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The importance for a good marine practice and knowledge required for the observation of the Sun and the stars with the sextant-now obsolete because boaters container bar have several highly electronically reliable, is vital in the case of failure of new technologies.
That's container bar what happened to Captain Tomás González Sánchez-Araña aboard the tanker Maersk Spanish Gerona, his command ship in August 1988, on his first trip on behalf of AP Moller Maersk, Sullom Voe of (north of Scotland) to Philadelphia with a cargo of North Sea crude.
Several voyages after the departure of Scotland there was a fault in the auxiliary engine generating power to the satellite receiver and other electronic equipment tanker Maersk Gerona, including the Data Bridge, first generation computer Norcontrol signature.
"We were almost like Columbus recalls Captain container bar González Sánchez and Spider-just me and the first officer, Santaella, rest in peace, had experience in observing the sun and the stars, which are more difficult to tangentear. With the Data Bridge radar, computer rudder governance and management of all navigation was controlled. The boat could change container bar course push of a button. Moreover, the situation is receiving satellite steadily through the Magnavox. "
"With container bar the Data Bridge defeat a round trip was scheduled, for example, the Persian Gulf Tenerife-Tenerife-Philadelphia-Mexico, container bar totaling more than 50 courses with corresponding distances. The team warned three miles before the next change of direction, which could be accepted by the officer of the watch by pressing a button, or, if the situation at the time (or near other boats new course change depending on the expected container bar circumstances).
All computers in the bridge of the tanker Maersk Gerona worked with alternating current frequency of 50 cycles. However, container bar the auxiliary engine Yanmar installed in the engine container bar room of the tanker, whose leadership time held another Tenerife, now deceased, Chinea Reinaldo Lopez - "great friend on earth but complicated board" - not enough often enough, "because it was defective container bar system automatically and manually controlled machines officer or greaser, so producing current of 50 cycles and 80 cycles. "
"The boss fights with wins of machines and, above all, a great friend Yayo Chinea, were constant. Anyway, for whatever reason, the engine had not been repaired before the departure of Sullom Voe and the result was that all the electronic equipment of the vessel, including the GPS receiver, radar, gyro and computer automatically controlled helm, Loran and so the rest were out of service until the arrival of the ship to Philadelphia, where we receive the parts and doubled almost every team. "
"Was only operational magnetic water (compass) ... high bridge and rudder by hand. Sextants had long forgotten were therefore only used students for their practices and were misaligned. And marine chronometers battery or cord operated. Rope Watch the blog, as Don Polo Renshaw, professor of English container bar at the Nautical School, for the single string on board there is the clock, the rest are ropes or hawsers. "
"When there was the 'blackout' we were south of Newfoundland (Saint Pier Miquelon) to 40 degrees