A navigator obtains a bearing on a lighthouse at 0900 and cannot obtain a second simultaneous LOP. At 0930 a second bearing is taken on the same lighthouse. To determine position, the navigator advances the 0900 LOP along the DR track to 0930. The resulting position is called a:

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C. Running fix — Bowditch Ch. 7 §702 defines a running fix as the position obtained by advancing an earlier LOP along the DR track to the time of a second observation when simultaneous LOPs cannot be taken. A fix requires two or more LOPs taken simultaneously per Bowditch Ch. 7 §701.

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A. Fix

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B. Dead reckoning position

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D. Estimated position

A navigator obtains a bearing on a lighthouse at 0900 and cannot obtain a second simultaneous LOP. At 0930 a second bearing is taken on the same lighthouse. To determine position, the navigator advances the 0900 LOP along the DR track to 0930. The resulting position is called a:

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