Teching the helm
Vessels cruising into 21st century
His son is quite the video gamer. But Andrea Viacava is pretty good himself at manipulating controls for the computer monitor in front of us — "like, how you call, PlayStation ,” he says with a thick Italian accent.
Using joystick-like handles, along with other controls on a panel beside the monitor, Viacava can guide the $330 million cruise ship we're aboard into port, sometimes pirouetting the 70,000-ton beas...
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