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On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Jared Sherman wrote:
> Give way? Simply not possible, when there is no one on the helm.
> Perhaps I saw the one incident in a thousand, but it seemed routine
> for them.
I have heard that the largest tankers and container ships take many
miles to stop. I do not imagine that they turn very easily either, so
perhaps this is why they do not watch where they are going: if they see
a small boat directly in their path doing anything may be out of the
realm of the possible.
Dan
Assignment: For extra credit do the "back of the envelope" estimate of
a container ship, its weight, and its power and determine what its
stopping distance actually is.
