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Inside this issue
All @ Sea - What's next for The Navigator?
Reviewing the situation- Lack of situational awareness can leave you high and dry - as Sam Pecota MNI knows from experience.
Positions, Please!- The Navigator examines the different positioning methods out there and asks what benefits each of them have to offer – and what pitfalls need to be avoided
WATCHOUT - Complacency and distraction leads to grounding-In this series, we take a look at maritime accident reports and the lessons that can be learned.
Who's navigating?-Shaping dreams into reality In this series, The Navigator speaks to current navigational personnel about their motivations, careers to date and thoughts for the future. Under the spotlight this issue is Company Cadet Training Officer, Eldine Chilembo.
WAYPOINT - How do you solve a problem like positioning?- Dr Andy Norris, an active Fellow of The Nautical Institute and the Royal Institute of Navigation, asks why positioning is still such a problem to the modern navigator.
Take 10- This issue of take 10 The Navigator has looked at positioning at sea. Here are ten points to take away from this issue to help ensure this important subject stays top of everyone’s list of priorities.
A navigator’s guide to charting, classifying and understanding restricted areas
The UK Hydrographic Office explains how restricted areas are classified and charted on paper charts and ENCs
The Navigator statementWATCHOUT - Remote control?
How remotely piloted aircraft are being used to help monitor compliance within restricted areas and reduce the risk of unwanted incidents
The Navigator statementWho's Navigating? STEER-ing the ship, charting the course
Ann Pletschke discusses her sea-based career and work ashore, researching the impact of technology on seafarers
The Navigator statementNavBrief - The Navigator issue 42
Today’s seas are becoming more complex to navigate, not least due to increasing numbers of restricted areas. Knowing where they are and what to do about them could make all the difference for a safe and smooth journey
The Navigator statementRites of passage: Restricted areas and the planning process
Commodore Nick Nash FNI looks at how seafarers navigate restricted areas, moving between many overlapping areas across a single passage
The Navigator statementTake 10 #42: Understand, identify and navigate restricted areas at sea
Ten tips to help you understand, identify and navigate restricted areas
The Navigator statementWAYPOINT - The digital data revolution
George Shaw AFNI from the Royal Institute of Navigation explains how digital maritime services are evolving to address higher demands on mariners’ situational awareness
The Navigator statementWork, rest and port calls
A fundamental skill for any navigator is the ability to maintain situational awareness and make good decisions, both in planning and in carrying out the voyage. That requires good training, and good maintenance and development of knowledge. It also needs sufficient physical and mental rest
The Navigator statementWAYPOINT - GNSS interference, workload and fatigue
Managing a new addition to the established workload – and what maritime regulation can learn from civil aviation
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