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Subject: Re: TWL: RE: Another traditional instrument to bite the dust?
From: M. Kenneth McQuage (tobyboat@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 19:58:02 EDT
> > Kind of makes you wonder just what they're doing on vessels like the
Exxon Valdez......
> Were accurate GPS units available then? ..., but
> perhaps not quite as accurate enough to thread thru a rocky passage.
>
Heck the passage in which the EV ran aground is more than 5 miles wide !
Makes me shutter to think of Compressed Liquid Natural Gas tankers
comming up the Chesapeake and docking off Calvert Cliffs Nuke Plant to off
load - with or without GPS .....
Ken
Mrs. Hudson
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