/ návəɡādər/, noun:
1. a person skilled or engaged in navigation*
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator." Edmund Gibbon,1737 - 1794 2. an explorer by sea *navigation /navəˈɡāSH(ə)n/, noun: 1. the act or process of directing the course of travel "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." David McCullough, 1933 - 2. the act of moving in a boat or ship over an area of water “Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.” Dionysus Lardner, 1793 - 1859