Experience required prior training: 28 days at sea as skipper or watch leader in at least 2 voyages, at least in 2 sea areas
Certification required prior training: SRC and First Aid Certificate
Minimum age required: 18 years old
Suggested number of training hours: 40 hours
Who can run the training: ISSA Instructor
Who can do the examination: ISSA Instructor
Examination: 6 hours, including 2 at darkeness. Maximum 3 candidates at a time
How to sibmit the application: To authorized ISSA school only
1. Unberthing/berthing (longside and stern-to)
2. Approaching a mooring buoy
3. Weighing an anchor
4. Recovery of Man Over Board
5. Practical skills
1. Tacking
2. Gybing
3. Recovery of Man Over Board
4. Practical skills
1. Definition of DR navigation
2. Running of DR and plotting of DR position
3. Practical skills
1. Sources of fixing lines (leading lights, bearings, depth contour)
2. Error analysis/ accuracy assessment
3. Practical skills
1. Consideration of variation. Change of variation in time and place
2. Siting of compass and reasons for deviation (impact of electronic devices)
3. Consideration of deviation
4. Stationary and handbearing compasses
5. Determination of deviation
1. Reasons of Tides – Springs and Neaps
2. Tidal Tables
3. Tidal levels and chart datum
4. Time and height of tide in standard ports
5. Secondary ports
6. Anomalies
1. Tidal current atlases
2. Tidal current diamonds
3. Information about tidal currents in navigation publications
4. Consideration of tidal currents when calculating courses and passage planning
5. Overfalls, tidal races
1. Navigation marks in IALA A and B
2. Limitation of navigational marks as navigational aid
1. Characteristics
2. Range – visual and nominal
3. List of lights
1. Harbour specific regulations and signalling systems
2. Planning and strategy to enter/leave a harbour
3. Practical skills to make a pilotage
1. Operation of manual echosounder
2. Types of echosounders
3. Limitations of echosounders
4. Secondary echoes
Basic knowledge of satellite systems, their abilities and limitations
Different types and operation
1. Logbook as an official document
2. Running of a logbook
1. Basic terms, Beaufort’s scale
2. Air masses
3. Types of clouds
4. Characteristics of weather in specific pressure and front systems
5. Sources of weather forecasts
6. Ability to interpret weather forecasts/ charts, weatherfax
7. Day/night breeze
8. Fog
9. Use of barometer
1. Types of anchors and operation
2. Selection of place to anchor
Good knowledge of International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
1. Personal safety, use of lifejackets, harnesses, jackstays
2. Fire prevention and fighting
3. Distress signals
4. Role of coastguard
5. Preparation to heavy weather
6. Liferafts and recovery by helicopter
Rules of application
1. Restricted visibility procedures
2. Limitations for safe navigation
1. Preparation of charts and notes to plan a passage
2. Standard actions when navigating in inshore waters
3. Strategy to plan a passage
4. Use of weather information in passage planning
5. Sources of local and national regulations
Responsibility for environment pollution and sea environment protection