Emergency Navigation Card
Emergency Navigation Card

Author: David Burch

Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780939837588

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A wealth of information is provided: an emergency almanac for the sun, and declination tables for the stars; several methods of sight reduction, including one that requires only the card itself; and angular markings on the perimeter of the card that allows approximate altitude measurements of celestial bodies. With this card and a watch you can find your way to any major port in the world. Other information includes how to steer by the stars and finding your boat's speed. A handy card to have in case your GPS, sextant, or almanac becomes lost. The card is loose-leaf sized. You can punch holes in it for insertion in a binder. It is plastic laminated for weatherproofing and durability.

Emergency Navigation, 2nd Edition
Emergency Navigation, 2nd Edition

Author: David Burch

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008-05-14

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0071643389

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Find Your Way at Sea, No Matter What “Inherently interesting and fun to read . . . provides the clearest understanding of general navigation principles we've seen yet.”--BoatU.S. “Thorough and authoritative.”--Sea Kayaker “A definitive work of instant appeal to seamen of all levels of experience.”--The Navigation Foundation Every sailor knows that instruments can fail. Things get wet, break, fall overboard. Whether you’re safe on your boat or drifting in a life raft, let David Burch show you how to find your way no matter what navigational equipment you have. Often relying on common materials like a small stick, a plastic bottle, even a pair of sunglasses, Burch explains how to make use of all available means--from the ancient skills of Polynesian navigators to the contrails of airliners overhead--to calculate speed, direction, latitude, and longitude and to perform all aspects of piloting and dead reckoning. Learn how to Steer by sun, stars, wind, and swells Estimate current and leeway Improvise your own knotmeter or plumb-bob sextant Find the sun in a fogbank Estimate latitude with a plate and a knotted string And more vital information

Emergency
Emergency

Author: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1296

ISBN-13: 9780763744069

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Textbook for EMT training. The DVD walks students through the skills necessary to pass the EMT-Basic practical exam.

Emergency Contact
Emergency Contact

Author: Mary H. K. Choi

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1534408975

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“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer. It’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to, you know, see each other.

How to Use Plastic Sextants with Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting
How to Use Plastic Sextants with Applications to Metal Sextants and a Review of Sextant Piloting

Author: David Burch

Publisher:

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780914025245

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Sextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by measuring the angular distance between the moon and another body along its path across the zodiac. In coastal waters or on land, sextants can be used for very accurate piloting by measuring the horizontal angles between charted landmarks. The vertical angle of a peak above its baseline determines the distance to it, which, combined with a compass bearing, yields a position fix from just one landmark. The angular dip of an object (island or vessel) below the visible horizon can also be used to determine the distance to it. This booklet explains how to get the best results from plastic sextants, and presents numerical comparisons with similar data from metal sextants. Sextant piloting techniques are also reviewed as they are an ideal use of a plastic sextant.

Safety of Navigation
Safety of Navigation

Author: Maritime and Coastguard Agency (Great Britain)

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780115525759

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Chapter V of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS V) has been substantially revised. The new Regulations will come into force in the UK on 1 July 2002 under the Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2002, and will replace the 1974 Chapter V (SOLAS V/74) Regulations. The Regulations apply to all UK ships on all voyages and to all other ships while they are in UK waters. This publication contains the full text for each Regulation, as determined by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), along with explanatory guidance notes. It has been prepared to provide practical guidance to ship-owners, masters, crews and the shipping industry on the implementation of the new SOLAS Regulations.

The Atlantic Sailor's Handbook
The Atlantic Sailor's Handbook

Author: Alastair Buchan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1408100118

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A practical, how-to guide to the planning, preparation and execution of an Atlantic passage for three specific passages: a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a trip from the East Coast of the U.S.A. to the Caribbean, and cruising around the Caribbean itself.