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To: freedumb2003
How does that happen? It isn’t like they can’t see each other.

Trust me, at night, in a narrow waterway, with the shore as lit up as it is here, it can be harder than you might think to track another ship's running lights. But that's where radar comes in as an aid.

19 posted on 10/27/2009 8:06:50 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: GATOR NAVY

>>Trust me, at night, in a narrow waterway, with the shore as lit up as it is here, it can be harder than you might think to track another ship’s running lights. But that’s where radar comes in as an aid.<<

Thanks, Navy — at least I understand how there may have been a cock-up that needs to be investigated.


20 posted on 10/27/2009 8:08:44 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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