When you zoom in to a sufficiently small zoom range, the icon itself becomes an animated arrow showing tidal current velocity and direction for the selected tidal station. At larger zoom ranges, you can select the boxed "C" icon and it becomes an animated arrow with a pop- up name box. An example is displayed in the following figure.

To view Tidal Current information:

1.Use the arrow keys to move the cursor over a Tidal Current Station icon. When selected, a pop-up name box appears.

2.Press WPT to display the Tidal Current Information screen.

Tidal Current Station icon in animated mode

Pop-up name box

Cursor lines

Navionics chart showing Tidal Current Station icon selected by cursor. In this example, the tidal current is in flood but it's about to enter the slack water stage. The current is flowing to the west at 0.1 mph.

Current Information screen.

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