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

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 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.

Introducton  Chapter 1 Terminology used in tidal calculations.  Chapter 2 the admiralty tide tables.  Chapter 3. The use of tidal curves  Chapter 4. European standard ports tidal calculations.  Chapter 5. European secondary ports tidal calculations.  Chapter 6. Pacific standard port tidal calculations.  Chapter 7. Pacific secondary ports tidal calculations.  Chapter 8. Vertical sextant angles, tidal streams and co-tidal data.  Chapter 9. Revision papers with worked solutions.  Appendix 1  Appendix 2  Bibliography  Index

Tides 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 tidal stream data, through to practice questions with answers, and mock exam papers, this book will provide you with all the reference material you need to pass your

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 pril³-