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April 7, 2008
Must Read: How to Avoid Huge Ships
Now here is a really useful book!
I haven't read it, but apparently the Captain isn't joking. He's serious about his subject. Which is good I suppose, cause being run down by a Huge Ship is pretty serious too.
Some of the comments on the book at Amazon's site aren't so serious though:
This is an excellent text on safe seafaring. I am very anxious to see the next book in the series "How to avoid submarines".
Or this one:
One can almost imagine a sequel written by a train engineer "How to Avoid Parking on Train Tracks".
And this one, which I can't tell if it is meant to be a joke:
Trimmer's book brings up many fine points ... He includes the standard wave-your-flag boys attention getting techniques, but goes deeper to include a section on ramming speed.
RAMMING SPEED!
Regardless, this sounds like a book which should have a prominent spot in any serious person's library.
Posted at 3:55 PM
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