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Shipping News and information / Re: Oversupply of oil in our world and our ship spotting can prove it!

« on: May 04, 2012, 06:26:35 PM »

No news really,
read this 2009 news item from Rotterdam port authourity

Date 11/26/2009

Source
Port of Rotterdam Authority

"New anchorage in North Sea

 As a result of the ever-rising numbers of ocean-going vessels wanting to anchor in the North Sea near to the port of Rotterdam, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management has designated a new anchoring area. It is anchorage 6, just over 15 kilometres northwest of Scheveningen. It is located along the route to Scandinavia and the Baltic states. Anchorage 6 can accommodate about fifteen vessels.


Last year, there was a marked increase in the popularity of the anchorages in the North Sea. A lot of tankers anchor here, awaiting orders or just

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: CHANGE IN THE WAY DELETIONS ARE DEALT WITH

« on: March 21, 2012, 12:32:20 PM »

Sensable devlopement all this.

Question about this;
"If a photograph is deleted without notification you will be able to see it if you open up My Photos go to the far right on the taskbar and open up Deleted Photos."

I had a look at this new feature, it works fine. I can imagine however that deleted photos get scrapped in the end to free storage space on the server.
What's the span of time for this?

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Shipping News and information / Re: MV Oak Detained in Teignmouth

« on: March 14, 2012, 09:17:12 AM »

Sad story. For the crew in particular.
We see her a lot in Amsterdam. Will take some time now.
If not end of story.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Identification of MMSI numbers without name

« on: March 04, 2012, 08:25:39 PM »

Well thanks for telling about LOCALIZATODO.COM. Have check it out.

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Shipping News and information / Re: ship destination

« on: March 04, 2012, 06:58:36 PM »

 last contact  Last seen at  2/3/2012 1:23:44 UTC  bound to Gioia Tauro.
source ais-live.com. Latitude  N 36

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Shipping News and information / Identification of MMSI numbers without name

« on: March 04, 2012, 02:36:29 PM »

Sometimes watching AIS programs like AIS live and Marinetraffic (don

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Shipping News and information / Re: traces of cocaine found on Schettino's hair sample.

« on: February 20, 2012, 06:28:02 PM »

"as if Schettino couldn't be MORE screwed."

screwed up, more likely

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Shipping News and information / Re: Information on bow thruster/ propeller of ship

« on: February 20, 2012, 10:30:25 AM »

Idea for innovation!
Why not build thrusters inside the wall to help ships get free from the wall?
Supposing that ships use outward thrusters to get TO the wall.

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Shipping News and information / Coming to the Olympic games by boat. Reservation required

« on: February 14, 2012, 12:27:53 PM »

Here's a link with iformation about coming to London by boat during the Olympic and paralympic games.
Reservation for berths are requiered.

English info:
http://www.pla.co.uk/display_fixedpage.cfm/id/4041

http://www.boatingonthethames.co.uk/

Dutch info:

http://www.kustwacht.nl/nl/laatstenieuws_Olympische_Spelen.html

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Help and Advice / Re: Types of camera

« on: December 28, 2011, 04:13:28 PM »

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Shipping News and information / Re: ALGOWOOD : Is this normal?

« on: December 26, 2011, 12:11:20 PM »

Perhaps not for heat ventilation but to let out fumes of cleaning chemicals or welding fumes...?

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Shipping News and information / Re: Spotting flies on ships windscreens??

« on: November 15, 2011, 11:01:58 AM »

Thanks for the comments all.
An astronomical telescope, seems most likely. Still what where the guys looking at by daytime in a horizontal direction. Furthermore they were looking land-inward down the new waterway.
Would such a telescope capture the whole waterway? And, yes there was something like a computer attached to it. So they might make some still images with that?
By the way, there's no second telescope on the right. That's a bench.

I'm not too worried about the place being shut down. It's a public place open to all, and above all, this is the Netherlands, you would not encounter any problems taking pictures easily. Though I can imagine you get to be send away near enclosed terrains by security guards.

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Shipping News and information / Spotting flies on ships windscreens??

« on: November 13, 2011, 08:39:59 PM »

Rozenburg/Rotterdam spotting hill. Never seen anything like it.
Seems to me you can spot a fly on a ships windscreen at a 5 miles
distance with this.

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Help and Advice / Re: Ship spotting book help please

« on: November 08, 2011, 11:03:32 AM »

try this web site of "Vereniging de binnenvaart":

http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/pagina/38/

they publish books, index here:

http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/boekenindex/

for identification of inland vessels I use their extensive database:

http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schepen_home/

Tip: when taking pictures of inland vessels make sure you get the ENI or EU number
on the side or aft of the superstructure. Many inland vessels have the same name.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New identification for military vessels available

« on: July 30, 2011, 04:01:29 PM »

Thanks Ken,

I