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To: GeronL; Jeff Head; GATOR NAVY
Swept Away - Navy to scrap $277 million ship to avoid scraping reef

“The U.S. Navy also revealed Jan. 18 that the digital navigational chart in use by the Guardian misplaced the correct location of the reef by about eight nautical miles,” the Military Times reported.

28 posted on 01/30/2013 11:45:53 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

8 miles?

close enough for government work... jeesh.. should have used Google Earth or something


29 posted on 01/30/2013 11:50:56 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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