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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: dirk septer on October 17, 2018, 04:58:22 PM
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-125.4/centery:50.0/zoom:9
East Wind (red arrow top left) a long way off (west coast Canada and Zanzibar);
also note this vessel's draught of 25.5 m!
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AIS again totally out to lunch:
Look where Span Asia 5 is right now:
on the east coast of Vancouver Island, Canada;
destination: Zamboanga......
How can this vessel ever end up (according to AIS)
here on the west coast of Canada?
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You'll find AIS is right and she is on the west coast of Canada. Her data that has been input will be wrong. She probably did a trip from the Philippines to Canada with cargo and has/is backloading cargo to take back Zamboanga.
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Indeed out to lunch.
It's not unusual - probably a ship in BC has entered wrong IMO or MMSI; or the real ship has been playing with its co-ordinates. Interestingly this is coming from "Station 555" - a mobile station - and the "nearest ship" is "UAIS TEST HO" from the same location in the Campbell River- so maybe that's it. For some reason Marine Traffic do not seem to have the ship's real c/s DUA3156 or MMSI 548563200 in their database.
Meanwhile the real SPAN ASIA 5 is trading away happily in Philippines around Zamboanga and General Santos.
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Probably a different East Wind. The coaster East Wind regularly plys the West coast between Seattle and the Alaskan Panhandle.