Pre-ECDIS Training
New to maritime training?
ECDIS navigation integrates many skills. You should already be strong in at least 50% of these:
- Terrestrial & coastal navigation
- Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs)
- Vessel maneuvering and piloting
- Radar & ARPA operation
- Enav (GPS, AIS, Gyro, speed log, sounder)
- Basics of Bridge Resource Management
- Mid-level skills in computers
For your reference, this is a listing of suggested training sites:
- Alaska Vocational Technical Center (Seward, AK)
- Seattle Maritime Academy
- MITAGS (Seattle & Baltimore)
- Clatsop Community College (Astoria, OR)
- Orange Coast College, Waterfront Campus (Newport Beach, CA)
- San Jacinto College (Houston, TX)
- Sea School (6 locations in FL, AL & SC)
- Chesapeake Marine Training Institute (Hayes, VA)
- The Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship (Piney Point, MD)
- Maine Maritime Academy (Castine, ME)
