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Not sure if reaction time plays any role when talking about ship this size. It takes time for it to respond for any command, e.g. course change.
by why_Mr_Anderson 6y ago
Not sure if reaction time plays any role when talking about ship this size. It takes time for it to respond for any command, e.g. course change.
- em-bee 6y agofair point. you are right. reaction time works both ways. if it takes long to counteract a problem, it also takes time for there to be a problem to begin with i don't have any experience with ships larger than a small sailing yacht myself and i guess, either you see a problem coming, then you have enough time to react, or you don't see it, and then it's to late either way.
- s_fischer 6y agoI'm not even remotely qualified on anything ship related so my question might be totally pointless. But by your logic, couldn't one argue that reaction time plays a rather large role? If you are navigating a narrow canal with thin margins for error, wouldn't you need good timing to start a manuever at a certain point so that the ship is able to respond by the time that you need to truly adjust it's position? If some sort of weather event/anomaly caused an unexpected change of course, wouldn't reaction time be even more critical because you have less time to make a correction if you don't act immediately?
- why_Mr_Anderson 6y agoWhat I was trying to say was that even if the captain instantly tried to reverse the course, ship has already started to move and due to size its momentum is enormous.