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Re: Avoiding collision.
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Oct 7, 17:00 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Oct 7, 17:00 -0700
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Jared Sherman wrote: > Give way? Simply not possible, when there is no one on the helm. > Perhaps I saw the one incident in a thousand, but it seemed routine > for them. I have heard that the largest tankers and container ships take many miles to stop. I do not imagine that they turn very easily either, so perhaps this is why they do not watch where they are going: if they see a small boat directly in their path doing anything may be out of the realm of the possible. Dan Assignment: For extra credit do the "back of the envelope" estimate of a container ship, its weight, and its power and determine what its stopping distance actually is.
