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I loved the article on this morning's Breakfast News about the tanker training school at Southampton. About 200 senior shipping personnel take to the 10 acre tidal boating lake each year to hone their skills using 1:25 scale models of the real thing.

Students say it provides far better training than the computer simulations available. I bet they find it much more fun too! A senior lecturer, Captain Chris Clarke said: "You cannot turn up at Fawley oil refinery in a '150,000-tonner' and say I just want to do a few practice turns." Quite.

However, I don't think Fawley has the same problems with the 'iceberg simulating' swans as they had on the TV this morning!

Thanks to the Warsash Maritime Academy for the image used for this posting.

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