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USCG Exam PracticeDanger bearings and danger circles

A navigator is piloting in restricted visibility and can identify only one charted object visually. She takes a bearing of 042°T to the object, runs a timed distance on a steady course, then takes a second bearing of 068°T to the same object. She advances the first LOP along the DR track and intersects it with the second bearing. The result is best described as:

  1. A. A fix, because two lines of position were used
  2. B. A danger bearing, because only one charted object was used
  3. A running fix, less reliable than a simultaneous two-object fix because it assumes course and speed were held exactlyCorrect
  4. D. A three-bearing fix requiring a third observation to confirm position

Why C is correct

Bowditch Ch. 7 §708 describes exactly this procedure as a running fix and notes it is less reliable than a simultaneous two-object fix because it assumes course and speed were maintained precisely between observations. A danger bearing (option B) is a planning tool, not a position-finding technique.

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