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What are Isogonic Lines?
Marine Navigation

What are Isogonic Lines?

Isogonic Lines aid in navigation, and mariners mostly use isogonic charts that have a collection of several isogonic lines. Find put more about isogonic lines in this article.

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What is Fendering?
Marine Navigation

What is Fendering?

Fenders are used as guards for a vessel against impact with a jetty, dock, quay, berth, or any other ship close to a shore, preventing resultant structural damage.

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What Are Cardinal Marks?
Marine Navigation

What Are Cardinal Marks?

Cardinal Marks are a crucial system of markings similar to safe watermarks but are essentially direction-based. Their name is derived from the mathematical concept of cardinality, or in simple words, grouping. 

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What are Sea Water Marks And Safe Water Marks?
Marine Navigation

What are Sea Water Marks And Safe Water Marks?

Sea marks are physical indicators for navigational aid and reference. Safe watermarks are used to identify a fairway, midchannel, end of channel, and landfall. 

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Effects Of Wind On Ship Handling
Marine Navigation

Effects Of Wind On Ship Handling

Wind significantly affects a floating vessel, though that is far lesser than the effect of water. Know more about the action of wind on a sailing vessel in this article.

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What is ODAS or Ocean Data Acquisition Systems?
Marine Navigation

What is ODAS or Ocean Data Acquisition Systems?

Meteorological stations worldwide require access to sea conditions and marine environments to provide weather forecasts and warnings. This data is provided to the meteorological stations through a network of ODAS (Ocean Data Acquisition Systems), ship weather observations, coastal radars, and satellites. 

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What are Lubber Lines?
Marine Navigation

What are Lubber Lines?

Lubber lines are calibrated marks inside the dial or the binnacle of a compass that shows the direction of the vessel’s centreline, that is, the foe-aft orientation of the vessel.

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What are Foul Anchors?
Marine Navigation

What are Foul Anchors?

Foul anchors are those where the chain (or the rope for ancient ships) becomes entangled about the entire structure, or the anchor gets enmeshed by some obstruction underneath the sea level.

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Understanding Marine Sextant – Principle, Readings and Maintenance
Marine Navigation

Understanding Marine Sextant – Principle, Readings and Maintenance

A sextant is a marine navigation instrument which is used to measure the angle between two objects. Sextant is still used on many ships around the world.

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