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Eight subjects, 60 laboratories

Faculty read this list closely, so here it is in full — real laboratory identifiers, in the order they are met.

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Celestial Navigation

Type your town — Burdwan, Kolkata, Katihar, anywhere — pick a time in GMT or LMT, and your sky opens: constellations in colour, the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the horizons that frame them. Then the sextant, the corrections, the PZX triangle, and star sights worked to a fix.

13 laboratories →

Terrestrial Navigation

Its own written paper, and the half of navigation you use every watch: the sailings on a Mercator chart whose stretched latitudes make a rhumb line straight, coastal fixes with the cocked hat opening as a compass error creeps in, the tide under the keel, and the current solved as one vector triangle drawn three ways.

6 laboratories →

Rules of the Road

The subject candidates most often fail, and the one a book helps least with — because the Rules are not a list to recite, they are a decision about a situation that is changing while you make it. Examined in the oral, as Function I.

3 laboratories →

Radar & ARPA

A separate mandatory simulator course and a separate certificate. An operable display where every echo is the output of a detection calculation rather than a drawing — and the tolerance that lets a compliant ARPA be two miles wrong about CPA after one minute.

2 laboratories →

Meteorology

Read the weather, and route the ship around it. Why the Coriolis force makes wind blow ALONG the isobars, what DALR and SALR decide about the sky above you — and the one that matters most, the tropical revolving storm.

6 laboratories →

Ship Stability

K, B, M and G — the four letters that keep her upright. From the shape of the hull to the storm, and on to the damaged ship: floodable length, the margin line, and the heavy-weather rolling that has no warning.

11 laboratories →

Cargo Work

Stow her full, keep her safe, prove it with numbers — trade by trade. The general hold, the box trade, the bulk trade, the tanker and the gas carrier.

10 laboratories →

Astronomy

The night sky, explained by playing with it. For every curious mind — no exams at this door.

8 laboratories →

Celestial Navigation

13 laboratories. The sky, the sextant, and the sums that follow — its own 200-mark paper.

LabTitle
ES-01Rotating Earth and coordinate systems
ES-06Celestial sphere and coordinate frames
ES-02Solar, apparent and mean solar day
ES-03Sidereal day and sidereal time
ES-04Lunar day, retardation, tides — the Earth–Moon–Sun machine
ES-08PZX — the navigation triangle made physical
OP-09Sextant optics and index error
OP-10The altitude-correction laboratory
ES-05The wandering stars — planets and the almanac
ES-07The fifty-seven — navigational stars, SHA, and Polaris
OP-15Star sights to a fix — the harvest
OP-12Compass error — azimuth and amplitude
OP-13The sums — latitude and longitude, step by step

Terrestrial Navigation

6 laboratories. Its own written paper: the chart, the fix, the tide and the current.

LabTitle
OP-14The sailings — rhumb lines & meridional parts
OP-17Coastal chartwork — bearings, fixes & distance off
OP-18Current, set & drift — the course to steer
OP-16Tides — the Moon's pull & the keel
OP-19The coastal passage plan
OP-20Blind pilotage & parallel indexing

Rules of the Road

3 laboratories. Oral Function I — the subject candidates most often fail.

LabTitle
RR-01Rule of the Road — the encounter
RR-02Lights, shapes, and what they tell you
RR-03The encounter you drive

Radar & ARPA

2 laboratories. A separate simulator course, and a separate certificate.

LabTitle
RA-01Radar — the set, and what it can see
RA-02The plot, the ARPA, and what to believe

Meteorology

6 laboratories. The newest subject, and the freshest work in the product.

LabTitle
MT-01Pressure, wind & the Coriolis force
MT-02Moisture, DALR & SALR — the stability of the air
MT-03The global circulation, monsoons & currents
MT-04Depressions, fronts & the weather they bring
MT-05Tropical revolving storms — track, recurvature & avoiding action
MT-06Weather routeing — the fastest track, not the shortest

Be clear about the exam paper. Meteorology numericals are not in “the Fifty” yet — they are being written. The app says so plainly, and so do we.

Ship Stability

11 laboratories. From the shape of the hull to the weather criterion.

LabTitle
ST-01The upright ship
ST-02Trim, loading & the marks
ST-03The curve at large angles
ST-04Bilging & the damaged ship
ST-05The draft survey
ST-06Dry-docking, grounding & the rolling test
ST-07Stresses in ships — shear force & bending moment
ST-08The weather criterion & heel in a turn
ST-09The ship's form — Simpson's rules & the coefficients
ST-10Subdivision and the damaged ship
ST-11Heavy weather — resonance, parametric roll and the danger zones

Cargo Work

10 laboratories. Stow her full, keep her safe, prove it with numbers.

LabTitle
CW-01The numbers of the hold
CW-02Care of the cargo — sweat, segregation & hatches
CW-03The stowage plan
CW-04Heavy lifts & the ship's gear
CW-05Tankers, grain & timber
CW-06Containers & reefer
CW-07Bulk cargoes & the IMSBC Code
CW-08Gas carriers — LNG and LPG
CW-09Tanker cargo operations
CW-10Bulk carriers — the loading sequence and the hull

On the bench  Two laboratories are designed and announced but not built yet: CW-08 Ro-Ro, project cargo and dangerous goods, and MT-07 ice, visibility and the polar passage. The app marks them the same way.

The exam room

EX-01 — spherical trigonometry classes and “the Fifty”: forty navigation numericals plus ten more in stability and cargo. Every answer key is engine-proved, and every solution is shown line by line rather than as a final figure.

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