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Celestial nav course for professional mariners
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2017 Apr 2, 16:35 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2017 Apr 2, 16:35 -0700
A course on celestial navigation is offered by MITAGS-PMI (The Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies / Pacific Maritime Institute). The 10-day class costs $2000. https://mitags-pmi.org/courses/Celestial_Navigation_(Operational_Level) "This course (MITPMI-114) is required by all Able Seamen upgrading to 500/1600/3rd Mate licenses as it satisfies the OICNW training requirements for Celestial Navigation. The course covers the most common forms of position fixing by celestial bodies. Subjects for this course include nautical astronomy, sextant, sight reductions, time of sunset, time of sunrise, and star identification." I learned of the course yesterday while monitoring the news broadcast from historic coastal radio station KPH at Point Reyes, California. The Maritime Radio Historical Society has restored this historic station to the air and operates it each weekend. I think KPH is the only radio station in the U.S. to still handle commercial ship to shore traffic in Morse code.
