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So what is an IMO Number anyway?

By On September 16, 2011

Wikipedia tells us “The IMO number is made of the three letters ‘IMO’followed by the seven-digit number assigned to all ships by IHS Fairplay when constructed. This is a unique seven digit number that is [...]

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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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First Radio Distress Signal?

By On October 9, 2009

The first RADIO DISTRESS SIGNAL was transmitted from the East Goodwin Lightship on 17 March 1899 when the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. The message was [...]

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McMurdo Fast-Find 210 – Change In The Way You Think About EPIRBS

By On June 26, 2009

A few months ago we received a press release from McMurdo on a revolutionary product, the Fast-Find 210 PLB, a portable version of an EPIRB, The revolutionary part was not [...]

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Twitter Clone Hunts Down Somali Pirates

By On March 16, 2009

We have already seen how the Red Cross and United States Coast Guard has successfully implemented Twitter in their effort to dissimenate information and update participants during times of emergency. [...]

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USCG TO Continue HF Weather Broadcasts

By On February 8, 2008

  USCG Press Release 7 Feb 2008: Last April the Coast Guard asked for public comment on the need to continue broadcasting high frequency (HF) high seas weather forecasts for [...]

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What Are You Sinking About?

By On January 25, 2008

g Captain’s favorite video – what happens if you call the German Coast Guard when your ship starts sinking? What are you thinking about?? We’re thinking this is the best humor video of the year. Is it really THAT funny? Play the video to find out.

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Happy Birthday AMVER

By On January 23, 2008

Bitterend brings us the anniversary of AMVER: Originally known as the Atlantic Merchant Vessel Emergency Reporting (AMVER) System, it became operational on July 18, 1958. Amver began as an experiment, [...]

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A VHF Handheld To Float With

By On January 18, 2008

Navagear brings us info on Standard’s new floating handheld VHF: Standard Horizon HX850S VHF/GPS DSC Floating RadioNot that I spend a lot of waking OR sleeping hours dreaming about handheld [...]

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AIS as a DSC Transceiver

By On January 5, 2008

Kurt Schwehr, UNH Professor and author of Kurt’s weblog point us to this quick tip; Fred Pot pointed me to the ability of an AIS device to assist in making [...]

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Ideas for a new ECDIS

By On October 28, 2007

Techcrunch brings us the Dash in-car GPS navigator; Map mashups may be one of the coolest things on the Web, but they would be even cooler in your car. Dash [...]

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DSC for the Handheld Marine VHF

By On August 10, 2007

As mates, masters and pilots of really big ships we get plenty of bragging rights on the waterfront but the small guys have one thing on us, cool handheld electronics. [...]

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