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Re: Astronomy and Celestial Navigation
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 07:16 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 07:16 -0400
Dear Peter, On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Peter MacNeil wrote: > maintain the skill sets requird to conduct celestial > navigation. Not only is it still being trained in the > Canadian Navy and Royal Navy, but many other worldwide > navies. I knew this, but it is nice to see a confirmation:-) It is still hard for me to see any "practical purpose" of this training, but probably it has to be attributed to extreme conservatism of many people related to sailing and navies:-) I also know that in many countries, sailors training include sailing under sails:-) Probably, the reasons for this are similar to keeping Cal Nav in the curriculum. Alex.