Essential Navigation & Seamanship
- Charts & publications
- Safety
- Engine checks
- Buoyage
- Tidal awareness
- Visual and electronic navigation
- Pilotage
- Rules of the road (Collision Regulations)
- Anchoring
- Weather forecasts
- Passage planning
Day Skipper
- Nautical terms
- Rope work
- Anchor work
- Safety
- International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS)
- Definition of course, position and speed
- Navigational charts and publications
- Navigational drawing instruments
- Compass
- Chart work
- Tides and Tidal Streams
- Visual aids to navigation
- Meteorology
- Passage planning
- Navigation in restricted visibility
- Pilotage
- Marine environment
Coastal Skipper & Yachtmaster Offshore
- Position determination
- The Magnetic Compass
- Tides and Tidal Streams
- Buoyage; Lights; Pilotage
- GPS and Chart Plotters
- Echo Sounders
- Logs (speed and distance measurement)
- Deck log
- Meteorology
- Rules of the Road
- Safety at Sea
- Navigation in Restricted Visibility
- Passage Planning
- Marine Environment
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Yachtmaster Ocean
- The Earth and the Celestial Sphere
- The PZX triangle
- The Sextant
- Measurement of Time
- Meridian altitudes
- Sun, Star and other sights
- Compass checking
- Satellite Navigation Systems
- Great circle sailing
- Meteorology
- Passage Planning
- Passage making
- Communications
SRC (VHF)
- The basics of radio operation
- The correct frequencies to be used
- Distress, emergency & medical assistance procedures
- Making ship to shore telephone calls
- Digital Selective Calling (DSC) using simulators
- Global Maritime Distress & safety System (GMDSS)
- Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB)
- Search and Rescue (SART)
First Aid
- The recovery position in a confined space
- CPR, including the drowning protocol
- Cold shock and hypothermia from immersion and/or exposure
- Seasickness and dehydration
- Medical assistance or advice by VHF
- Helicopter rescue
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