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Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams [Pehme köide]

(Loughborough University, UK)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 216 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 114 Line drawings, color; 12 Halftones, color; 126 Illustrations, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Dec-2018
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138674753
  • ISBN-13: 9781138674752
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 216 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 114 Line drawings, color; 12 Halftones, color; 126 Illustrations, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Dec-2018
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138674753
  • ISBN-13: 9781138674752
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Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing vessels. From the formation of tides and and tidal stream data, right through to practice questions with answers, and even mock exam papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material you need in order to pass your exams.

Arvustused

Dimitrios Dalakalis is an assistant professor at the World Maritime University who has written a book on electronic navigation equipment, and is currently preparing a proposal for us on maritime security.

Dimitrios no longer teaches at this level, but has done in this past. He sees this book as supplementary reading, and would like to see a series of primer books in the future, each one covering an aspect of maritime studies, all with a lecture notes and exam aid feel to them.

Likes:











Simplicity and focused content





Really enjoyed the integration of solved/unsolved problems





Really liked the top-tips section.





Style in general is strongly recommended for students by Dimitrios





Likes the idea of a series of primers

Dislikes:











Style not consistent





Theory sometimes needs to be explained in more detail

Captain Robert Hone is a navigation lecturer at Plymouth University.

Robert uses Nav Basics, a Witherby title, for his courses. Weve recently poached the author of Nav Basics Abdul Khalique, so this is good news.

Bob wasnt as keen on this book as Dimitrios, and suggested that it may be worth adding examination before primer in the title, something Im putting to Phil at the moment. In spite of all his suggestions Bob would be happy to suggest this book as a supplementary text to his students, or as a primer for their exams.

Likes:











Modern feel





Plenty of examples





Good as a primer but not as a core text

Dislikes:











Diagrams need work





Trig section overcomplicated (Phil is working on this at the moment)





Old fashioned techniques in the age of GPS. However, these techniques are still a must-have for exams student must show that they can navigate without modern equipment in case its ever required at sea (i.e. power failure affecting certain parts of the ship but not others)





Lots of books on navigation out there (this will be our first though and its a big market)

Improvements required:











List from Dimitrios some very useful pointers here





Simplify text in certain areas and work on the style Phil is doing this and has a colleague lined up to look through the book once hes done.





Generalise some of the questions so that they can be used several times (e.g. pick two ports, work out the distance between both of them and )

List of figures
x
About the author xiv
Preface xv
Introduction xvi
Acknowledgements xviii
Disclaimer xix
1 Terminology used in tidal calculations
1(16)
1.1 Planetary influences on tides
1(1)
1.2 Tidal terminology explained
2(15)
2 The Admiralty Tide Tables
17(5)
2.1 Tide Table coverage
17(1)
2.2 How the Tide Tables work
17(1)
2.3 Meteorological effects of tidal predictions
18(3)
2.4 Seismic activity
21(1)
3 The use of Tidal Curves
22(12)
3.1 Standard and Secondary Ports
22(1)
3.2 The tidal curves
22(1)
3.3 Effect of the topography of the seabed on the Tidal Curves
22(3)
3.4 How to use the graph is simple
25(1)
3.5 Percentage Springs method of calculation
26(2)
3.6 Understanding the Percentage Springs value
28(1)
3.7 Using the information to create the plot on the tidal curves
29(1)
3.8 The effect of the Isle of Wight on tides at Southampton
30(4)
4 Preparatory Standard Port exercises
34(1)
4 I Milford Haven --- example 1
34(9)
4.2 Milford Haven --- example 2
35(3)
4.3 Interpolating between the curves
38(1)
4.4 Avonmouth --- example 3
39(1)
4.5 Southampton --- example 4 (where the curve is referenced to Low Water)
40(3)
5 European Secondary Ports tidal calculations
43(13)
5.1 The Secondary Port time difference corrections
43(1)
5.2 Interpolating the data
43(2)
5.3 Time difference calculation for the Secondary Port
45(1)
5.4 Height difference calculation for the Secondary Port
46(3)
5.5 Seasonal correction
49(1)
5.6 The `15 day rule'
49(2)
5.7 The Secondary Port tidal calculation
51(5)
6 Pacific Standard Port tidal calculations
56(12)
6.1 Duration of tide curves
56(1)
6.2 Use of the graphs
57(1)
6.3 Pacific Standard Ports example 1 --- Vancouver
58(2)
6.4 Zone Time (Local Time)
60(2)
6.5 Conversion of Local Time to UT and from UT to equivalent Zone (Local) Time
62(1)
6.6 Pacific Standard Ports example 2 --- Melbourne
63(2)
6.7 Pacific Standard Ports example 3 --- Darwin
65(3)
7 Pacific Secondary Ports tidal calculations
68
7.1 Pacific Secondary Port calculations
68(1)
7.2 Pacific Time Zones
68(2)
7.3 Pacific tidal curves --- adapting HOT scales
70(1)
7.4 Pacific Secondary Ports example 1 --- Nagasaki
71(2)
7.5 Interpolation for height differences
73(1)
7.6 Constructing the plot using the Pacific tidal curves to derive the answer
74(2)
7.7 Pacific Secondary Port example 2 --- Guayaquil
76(1)
7.8 Extracting the correct pair of tides when correcting for time differences between ports
76(1)
7.9 Extrapolating correction values for height differences at the Secondary Port
77(1)
7.10 Extrapolation explained
78(1)
7.11 Pacific Secondary Ports example 3 --- Quingdao China
79
Philip M. Smith is a Senior Lecturer at Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA). After over 22 years at sea navigating, for the most part in a traditional way, he now teaches Officer of the Watch and Cadets Terrestrial Navigation.