Navigation — OOW Unlimited — Audio Course

In 2011 a brand-new container ship left port with a passage plan so defective the Supreme Court later ruled her unseaworthy before she cleared the berth — and in 1995 a cruise ship ran aground after her bridge team spent a day and a half trusting a satellite position that had quietly become fiction. This course teaches OOW Unlimited navigation the way examiners actually probe it: through the casualties, the worked numbers, and the disciplined doubt that separates a watchkeeper from a passenger.

Listen your way through the syllabus — on watch, on the drive to the crew house, in the gym. Narrated in a clear British voice built for long-form listening, structured so every chapter stands alone.

What's inside (5 hr 5 min total):

• Introduction (1 min)
• Chapter One: The Navigator's Job (24 min)
• Chapter Two: Appraisal and Planning (30 min)
• Chapter Three: Execution and Monitoring (31 min)
• Chapter Four: Special Areas — Traffic Schemes, Routeing, and the Offshore Forest (26 min)
• Chapter Five: Reading the Chart (24 min)
• Chapter Six: Position Fixing (28 min)
• Chapter Seven: The Compass and Its Errors (24 min)
• Chapter Eight: Course, Speed and Time — The Sailings (24 min)
• Chapter Nine: How Tides Work (22 min)
• Chapter Ten: Working the Tide (23 min)
• Chapter Eleven: Buoyage (24 min)
• Chapter Twelve: Landfall and the Watch (24 min)

Written for the modernised OOW Unlimited syllabus — current for the 2026 digital assessment format and the latest oral syllabus — covering passage planning, tides, position fixing, compass work, the sailings and buoyage, from appraisal to landfall. Pairs with our OOW Oral Prep course for the full run-up to your certificate.