Before long bridges will be places where most of the traditional navigational skills simply cannot be practised, even as a last resort in an emergency. Today Michael Lloyd is senior adviser marine operations to nautical publisher Seamanship International, but until earlier this year he was a serving ship's master. He said: "I have recently sailed on a ship with a bridge that had all the modern navigational devices you could think of, but we were unable to take an azimuth bearing as we had no bridge wings or gyro repeaters. The traditional method of seeing very quickly whether you were in a collision situation was to take bearings. That is already not possible on a number of ships."
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