Can you trust your GPS?

[John Arton]

https://splash247.com/msc-ship-agrou...-gps-spoofing/
An MSC container ship is aground off Jeddah with the cause of the grounding being it's GPS being spoofed. Apparently it's easy to fool GPS to give wrong position information with the equipment needed costing only around $100.
Obviously it appears that the bridge team have been relying on their GPS solely to give position information but they should have been using all other means, radar, visual, echo sounder, etc to cross check the accuracy of their GPS.
Rgds
J.A.
P.s. on another subject the MSC Sana is still awaiting tugs to arrive to tow it to port after it suffered major explosion in its engine room leaving three staff seriously injured.

[James Curry]

MSC Sana? Surely you mean the Marsek Sana, the ship that suffereda crankcase explosion last week? Maresk say a specialised tug is on the way. They sayit is not always the closest tug that would dispatched. They say the weather is still good in the area so a more suitable opition has been hired for the recovery. Sounds to me as if the owners were not prepared to go for Lloyds openform (is that what they call it)

MSC yet again suppose when you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

[happy daze john in oz]

Any GPS can fail as I know.
Out in a 12 seater bus driving a group to a lunch meeting.
Using the GPS as we did not know the way.
Put in the address and bingo, lost.
The bloody thing gave us directions for a same named town in South Oz, only about 800 klm from where we were.

[John Arton]

MSC Sana? Surely you mean the Marsek Sana, the ship that suffereda crankcase explosion last week? Maresk say a specialised tug is on the way. They sayit is not always the closest tug that would dispatched. They say the weather is still good in the area so a more suitable opition has been hired for the recovery. Sounds to me as if the owners were not prepared to go for Lloyds openform (is that what they call it)

MSC yet again suppose when you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

Yes James
Getting my MSC's and maersk's mixed up, in an age thing you know.
Rgds
J.A

[James Curry]

Tell me about it, I went out last week and had to phone the wife to ask what I went out for!!! Doctors appointment for your respiratory review, ask him to check you for memory lose while your there. Don't think she was best pleased

No offence intended John ref: my correction. None of us getting any younger.

[John Cassels]

Was out with the boat today and can say the GPS plotter had the normal excellent accuracy on the Haringvliet , south Holland.

[Tony Taylor]

Any GPS can fail as I know.
Out in a 12 seater bus driving a group to a lunch meeting.
Using the GPS as we did not know the way.
Put in the address and bingo, lost.
The bloody thing gave us directions for a same named town in South Oz, only about 800 klm from where we were.

Good job you dont live round here then John, with local places with names like New York, Philadelphia, Quebec and a few others as well.

[j.sabourn]

You missed out Washington Tony , what happens when the president asks you over for a party and you go to the wrong one ? One of the ones you missed out?
JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Bad as the London taxi driver when I said I wanted to go to Waterloo,
Station he asked

Too bloody late for the battle I guess