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Yeah, the QEII (I think) ran aground about 20 years ago just off the
Elizabeth Islands on Cape Cod and in one of the most heavily traveled areas of New England. The chart turned out to be wrong. Is that the case? I heard about something similar but not a case of a chart being wrong. A cruise liner enroute to Boston was under autopilot but the gps lost lock for an extended period of time. During that period the course was continued with the unit doing its own dead reckoning. By the time it regained lock it was well off course and the new course to the next waypoint took it over some rocks. None of the crew had noticed the system had lost lock and all were trusting that the "gps referenced autopilot" was safely steering the ship waypoint to waypoint. They also did not bother to look and see that their course was now taking them over the rocks. |
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