No one will deny that the study of the ocean, like that of the atmosphere, should be three-dimensional. It was not, however, until almost a century ago that the four-year circumnavigation of H.M.S. Challenger pioneered the exploration of the deep sea during an era of marine exploration in which most of the leading maritime nations took part. Particularly outstanding were the deep sea scientific expeditions of Prince Albert I of Monaco, made almost every year between 1885 and 1915, and during which his achievement in dredging zoological specimens from a depth of 6000 metres (20,000 ft.) remained unequalled for over fifty years. A contemporary of Prince Albert was the brilliant Swiss scientist, Professor Auguste Piccard, who was the first to reach the great height of 17,000 metres in the stratosphere enclosed in a sealed cabin attached to a hydrogen-filled balloon. The cabin invented by Professor Piccard was the forerunner of the pressurized cabin used in aircraft today. After his conquest of the stratosphere, Professor Piccard turned his attention to the hydrosphere. Still guided by the Principle of Archimedes, he constructed the revolutionary submersible that could dive to any depth in the ocean as was proved to the world on 23rd January 1960, when his son, Dr. Jacques Piccard, piloted the bathyscaph Trieste to the bottom of the 7 mile deep Challenger Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Masters, Trimmers, Stevedores, etc, will find the tables of great value.

Down to the Sea

Dean, J.R.

Brown, Son and Ferguson, Ltd

How to Build and Manage a Canoe: v. 2

Engineering & Transportation

A.R. Ellis

Transportation

<p>The general principle upon which the tables are calculated is that the corrections in each following table is slightly less than in the previous, the difference between any two consecutive tables is only 1' in an hour angle of 15' (where the tables extend to that angle).</p>

Hansen's Improved Ex-meridian Tables

C.H. Cotter BSc Extra Master and Master Mariner FRIN

The Marq Brown Sight Book

"Instructor in Navigation"

The Colonial Clippers

Lubbock, Basil

Written primarily for those who navigate their own vessels around the coast or across the seas. The book does not go deeply into abstruse problems of nautical astronomy or spherical trigonometry, but sufficient explanation of these subjects has been given to enable the reader to work his sights with a proper understanding of the principles involved. Section I - Coastal Navigation: Compass Course Correction * On Fixing Position * Patent Log and Chart Reading * Tides and Tidal Streams * Rule of the Road. Section II - Deep Sea Navigation: The Sextant On Finding the Latitude * Pole Star Sights * Traverse Table * On Finding the Longitude * Position Lines * Star Position Lines * Latitude by ex-Meridian Altitude * Deviation of Compass by Amplitude and Azimuth * Sight Reduction Table method of position lines.

Coastal and Deep Sea Navigation for Yachtsmen

Sports & Outdoors

The Handling of Motor Craft

Lund RN, Commander C.A.

The Docks Regulations 1934 Explained

Reference

Coastal Tables: For Use in Sight of Land

Unknown, Author

Marline Spike Seamanship: Art of Handling Splicing and Knotting Wire

Business & Money

Leonard Popple

Industries

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