Seafarers Worldwide Career Training and Starpath Online Navigation Courses are institutions committed to advancing professional standards, safety, and career development across the global maritime community.
Navigation Online
Learn at home or underway with these comprehensive packages in all aspects of navigation. Each course includes access to instructors and fellow students through discussion forums and our interactive online classroom. They also include all required printed and electronic study materials.
A complete home study course on the Navigation Rules. Now platform independent. Run on Mac, PC, or tablets. All content of our previous Nav Rules Trainer software is now incorporated into this online course.
Includes a printed copy of the Navigation Rules Handbook
— The most important book in marine navigation.
Comprehensive Celestial
Ocean Navigation
Celestial Online Home Study Course
Why study celestial navigation in the age of GPS?
Includes printed textbooks, workforms, plotting sheets, and multiple additional electronic resources.
Can be acccessed from any computer with an internet connection.
Use the search engines and online resources on the computer, while you work through the lessons, assignments and quizzes in the interactive online classroom.
And when you are away from the computer, study with the printed texts, table sections, and work forms.
For Mac and Windows.
Comprehensive navigation
in sight of land, using both traditional and electronic charting
Inland & Coastal Navigation
Online Home Study Course
Includes printed textbook, workbook, and training chart, and multiple additional electronic resources.
Can be acccessed from any computer with an internet connection.
Use the search engines and online resources on the computer, while you work through the lessons, assignments and quizzes in the interactive online classroom. And when you are away from the computer, study with the printed texts, and paper chart.
Most important, however, with this versatile package you can learn both traditional and electronic navigation at the same time — solve the practice problems in the traditional manner on a paper chart with standard plotting tools and also solve the problems electronically in an echart program using waypoints, bearing lines, and range rings.
A New Standard in
Marine Weather Education
Marine Weather Online Course
A practical, interactive course that will make your navigation safer and more efficient.
For power and sailing vessels,
large and small.
For Mac or Windows.
Master radar navigation
and collision avoidance
Marine Radar Online Home Study Course
A complete online home study course on Marine Radar. Includes the Textbook Radar For Mariners By David Burch and the Radar Trainer PC simulator program.
Please note, the course software is download only.
Electronic Chart Navigation
Electronic Chart Navigation
From basic echart reading to advanced route planning, to make your time on the water safer and more efficient.
This course introduces you to a new world of charting and navigation technology available in modern navigation software.
Backup Cel Nav
Backup Cel Nav
A short course that teaches the basic cel nav needed to find your way across an ocean.
Course fee includes:
How to Use Plastic Sextants and GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
"...among the world's leading online navigation training programs, used by both recreational and professional mariners."
–Institute of Navigation