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Shipping News and information / Re: watch out for another copyright breaching website...

« on: June 23, 2014, 05:07:21 PM »

>>> Still we take every step needed to verify the source of the picture sent to us.

>>> If you feel any of your images have been wrongly used, contact us anytime and we will take it down immediately. In fact give us a call and we can definitely have a talk as to what was the reason behind such misleading post.

>>> Lastly, I would request you to go and visit the images and check the image credits, before making such false claims.


my post is not misleading, my claims are not false...

where is this every step needed to verify the source taken in this case, below?...

just for example take this photo:

http://photos.marineinsight.com/rough-weather/tough-life-sea/

- why is it only captioned with sender name (Gabriel Grosso) and NOT with author (photographer) name?...

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Shipping News and information / MSC Orchestra dropped the port seemingly without a good reason ...

« on: June 23, 2014, 01:24:51 PM »

Overcautious?...

There is no extreme weather (wind) today in Gdynia. Berth is not extremely hard to access. Yet the captain of MSC Orchestra took "last minute" decision to turn back on Gdynia just 2 or 3 miles away from port entrance, with tugs around and with pilot on its way or already onboard (this latter is unclear).



http://www.portalmorski.pl/statki/zawiniecia/37753

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Shipping News and information / watch out for another copyright breaching website...

« on: June 23, 2014, 11:27:24 AM »

... "Marine Insight" is eager to teach others (on the occasion of many of its posts) on the necessity to respect copyrights, while it does not even provide name of the author with this photo (and is ready to forget copyrights and to publish the photo even if it does not know, who is the author and who should be credited in caption at least and without knowing whether the Author allows the photo to be published here)...
https://www.facebook.com/marineinsight/posts/809864652370655

... credit should be given not to photo sender (like MI does), but to the author in the first place ...

publishing the photo without asking the author for permission is problematic at least (or simply should be avoided / is forbidden), but if you do, you should provide author's name in caption at least;
if you do not know who the author is - you simply do not publish the photo (as a rule!)

... and in this particular case, the author, that should be credited, is Volker Diekamp.

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watch out for possible breach of Copyrights on your photos on these sites:

- http://photos.marineinsight.com
- http://marineinsight.com
- https://www.facebook.com/marineinsight

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Shipping News and information / Re: best shipspotting and popular tourist destinations [where?...]

« on: June 01, 2014, 02:13:48 PM »

Thank you all for your kind replies

but of course any more from others is still welcome

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Shipping News and information / Re: best shipspotting and popular tourist destinations [where?...]

« on: May 30, 2014, 11:20:56 AM »

I do believe that you can fly to Liverpool Airport from Poland.

yeah  and your suggestion is very interesting, thank you.

however (since i I know because I was shipspotting in the UK - in Felixstowe*), staying in the UK is much more expensive (per day) than vacation package in Egypt or Turkey, etc...

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*lovely town and I warmly recall my accommodation with lullabying sea surf on the beach at night - very nice experience
I was staying somewhere at Undercliff Road with the beach just across the road from my windows...  If I find a nice girl for life, I will certainly go there during honeymoon (or later)

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Shipping News and information / Re: Worst Ship Diasters

« on: May 30, 2014, 10:48:26 AM »

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Shipping News and information / Re: best shipspotting and popular tourist destinations [where?...]

« on: May 30, 2014, 10:42:24 AM »

You want a great holiday which your wife and family will enjoy, offering nice restaurants, bars, clubs, sunbathing and tourist attractions - plus excellent shipspotting opportunities?
Easy. Go on a cruise! 
Brgds
Phil 

yes, basically, it might be true (for many Europeans)

but for example in Poland (for Polish people, working and earning and living in Poland) cruises are still expensive as the average pay in Poland is just 20 to 40 % of that in Germany or UK on similar positions (while living is expensive, because every-day consumer goods are either of equal price comparing to Western Europe or just 5 up to 20 percent cheaper - NOT 60 up to 80 percent lower, like wages and salaries) and cruise lines do not offer "special prices" for Eastern European market...
yet I was buying most of my good quality cameras so far in the UK, because it was cheaper to do so there than in Poland...

anyway...  in Poland you may buy quite cheap, accessible (as for Polish wages or salaries) vacation packages in Turkish riviera, in Egypt or some other near-European destinations or in Europe, but cruises are still expensive...

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Shipping News and information / Re: Worst Ship Diasters

« on: May 30, 2014, 10:32:42 AM »

Wilhelm Gustloff  and  Goya
do not belong to "world's worst ship disasters"
because these have not been "disasters" at all...

disaster is something sudden, with very bad consequences (eg. large loss of life), but something which was caused by accident or a chain or a group of combined unfavorable (but not intended) actions / facts / happenings / circumstances

loss of Gustloff and Goya was NOT ACCIDENTAL, NOT NON-INTENDED

these losses were the result of war, of offensive actions (intentional attacks)


also war losses (unless it is really an accident, like friendly-fire) are NOT ACCIDENTS in general / by rule...

if a warship runs aground because of navigation error and during transit and not in direct connection with war action (not under pressure of ongoing fighting, hostile fire) than it migh be an accident (resulting with disaster perhaps)

but if a warship is hit and sunk in fight (during war operations) - then this is not and accident and not a disaster


disaster is a calamity BY ACCIDENT


Gustloff and Goya losses were not caused BY ACCIDENT

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Shipping News and information / best shipspotting and popular tourist destinations [where?...]

