Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.

“Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.” is a core task performed by Fishing and Hunting Workers. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 16th by importance (#15 most important). About 67% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Operate transportation equipment or vehicles. in Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments. · importance 4.8
• Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers. · importance 4.7
• Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps. · importance 4.6
• Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size. · importance 4.6
• Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members. · importance 4.6
• Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment. · importance 4.5
• Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses. · importance 4.5
• Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods. · importance 4.5
• Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas. · importance 4.5
• Maintain and repair trapping equipment. · importance 4.4
• Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land. · importance 4.3
• Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them. · importance 4.3
• Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs. · importance 4.3
• Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Fishing and Hunting Workers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-23414,
  title  = {Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-23414}
}