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Tasks and Duties
- Consult maps, charts, weather reports, and navigation equipment to determine and direct ship movements.
- Direct courses and speeds of ships, based on specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, water depths, tides, currents, and hazards.
- Give directions to crew members who are steering ships.
- Operate ship-to-shore radios to exchange information needed for ship operations.
- Prevent ships under their navigational control from engaging in unsafe operations.
- Provide assistance to vessels approaching or leaving seacoasts, navigating harbors, and docking and undocking.
- Serve as a vessel's docking master upon arrival at a port and when at a berth.
- Set ships' courses that avoid reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards, utilizing navigational aids such as lighthouses and buoys.
- Steer ships into and out of berths, or signal tugboat captains to berth and unberth ships.
- Advise ships' masters on harbor rules and customs procedures.
- Learn to operate new technology systems and procedures, through the use of instruction, simulators, and models.
- Maintain and repair boats and equipment.
- Maintain ship logs.
- Oversee cargo storage on or below decks.
- Provide assistance in maritime rescue operations.
- Relieve crew members on tugs and launches.
- Report to appropriate authorities any violations of federal or state pilotage laws.
- Make nautical maps.
- Operate amphibious craft during troop landings.
NAVIGATION
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This project is supported, in part, by the NationalScience Foundation. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily the Foundation
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