Ordu University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
DUİ2032016949	Navigation II	Compulsory	2	3	5

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To be familiar with navigational aids, to learn the types of navigations, to calculate tidal current and great circle

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lecturer Hakan KARATAŞ

Learning Outcomes

1	Knowing the factors affecting Navigation.
2	Knowing the lights, soundings and logs.
3	Calculate Tidal currents
4	Knowing Great Circle Sailing
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Mode of Delivery

Evening Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Navigational aids at sea and coast and their use Recognition of lights, calculation of light characteristics, day and night light visibility distances. The information contained in the books of the light and fog signals, light characteristics, sector lights. Buoyage system and shape, color, pattern,top shapes and light characteristics, LATERAL and CARDINAL SYSTEM buoys, other buoys Radio navigational aids, symbols, maps and books. Showing depths in maps. Depth measurement Soundings. Hand sounding. Electronic soundings (Echo-Sounders). Navigation using the sounder Provision of Dead reckoning navigation. When is it necessary to mark the DR position on the map? Things to watch out during DR navigation. Logs, types and working principles Current and current navigation calculations, current triangle elements (SET, DRIFT, SOA, TRACK, COURSE, SPEED). Current systems on Earth. Tide and Tidal currents, Maximum Current calculation. Usage of current table and current atlases The tide, the reason, Newton's Law, the moon's effect on the moon, Spring and Neap tide. Using tidal calculations to calculate low and high water times. To make depth calculation for a certain time using tide tables To calculate the steady water time and the speed of the current for a certain time. Use of American and British tide tables The planning of the voyage with taking into account the tide and tidal current. Route, leeway, steer and apply route against leeway Plane navigation. Traverse sailing. Latitude navigation. Longitude navigation Medium latitude navigation. Mercator navigation Great Circle Sailing. Properties of Great Circle. Great circle navigation planning and calculation methods. Great circle Sailing methods Gnomonic-Mercator procedure. Lambert procedure. Using Covergency angle Spherical triangle solution. Astronomical navigation. Composite navigation

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Navigational aids at sea and coast and their use
2	Recognition of lights, calculation of light characteristics, day and night light visibility distances. The information contained in the books of the light and fog signals, light characteristics, sector lights. Buoyage system and shape, color, pattern,top shapes and light characteristics, LATERAL and CARDINAL SYSTEM buoys, other buoys
3	Radio navigational aids, symbols, maps and books. Showing depths in maps. Depth measurement
4	Soundings. Hand sounding. Electronic soundings (Echo-Sounders). Navigation using the sounder
5	Provision of Dead reckoning navigation. When is it necessary to mark the DR position on the map? Things to watch out during DR navigation. Logs, types and working principles
6	Current and current navigation calculations, current triangle elements (SET, DRIFT, SOA, TRACK, COURSE, SPEED). Current systems on Earth. Tide and Tidal currents, Maximum Current calculation. Usage of current table and current atlases
7	The tide, the reason, Newton's Law, the moon's effect on the moon, Spring and Neap tide. Using tidal calculations to calculate low and high water times. To make depth calculation for a certain time using tide tables
8	To calculate the steady water time and the speed of the current for a certain time. Use of American and British tide tables
9	The planning of the voyage with taking into account the tide and tidal current. Route, leeway, steer and apply route against leeway
10	Plane navigation. Traverse sailing. Latitude navigation. Longitude navigation
11	Medium latitude navigation. Mercator navigation
12	Great Circle Sailing. Properties of Great Circle. Great circle navigation planning and calculation methods. Great circle Sailing methods
13	Gnomonic-Mercator procedure. Lambert procedure. Using Covergency angle
14	Spherical triangle solution. Astronomical navigation. Composite navigation
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