This intensive course builds on your existing theory knowledge and advances your navigation techniques and abilities to allow you to plan and execute longer offshore passages safely.

The course content includes an in depth understanding of meteorology; weather patterns and predictions using synoptic charts, observations and forecasting, tidal theory, tidal rates and calculating secondary ports, navigating in restricted visibility and course shaping and plotting. The course will also cover the The International Regulations for Prevention of Collision at Sea and safety in detail.