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"One wonders just how many ports and ferry crossings involve navigational hazards of one sort or another.  Rather more than one would think, I'd guess.  Isn't there a sandbank outside Calais, for example?   This is why the ferries don't go direct to the port entrance but run along the coast.  And hasn't Newhaven got shifting sandbanks just outside.  The port authority there got into trouble with the MCA, I seem to remember, for not surveying them after every spell of stormy weather in case they'd moved.  Thus I don't think Ramsgate is that exceptional if such as Calais and Newhaven apparently manage.\n "
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