Title:

Radar Observer Recertification

Number:

R-040

Summary:

This course is designed as a one day course to test the mariners knowledge on radar operation and plotting.  The course is designed to be completed in one day and assumes the student has a good working knowledge of radar operation and plotting techniques.

Class Size:

3 Students  Pre-registration is required to hold your seat

Length:

1 Day

Cost:

$245.00

Each candidate who signs up and pays a deposit for the course receives a radar recertification practice and review booklet that should be completed prior to attendance.

Prerequisites:

Schedule:

Call to be placed on our waiting list in the event of a last minute cancellation or for additional course dates

To Register:

Call 1-800-642-CMTI  or Register On-Line

Course Details:

There are three Radar Observer endorsement levels: Rivers, Inland and Unlimited. A Radar Observer endorsement is required on all Master's licenses over 200 GRT and on all towing vessel licenses.

It is highly recommended that everyone complete the Unlimited course and receive the endorsement for Radar Observer - Unlimited, even if they have an Inland license.

If a mariner stops at the Inland Endorsement and later decides he or she needs the Unlimited Endorsement, they must attend the entire five day course. Satisfactory completion of any of these courses satisfies the U.S. Coast Guard requirement for issuance of the endorsement with no further testing at the Coast Guard. Your Radar endorsement must be added to your license by the Coast Guard and must be renewed every five years. Renewal is accomplished by attendance at a U.S. Coast Guard approved Radar Observer Recertification course. Our Unlimited course satisfies the STCW - 95 requirements for Officer in Charge of a Navigational Watch.

The course provides students with classroom instruction covering the examination topics identified in 46 CFR, Part 10, Sec. 10.305 and Table A-II/1 and Section B-I/12 of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended in 1995 (STCW-95).

The course is divided into several sections as follows:

• Regulatory process and RADAR regulations including the legal aspect of RADAR as it relates to the Rules of the Road
• History of RADAR
• RADAR theory, operation and interpretation of display including examination
• River navigation and collision avoidance on rivers including practical exercises and examinations on RADAR simulator
• Inland RADAR navigation, Stabilized and Un-stabilized displays including using RADAR to fix vessel position including practical exercises and examination
• Collision avoidance including target vessel course/speed change including practical exercises and examination
• Effect of own-ship course/speed change including practical exercises and examination.

Inland: This course provides training to mariners who wish to obtain an endorsement to their US Coast Guard Merchant Mariner’s License as Radar Observer (Inland). The course is identical to the Unlimited course but excludes the last section listed above.

Rivers: This course provides training to mariners who wish to obtain an endorsement to their US Coast Guard Merchant Mariner’s License as Radar Observer (Rivers). The course is identical to the Unlimited course but excludes the last three sections listed above.

Renewal: This course provides a comprehensive review of all positioning and plotting procedures applicable to the particular Radar Observer Endorsement level on a mariner’s license. The mariner is then allowed to practice each technique on the RADAR simulator and take the examination for that particular procedure. The following examinations are given:

• Rivers – Collision avoidance and positioning in a river
• Inland – Rivers portion plus collision avoidance including target vessel course/speed change
• Unlimited – Rivers and Inland portion plus effect of own-ship course/speed change