NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2011 Jul 28, 22:18 -0700
John H., you wrote:
"According to Wikipedia (what do I know?) celestial navigation was no longer taught at the Naval Academy as of 1998."
They apparently still get a basic introduction. They no longer teach celestial navigation as a full academic class. As some of our USN friends have pointed out, so what? The Naval Academy is where future officers study, and they're not the navigators. The curriculum at the USNA is rather far removed from "practical" matters of seamanship.
-FER
PS: Wikipedia articles on small specialty subjects like celestial navigation are the most suspect since they are compiled by very small numbers of people, often with their own personal biases.
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