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Waterman's Hall Pre BML training
November 27, 2025 · 2 min · 60 views · Waterman's Hall, Bank, London
What this video covers
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.▶ 0:00 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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