He determined on adopting the nautical profession and undertook a number of voyages as apprentice, and as ordinary and able seaman, in cargo ships and on board whalers.
The distances to various portions of the ocean circumference are such that the maximum run-up wavelengths do not differ significantly from the average wavelength of 100 nautical miles.
Nautical use derived from that.
Most maritime schools have 'ladder-type' systems, wherein students unable to finish the 4-year college program could be awarded an 'associate in nautical science' or 'associate in marine engineering' degree.
Wilkes famously erred in his reckoning of the positions of land, by tens to more than 100 nautical miles.
Alfred accordingly employed visual and nautical conceptual metaphors in a uniquely creative way to highlight this connective effort in his epistemological model.
Many of the maritime schools offer a 'ladder-type program', according to which, after completing 2 to 3 years' schooling, students are given an 'associate nautical or marine engineering degree'.
Alfred develops the function of the nautical domain and revises the relationship between the spiritual and intellectual domains.
