I'm looking for some info on Navigation at Sea, can you help?

Question

I have been searching all over the net, at my campus library, and I have found some good info, but I'm mainly finding info on navigation tools, and the history, will I be able to pull off a 15 minute presentation on just history and tools used?

Answer 1

You should be able to burn 15 minutes easily on this. You will need to organize what you want to say and practice saying it two or three times.

I would start out with "When you are at sea, and all you can see is water and sky, it is important that you know what you are doing, as if you don't know, you will probably die." This puts things in their proper perspective.

Good luck.

Answer 2

You could easily pull off a 15 minute presentation just on the history of precision time keeping as a means of determining longitude, as the 2000 movie did. And you could contrast that long technological effort with the supreme confidence that Columbus and the other incredible masters of 15th and 16th century, who had no such technological means of finding their way, demonstrated in their voyages.

15 minutes? Shoot, you'll be doing great to keep it to that...

Answer 3

If you live near a coastline area, see if you can find your local "United States Power Squadrons".  They teach celestial navigation as well as the proper use of compasses, GPS and LORAN navigation systems.  I'm sure someone there would be happy to talk to you about your presentation and help make it a good one.