Book: Salty ice

Then I removed the excess from the wheelhouse and turned on the radio. Passed the message about the negotiations on the establishment of a joint nuclear force for NATO. I'm extremely interested in the creation of these forces. We are talking about Maritime Affairs. I don't know how it will negotiate the politicians and diplomats. Maybe they stick long German finger on the missile-nuclear button. I'm interested in the other side of the question: how the hell there will be to negotiate with the sailors. Now that's something I know sailors. Almost every sailor is convinced that he is a good standing sailor. And all the sailors of the world are the same. <...> I imagine NATO navigation bridge and the German, English, Turkish, Norwegian and American navigators with sextante in his hands. Whistle captain in a single moment they throw their sextoy and aim at the solar disk. Then rush to tables and adding machines. And at least a hundredth of a mile, but everyone will have different results. Here it just works probability. But no real Navigator in the depth of your soul does not agree with others. How can a British sailor to accept the fact that the Germans or Turks better than he knows astronomy? This British Navigator rather to hang on the NOK ray. And the same thing will make a real German co-driver on a different NOC of the same ray. Or I understand nothing in Maritime Affairs, or the next ray will hang the Turks. And nothing with these guys, no politician and diplomat to not do anything.