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From: "George Huxtable" 
> Isn't it enlightening, though, that the Royal Majesty event, serious
> though
> it was, and more serious it could have been, from back in the very early
> days of GPS, seems to be the only case that's come to anyone's mind of a
> GPS-assisted accident. Seems to be a pretty good safety record to me,
> though perhaps that's not a comment that's welcome on Nav-L...

Good point. This grounding, as long ago as it was, remains the poster child
for every discussion of over-reliance on GPS. One of the reasons there are
no newer incidents of equal profile is because shipping interests, equipment
manufacturers and bridge officers all learned their lessons from the Royal
Majesty. I don't know anyone, at least in the U.S., who's taken an
STCW-mandated bridge resource management course in which the Royal Majesty
wasn't discussed.

Carl Herzog
Providence, Rhode Island

   

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