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TABLE OF CONTENTS
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH ........................................................................................................................................... iii
PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................................... vii
PART 1 — FUNDAMENTALS
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO MARINE NAVIGATION ...........................................................................1
CHAPTER 2. GEODESY AND DATUMS IN NAVIGATION ...........................................................................15
CHAPTER 3. NAUTICAL CHARTS ...................................................................................................................23
CHAPTER 4. NAUTICAL PUBLICATIONS ......................................................................................................51
PART 2 — PILOTING
CHAPTER 5. SHORT RANGE AIDS TO NAVIGATION ..................................................................................63
CHAPTER 6. COMPASSES .................................................................................................................................81
CHAPTER 7. DEAD RECKONING .....................................................................................................................99
CHAPTER 8. PILOTING ....................................................................................................................................105
CHAPTER 9. TIDES AND TIDAL CURRENTS ...............................................................................................129
PART 3 — ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 10. RADIO WAVES ...........................................................................................................................151
CHAPTER 11. SATELLITE NAVIGATION .......................................................................................................163
CHAPTER 12. LORAN NAVIGATION ...............................................................................................................173
CHAPTER 13. RADAR NAVIGATION ..............................................................................................................187
CHAPTER 14. ELECTRONIC CHARTS .............................................................................................................199
PART 4 — CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 15. NAVIGATIONAL ASTRONOMY ..............................................................................................217
CHAPTER 16. INSTRUMENTS FOR CELESTIAL NAVIGATION .................................................................261
CHAPTER 17. AZIMUTHS AND AMPLITUDES ..............................................................................................271
CHAPTER 18. TIME .............................................................................................................................................275
CHAPTER 19. THE ALMANACS .......................................................................................................................287
CHAPTER 20. SIGHT REDUCTION ...................................................................................................................295
PART 5 — NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS
CHAPTER 21. NAVIGATIONAL MATHEMATICS ..........................................................................................317
CHAPTER 22. CALCULATIONS AND CONVERSIONS .................................................................................329
CHAPTER 23. NAVIGATIONAL ERRORS .......................................................................................................341
CHAPTER 24. THE SAILINGS ............................................................................................................................345
PART 6 — NAVIGATIONAL SAFETY
CHAPTER 25. NAVIGATION PROCESSES ......................................................................................................363
CHAPTER 26. EMERGENCY NAVIGATION ...................................................................................................373
CHAPTER 27. NAVIGATION REGULATIONS ................................................................................................383
CHAPTER 28. MARITIME SAFETY SYSTEMS ...............................................................................................393
CHAPTER 29. HYDROGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................409
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PART 7 — OCEANOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 30. THE OCEANS ........................................................................................................................... 425
CHAPTER 31. OCEAN CURRENTS ................................................................................................................ 433
CHAPTER 32. WAVES, BREAKERS AND SURF .......................................................................................... 441
CHAPTER 33. ICE NAVIGATION ................................................................................................................... 453
PART 8 — MARINE METEOROLOGY
CHAPTER 34. WEATHER ELEMENTS .......................................................................................................... 481
CHAPTER 35. TROPICAL CYCLONES .......................................................................................................... 503
CHAPTER 36. WEATHER OBSERVATIONS ................................................................................................. 519
CHAPTER 37. WEATHER ROUTING ............................................................................................................. 545
NAVIGATION TABLES
EXPLANATION OF NAVIGATION TABLES ....................................................................................................... 557
MATHEMATICAL TABLES
TABLE 1. LOGARITHMS OF NUMBERS ............................................................................................... 565
TABLE 2. NATURAL TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS ....................................................................... 575
TABLE 3. COMMON LOGARITHMS OF TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS ...................................... 598
TABLE 4. TRAVERSE TABLES ............................................................................................................... 621
CARTOGRAPHIC TABLES
TABLE 5. NATURAL AND NUMERICAL CHART SCALES ............................................................... 666
TABLE 6. MERIDIONAL PARTS ............................................................................................................. 667
TABLE 7. LENGTH OF A DEGREE OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE ............................................ 672
PILOTING TABLES
TABLE 8. CONVERSION TABLE FOR METERS, FEET, AND FATHOMS ........................................ 673
TABLE 9. CONVERSION TABLE FOR NAUTICAL AND STATUTE MILES ..................................... 674
TABLE 10. SPEED TABLE FOR MEASURED MILE ............................................................................... 675
TABLE 11. SPEED, TIME, AND DISTANCE ............................................................................................ 676
TABLE 12. DISTANCE OF THE HORIZON .............................................................................................. 679
TABLE 13. GEOGRAPHIC RANGE ........................................................................................................... 680
TABLE 14. DIP OF THE SEA SHORT OF THE HORIZON ...................................................................... 682
TABLE 15. DISTANCE BY VERTICAL ANGLE MEASURED BETWEEN SEA HORIZON
AND TOP OF OBJECT BEYOND SEA HORIZON ................................................................ 683
TABLE 16. DISTANCE BY VERTICAL ANGLE MEASURED BETWEEN WATERLINE
AT OBJECT AND TOP OF OBJECT ....................................................................................... 685
TABLE 17. DISTANCE BY VERTICAL ANGLE MEASURED BETWEEN WATERLINE
AT OBJECT AND SEA HORIZON BEYOND OBJECT ........................................................ 687
TABLE 18. DISTANCE OF AN OBJECT BY TWO BEARINGS .............................................................. 688
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CELESTIAL NAVIGATION TABLES
TABLE 19. TABLE OF OFFSETS ..................................................................................................................691
TABLE 20. MERIDIAN ANGLE AND ALTITUDE OF A BODY ON THE PRIME
VERTICAL CIRCLE ....................................................................................................................692
TABLE 21. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE FACTORS ..............................................................................694
TABLE 22. AMPLITUDES .............................................................................................................................698
TABLE 23. CORRECTION OF AMPLITUDE AS OBSERVED ON THE
VISIBLE HORIZON ....................................................................................................................700
TABLE 24. ALTITUDE FACTORS ................................................................................................................701
TABLE 25. CHANGE OF ALTITUDE IN GIVEN TIME FROM MERIDIAN TRANSIT ..........................706
TABLE 26. TIME ZONES, ZONE DESCRIPTIONS, AND SUFFIXES .......................................................708
TABLE 27. ALTITUDE CORRECTION FOR AIR TEMPERATURE ..........................................................709
TABLE 28. ALTITUDE CORRECTION FOR ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ..............................................709
METEOROLOGICAL TABLES
TABLE 29. CONVERSION TABLE FOR THERMOMETER SCALES .......................................................710
TABLE 30. DIRECTION AND SPEED OF TRUE WIND IN UNITS OF SHIP'S SPEED ...........................711
TABLE 31. CORRECTION OF BAROMETER READING FOR HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL .............712
TABLE 32. CORRECTION OF BAROMETER READING FOR GRAVITY ...............................................712
TABLE 33. CORRECTION OF BAROMETER READING FOR TEMPERATURE ...................................712
TABLE 34. CONVERSION TABLE FOR MILLIBARS, INCHES, AND MILLIMETERS
OF MERCURY .............................................................................................................................713
TABLE 35. RELATIVE HUMIDITY ..............................................................................................................714
TABLE 36. DEW POINT .................................................................................................................................715
GLOSSARIES
GLOSSARY OF MARINE NAVIGATION .............................................................................................................717
GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ......................................................................................855
INDEX
863-879
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