15 janeiro 2012

perfect storm

Crew don’t have as much training as in the past. Ships today are built with completely enclosed navigation bridges and the navigators don’t even have to learn how to use a sextant, whereas marine officers in the past always had to. The advance in hi-tech navigation systems is so good that we have come to rely on them. But even these can fail — look at car satnavs.

Telegraph

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