Benefits and Efficiency of the Use of Navigational Simulators in Marine Navigation Studies

It is extremely important that their ship handling practice starts on the navigational simulators that enable to re-create the handling of ships in different situations while applying all the necessary procedures and using appropriate equipment because of the recent enormous technological progress. Marine navigation program students do have the opportunity to perform various simulated tasks, participate in different situations, communicate and ensure safe navigation from point A to point "B" in the modern twelve bridge common network class training simulator while studying on the fourth, third and even lower courses. Students are taught by highly experienced instructors they do perceive the information in different ways. Besides this there are no precise and defined methods for learning, what to begin with and whether the actions performed are useful and are not subjective instructions from one or more lecturers, provided. Therefore, the aim of our research is to find out the minds and impressions of students on the effectiveness of the navigational simulator, its pros and cons, the sufficiency of provided for learning time and so on.