Oh no - not another Paper Tiger reminiscence
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Originally Posted by
pedro.nz
Bit off topic I know but have a look at the traffic in the English channel - scary stuff if you are in a sailboat...
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The pinch point there is the Dover Straits where not only are the big ships running up and down but the Dover-Calais passenger ferries are cutting across.
It is all monitored from the HM Dover Coastguard Operations Room (built upon an old gun emplacement) and where I spent some time in the late 80's during the installation and commissioning of a new radar system, having designed some of it.
I remember standing at those windows and watching as a SRN4 hovercraft struggled to get into Dover Harbour having been caught out by a sudden storm.
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Paper Tiger