Fairway 30 - Royal Institute of Navigation

disappear owing to the fact that
Eumetsat switches reception
between MSG-1 and 2 but this
is easily sorted. I have been
able to include examples of the
received images in Fairway,
but as the printed version will
only show them in black and
white please go to the
following website where I have
uploaded some typical
examples in colour.
www.picasaweb.google.com/johnbarfoot2/FairwayArticlePics?authkey=Gv1sRgCPGXva2epfvfcA
If you wish to know more, contact me at my email address, sounio@aol.com.
John Barfoot FRIN
Geostationary pictures are courtesy of Eumetsat.
MarTEL - SOLVING POOR COMMUNICATION AT SEA
According to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), more than 80% of
accidents at sea are caused by human error, the majority of which are related to poor
standards of maritime English and in response to this problem the Centre for Factories of
the Future (C4FF) and their European partners have devised a new programme called
MarTEL.
The creation of an international maritime English standard has been needed for quite
some time to preserve life at sea and reduce the huge financial costs incurred as a result
of accidents caused by poor vocational language skills.
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In November 2002 a Liberian tanker,
Prestige, broke up and sank with
77,000 tons of oil on board just 120
miles off the Spanish coast. The
resultant oil spill left thousands of
f i s h e r m e n o u t o f w o r k a n d
contaminated more than 100 beaches
making it an environmental disaster.
It caused untold damage to the
environment which could have been
avoided had proper communication
been followed throughout. During this