THE
OCEAN SENTRY: an excellent piece of collision avoidance equipment
(left in photo) that not only sends off an alarm inside Moksha alerting
the crew of a ship in the vicinity, but also returns incoming radar
pulses at many times the original magnitude, making Moksha look
like an aircraft carrier (relatively speaking) on a ships
radar screen.
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IT IS ABLE TO DO THIS because it
is active i.e. it uses external power from the boats
batteries.
For
more information about the Ocean Sentry, check out www.painswessex.com
or email PainsWessex Safety Systems at jcpains@aol.com
or call (1) 561 883 1201
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A note on anti-collision equipment: the only grey area with these
kinds of devices is the assumption that the other ships have their
radars actually switched on. Very often ships will switch off their
radars once away from land to avoid false alarms from whales or
other objects floating in the water. There is never any substitute
therefore for a pair of eyeballs scanning the horizon during both
daylight and nighttime hours. However, during a solo voyage faith
has to be placed in an all-round white light that one hopes the
other ship will see in time!
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