Reeds Abardeen Asset Management Nautical Almanac 2012

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CHAPTER CONTENTS
NAVIGATIONAL CONTENTS
Introduction
Editorial • Using the almanac • Improvements • Agents wanted • Corrections • Acknowledgements and Permissions
Chapter 1 Reference data
Abbreviations and Symbols • Useful addresses (postal and e-mail) and websites • 2012 Calendar • Eclipse notes • Conversion tables • Time • Vocabularies
Chapter 2 Regulations
Cruising formalities • HM Revenue and Customs • Foreign Customs•VAT • International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs)
VAT
Chapter 3 Navigation
Passage planning and SOLAS V • Conduct of the plan • Light characteristics • IALA buoyage • Satellite navigation • Loran • Electronic charts • Waypoints • Chart plotters • Radar and AIS • Racons and ramarks • Navigational warnings • Hazards • Offshore energy installations • Navigational tables: Distance of horizon • Distance, speed and time • Distance off by sextant • True bearing of sun at sunrise/set • Sun's declination • True bearing of sun • Distance off rising/dipping lights • Sunrise/set times • Moonrise/set times • Phases of the Moon
Chapter 4 Tides
Introduction • Definitions • Calculating times/heights of tide • Overhead clearances • Computer predictions • Tidal streams • Meteorological effects • Tidal stream rates
Chapter 5 Communications
International code of signals • Radio communication • Global communications • Navigational warnings • Gunfacts and subfacts • Coastal radio stations (CRS) • Coastguard contact details for UK • Coast Guard contact details for Republic of Ireland, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar
Chapter 6 Weather
Beaufort wind scale • Sea states • Heavy weather warnings • GMDSS weather •Navtex • HM Coastguard broadcasts • HF facsimile • BBC broadcasts •Internet weather resources • Marinecall • Sources of foreign weather information
Chapter 7 Safety
Introduction • Safety equipment • GMDSS • Definitions of emergencies • Emergency signals • MAYDAY • PAN PAN • SECURITE • Sound & visual distress signals• Helicopter rescue • Abandon ship • UK SAR • HM Coastguard • NCI • RNLI
Chapter 8 First aid
Objectives • Medical care abroad • Medical advice by RЯ • Emergency resuscitation • Choking • Drowning • Hypothermia • Shock • Acute illness • Stroke • Bites/stings • Bleeding • Burns • Chest and crush injuries • Cuts • Dental • Eyes • Fish hooks • Fractures • Poison • Sprains • First aid kits • Drugs • Emergency childbirth • Injections • Physiological measurements • Observation form
Chapter 9 Harbours, coasts and tides
Map of areas • Area information • Harbour information • Environmental guidance • Distance tables: English Channel, Irish Sea, North Sea, Bay of Biscay • Tidal coefficients • See page ix for details
General index
Gazetteer (index of place names)