1. Planning Passages
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

... to the ship's navigator. Studies show that human error is a factor in 80 percent of navigational accidents and that in many cases the human making the error had access to information that could have ...

2. Navigational History
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

... navigational sciences were highly developed, making use of a magnetic compass and a rudimentary instrument known as a kamal, used for celestial navigation and for measuring the altitudes and latitudes ...

3. Marine Navigation
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

... to perform navigation tasks. The word navigate is derived from the latin "navigare" meaning "to sail". All navigational techniques involve locating the navigator's position compared to known locations ...