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Radar - attitude changes
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:21:55 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:06:30 -0400, Jeff wrote: One problem now is that while in the "old days" (before low cost radar and loran/gps) the only fools out in the pea soup were being ultra cautious, tooting horns, going slow etc, nowadays every rich bozo thinks he can run his sportfish at 30 knots because the radar and GPS will keep him safe. Back in the 80s a friend of mine was bringing a new (to him) 40 ft sailboat back from Canada in the fog. He was T-boned by a tug boat operated by the Canadian coast guard even though both boats were operating their radar and were aware of each other's presence. Go figure. The passenger liner Stockholm T-boned the Andrea Doria and about 60 died. Eventually when the blame dodging was over, the Stockholm's third mate was said to have misread his radar. To digress a bit: more people have died diving the wreck than died during the sinking. One guy has taken out one party a year for more than thirty years. He has lost 3%. It is heavily draped with fishing tackle, of course. |
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