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)

... for short distances, using the sun and stars. This early celestial navigation was problemmatic and often resulted in the navigator becoming lost. In the China Sea and Indian Ocean, a navigator could ...

3. Marine Navigation
(Mariners Education/Navigation)

Navigation Navigation is the process of reading, and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators ...