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Re: QE2 grounding (was: Mercator vs. Great Circle)
From: Dale Tilson
Date: 2001 Aug 30, 7:53 AM
From: Dale Tilson
Date: 2001 Aug 30, 7:53 AM
At 06:06 PM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Rodney's right, the QE2 grounding was not a GPS error or trusting to
>(incorrect) instruments. Also, it's the "Rude" (actually the [Given
>name something] Rude, pronounced "Roody" as I found when I spoke her
>last summer off Block Island). I think the ship's named after a
>geographer or oceanographer but I wouldn't care to bet on that.
"Commissioned in 1967, RUDE is one of NOAA's
smallest ships. The ship is named after Captain
Gilbert T. Rude (pronounced 'roo-dee') of the former
Coast and Geodetic Survey, who developed the
Rude Star Finder, a navigational device used for
locating celestial bodies. "
from: http://www.omao.noaa.gov/platforms/aug99rude.html
Of course, I still haven't >mastered< the 2101-D, but I'm workin' on it.
Dale
