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Online Celestial Navigation Course
The subjects listed below are currently available for
testing in the free online study room and are available for download to
your computer. Click subject for details.
Engineering
Examination Questions
All Engine Room Questions
Engine Room Electrical
Engine Room
General
Engine Room Safety
Engine Room Steam
Engine Room Motor
Deck Examination Questions
All Deck Questions
Able Seaman Questions
Rules of the Road
Aids to Navigation
Glossary Included
Breathing
Apparatus
Cargo Equipment
Cargo Stowage
Charts and
Publications
Chemical Testing
Right Whales
Damage Control
Deck Engineering
Deck Safety
Emergency
Procedures
Fire Fighting Glossary
Included
First Aid
G.M.D.S.S.
Great Lakes
Hazardous Cargo
Inert Gas
Inland Navigation
Instruments and Accessories
Lifesaving
Liquid
Cargo and Bunkering
Marine Radio
Operator
Meteorology
Mobile
Offshore Drilling Unit
New Revised Questions
Celestial
Navigation
Navigational Procedures
Pollution Control and Prevention
Rules and
Regulations
Plotting/Navigational Problems
Survival Craft
Seamanship Glossary Included
Sailing Vessels
Ship Handling
Ships Construction Glossary
Included
Ships Business
Signaling
Stability and
Trim Glossary
Included
Tankerman
Tides and Currents Glossary
Included
Towing
Watchkeeping
Common Knots
Glossary of Radar Terms
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of "TesTTaker" Software
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Upgrade "TesTTaker" Exam Software
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View
comments from SeaSources Members
For details on license requirements, application forms,
licensing fees, and testing locations, as well as downloading all
of the questions and illustrations used on this web site for free
in Excel or PDF format, visit the
United States Coast Guard / National Maritime Centers web site
and look under Mariner's information center.The information contained
in this site is available to the public from various locations. We
are just bringing it to you in a friendly presentation.
See also:
Marine Education Textbooks "Training Charts"
NAVIGATION
COURSE
National Oceanic
& Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The
Navigation Center
Chart
No. 1 Nautical Chart Symbols Abbreviations and Terms
Bluewater
Books and Charts Great link!!
Search
CFR'S Online
Bowditch
Online
Additional Online
Testing Services
for School Administrators
Required
Subjects for
all Deck Licenses
Required
Subjects for all Engineering Licenses
Required
Subjects for Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, MODU.
Sea Service Requirements for
Coast Guard Licenses
Vessel
Delivery Service
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Join the hundreds of members who have successfully prepared for their
Coast Guard License exam with SeaSources.net.
Click Here to Enter the Online
Study Room.
As you navigate through this site, whether for the
purpose of studying for a Coast Guard exam, to review or sharpen your
nautical skills, or just to keep the Rules of the Road, Colregs, fresh
in your mind, you will be introduced to over 28,000 questions
and answers covering all categories of subject matter for both Deck
and Engine Room used by the United States Coast Guard for license
examination. All related illustrations which are used in reference to
the questions are included and can be seen by clicking on "see diagram" when it
is present during a quiz. The online quizzes are presented in
an interactive, easy to use, point and click, multiple choice format. As you work
through the quizzes you will find some questions that are very similar in content but may vary slightly in either the wording or in the order in which the answers appear. Work through them
anyway. These are not randomly
generated quizzes. This is the only site where you will find that All of the questions
used are from the National Maritime Centers database of questions used by United States Coast Guard, USCG, Regional Exam Centers for administering tests and are categorized into their specific subjects
for targeted study as is displayed in the column on the left. After two or three times through a quiz you will see your
scores rapidly improve. Move on to the next quiz and repeat the process. Check your score history frequently to see which subjects you may need to review.
The new SeaSources online testing site is now
available with the Score History as well as many other new
features which we hope will make studying for your exams enjoyable as
well as more affordable. All of the individual subject modules listed on the
left are
available for download directly from the online test site as well as free
upgrades whenever any changes or additions are made to questions or
illustrations. Anyone who has
previously purchased SeaSources software will be eligible for free upgrades
to their modules which were purchased on CD or downloaded.
For new users of SeaSources online study, just click
on Enter Online Study Room
above and go to Create a New User Account, fill out the registration information accurately
and enter a user name and password. Remember that the user name and
password are case sensitive. The registration information is
necessary for the score keeping and progress reports, which are now available
in the new test site, and allow registered members to see a history of their scores and
progress on all previous quizzes taken. After you are in the system you can alter your personal
information and password. All personal information and e-mail addresses are kept
strictly confidential and are not given out to mailing lists nor do we use
addresses to bombard you with useless Spam.
