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I bought How to Avoid Huge Ships as a companion to Captain Trimmer's other excellent titles: How to Avoid a Train, and How to Avoid the Empire State Building. These books are fast paced, well written and the hard won knowledge found in them is as inspirational as it is informational. After reading them I haven't been hit by anything bigger than a diesel bus. Thanks captain!

This book really is one of the best huge ship avoidance references I've come across, not just for the effective methods it teaches as to avoiding huge ships, but also for exploding some of the huge ship avoidance myths that many of us take for granted.

For example:
- Do not charge the huge ship at full speed in an attempt to scare it off. This may work with coyotes, but it is less effective with huge ships.
- Similarly, do not roll your boat over and play dead. Unless the huge ship is captained by a grizzly bear, this will not work.
- Do not attempt to go under the huge ship. This is typically not successful.
- Do not attempt to jump over the huge ship.

Captain Trimmer presents a rather novel technique for avoiding huge ships - move your boat out of the path of the huge ship. I know what you're thinking, this goes against conventional wisdom, but Trimmer presents significant empirical evidence to support his theory. Indeed, over the long run, moving out of the way will dramatically decrease the number of huge ship collisions you will have to endure in your daily life.

After reading this book, I relized exactly what I was doing wrong everytime I was run over by bardges on the mighty Mississippi. I always played dead and hoped the boats would go away, like I was taught by a book I read, "How To Survive Bear Attacks." I guess I thought the lessons taught by that book applied to everything life, but it clearly meant just bears. Now I am surviving the waterways better than a BP oil rig.

Read this book before going on vacation and I couldn't find my cruise liner in the port. Vacation ruined.

I'm the first to admit that I have a number of problems colliding with various objects in my day-to-day life, and while I have yet to discover that elusive all-in-one compendium, Captain John Trimmer's "How to Avoid Huge Ships" has absolutely filled the nautical gap. Whether it be a Panamax tanker in the fog or an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer bearing down on you, Trimmer leaves the reader with both the confidence and the know-how to pilot your dinghy or other small craft to safety. Neither creeks nor ponds nor lakes nor the great blue beyond will be too much for you to handle after settling down in your easy chair by the fire and plowing through this book.

Just speaking from my own experience, maritime accidents are down 16% over this same month last year. I truly have Captain Trimmer to thank for that. Even my wife has experienced the quality of life benefits that the book provides. She's praised my new and near-flawless vessel detection skills, improved balance and coordination, and more better diction that have all been enhanced dramatically as a result of reading this. There's little Trimmer could have added, though inanimate hazards of the ocean, such as icebergs, garbage patches, or pirate-infested islands would have been a welcome addition - perhaps a followup volume is in order?