023-Marina Site Analysis
Thomas Crown
12/31/2020
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The test at the end of this course is misleading at best and full of errors at worst. I would not recommend this course.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Dave Lehman
07/21/2020
Verified Buyer
Liked the course. Interesting material for me.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
John Dzwonczyk
07/14/2020
Verified Buyer
It's good information, but the writer must be like the ones who make up some state law and rules quizzes (I have 47 states, with no plans to get any more). He makes the quiz deliberately tricky, as if this is a game show. I got a 92% but one of my calculations was marked wrong as I chose the answer result choice in miles per hour, with the correct one being the same speed given in feet per second. Dude, we have to take this as continuing education because The Boards of Clerks Governing Professional Engineers make us. Show some professional courtesy!
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Adriaan
03/01/2019
Verified Buyer
While I passed this at 1st opportunity, it is by a large margin, the worst and most frustrating course I had ever taken in my 30+ years as a PE. The material is ambiguously written; the graphics/charts required to answer several questions are so pixelated as to make it a requirement to guess at what the axis or other labels mean; and finally, one of the common no-no's of such tests is not to ask a question that requires the answer to a previous question … if you get the 1st answer wrong, you are doomed to get the 2nd wrong as well which does not test knowledge, but merely doubles an error (there were a number of these).
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Robert Morrisette
12/13/2018
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Why all the calculations after stressing that the course will not prepare student to design marine facilities?
The charts included in the appendices were of poor quality and difficult to read/use.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Robert Smith, Jr.
07/30/2018
A good overview of site evaluation criteria for small marinas. Methods proposed are appropriate for minor facilities in protected sites. Too simplistic for large commercial marinas or higher wave environments. One of the more challenging continuing education courses I've taken.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Gwen Benoit
07/22/2017
Verified Buyer
Overall a good course. However, there were some acronyms that weren't defined (e.g. NGVD and NAVD) that I had to look up on Google. Also, the definition of base points for calculations/measurements were sometimes hard to follow, especially since the a distinction was not provided in the variable name to clarify the difference (e.g. definition of water levels and wind speeds). Otherwise the course is an interesting one and the content pretty well laid out.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Robert J. Alban
02/16/2017
Verified Buyer
Very fine course, with enough difficulty to really have to analyze options for your answers.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Gisela Rey
01/11/2017
Verified Buyer
The course is excellent, each topic is explained in detail.
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023-Marina Site Analysis
Pearce Barrett
12/29/2016
Verified Buyer
I found the course to be interesting and challenging for anyone working in the marine design and construction environment.
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Marina Site Analysis Review
Anne
12/30/2015
Verified Buyer
Good, informative course. Problems were easy to work if material is digested. Diagrams in example and appendices were fuzzy, but good enough to solve problems. Agree with the discussion on Quiz Problem 19.
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Applicable
John Harter
10/05/2015
Verified Buyer
I found the course to be interesting and applicable to many marine facility desigs. I would add a statement acknowledging that waves from vessels passing close to the mooring, while not addressed in this course, may prove to also be significant to marina site selection. (Or words to that effect)
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Brian L. Tomlinson, P.E.
02/16/2015
I was under the impression that the course would have gone further into the actual design of marina facilities.
Also I agree with a previous comment that the correct answer to question 19 is . . .
SunCam Comment: Portions of the review were remived because they discussed answers to questions.
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Philip Grissinger
06/14/2013
more illustrations in the course material would be appreciated and most helpful. When will the next level of this course become available (it's referenced in course material).
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Francisco Tejidor
01/07/2013
The course was quite informative and well planned. I look forward to a follow-up course.
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Marina Site Analysis
Lou Campanile, Jr.
03/02/2011
The course was extremely good. I needed a bit of editing to make it perfect. Some words and punctuation were left out, so sometimes a sentence had to be read multiple times to understand what is being taught.
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This course was okay. The content was intersting and I did learn something about what it takes to select a Marina Site. So it did serve its purpose. But some of the questions were vague and more difficult to answer than I thought they should be. I will continue to use SunCam for my continuing education needs, but next time I will skim the course and questions before making my course selection.
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Question #19, I stand by my answer could you explain how did you arrived to your answer??
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