LORAN for Ocean Navigation

Originally produced by the Coast Guard as a sales pitch to commercial shipping lines to adopt LORAN (as a both a navigational aid and to assist in distress situations), this film details the wartime history of LORAN, its functionality and theory, and a dramatization of a shipping magnate being won over by a Coast Guard officer and committing to acquiring LORAN receivers.

[@phattieg]

You can tell this film is not only old, but has been sitting around a long time before it was recorded, because the audio fades out more and more as the film plays.

[@michaelwendt1195]

So what if a guy who wanted to fool people ...also knew that ... when putting the film together?

[@beauwest4844]

For my navigating shipmates (quartermasters). Remember LORAN school in Rhode Island ? (you know who you are ☺)

[@flat-earther]

hi beauwest, have you become a flat earther yet?

[@MrTherende]

Spent the summer of 1971 at LORAN-A school on Governors Island and then on Cape San Juan, PR, later Sandy Hook, NJ

[@prilep5]

Genius

[@Wakeup-An-In-Light]

What GPS is this and still in use called: ELoran.

[@somethingabouthumans2342]

Thanx

[@Cantor214]

Maybe someone who is good at using Audacity could clean up the audio by subtracting out the hiss/noise?

[@jaworskij]

You sound like me that would make such a comment.
I agree.

[@freeworldorder8311]

Is this why nasa is the worlds largest consumer of helium?

[@flat-earther]

how can a GPS satellite or helium balloon that's moving know it's own position over earth(coordinates)? Wouldn't the satellite need to use a fixed reference on ground to know it's position?

[@astonugroho]

Nowadays LORAN becomes LoRaWAN that widely used in Internet of Things (IoT) sensors.

[@jomaragosita6518]

Special thanks to US coast guard.