Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
18th Annual General Assembly of the International Association of Maritime Universities - Global Perspectives in MET: Towards Sustainable, Green and Integrated Maritime Transport, IAMU 2017, Varna, Bulgaristan, 11 - 14 Ekim 2017, cilt.2, ss.29-33
Maritime education is a very comprehensive and international education. With the STCW Convention, the compulsory courses, content and curriculum have been determined for maritime education institutions. In Turkey, according to the STCW Convention and Regulation on the Shipmen Training and Examination, which courses should be given, the curriculum and its contents have been determined. One of these courses is celestial navigation. With the development of GPS, DGPS and ECDIS, which play an important role in the progress of the technology and accordingly fixing the location, it can be considered by many people that celestial navigation is not essential anymore. But this is a wrong belief. Because it should not be forgotten that the technology can also be disabled and malfunctioned. In case the GPS in the ship is damaged and can not be repaired, it may become compulsory to apply celestial navigation. Therefore, celestial navigation must take place at the beginning of the topics that need to be emphasized. The aim of this research is to emphasize the importance of navigating celestial in maritime education and to mention about the implementations in Turkey. According to the results of the research, it is observed that almost all of the associate and undergraduate education institutions providing maritime education in Turkey give necessary importance to celestial navigation and it is taught as a compulsory course.