How British Sailors Learn to Drive 700-ft Destroyers

Parallel parking a car is hard enough for most of us; just imagine trying to back the 686-ft, 22,000-ton HMS Illustrious into a stall at Plymouth Harbor. Officers at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) in Dartmouth, England don’t have to. A newly upgraded training simulator teaches them to command the Royal Navy’s biggest boats without ever getting their feet wet. More »