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2 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

There must be some staff onboard just not directly a pilot. I must just be in its infancy so it's prolly still being real humans. Maybe!

I expect they have a drone on deck to pluck out anyone that falls over the side

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2 hours ago, rusty69 said:

Cool. I wonder what the MOB procedure is.

 

According to the BBC article "In an emergency it can be controlled by humans offshore using satellite and internet communications."

 

Obviously this will rely on the remaining passengers alerting the humans offshore. ?

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7 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

According to the BBC article "In an emergency it can be controlled by humans offshore using satellite and internet communications."

 

Obviously this will rely on the remaining passengers alerting the humans offshore. ?

It will all F̶i̶n̶n̶i̶s̶h̶ end in tears.Mark my words,unless they get a bloody great drone.

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41 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

According to the BBC article "In an emergency it can be controlled by humans offshore using satellite and internet communications."

 

Obviously this will rely on the remaining passengers alerting the humans offshore. ?

Are they in rowing boats or inflatable ducks??

I would rather the humans controlling but in an emergency were ONSHORE. 

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18 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:

If we are very lucky, we'll find that their next 'new' ferry was built after 1980.

Indeed there is. I would imagine Victoria of Wight has now passed all the tests and is probably now working with the rest of the fleet

 

https://onthewight.com/name-of-wightlinks-flagship-ferry-revealed/

 

Nipper

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I suppose that a cargo ship with loads of consumers full of millions of pounds worth of stuff could be protected from piracy by putting high voltages on the whole ship.  Trouble is that it would leave a swathe of dead creatures on its wake...

 

Suggestions on a postcard, please.

 

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