bad day at work

[fgentges at mindspring.com]

The electronic maps has been a big deal with the Navy.  They can put all 
the world's charts on a set of DVDs that can be carried on each ship 
down to the smallest dingy.  With all the care of converting the world's 
charts it is quite possible that errors creep in and most are found and 
corrected.  It looks like this one did not.

In the end, the commander of the ship is responsible for keeping it from 
grounding.  I am sure he will get a really serious check and will most 
likely never get another promotion.  Perhaps a desk job at the National 
Geospatial Agency is in his future.

Meantime, efforts will continue on getting the ship off of the reef,

Frank K0BRA


On 1/20/13 11:54 PM, wb5mmb wrote:
> 8nm ? I would think they would compare the new electronic chart with a 
> digitized version of the paper chart as a sanity check.
>      Sandy
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> http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/01/dn-011913-digitial-map-minesweeper-guardian-grounding-mil/ 
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