Mysterious vessel POTEMKIN

[miraflores]

Since some days an unknown vessel. named POTEMKIN is moving from the Baltic Sea, position now east of Gibraltar, all the time travelling with a speed of 17 kn.
CS, IMO, MMSI, Nationality is wrong, dimension of 55 m beam could be an aircraft carrier, Potemkin is possibly russian

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=666666666

http://i40.tinypic.com/10o20pv.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/zkmnud.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/2ym99cp.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2hqys7k.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/346883m.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/8yc0wg.jpg

Rgds.
Juergen

[Cornelia Klier]

It is indeed very strange ! Now, I am not soo experienced but could it ibe someone is having a joke ? I just did look the data:
Look at the IMO ! Look at MMSI !!
Look then at flag, and destination - Moscow ! :lol:

Schiff Einzelheiten
Schiff Typ: Unspecified
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[Cornelia Klier]

When I read the name first, I had to think of this here of course.. smells of Revolution  :lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Potemkin

[miraflores]

Mysterious, why the "ship/unknown object" was passing partly so very close to the shore and has passed the Kalsmarsund, where the

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[Cornelia Klier]

Horrible !! And heading towards Moscow under Somalian flag .. does not sound good !  :evil:

[Kelvin Davies]

Whoever is doing it, it is clever.
I noticed that on 5th March at 14:33 it was flying over the Danish town of Holbaek, reappearing at 14:51 between the Finnish mainland  and the island of Hiimuaa.
An amazing trip!

[Dmitry Rostopshin]

Looks like that's somebody's joke. In fact AIS data is quite easy to falsify, this technology is unprotected from bad guys

[b47b56]

I think that somebody hacked this site, because AIS information and vessels's course on marinetraffic.com charts is unnatural . Also I didn't find any information on vesseltracker.com.

Best regards, Yevgeniy.

[Cornelia Klier]

That would mean, that AISLive is hacked too, because same information was and is shown there as well.

[miraflores]

The Captain of a vessel is the ADMIN, he knows the LOGIN to enter or change datas in the AIS-Receivers. He can enter a texture he likes.
Maybe another ARCTIC SEA?

http://i40.tinypic.com/fymjae.jpg

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[b47b56]

Hi everybody!
As for me this is 100 % not real vessel.
This morning "it" (another word I can't find) passed through the Isola di Capraia.
http://i41.tinypic.com/10e36vr.png
http://i43.tinypic.com/157g594.png

regard, Yevgeniy!

[Kelvin Davies]

I agree, Yevgeniy.
This is proper hacking, with someone inserting the data over the internet. I am convinced this is not coming from a ship at all.
Kelvin