Before creating an account on this system, please be aware that it
requires a later version of Netscape (>= 6.0) or a later version of
Microsoft Internet Explorer ( >= 5.5). Both of these are freely available.
We highly recommend Mozilla which is
available for Windows, Linux, AND Macintosh.
If you have
a popup blocker or something similar installed your
computer it "could" interfere with the proper functioning of the
online tests. Mozilla has a popup blocker built in. So, if you
make that your default browser, you
can use our site and stop popup ads. Older browsers will not
work - sorry. AOL may not work well with this system either.
Our database is being edited and
updated frequently as well as more subjects and
illustrations added to make this site a reliable source of
information for all members to use as a supplement to there
exam preparation study or general knowledge. Many new
illustrations have been added to the database that are
excerpts from the material needed to solve specific
questions. Rules of the Road and Aids to Navigation are good
examples of this. One of our goals is to eventually have a
solution or reference illustration to each question. This is
what makes this service unique. Anyone who would like to
participate by submitting illustrations or solutions to be
attached to questions are welcome to do so. Just ask for
details on how to submit them. Mariners working together can
make this site one of the most powerful tools on the web for
fellow mariners. Group participation is highly encouraged!
Get involved.
The new downloadable software modules from the
online study are ready to go These packages are available to install
on your pc and are upgradeable free of charge whenever changes or
improvements take place. To preview screenshots of how this will work click here. If you are already a
member of online study and have previously purchased software from SeaSources on
any module you are already qualified to receive the new upgrades to that module.
The installable version includes score keeping and score history
capabilities. Please feel free to make comments or
suggestions on this new system while it is still in the development stages. If
you would like to participate in the testing of this new system then
Download the new software. Your username and password from the
online study are needed to open the new software.
If you Experience any problems with the online study contact
SeaSources by email
or call:1-207-734-6608
Note: You will not receive a recorded score to your history for each quiz unless you complete the
quiz.
Note: After creating an
account you will be taken directly to the online quizzes. Remember the
username and password you opened the account with. It may not
necessarily be emailed to you. Upon returning, go to the login page.
Note:
The online illustrations will be viewed best if you
temporarily
Disable
the auto resize on your browser.
Note: If you are getting redirected as soon as you try to take a quiz then
change your settings to allow cookies in your tools/internet options for this
site. quizzes.seasources.net.
Note:
If your personal user account is being accessed by multiple users it would be
more to their advantage to create their own account in order to receive the benefits
of having their own
personal score history
attached to the quizzes
they take.
Note: Any discrepancies that a
user may find, as in answers that they believe are disputable, should
be reported so that corrections can be researched and entered.
Please report any problems or suggestions to
comments@seasources.net.
A Little History
SeaSources was originally founded in 1996 for the purpose
of providing an affordable alternative to the outrageous cost of exam preparation for
mariners sitting for their first license or document as well as professionals seeking to upgrade.
As I remembered studying for my first exam back in 1979 I
thought of the stack of floppy discs that I had paid a
ridiculous amount of money for and they cancelled themselves out
after you had taken X amount of quizzes on them which rendered
them useless for review later on. Their had to be a better way. When I first started this project the database of questions was
only available in document format. All of the original questions
and answers were manually copied and pasted from a word document
format into an
excel spreadsheet which, as you can imagine, with 28,000 give or
take questions was quite an undertaking. Then, after learning
Visual Basic programming, I was able to write a program that the
DB was plugged into and made available on CD. It soon became
apparent that keeping up with the new questions from the Coast
Guard as they came out was going to be very difficult as far as
updating the CD's which had been purchased. Thus the concept of
the online study was born. With the help of an excellent
programmer and an updated database we proceeded to make the
questions available to anyone for free, talk about affordable,
who could access the web and do it in a format that was easy to
use as well as being able to plug new questions into as soon as
they were available. With the development of the TesTTaker
software , many thanks to my good friend Jaime, we have been able to
offer not only the online tests but still give people the
ability to install them locally to their computer, if they
should choose, and get the
new questions updated as they come out. This has proved to be a
much more efficient system. SeaSources is currently being
accessed by several of the major maritime academies as a
supplement to their exam prep on a regular basis.
The online testing went live in February of 2000
and has gone through many improvements since then and we have
many more to come.
Thank you to the almost 10,000 (it's actually over 13,000 as we
lost our first user database in a server crash some years back) registered SeaSources online
users for their help and suggestions since I started this
project almost 14 years ago. And thanks for spreading the word
as this is how many of our new members hear about us and come
to study for their License.
Steve and Jaime
SeaSources Developers
Copyright 2000 by
SeaSources.net. All rights reserved.
Revised: 25 Jun 2009 13:15:12 -0500
Contact Phone: 1-207-734-6608
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