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U.S. Coast Guard License Boating Course Instructional Training Video - Get Your Captains License!

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The 58 minute video has some captain sitting at a desk, holding his coffee cup and reading off a teleprompter. He rattles off rules of the road, lights, day flags and chart info with very little graphics or video of boats performing the functions. I couldn't keep up with the difference between inland/coastal/international horn or bell sounds.
I've seen better productions on local cable access channels.
If I had found this DVD in the $4.99 rack at Walmart, I still would have felt I paid too much.

This is a copy of the older VHS tape and appears to have been made at least 15+ years ago. The referenced navigation texts by Mr. Gonder are no longer in print. Unfortunately, the approach is to recite rather than to teach. Complex subjects are covered in haste. No summaries are made for detailed subjects like lighting or signals. The only purpose this tape served was to convince me to allocate more preparation time for the test, which I appreciated. Recommend some of the newer versions by Magic Lamp's Safe Boating Series.

This is not what it's presented to be to me. It's a fast talking lecture with a few flash-in pictures. Some of it is not even in color as you would expect for what it cost.

I should have read the reviews. This video is the equivalent of trying to cram 4 years of higher education into 58 minutes. The "Reader" (instructor) blows through topics so quickly that you're still mentally on the first topic when the end credits are rolling. Only the Micro-Machine commercial guy could have blown through this faster. It should be illegal to sell something this bad.

If you're trying to take a short cut to your captain's license, don't do it. Sign up for a REAL USCG class. They're expensive, but only about 10 times the cost of this over-priced steaming pile. I wouldn't even check this out for free from the local library. I have wasted 58 minutes of my life. Is there a rating less than one star?

I just took my Captains License course from Sea School and passed my tests fine. I bought this for review purposes. A TOTAL waste of 58 minutes. Do not buy this piece of junk, it is poorly done and has no value to a beginner or knowledgeable individual.

From the very start the boats used in diagrams to teach rules of the Road are BACKWARDS! I tried to contact the compnay and all they did was offer another video. This is from 2007 and should have been fixed! There are some good online sites to learn and practise for the license exam.