With GPS systems and other geographical technology being as sophisticated as it now is, do lighthouses still serve an integral purpose? Are they more now just in case the captain/crew lapses on the monitoring of navigation systems? Obviously lighthouses are more immediate and I guess tangible, but do they still fulfil a purpose beyond mitigating basic human error?
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Tuesday a ferry ran aground in the Philippines.
February 17 cargo ship ran aground in the Black Sea.
February 4 cargo ship ran aground in Indonesia.
Even with the technology stuff happens and extra methods of preventing bad things happening in hazardous places is a decent investment.
The US Coast Guard has decommissioned a lot of lighthouses but not all because some are in places where there is sufficient traffic and enough of a hazard to warrant keeping them active
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