1. Planning Passages
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

... prevented the accident. The practice of voyage planning has evolved from penciling lines on nautical charts to a process of risk management. Poor passage planning and deviation from the plan can lead ...

2. Navigational History
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

... later reported in Strabo's Geography, the monsoon wind system of the Indian Ocean was first sailed by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 118 or 116 BC. Nautical charts and textual descriptions known as sailing directions ...

3. Marine Navigation
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

... and an object in real life. A bearing is a measure of the direction to an object. If the navigator measures the direction in real life, the angle can then be drawn on a nautical chart and the navigator ...