Virtual buoys may stop ships from crashing in fog
Coast Guard tests electronic navigation aids that could help mariners navigate even the lowest-visibility conditions.
His view obscured by thick morning fog, the pilot of a container ship called the Cosco Busan slammed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge the morning of Nov. 7, 2007. The accident gouged a 212-foot hole in the vessel's hull and spilled nearly 54 thousand gallons of toxic fuel into the water, soiling some 26 miles of shoreline and leaving at least 2,900 birds dead or injured. (more…)
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