Remember when we used to plot dredge paths with paper charts and a grease pencil?

Now I just punch the GPS coordinates into the onboard screen, but I still keep a paper backup in the cab after a system glitch left us drifting near the Mobile channel for 20 minutes last fall. Anyone else still run a hybrid setup like that?

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ward.mason3d ago

Honestly, I don't even trust the backup paper that much anymore. If the main system glitches, what's to say your written coordinates are right for that exact second? That drift near the channel proves my point. I put my faith in having two separate, full digital systems running off different power sources. Paper feels like security theater to me now.

beth_ward803d ago

Security theater" is exactly what my old captain called it too.