Poor Visibility in Fog, Collision of Ships Inevitable

• Avoiding collision requires visibility which is hard in the fog, and once was a whole lot harder before pinpoint navigation tools.
• But what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger and provides good stories… here’s one of them.
• The fog lifted before sunset, and the many, many large vessels that followed the shipping lanes, across which we had just sailed.

A Scuttle Butt Sailing News report brings out a detailed information about the crossing shipping lances in the fog.

When I was...

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