Elements and Performance Criteria
- Use and care for navigational charts, nautical publicationsand related documentation
- Navigational charts, nautical publications and related documentation are handled and used in ways that ensure continued availability, utility and length of life
- Navigational charts, nautical publications, notices to mariners and related documentation are correctly used for voyage planning and identification of navigational hazards in accordance with established procedures
- Plan route for offshore voyage
- Navigational hazards relevant to a proposed offshore voyage are identified using relevant navigational charts, nautical publications and related documentation
- The route for an offshore voyage is determined as per operational instructions and navigational principles and taking due account of identified navigational hazards
- Critical points along the proposed route of the voyage are identified and recorded
- Appropriate actions to deal with the identified critical points are developed
- Potential navigational contingencies and problems that may occur along the planned offshore route are identified and appropriate strategies for dealing with them are developed and recorded