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Security Breach – Gulf Of Aden AIS Feed Is Now Public

By On May 11, 2011

gCaptain has long been a proponent of open information and AIS technology (we even built our own iPhone app once) and in sharing maritime information publicly we have received many [...]

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New guidance issued for AIS operation in pirate infested water

By On April 7, 2011

Below is a statement issued by EUNAVFOR and NATO regarding the use of AIS while transiting high-risk areas known for piracy. Regulation V/19 of the SOLAS Convention sets out navigational [...]

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Kannad Marine Launches Personal AIS-Based EPIRB

By On March 5, 2011

Kannad Marine will launch the SafeLink R10 SRS (Survivor Recovery System) at the Miami International Boat Show in conjunction with new US Distributor, Survitec Survival Products Inc., Booth No.1642. The [...]

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Class B AIS – Filtering Of Targets By Ships

By On December 16, 2010

Discussion has returned on the use of Class-B AIS data by commercial ships. For those unaware of the technology, Class B is an AIS system designed for use by boaters [...]

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AIS – Check your GPS Offset For Errors

By On October 25, 2010

The Nautical Institute’s AIS error reports webpage tells us: I have observed too many vessels with wrong data transmitted by their AIS. Mostly headings are not correct, but the main [...]

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AIS SART – It’s Time To Get Serious About AIS

By On October 5, 2010

Most of our readers are familiar with Search And Rescue Transponders, those devices that look similar to EPIRBs that, when interrogated by X-band radar, produce a line of dots on [...]

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EasyRescue AIS SART – The Must Have Safety Device Of The Future

By On October 5, 2010

gCaptain has long been a proponent of Personal Locator Beacons (PLB), the handheld sized versions of EPIRB’s and we have even gone as far as saying “gCaptain believes that one [...]

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Animated Ship Traffic – San Francisco Harbour

By On September 20, 2010

The ship tracking technology AIS has spawned innovation well beyond it’s intended use of helping ships avoid collisions. In this AIS data stream HD-SF.com tracks ship movements in time lapse [...]

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Real Time Mapping of BP Oil Spill Response Vessels

By On June 14, 2010

Today, NOAA has launched an exciting new web tool that offers the general public a glimpse into the information responders to the Gulf Oil Spill are receiving.  Among a number [...]

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AIS is not Foursquare for shipping

By On May 21, 2010

They’re both about localisation, but that doesn’t make them apples and apples By Ryan Skinner (email) You probably already know AIS. The short-range coastal tracking system identifies vessels near coastlines [...]

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AIS & LRIT INVESTIGATION: Ship monitoring and transit corridors

By On May 14, 2010

Recent news that the EU would most likely take over the US role of hosting an international exchange of LRIT (Long-Range Identification and Tracking Systems) data from SOLAS ships is [...]

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Update: Shen Neng 1 aground on the Great Barrier Reef

By On April 7, 2010

By KEITH BRADSHER April 7, 2010, New York Times HONG KONG — A Chinese coal freighter aground on the Great Barrier Reef has at least one punctured fuel tank, prompting [...]

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