Black Panther 1,592 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DrWatson 381 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Notice the relative dip in ship wrecks after the mid 90s or so? I know it's only 20 years or thereabouts and so the pattern should not be extrapolated, but it seems the greatest advancement in safety at sea was not steam or fossil fuel power, but perhaps navigational advances ie gps? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,239 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Yep, pretty interesting. GPS would be it I reckon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJohnB 322 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 In the early days they kept on banging in to WA. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philstar 61 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 tasmania gets loads too. unsurprising really. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AJ Oliver 154 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Reminds me of those beautiful and sobering photos on the wall at the Royal Port Nelson YC captioned . . Lost with all hands. Sail safe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Rena not there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
idlerboat 116 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Huge numbers in western bass straight..Victoria. locally known as the ship wreck coast. Problem was it was the landfall place after "the long journey" At night they would often make just a bit to much northing,,,..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Battleship 100 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Rena not there Maybe they just got the year wrong there is something in the vicinity in 2008 don't remember any ships going down then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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