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ECDIS: THE MAGIC MAP THAT LIES POLITELY
Sailor Today
|December 2025
Alarm sanity, safety contours, and backup plotting
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At 0213 the bridge was a soft aquarium: dim screens, whispering fans, a mug of coffee trying not to be cold. OOW Rhea was midwatch on the MV Pixel Princess, steering along a traffic lane that ECDIS rendered as a royal blue carpet to destiny. The ship hummed. The sea was boring (the correct setting for any sea), and the Electronic Chart Display and Information System - our beloved ECDIS, purred like a cat who had eaten the canary and was now considering your goldfish.
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