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NCETM | Checking a Ships Course using Trignometry

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2009

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Thomas Mcauley is Navigation Officer on the P & O ferry Pride of Hull. He discusses the importance of mathematics for anyone wishing to work as a pilot on a ship. In this clip, he shows how he can find out the ships position using a sextant to view a distant object such as a light house. The mathematics used, involves trignometry.

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