 2025

NavBrief

Do you know where your ship is? Now imagine that the satellite navigation system has failed, and the position is now longer marked on the ECDIS – or is showing as somewhere the ship cannot possibly be. Now what happens?

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30 May 2025

Who's Navigating? Stepping outside the comfort zone

Deck cadet Chelsa Maria George Paul talks about her experiences at sea, her ambitions to rise through the ranks and her desire to be a good role model for women all over the world who want to build a career at sea.

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30 May 2025

WAYPOINT - Spotting whales from space?

Space and AI technologies are increasingly able to provide information that helps mariners plan routes to avoid whales at sea – but old-fashioned look-out skills are still needed. George Shaw from the Royal Institute of Navigation investigates further.

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