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11 months ago
in World’s Sexiest Sextant? You Decide on gCaptain
What sex is a sextant? In Germany the meaning of "Tante" is "aunt". So, is a sextant a sexy aunt?
To me a sextant is more a great-great-aunt who I used to pay respect when I caught the stars for getting a position fix ...
:-)
To me a sextant is more a great-great-aunt who I used to pay respect when I caught the stars for getting a position fix ...
:-)
1 year ago
in Error In Navigation - Tracing Paper Blamed | gCaptain.com on gCaptain
Charts can be printed with reasonable quality on board ship from ARCS (raster image charts by UKHO for use in ECDIS); one chart per mission. Experience so far demonstrates that this solution highly satisfies mariners.
1 year ago
in The 2008 Submarine Cable Map on gCaptain
A nautical map is actually a "chart"; so, your article should title "The 2008 Chart of Submarine Cables" :)
1 year ago
in Queen Victoria Aground - Is the curse real? | gCaptain.com on gCaptain
It is about time that ports start issuing high precision digital charts; ships like the QV are too large to be manouvered without ECDIS and ENCs that are accurate to the decimetre.
1 year ago
in The Return Of LORAN - eLORAN 101 on gCaptain
Certainly a good development. It offers redundancy, something navigators always welcome. There is nothing to criticize, except, maybe, the use of the buzzword "e-navigation".
In Europe "e-navigation" or "e-nav" stands for everything that has to do with controlling marine traffic to the extend that it is meaningless.
In Europe "e-navigation" or "e-nav" stands for everything that has to do with controlling marine traffic to the extend that it is meaningless.
1 year ago
in How One Ship Crashed The Internet For 75 Million People on gCaptain
With Hdyrographic Offices outsourcing chart production to India, this event worries me. While I write these lines, the majority of the worlds digital sea charts for ECDIS is digitized in Hyderabad under contract to NOAA, UKHO, and other European and Asian HOs. What happens next when also maintainance (updating) of charts is mostly out of India? Delayed notices to mariners?
1 year ago
in Preventing Oil Spills - Alternatives To Double Hull Ship Design on gCaptain
AUPS, I gather, has a significant problem: inside a tanker's hull free floating surfaces potentially inhibit a ship's stability. I haven't followed the discussion but I assume this is the reason why double hull prevailed.
However, neither AUPS nor DH can prevent a grounding. Another technology that was developed following Exxon Valdez pontentially can - ECDIS; it highlights and warns of charted shallow waters ahead. Unfortunately, the press seems not to take notice of it.
However, neither AUPS nor DH can prevent a grounding. Another technology that was developed following Exxon Valdez pontentially can - ECDIS; it highlights and warns of charted shallow waters ahead. Unfortunately, the press seems not to take notice of it.
