I too love the engine configuration of the 727 (and if you like that, you should check out the L-1011), but it wasn’t a widebody. It has the same fuselage cross section as a 737.
I got fitted with these last year after finally losing the ability to focus on small text at reasonable distances. They work shockingly well for me. I don’t recall there being any period of adjustment at all.
Also in that scene when he slightly moves his hand to get Jack to back off from interrogating the admiral about whether he’d ever met Ramius - just terrific non-verbal acting that speaks volumes.
I love that movie too. It’s amazing how well it holds up for it being, in many ways, a tech-focused movie - I mean, yeah, the tech is very much dated and completely a product of its time, but it doesn’t look at all ridiculous. Undoubtedly probably helps that it was pre-WWW/popular internet.
I wonder why there’s that “elbow” off the west coast of the US. Is that composed of vessels avoiding the US EEZ or Coast Guard regulation or something?
There's one which follows the inner Channel Islands passage, and would be used by ships traversing West Coast ports (e.g., between Tijujana, San Diego, Long Beach / Los Angeles, Oakland/Richmond, Seattle, Vancouver).
And there's one further offshore which looks as if it mostly connects the Panama Canal to Vancouver.
I suspect you're referencing the latter, and I'm not sure just what it signifies, though that's in interesting observation, yes.
There are interactive shipping visualisations which show individual ships and their origins / destinations, which might help resolve this.
You are correct, I was referring to that Vancouver-Panama routing.
The more I look at the map, the more I think it does have something to do with some aspect of US jurisdiction - at first I thought the phenomenon was limited to the west coast, but it looks like there’s a hint of it off the east coast as well. And the waters around Hawaii look suspiciously empty (other than traffic that’s Hawaii-bound) compared to the entire rest of the pacific. To my eyes, I don’t see clear evidence of the same phenomenon occurring anywhere else in the world.
Good thought on checking a vessel tracker to see which ships are using that route and whether there are any evident commonalities.
The thing about Hawaii is that there's very little that would pass by there unless it was going to or coming from Hawaii. So the idea that there's traffic around it heading in or out but not much else ... makes sense. There's extraordinarily little traffic across the mid-Pacific otherwise.
(This has strong implications fro the island states of the Pacific as well: they've got great water access ... but nobody goes there. Places such as Pitcairn see very few vessels, similarly for the islands of the South Atlantic.)
I'll see what I can dig up, you're nerd-sniping me.
Agree that Hawaii is (gloriously) remote, but to my eye there still seems to be less shipping in its vicinity on average than there is in similarly remote areas of the Pacific. But I also just noticed I was misinterpreting the scale of the map and had substantially overestimated the breadth of Hawaiian archipelago, so the seeming absence of non-Hawaiian traffic could certainly be a function of, well, being smack in the middle of a giant ocean with not much else around.
That said, another thing I noticed that makes me think could be a regulatorily driven pattern - there’s a quite noticeable void in the map around the Galapagos. I assume that’s some sort of environmental regulation, and vessels either route around (or turn off their transponders) due to that - wondering if there’s a reason to do the same in US waters that doesn’t really seem to hold true anywhere other than the US or the Galapagos.
Sorry for sending a reply to a different message, but I got imgpls Safari extension to work on Iphone.
in settings, you need to go to Safari and there in extensions, in there beyond enabling imgpls there's also a menu at the bottom where it says "websites content and history" and you should find both imgur and reddit. Instead of ask, switch both to "allow". It will work then!
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