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Offline dirk septer

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AIS sometimes totally out to lunch.....
« on: October 17, 2018, 04:58:22 PM »
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!
« Last Edit: October 17, 2018, 05:08:27 PM by dirk septer »

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Re: AIS sometimes totally out to lunch.....
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2018, 12:20:52 AM »
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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Re: AIS sometimes totally out to lunch.....
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2018, 03:33:42 AM »
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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Re: AIS sometimes totally out to lunch.....
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2018, 07:07:14 AM »
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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Re: AIS sometimes totally out to lunch.....
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2018, 06:05:43 AM »
Probably a different East Wind.  The coaster East Wind regularly plys the West coast between Seattle and the Alaskan Panhandle.
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