Duration
12 weeks
Frequency
2 courses per year
Location
Maritime Warfare School, HMS Collingwood
IELTS
6.5
Aim
An intermediate course designed to build-on the Navigation and Warfare skill set of Junior Warfare Officers with some previous experience at sea and which will provide a basis for more specialised navigation and/or warfare training.
Course details
- Action Information Organisation
- Relative Velocity
- Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ)
- Maritime Tactical Estimate
- Search and Rescue
- Meteorology and Oceanography
- Explosive Safety
- Surface Picture Compilation
- Wide Area Picture Compilation
- Ops Room voice procedures
- Helo & Fixed wing aircraft in SW & ASW
- International Maritime Law and ROE
- Ops room simulator, practical exercises in Maritime Security Operations and Scenarios
- Close Range theory and drills
Navigation Modules:
- Rule of the Road
- Tides and Time Zones
- Communications Management Module to include:
- Tactical Communications
- Stationing
- Forming & Screening
- RAS & Fleetwork consolidation
- Charts
- Chartwork
- Coastal Navigation
- Pilotage
- Electronic Chart Display & Information System (ECDIS) Bridge Simulator
- Practical Navigation in Bridge Simulator, and (when available) at sea, conduction Ship Handling, Coastal Passage and basic Pilotage
Requirements
- To have completed the RN Initial Naval Training (Officer), or National equivalent, including ISL
- Candidates ideally should have 500 hours of certified seagoing Bridge Watchkeeping experience
- Eyesight standards are detailed at the front of the chapter
Qualifications gained
Practical assessment in Coastal Navigation and Basic Pilotage conducted in a suitable vessel (when available) plus continuous assessment and final examination to RN standard in:
- Relative Velocity
- MSO
- Communications including SRC
- Bridge Simulator
- Rule of the Road
- Sea Phase when available
- General Navigation Exam
Successful students will be awarded with a Pass, Pass with Merit, or Pass with Distinction. GMDSS ‘VHF Short Range’ certificate (will require own nation’s endorsement).