A navigator takes a bearing on a lighthouse, then runs a known course and speed for 20 minutes and takes a second bearing on the same lighthouse. The navigator advances the first LOP to the time of the second bearing and marks the intersection. This position is called a:

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C. Running fix — Bowditch Ch. 7 §702 defines a running fix as a fix obtained when LOPs cannot be taken simultaneously; the first LOP is advanced along the DR track to the time of the second observation and the intersection is the running fix.

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A. Fix

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B. Dead reckoning position

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D. Estimated position

A navigator takes a bearing on a lighthouse, then runs a known course and speed for 20 minutes and takes a second bearing on the same lighthouse. The navigator advances the first LOP to the time of the second bearing and marks the intersection. This position is called a:

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