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I have a friend in a nursing home in the SW part of the island, as of two days ago the family in the US and other parts of the island have not been able to get any word about her. A grandson was planning on driving over yesterday to see her, the roads were utterly impassable before. Most of the...

As I understand, Europe which has security cameras all over the place also has fairly strict privacy laws. What this means, as I understand it, while you can have security cameras which may record your neighbors you must be sure that they are not released or published without your neighbors...

I googled 'congressional hearings, 100 hour navy work weeks' because I did not remember where I read it. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/us/p ... ittee.html

There was, IIRC, a NYT article. Many 7th fleet ships are seeing people put in 100 hour work weeks, month after month. While it is macho to say it can be done, the fact is, that it cannot be done on a sustained basis. Cognition, muscles, nerves all suffer. And while any given accident cannot be...

A somewhat general observation about Canada. The great compromise for the last 150 years is that Canada would govern somewhat from the center left, particularly with regards to social and welfare issues, but extraction industry and there infrastructure would be allowed any destruction of the...

FAA to some degree has total control over drones (realize that is an inconsistent statement, but it is largely true). Hence localities cannot pass finely crafted laws regarding drones. Unintended consequences. Bremerton at the behest of the Kitsap Naval Bases has been asked to restrict drones...

Check out the third picture down in this story from the Kitsap Sun http://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/loc ... 672624001/

I had not heard about this, and am very interested. What was on the coast several thousand years ago and now submerged has fascinated many of us. Great that some stabs are being made at answering this. And of course every answer will raise a magnitude of other questions.

I had a friend who did both knees at once. She just assumed a miserable two or three months, but only once. Ten years later doing OK.

For any number of sailors, and especially for commanding officers watch may be in addition to other duties, which for some are what we would call a full time job. While I know this is true for 'captains' I am not sure regarding others pulling watch duty. Anyone know?

I don't exactly disagree with you, but humans cannot for long periods of time be pushed beyond certain physiological limits. Those humans and their supervisors will often insist they are functioning OK, but it simply is not true after those limits have been substantially exceeded. The navy has...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/worl ... -warn.html At a certain point overscheduling people, and running them ragged moves the blame away from individuals. The article claims there is a problem.

Any political geeks aware the issues involved with Hardee's suggestion? Would Indian treaties, various game departments, national government get involved?

Might it be inexcusable particularly at nighttime and in crowded seas not to use AIS. Ship movements never really as 'secret' as the navy bureaucracy wants or thinks. Even during WWII Tokyo Rose frequently announced ship movements, as well as a good parcel of lies.

I read a longer discussion on my phone last night. It reported that merchant ships, for all the stories us sailors love to tell, have greatly reduced collisions over the last ten years. GREATLY, not several percent but made them rare. This all despite no lookouts, no one on the bridge...

Ethics, morality, crime and punishment are not the same in military are they are in civilian life. Military operations, even outside of war, are often hazardous. Death from friendly fire happens - fault is often found, careers are often ended, but punishment is rare. I state this as an observer...

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The commander of a ship is always responsible, and this is true for a variety of reasons. In the situation of crowded waters the commander is supposed to be called to the bridge. For some reason (lack of training?) this did not happen. In addition the starboard lookout (outside the bridge), the...

I finished reading the report. It is worth taking the time to do so. (I find a previous post offensive. I hope the poster withdraws it). The US Navy has a procedures to investigate, establish what happens, find mistakes, and fault, and court martial if appropriate. The radio room was, as I read...

Smaller fiberglass boats with the simplicity of the C-Dory are nigh well as close to the definition of eternal as about anything in the world. Teslas, at the other end of complexity, will also face the same problem, they may go for a million miles Unfortunately the string of temporary owners of...