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level:
5
credit:
8
planned review date:
June 1998
sub-field:
Maritime
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to utilise
specific navigational aids for precise navigation; maintain
position relative to navigational aids; and maintain
consideration of the characteristics of the vessel. For
people operating merchant and naval vessels within
restricted waters, with possible conditions of volume traffic,
traffic separation schemes, draught limitations, and
environmental effects of land and structures.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed moderation system has
been established by the Maritime Qualifications New
Zealand (Inc).
special notes:
This unit standard is intended for use by those individuals
navigating foreign going vessels and deep sea fishing
vessels within confined waters.
Regulations include: Standards of Training, Certification and
Watchkeeping, 1978, Regulation 11/2.
Specific navigational aids include: radar, automatic radar
plotting aid (ARPA) echo-sounder, global positioning system
(GPS) NAVSTAR, and manual methods.
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Confined waters navigation occurs between coastal
navigation and pilotage, and involves the application of
navigational techniques to a degree of precision and
frequency above that utilised during coastal navigation.
Contingencies affecting position of vessel’s can include:
weather, sea condition, tidal stream, and other traffic.
Rendezvous may occur with pilot vessels, customs,
agriculture and fishing vessel’s.
Skill and knowledge supporting this unit standard includes:
equipment operation, contingencies and responses, cause
and effect, effect and response to channel effect and squat.
Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Obtain vessel position, speed, heading and track for precise navigation.
performance criteria
1.1
Vessel is maintained in its planned position in relation to direction, heading,
speed, and position.
1.2
Vessel heading is altered within safe limits to avoid identified hazards.
1.3
Contingencies impacting the maintenance of the vessel’s planned route are
anticipated and action is implemented to alter the heading of vessel in advance
of the contingency occurring.
1.4
Rendezvous are completed as directed and the vessel’s relative position is
maintained during the transfer of personnel.
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element 2
Utilise specific navigational aids and techniques for precise navigation.
performance criteria
2.1
Correct navigational aid or technique is selected for the present and anticipated
navigational situation facing the vessel.
Range:
situations facing the vessel can include: complexity of the
approach, vessel status (draught, dimensions), operational status,
personnel, other equipment, weather conditions.
2.2
Information and data on the vessel’s position and the surrounding environment
presented on electronic navigational aids are confirmed as useable information
and data, and are within the equipment’s readout accuracys and limitations.
2.3
Where such systems are in operation, vessel traffic system (VTS) reporting
conditions and directions are responded to in accordance with local VTS
instructions.
2.4
Manual navigational techniques and equipment are used appropriately and in
accordance with any orders received from the ship’s master.
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Comments to:
Maritime Qualifications New Zealand (Inc)
Unit Standard Revision
PO Box 160
WELLINGTON
by June 1998.
Please Note:
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority
before they can offer programmes of education and training
assessed against unit standards.
Accredited providers assessing against unit standards must
engage with the moderation system that applies to those unit
standards. [Please refer to relevant Plan ref: 0054]
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