To provide the student with the skills to manage traffic situa-tions as the officer of the watch through the use of radar plot-ting and with ability to use radar in order to maintain safety of navigation and fulfil the requirements set in the IMO Res. A.483(XII).
Prerequisites
Watchkeeping Duties 1A
Navigational Aids: Radar
Terrestrial Navigation B
Content of the study unit
• Basic principles of radar plotting
• Different methods of manual radar plotting
• Planning evasive manoeuvres
• Confirming the speed and course of the current in radar plotting
• Errors in radar plotting