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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Foreword to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Emergency Navigation? | |
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| The Scope of This Book | |
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| Preparation for Navigational Emergencies | |
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| Time and Place at Sea | |
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| Latitude Regions and Seasons Defined | |
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| Time in Navigation | |
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| Finding Position versus Keeping Track of Position | |
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| Directions at Sea | |
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| Choosing a Route | |
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| Compass Checks | |
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| Steering without a Compass | |
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| Steering by Wind and Swells | |
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| Reading the Wind | |
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| Swells, Waves, and Ripples | |
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| Wind Shifts | |
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| Steering by the Stars | |
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| Know the Whole Sky | |
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| How the Stars Move | |
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| Steering by the North Star | |
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| The Summer Triangle | |
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| The Great Square of Pegasus | |
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| Finding North without the North Star | |
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| Steering by Orion | |
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| Steering by Gemini and Procyon | |
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| Steering by Scorpio | |
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| Steering by the Southern Cross and the South Pole | |
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| Steering by Overhead Stars | |
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| Steering by Zenith Stars | |
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| Star Paths | |
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| Timing Low Stars | |
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| Steering by the Sun | |
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| Sunrise and Sunset | |
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| Morning Sun and Afternoon Sun | |
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| Local Apparent Noon | |
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| Solar Time Method | |
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| The Shadow-Tip Method | |
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| The Tropics Rule for the Sun | |
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| Sun Crossing Due East or West | |
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| Sun Compasses | |
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| When the Sun Is Obscured | |
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| Steering by Other Things in the Sky | |
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| The Moon | |
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| The Planets | |
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| Clouds, Birds, and Planes | |
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| Satellites | |
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| Steering in Fog or Under Cloudy Skies | |
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| How to Make a Magnetic Compass | |
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| Direction Finding with a Portable Radio | |
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| Streaming a Line along the Centerline | |
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| Finding the Sun as a Viking Would | |
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| Currents | |
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| Ocean Currents | |
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| Tidal Currents | |
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| Wind-Driven Currents | |
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| Coastal Currents | |
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| Dead Reckoning | |
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| Emergency DR | |
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| Finding Boat Speed | |
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| DR Errors from Speed and Direction | |
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| DR Errors from Current and Leeway | |
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| Progress to Weather | |
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| Latitude at Sea | |
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| Makeshift Altitude Measurements and Calibrations | |
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| Makeshift Altitude Corrections | |
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| Latitude from Polaris | |
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| Latitude from Zenith Stars | |
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| Latitude from Horizon-Grazing Stars | |
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| Latitude from Double Transits of Circumpolar Stars | |
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| Latitude from the Sun at LAN | |
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| Latitude from the Length of Day | |
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| Keeping Track of Latitude | |
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| Longitude at Sea | |
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| Longitude from Sunrise or Sunset | |
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| Longitude from LAN (the Equation of Time) | |
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| Finding UTC from a Known Position | |
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| Keeping Track of Longitude | |
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| Coastal Piloting without Instruments | |
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| Signs of Land at Sea | |
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| Visible Range of Lights and Land | |
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| Distance Off | |
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| Running Fix from Radio Bearings | |
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| Course Made Good in Current | |
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| What to Do with What You've Got | |
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| Routine Navigation with Everything | |
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| Position by Radio Contact | |
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| Everything but UTC | |
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| Everything but a Sextant | |
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| Everything but Sight Reduction Tables | |
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| Everything but a Compass | |
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| Everything but an Almanac | |
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| Nothing but UTC | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Basic Marine Navigation | |
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| Almanac Data | |
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| Stars and Star Identification | |
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| Finding Longitude without Time | |
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| No-Instrument Navigation | |
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| Emergency Seamanship | |
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| Periodicals of Interest to Emergency Navigation | |
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| Meteorology and Oceanography | |
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| Published Aids to Navigation | |
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| Index | |