The Sea Stabilization debate around Marine Radars
The problem of human mind is its tendency to become fixated with any IDEA that it receives with overwhelming emotions. Even as the young seafarers started to understand the importance of the STW (Speed through Water) feed to the ARPA for the purpose of Collision Avoidance , the debates around HOW and WHY such action is important , it seems to be leading TO A FIXATION among many young seafarers so much that they seem to be becoming oblivious of the importance of the SOG (speed over ground) Feed to the ARPA !! Debating often tends to create the Fixated Advocacy of some idea, so much that people begin to judge the purpose and utility of an idea exclusively with respect to what FIXATION they bear in their minds. The STW Data Feed on the ARPA seems to generate one such incidence. The advocacy of the 'STW Vs SOG' Debate leads, at one point, to discuss the TCPA and CPA. Theoretically, the TCPA and the CPA will not be affected whether a RADAR is fed with STW or the SOG. This conditi...