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  2. Ship motions - Wikipedia

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    This motion is generated directly either by the water and wind motion, particularly lateral wave motion, exerting forces against the hull or by the ship's own propulsion; or indirectly by the inertia of the ship while turning. This movement can be compared to the vessel's lateral drift from its course.

  3. Bathymetric chart - Wikipedia

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    The beams update many times per second (typically 0.1–50 Hz depending on water depth), allowing faster boat speed while maintaining 100% coverage of the seafloor. Attitude sensors allow for the correction of the boat's roll and pitch on the ocean surface, and a gyrocompass provides accurate heading information to correct for vessel yaw. (Most ...

  4. Set and drift - Wikipedia

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    Ocean currents are the horizontal movements of water from one location to another. The movement of water is impacted by: meteorological effects, wind, temperature differences, gravity, and on occasion earthquakes. Set is the current's direction, expressed in true degrees. Drift is the current's speed, which is usually measured in knots. [1 ...

  5. Bathymetry - Wikipedia

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    The beams update many times per second (typically 0.1–50 Hz depending on water depth), allowing faster boat speed while maintaining 100% coverage of the seafloor. Attitude sensors allow for the correction of the boat's roll and pitch on the ocean surface, and a gyrocompass provides accurate heading information to correct for vessel yaw .

  6. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the scale of the chart, it may show depths of water and heights of land , natural features of the seabed, details of the coastline, navigational hazards, locations of natural and human-made aids to navigation, information on tides and currents, local details of the Earth's magnetic field, and human-made structures such as harbours ...

  7. Nasa shares chilling animation showing how far sea level has ...

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    A chilling animation from Nasa shows how far the sea level has risen in the past 30 years. “As the planet warms and polar ice melts, our global average sea level is rising,” Nasa wrote ...

  8. Course (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    Instruments used to plot a course on a nautical chart. In navigation, the course of a watercraft or aircraft is the cardinal direction in which the craft is to be steered. The course is to be distinguished from the heading, which is the direction where the watercraft's bow or the aircraft's nose is pointed.

  9. Video shows teen jump from moving watercraft to stop runaway ...

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    Procon is seen in the video timing his jump perfectly from the back of a personal watercraft, then taking control of the dangerously careening boat. While those at the lake saw him as a hero ...