Cargo ship detained in Brisbane after crew unable to use navigation equipment
 

Unbelievable but apparently true. This reminds me of the cargo ship
that wrecked on Nantucket Shoals back in the 1980s. That ship had
almost no navigation equipment onboard and no clue as to where they
were.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cargo-ship-detained-in-brisbane-after-crew-unable-to-use-navigation-equipment-20160527-gp5azt.html

Cargo ship detained in Brisbane after crew unable to use navigation equipment
 

Wow! Thankfully they didn't get by with it. But I wonder how one could think they could pilot a vessel of this size without knowing how to pilot a vessel this size?

Cargo ship detained in Brisbane after crew unable to use navigation equipment
 

On Fri, 27 May 2016 06:38:26 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Wow! Thankfully they didn't get by with it. But I wonder how one could think they could pilot a vessel of this size without knowing how to pilot a vessel this size?

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They were probably using their cell phones or some other portable GPS.
:-)

The so called ECDIS equipment on a big ship is supposedly quite a bit
more complex as you might imagine.