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Electronic navigational chart

Electronic navigational chart

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Oct 1, 2026

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Geoffrey Chaucer and the Birth of Modern English

Oct 1 · 1 Mention

Josh LinskHOST
9:36
Those charts became essential for safe navigation during the Age of Empire.
Josh LinskHOST
9:42
Fast-forward to the twentieth century, and we see the first electronic navigational charts, or ENC, which replace paper entirely.
Josh LinskHOST
9:51
They're digital databases that pilots can download into an EasyDIS system aboard ships.
Josh LinskHOST
9:59
Talk about how technology compressed a whole atlas into a chip.
Tony SparksGUEST
21:22
And when I'm navigating or we're doing some passage work, I can literally just glance between the two.
Tony SparksGUEST
21:29
That being said, obviously having the ENC charts, the electronic navigation charts on Scout and available is a huge bonus as well, because when we get in, and we did this a couple of months ago, we were possessing some small islands, literally just little white desert pinpricks in the ocean surrounded by reefs.
Tony SparksGUEST
21:51
There were very limited ways we could get from the vessel into the beach on the island.
Tony SparksGUEST
21:56
And we had a look in terms of using the satellite imagery to work out the path.
Brett PerryHOST
23:42
So if you look at us three, we're seeing this product for the first time.
Brett PerryHOST
23:45
For you guys, it's well and truly sort of embedded into what you're thinking about daily.
Brett PerryHOST
23:49
So the two things that really stood out for me when I first looked at it was, one, you touched on it a second ago, Jay, and also you, Tony, with having the ENC charts available.
Brett PerryHOST
24:00
in an overlay system.

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