On 18 May 2011, at 14:23, Robert Binney wrote: > I have been told that "no sailors listen to the Shipping Forecast" - can this > be true?
Well - if you have the money (and enough battery power and ample of pricey thermal paper) - you get it off your navtex(1) or from the met-office feed of immarsat(2). But I've found myself in a situation more than once where knowing that you could be having _reliable_ warnings with just a simple battery & radio independent of it all was very reassuring. Dw. 1: http://www.frisnit.com/cgi-bin/navtex/view.cgi?NAVAREA=1&action=browse&TYPE=24H - the MET ones. 2: http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/UKMHSFAT - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
