Posted: August 13, 2010


AMO members completing the Celestial Navigation Course as part of the Officer in Charge of a Navigational Watch Program at STAR Center in July included (left to right) Donald Turbeville, Ray Theriot, Michael O'Leary, Karen Michele Laycock, Samuel Makler Jr., Rik Stern, and Kathy Braud. With them here is Instructor Robert Bates. The boxes contain sextants, which were used to measure local apparent noon from the public pier in Dania Beach, Fla.