Michael Moradzadeh, San Francisco Station The Global Software Glitch of the Summer of 2024 serves as a warning and reminder to, among others, ocean voyagers.An innocent error in coding took out thousands of computers, with paralyzing…
Subject: Emergency Signalling, Search and Rescue, Communications, AIS
Both these incidents illustrate the fact that yacht safety equipment is useful only to the extent it can be accessed in difficult conditions, that it is in working order, and that the operator is thoroughly familiar with its operation. They…
A fire at a marina in Maine destroyed one boat and damaged another. Loss or significant damage to several other boats was averted due to the unusually fast response of the local volunteer fire department. There are several important observations and…