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HOW TO ACCESS YOUR FREE ONLINE TIDAL
CURRENT TABLES
- Access the NOAA site for Tidal Currents at http://tidesandcurrents
.noaa.gov/currents08/. (Notice the last two numbers for the year 2008;
for any other year, change the last two numbers.) - Scroll down the page and click on South Carolina.
- Click on Charleston Harbor.
- Click on Predictions, adjacent to CHARLESTON HARBOR (off Fort
Sumter). - Scroll down to the September 2008 listings. Place your cursor over
the word Charleston in the title at the upper left corner. Double
click to mark the word. Scroll down to the bottom right corner of
the September page. Hold down the shift key and left click the right
corner. - Right click and then click on Copy. Go to any word processing program
such as MS Word. Click on File, Page Setup, Landscape, then click OK.
Th en, right click and then click on Paste. Print this page, or go to the
next section to print and format your data.
Note: the NOAA website automatically corrects the times of tidal currents to
Daylight Savings Time (DST), when applicable.
For cockpit navigation we’ll make an easy-to-use graph for Charleston Harbor
on September 20, 2008, based on the information obtained from the online tidal
current tables.
Tidal current data for Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on September 20, 2008, as can
be found online.