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Waterman's Hall Pre BML training
27 de noviembre de 2025 · 2 min · 70 visitas · Waterman's Hall, Bank, London
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Pre-BML training for Company of Watermen and Lightermen apprentices ran at Waterman's Hall in Bank, London, covering the Royal Yachting Association Essential Navigation and Seamanship course over two days.Watch Topics included nautical terms, chart work, position plotting, position fixing, tides, anchoring, pilotage, passage planning, rules of the road, electronic navigation, and weather forecasts.0:24 Practical safety work involved manually inflating a 150-Newton life jacket fitted with a 33-gram canister to demonstrate auto-inflation behavior.0:50 Chart work culminated in a passage-planning exercise in which apprentices built their own plans and navigated a simulated route to Portsmouth.1:09 Apprentices reported the simulator and course-plotting exercise as the most useful element, with chart plotting and heading-setting cited as key skills gained.1:41 The course is designed to prepare river workers for entry into the full BML qualification.0:07
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