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Originally Posted by xrvjorn
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Originally Posted by Polak
I will allways choose a ship before an airplane. ;)
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Airplanes have backup systems for just about anything and are grounded for the slightest problems. When you read about passenger ferry accidents, you realise that some of them don't even have backups for basic stuff like radio and GPS. Compared to aviation, there's hardly any safety awareness at all on the sea. Ferrys scare me, I'd take an Airbus or Boeing anytime.
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I think I'll print that out and post it in the ship's office next time I'm filling out some ISM forms. It might make me happier... Ah, screw it, it won't.
Have you ever been on a ship?
Have you ever heard of, say, SOLAS? GMDSS? ISM?
Ever heard of an emergency fire pump? That's a back up of the main fire pump. Same with the emergency generator - and you might have two or three mains. We also have batteries, too, because, you know, no safety conscience.
IMO says we need two radar, but that's only so we can hang laundry off the scanner - there's no way you can use the X band to back up the S band. And forget about using the radar to back up the GPS, that's waaaaaaay too complicated. We're too dumb to do that, because there's no convention on how trained and safety conscious we have to be.
Because, you know, STCW? Totally doesn't exist.
Oh yeah, the sextant's for show. No way we could use that as a backup for the GPS, I mean, what's that thing for, anyway? Let's just do like ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE and buy a second GPS. Hey, we'll even plug it into the GMDSS console and the batteries, so that the distress message already has a position in it! Cause we're too ****ing dumb not to sink!
Jesus christ, either you know what you're talking about, or you SHUT THE **** UP.
