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On the high seas of central France.
      #1239142 - 09/26/08 01:35 PM

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I have recently been reading Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee, one of my favorite non-fiction authors. One chapter of the book describes a facility in land-locked central France where captains of large bulk carrier ships come to train in the fine art of avoiding catastrophe at sea.








They captain custom made hulls 1/25 scale of large ships, practicing docking, avoiding accidents, maneuvering through the Suez Canal , and all manner of maneuvers that might be required of a large ship. Time scale is by a factor of five, so what takes 12 seconds on the lake is equivalent to one minute of real time.

Unfortunately the imagery at present doesn't show much detail, but I have included an overlay of the artificial lake and its facilities.

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