Wow good read.
Like the part were the reports says that sending the txt message was a waste of time.
What blows my mind is that everybody in the wheel house claims to not know how the throttle worked. From reading is seems like all you had to do was pull them back. Makes one wonder what type of terror shop they work in when they are afraid to pull `em back. Even if the report decided that doing so was not the best option, still Hyundai policy stated that in a collision scenario that the OOW should slow down . Scary as hell that they guy in charge didn't know how to use all his tools.
I teach and follow the motto, "When in doubt pull `em back".
AIS is a tool, just like the radar and arpa. They have there place, but none of them take the place your eyes.
As for what I use it for, the last one I used was a really bad Naticast unit that took for ever to update when we left the dock, so by the time it updated we were already out of traffic. If for some reason it actually started working before then, finding out that name of the boat in front of me at night is about all I ever used it for as there was no chart plotter hooked up to it.
As for updating information on it, just were im going and time if I think about it. The boats I work on might change draft by 3 ft max so changing that really isn't worth the time.
I just want to reiterate what has been said before. By the time the AIS has updated it's self and you have digested it, its already old and out of date. And that can be said for everything electronic in the wheelhouse. About the only thing constanly up to date is your magnetic compass and your eyes.
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