NavList:

This may seem be a bit odd, but a small landlocked country (and my old homeland) with really no seafaring tradition has its own maritime school now:

http://www.maritime-school.eu/about.phtml?id3=55764

The reason for this is that a notable shortage of seafarers has developed in the world; for access to some PDF documents on the subject see here:

http://www.namornaskola.sk/co-by-ste-mali-vediet.phtml?id3=64479

The English version of this school's website still appears to be under construction, so most of its information is in Slovak.  The NavList community will be pleased to know that celestial navigation is a required subject at this school.  Some classroom pictures can be viewed here:

http://www.namornaskola.sk/fotogaleria.phtml?id3=45096

For the more linguistically curious readers :-)) I recommend this page:

http://www.namornaskola.sk/o-profesii.phtml?id3=42715

with a description of a marine officer's job, indeed containing the Slovak term for CelNav.


Peter Hakel