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Shipping News and information / Re: COLLISION OF MUMBAI, msc SHIPS

« on: August 17, 2010, 02:29:35 PM »

I see the way out in the formalization of the all processes, like in aviation. Pilots have CRM (Crew Resourse Management) and checklist/operating procedures for everything. Same should be in marine work from all sides. This is not ideal solution but it works as we can see.

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Shipping News and information / Re: COLLISION OF MUMBAI, msc SHIPS

« on: August 17, 2010, 01:25:05 PM »

In my opinion you mixed reasons and consequences. Not ECDIS cause low level of personnels training, but low level of training requires more automatization of the vessel controls. I work in the similar field - development of VTS/VTMIS system and i can say most of the improvement is coming not from the industry but from the customers. I meet with many VTS Supervisor / Harbour masters (including people from european ports) and many of them were talking that personnel qualification is degrading in time, so "we need more complicated computer system with high level of automatic, desicion support bla-bla-bla". It seems to me this will again decrease level of personnel and so on. It's like a circle and i have no idea how to break it. I think there is a more-less the same picture on-board...

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Shipping News and information / Re: COLLISION OF MUMBAI, msc SHIPS

« on: August 16, 2010, 07:34:58 AM »

Hi CaptainTed, just interesting, can you explain how ECDIS itself can cause collision?

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Shipping News and information / Re: Two Bulk Carriers Collide at Port Talbot

« on: August 13, 2010, 06:55:59 PM »

I thought Port Talbot doesn't accept large vessels...

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Help and Advice / Re: AIS name

« on: June 30, 2010, 02:00:02 PM »

By AIS technical standard (ITU 1371) it could be not more than 20 ASCII characters.

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Help and Advice / Re: looking for more active forums

« on: June 30, 2010, 02:51:53 AM »

I know this one:  http://gcaptain.com/forum/

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Shipping News and information / Re: 'SEVERN LINK FERRY SHELVED UNTIL 2011

« on: June 10, 2010, 06:11:41 PM »

I heard Swansea port is going to be closed. Not sure is this true or not.

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Help and Advice / Re: Radio frequencies

« on: April 02, 2010, 05:32:59 PM »

1st of course Channel 16
Vessel traffic services are working on Channel 12.
I think these two will be most interesting for listening.
Conversion to frequencies could find here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_VHF_radio

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Help and Advice / Re: Where are best ship spotting places in Greece?

« on: March 15, 2010, 06:35:49 PM »

There was a lot of vessels around Piraeus, especially passenger liners.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Mysterious vessel POTEMKIN

« on: March 15, 2010, 10:30:13 AM »

Ellwood wrote:
Wonder if this could be possible with so many different sites all showing the same thing and presumably taking their streams from different sources?

If you have AIS receiver you can contact AISLive and MarineTraffic in order to provide AIS data to both services. So you can send this vessel track and enjoy.
I think there isn't this vessel in Helcom or MedAIS because they use only trusted source.
Has somebody any contacts in these providers? May be it's good idea to ask what source has supplied this data and it's geographic position.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Mysterious vessel POTEMKIN

« on: March 15, 2010, 08:05:01 AM »

AISLive and MarineTraffic are using more less the same AIS Sources. I don't think that this transponder was really installed on the vessel, otherwise coastal authorities were already told about this problem. This is much more serious than just a false track in internet AIS trackers - could affect to safety.

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Help and Advice / Re: Loss of colour when posting photos

« on: March 14, 2010, 06:25:40 AM »

May be it is shipspotting.com resizing tools work badly?

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Shipping News and information / Re: Mysterious vessel POTEMKIN

« on: March 13, 2010, 06:19:22 PM »

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

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Help and Advice / Re: CTK-1012

« on: March 10, 2010, 06:01:06 PM »

This is STK-1012 (not CTK, it's on russian). IMO 8521842

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Help and Advice / Re: Tracking device for yokohama fenders

« on: February 25, 2010, 07:11:53 PM »

It's possible to use AIS AtoN transponders and any application which can display them. I.e.we have such solution.