You people need to calm down (Score 1)

I was in the Coastguard for two years and not once during that time did we ever use a computerised map. This outbreak only affected the central control stations (such as the one in Swansea), not the actual Coastguard stations themselves, which work independently. There are hundreds of Coastguard stations around the UK.

Next to the computerised map systems in the main stations, guess what they have? Laminated maps! Our particular region (in the Bristol channel), is on map sheet 67.

This is far from a life-threatening situation. This is simply a case of the press getting excited because it has something to do with the emergency services. We didn't even have a computer at our station, and we had the fastest response time in the Bristol Channel (about two minutes from station empty to full readiness).

All the critical systems at the stations (such as communication), were entirely unaffected. Computerised maps are a low priority system.