BSc Nautical Sciences VPCP III Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 4.69, 4.70 and 4.71 of the Academic Council of 23 July 2020, in force from the academic year 2020-21. The University’s earlier Credit Based Semester and Grading System syllabus is what her older third-year timetables name, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for VPCP III
Module I: VOYAGE PLANNING
- 1 To find the time and height of HW and LW at standard ports and at secondary ports by Tidal differences.
- 2 To find the time at which the tide reaches a specified height or the heights of the tide at a given time and hence the correction to be applied to soundings or charted heights of shore objects. COLLISION PREVENTION Annexes I and II of International Regulations for prevention of collision at Sea
Module II: VOYAGE PLANNING
- A systematic knowledge and use of the contents of the following documents in relation to Safety of Navigation - Sailing Directions, List of Light & Fog Signals, List of Radio Signals. Contents of Mariner’s Hand book COLLISION PREVENTION Annexes III and IV of International Regulations for prevention of collision at Sea
Module III: COLLISION PREVENTION
- Revision of all the rules & IALA buoyage System
Module Practical
- VOYAGE PLANNING Practical of first year and second year pertaining to Position fixing by various methods, current & leeway, running fix and three points bearing. COLLISION PREVENTION The students will be required to identify various collision situations by day and by night. Practical to be held using a Magnetic Board, Wooden models, ROR Cards or any other aid to simulate such conditions. Candidates will be required to deal with each collision situations broadly under the heading ‘recognition’, ‘responsibility’, ‘action’, ‘appropriate sound signal’ and ‘any ordinary practice of seaman’.
Reference Books
This paper runs across both semesters of the year and the University prints one list of reference books for it, at the end of the second half. Her list is repeated here so that this half is not read as a paper she recommends no reading for.
- 1 Chartwork Capt. S.S. Chaudhari
- 2 Chartwork for Mariners Capt. S.K. Puri
- 3 Marine Chartwork D.A. Moore
- 4 IMO Rule of the Road Bhandarkar Publication
- 5 A guide to The Collision avoidance Rules A.N. Cockroft
- 6 International Light, Shape and sound Signal D.A. Moore
- 7 Admiralty IALA Maritime Buoyage System
- 8 Modern Chartwork W.H. Squair
- 9 Navigation for Watchkeepers L.W.J. Fifield
- 10 Shipborne Radar Capt. H. Subramanium
- 11 International regulations for Preventing Collision at Sea IMO
- 12 Manual of the Rule of the Road Capt. S.K. Puri Objective: -This subject exposes the students to Ship Operation Technology Paper- III, Ship Operational Technology - IV & Naval Architecture Paper – III
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Nautical Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2020-21. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
The complete syllabus
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