Next message: Richard M. Pisko: "Re: Navigating Around Hills and Dips in the Ocean"
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 07:29 PM, David Hoyte wrote:
> I heard as far back as 1975, at the IBM Maritime Center in
> Italy, that a large ship will use significantly more fuel if it passes
> down into a gravitational dip and climbs the other side, rather than
> following a longer path around the dip which will keep it more "on the
> level".
Hmmm. How could these dips be known about almost 30 years ago before
GPS?
Also, can you give a better reference for this Maritime Center? A
search on Google does not show any IBM Maritime Centers - in Italy
or anywhere else - and I doubt that IBM would even have a Maritime
Center, unless they made a donation to something that caused their
name to be prefixed to an existing organization. Nevertheless, I
cannot find any IBM Maritime Centers (or Centres) that are known
publicly by that name. (What would the Italian name be?)
Dan
