Navigation@Sea
3 Month
£45.00
Product Description
Provided by The Marine Society
Aim and Objectives
Thinking seriously about a cadetship and wanting to build the kind of foundation that proves you’re ready for the realities of life at sea?
Navigation@Sea is a foundation course designed for 16+ pre-cadetship learners (and anyone new to the subject) who want a structured, practical introduction to how vessels are navigated, knowledge you’ll build on throughout cadet training and beyond.
The aim of this course is to enable learners to acquire the underpinning knowledge relevant to the navigation of a vessel, providing a valuable basis for a career at sea in a variety of roles. It’s suitable for anyone with no prior knowledge and is written in accordance with MSQ Unit 95 – Introduction to Navigation.
Why take this before applying for a cadetship?
Because cadetship applications and interviews are stronger when you can show you’ve already started building real competence, not just interest.
Navigation is a core professional skill at sea. This course helps you develop the vocabulary, confidence, and baseline technical understanding that signals you’re taking the pathway seriously and prepares you to get more out of formal training when you start.
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course, you will:
- Know, and be able to calculate, the effect of tides on navigation
- Be able to plot a course
- Be able to produce a passage plan
- Know how to calculate courses
- Know the functions and uses of electronic navigation aids
After the course, you can expect to:
- Understand the fundamentals that sit behind safe navigation and watchkeeping
- Feel more confident moving into cadetship-level learning and assessment
- Speak more clearly in applications and interviews about what navigation involves and what you’ve already started learning