[aidos]

I'm just an amateur sailor but I had an incident in the Atlantic on a racing yacht where I came up top just prior to a shift change and said "isn't anyone concerned that we're going to go right into the side of that tanker." The guys up top (including the watch leader) said the skipper was on it. I pointed it out to the skipper downstairs and he said "it's alright, I can see it on the radar." I replied "I think you'll find that's a squall, that's the ship". Rather sobering!