Practical Navigation for Officers of the Watch replaces the title 'Practical Navigation For Second Mates'. The scope has been extended and includes relevant principles and theory to cover the requirements of the International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and Warchkeeping for Seafarers related tothe use of charts and other Admiralty navigational publications, chart contructions, visual and radar terrestrial navigation, and the use of celestial bodies for the calculation of compass errors and for position fixing.