« on: May 30, 2014, 10:09:46 AM »

places, which are not well developed, large scale tourist destinations tend to be more expensive to stay than large vacation resorts, where cheap vacation packages are available...

the problem is, vacation resorts usually tend to be (for obvious reasons) placed far from industrial areas and ports, thus far from ship traffic good for shipspotter's needs...

but maybe there are any exceptions?...


what are best EUROPEAN (and the ones not far from Europe) popular tourist destinations* offering good shipspotting opportunities at the same time?...


the main reasons (needs), for which I am looking for such a place is:

1. to have one or two week vacation with good shipspotting opportunities with low (or relatively low) cost per day... [regardles of traveling alone or with partner or friend]
(if you take bed and breakfast or even the cheapest hotel by the Kiel Canal or in Rozenburg or in Hoek van Holland it will cost you much more PER DAY than simple (not luxury hotel) vacation package in Egypt, Canary Islands or Turkey riviera)

2. you want spend vacations with your girlfriend, but she is not interested in shipspotting, you spend evenings together in clubs or discos or have nice diners with a romantic view and perhaps you do some local sightseeing together, but there will be also many days when she would like to spend all the sunny day on the beach suntanning while you prefer to go to the port (nearby, I mean it _NEAR_by) and do shipspotting)...


so... what places would you suggest (if such places exist at all) in Europe or nearby?...


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* I mean _popular_ vacation resorts or cities / other destinations, where a rich choice of accommodation (with relatively low price per day) and / or vacation package deals (fly there - stay - fly back, with full or half-board) are available...

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Shipping News and information / Re: Rostock, Travemunde, early May - spotting "what, where, when" ?...

« on: April 28, 2014, 07:08:18 PM »

It's a pity we will miss the possible meeting

Thank you for information.

Is the beach itself better or maybe this little pier?...
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.9590385,10.8837716,21z

Do you know if this pier is publicly accessible?...

It would be probably nice, because one may catch the ferry both fore quarter view and aft quarter view in one ship passage...

Regards,

Peter

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Shipping News and information / Rostock, Travemunde, early May - spotting "what, where, when" ?...

« on: April 28, 2014, 06:51:42 PM »

planning a short visit to Rostock / Warnemunde and Lubeck / Travemunde, I would be pleased to learn anything and I would appreciate receiving some advice...

two spotters will be in Rostock and Travemunde area from May 1 around noon or afternoon until May 4 at noon...  most probably 1st night stay in Rostock area, second in Travemunde and the third in Rostock again...

will there be anything special / unusual (unusual / non-regular ship visit) in any of the mentioned ports?...

where to seek traffic information (port expected arrivals)?...

what are the most dense (most traffic filled) hours of regular traffic (mainly ferries) in these ports in these days?

what are the best vantage / spotting (photography) points / sites (also taking into consideration the direction of the sunlight)?...

are there any "hafenrundfahrt" boat trips available at this time of the year in the mentioned ports?...


any bit of information will be much appreciated.

regards,

Peter

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Shipping News and information / strange Emma Maersk beahaviour

« on: January 12, 2014, 03:02:50 PM »

any idea?  why did Emma Maersk slow down twice quite shortly after departure from Gdansk on its way to Aarhus?...

haven't heard of any SAR action, that ships would be asked to help with...

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Shipping News and information / Re: Costa Concordia to be scrapped at Grenaa ?

« on: December 01, 2013, 02:00:36 PM »

GT is a cubic measurement (1 GT equal to 2.8 m3), not a weight measurement.
BR Niels

PS: On Wikipedia's "Costa Concordia Disaster", the displacement/displacement tonnage - or
weight - of the ship is stated at 50,000 tons.

it has been so many times explained that GT is RELATED to volume of the ship, but is NOT a cubic measurement...

no, 1 GT is NOT equal to 2,8 m3

the OLD RT (register ton), now illegal, _was_ 100 cubic feet...

the currently valid gross tonnage is a pure number (not quantity of cubic metres of feet)!

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ships holding near Malta

« on: November 03, 2013, 01:02:03 PM »

bunkering?...

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Shipping News and information / Spotting opportunities in Poland, including M

« on: August 18, 2013, 08:14:05 PM »

Spotting opportunity | world's largest container vessel | Gdańsk, Poland | 21-23 August 2013 | practical info for shipspotters...

Info on viewing points available, restrictions to spotters (closed viewing point), other opportunities than viewing from the shore - see:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=368908079901773

The small beach adjacent to DCT Gdansk terminal, so far traditionally used by spotters for viewing ships berthed at DCT Gdansk or approaching its quay, will NOT be available for the arrival of M