Jean-Francois S
Hi, I am a marine pilot in the St. Lawrence river in Quebec and I own a Master Mariner licence. (Highest navigation licence allowing to be captain on any size of ship anywhere in the world). I did the course to get the boat licence card so I don't need to carry my Master Mariner licence with me on a small boat. I actually went thought the whole course because I was interested in seeing what was taught to boaters and if there was a good explanation how to interact with commercial vessels since I very often see dangerous behaviours in the St. Lawrence river while I'm piloting large vessels. I like your website interface and the content was good. However, I found a lot of mistakes through the course. Some mistake are probably information that have been copied or simply written wrong, but some of them are misunderstanding of some principles or even misinterpretation of some rules and regulations. Also, I found few places when the information was different in two different places in the course. Also, 3-4 times, I had questions in the quiz about information that was shown in a subsequent module. The french translation was not perfect sometime (mostly in the website interface rather than the course content) and it was impossible to switch between french or english after you started the course. That would be useful. I wish there was more information about interacting with large vessel. For example diagram and pictures of the visibility from a big vessel, reasons and how dangerous it is to pass in front of commercial vessel (I see that almost everyday in the summer), etc. Thank you. Jean-Francois Simard
5 years ago
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