When Adrienne Cahalan first sailed the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race back in 1984, navigation meant paper charts, dividers ...

There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the mirrors ...

Kansas is to the ocean as celestial navigation is to the 21st century – seemingly unrelated to one another. But all those things might come together because of a Wichita company. The U.S. Navy ...

Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan Myers teaches Command Master Chief April Beldo how to use a marine sextant during a demonstration of celestial navigation aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl ...

Generations of midshipmen at the Naval Academy have been required to learn the toughest and most ancient tenets of seamanship: how to point a contraption called a sextant at a few stars, do some ...