Marine Log, August 1st, 2000
If you drive a new Corvette, or for that matter a Buick Century, GM has installed one in your car for you. They're the first thing that accident investigators start looking for when a commercial airliner goes down. And at long last it looks like they'll become mandatory aboard ship. We're talking about Black Boxes or, in the maritime context, Voyage Data Recorders (VDRs). They record such data as ship's position, speed and heading along with radar data and recordings of VHF traffic and bridge voice recordings. That last one may sound a little like Big Brother on the bridge, but it has long bee...
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