Year: 2000 Language: english Author: US Navy Genre: Guide Publisher: US Navy Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 83 Description: This booklet is entirely dedicated to lookout training and procedures. A lookout is a person detailed to observe everything within an assigned sector and to report everything from that sector, usually to an officer of a military vessel. The safety and efficiency of the ship obviously depend to a great degree on the alertness and effectiveness of lookouts, and every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by all available means, as per rule 5. Even if written for the Navy, this guide is of interest for merchant and pleasure vessel, that may need to strengthen lookouts in poor visibility or close quarters conditions. This guide discusses and presents visual search patterns and contact reporting procedures; speed and track estimation; ship/aircraft recognition; Rules of the Road; buoy systems; special sea detail; restricted visibility steaming; and man-overboard procedures, along with lookout equipment you in your capacity as a lookout.
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Lookout Training Handbook
Language: english
Author: US Navy
Genre: Guide
Publisher: US Navy
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 83
Description: This booklet is entirely dedicated to lookout training and procedures. A lookout is a person detailed to observe everything within an assigned sector and to report everything from that sector, usually to an officer of a military vessel. The safety and efficiency of the ship obviously depend to a great degree on the alertness and effectiveness of lookouts, and every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by all available means, as per rule 5. Even if written for the Navy, this guide is of interest for merchant and pleasure vessel, that may need to strengthen lookouts in poor visibility or close quarters conditions. This guide discusses and presents visual search patterns and contact reporting procedures; speed and track estimation; ship/aircraft recognition; Rules of the Road; buoy systems; special sea detail; restricted visibility steaming; and man-overboard procedures, along with lookout equipment you in your capacity as a lookout.
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