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ECDIS – The Next Step

By On January 17, 2011

Electronic Chart Display Information Systems (ECDIS) represent the navigational future. Used properly, they offer substantial advantages over the old paper and pencil variety, a continuous plot of the ship’s position, [...]

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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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ECDIS: Discovery or Disconnect?

By On November 25, 2010

Regulators and suppliers are going full steam for ECDIS; But are shipowners and officers onboard? Today and tomorrow hundreds of the ECDIS faithful are gathering in London to take status [...]

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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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Smells like a scandal

By On September 14, 2010

When consumers get cornered into buying from one supplier, they’re gonna get soaked, then pissed By Ryan Skinner (email) Through my work, I’ve become intimately acquainted with what feels like [...]

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Dude, you can get YouTube on the ECDIS!

By On August 20, 2010

High-speed Internet connectivity on merchant ships and unintended consequences By Ryan Skinner (email) Since early this year, ships running at least one make of ECDIS can download navigational charts and chart [...]

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Poll of the Week: Electronic vs Paper Charts

By On October 1, 2009

Related Forum Discussion.

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Pilot Liability – Changes In Law and Industry Culture

By On December 13, 2007

In this week’s edition of The Maritime Executive Newsletter managing editor Joseph Keefe, weighs in on the changing dynamics of the Master, Pilot and Port State relationship in light of [...]

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AIS-B, Automatic Information System For Boats. A Welcome Change?

By On December 11, 2007

We have already proclaimed our love of AIS, the technology that helps watchkeepers identify surrounding vessel traffic, but currently this technology only lets us track large ships. This is about [...]

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Cosco Busan – ECDIS Tracking w/ Google Maps

By On December 9, 2007

So the gCaptain team has been exceptionally busy in the last few weeks and we have the Cosco Busan partially to thank. In addition to the server traffic and time [...]

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San francisco Oil Spill Hearings – A Response to Admiral Bone, USCG

By On November 20, 2007

Yesterday my comments were published on the front page of The San Francisco Chronicle in an article titled; “Hearing today at Presidio – tough queries for spill captain.” Prior to [...]

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Cosco Busan – Questions,Questions,Questions

By On November 16, 2007

By Bob Couttie  Once the US National Transportation Safety Board has produced the transcripts of the voyage data recorder from the Cosco Busan (Formerly the Hanjin Cairo, the Hanjin name [...]

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