The second question is, Don't we have sailors on the bridge with binoculars anymore?
It's really unacceptable, in this day and age, with the technology that we have, to have something like this happen.
Do we need to be talking about increasing the capacity of the maintenance yards to cut down on that time off the ocean, if you will?
I mean, can you give me an answer, specifically? Aren't there radar systems on these ships that would detect anything within the range?
I would hope that as you work through these issues if you see areas where those statutes, which as you point out are decades old, could stan...
This has been a very informative hearing, and I thank you for your work and look forward to continuing to work on this problem with you.
I just think if you could isolate... it would be important, again, to either verify what my foresters in Maine from the private sector have ...
I would like to see some data that will either verify that or refute it.
The cheapest forest fire of all is the one that doesn't occur.
I am not advocating higher prices for water, but it seems to me that is an inevitability as we go to different technologies.
If gasoline were $.20 a gallon we would all be driving Humvees or something.