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Subject: Re: TWL: RE: Another traditional instrument to bite the dust?
From: 2448210 (2448210@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 09:16:32 EDT
GPS works on a straight line principle.
If the Valdez went off course, the GPS would point it to the next way point
in a straight line. If shoals were in the way...so be it.
GPS is no substitute for good navigation skills.
There was, in the not too distant past, a captain in the navy commissioned
to take over a destroyer. He and his crew went out on a shake down and were
not heard from for quite some time.
It seems all the electronic went down, and they got lost.
The captain and the nav crew were fired!
RJ
Bay-B-Grand
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Kenneth McQuage" <tobyboat@XXX.XXX>
To: "Jerome A. Schroeder" <jschroeder1@XXX.XXX>; "Ken Phelps"
<phelps@XXX.XXX>
Cc: <trawler-world-list@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: TWL: RE: Another traditional instrument to bite the dust?
>
> > > 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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