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30 Types of Navigation Equipment and Resources Use Onboard Modern Ships - Marine Insight
A modern ship is provided with several navigational equipment and resources to ensure a smooth and save voyage. We bring you 30 different types of navigational equipment and resources that are used onboard ships.
http://www.marineinsight.com/marine-navigation/30-types-of-navigational-equipment-and-resources-used-onboard-modern-ships/
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How Cruise Ships Move - HowStuffWorks
Cruise ships move thanks to gas turbine and diesel-electric engines and propellers. See how cruise ships move and learn what makes cruise ships move.
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/cruise-ship3.htm
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How Do Ships Work? - Softpedia
For millennia, people had been making ships of wood. Than, around 1790, the first iron ship was made. People thought iron would sink, as it is denser than the wood. But the floating capacity depends on the ratio between weight and volume.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Do-Ships-Work-77022.shtml
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8 Tools We Used to Navigate the World Around Us Before GPS and Smartphones - Citylab
The story of navigation is also one of gradual knowledge and readjustment, of looking to the constant objects of the physical world - the sun, the moon, the stars - and using them to understand, ever more precisely, how to find our way in the world.
http://www.citylab.com/tech/2013/04/7-examples-how-we-used-navigate-world-around-us/5286/
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Navigation Technology - Britannica
Science of directing a craft by determining its position, course, and distance traveled. Navigation is concerned with finding the way to the desired destination, avoiding collisions and more.
http://www.britannica.com/technology/navigation-technology
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Marine Navigation - NOAA
NOAA tools - such as nautical charts, accurate positioning services, and ocean and weather observations - play a key role in ensuring that shipments move swiftly and safely along our marine highways.
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/navigation/marinenav/
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How Does Math Guide our Ships at Sea? - TED-Ed
Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms.
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-math-guide-our-ships-at-sea-george-christoph
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Navigation at Sea: History - Water Encyclopedia
The first Western civilization known to have developed the art of navigation at sea were the Phoenicians, about 4,000 years ago (c. 2000 B.C.E. ). Phoenician sailors accomplished navigation by using primitive charts and observations of the Sun and stars to determine directions.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Mi-Oc/Navigation-at-Sea-History-of.html
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How Large Ships Use Navigation Systems - NPR
The International Maritime Organization has decreed that by 2015, all large deep sea ships will be required to carry the latest in electronic navigation equipment. But does state-of-the-art navigation technology prevent shipwrecks like last week's off the Italian coast? University of Southern Mississippi hydrographer Max van Norden talks about the technology.
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/20/145525012/how-large-ships-use-navigation-systems
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Ship Operations - Marin
Help and information about operating ships.
http://www.marin.nl/web/Research-Topics/Ship-operations.htm
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Navigation - Wikipedia, the Free Fncyclopedia
Wikipedia's information about navigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation
