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Shipping News and information / Re: Language

« on: March 05, 2011, 04:50:05 AM »

It's a good point that you raise about this site's language policy, if any.

As for those French Canadians, I can usually get by with my schoolboy French, but if I get stuck I use Google Translate which gets it pretty right most of the time from French to English -- but can create some very bizarre sentences going the other way!

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic/Comar Systems

« on: February 23, 2011, 03:44:04 PM »

Marinetraffic is working for me. In fact my tracked vessel has just come back into range after traversing the North Atlantic.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Four Americans and two Somali pirates were killed

« on: February 23, 2011, 08:43:30 AM »

There has been virtually no effective government since the overthrow of Siad Barre in 1991.
Besides, hasn't this been tried before?

If at first you don't succeed ...

I'd put it to the powers that be that bombing and shooting at Arabs in the desert has less payback than dealing with this pack of bastards at sea.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Four Americans and two Somali pirates were killed

« on: February 23, 2011, 05:25:22 AM »

It's way past time that the rogue state of Somalia was made to answer severely for the activities of their sea-going criminals.

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Shipping News and information / Re: digital-seas.com gives pretty good tracking information

« on: February 22, 2011, 11:45:10 AM »

does it cost anything to join the site?

"Digital-Seas.com is the popular free ship-spotting community and vessel-tracking website for ship lovers, ship spotters, seamen and other professionals"

http://www.digital-seas.com/

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Shipping News and information / digital-seas.com gives pretty good tracking information

« on: February 22, 2011, 05:51:48 AM »

After a frustrating start when for a number of days I was being told by the site to register and log in, when in fact I was registered and logged in, I can now see the vessel tracking information as given by digital-seas.com and it's more detailed that what I have been seeing at marinetraffic.com.

I can now see the actual port areas that my tracked vessel docked at, e.g. Leonardo rather than just New York, as well as time spent in (presumably) service ports such as Sarroch Oil Terminal.

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Shipping News and information / Glad my cargo wasn't in this ...

« on: February 21, 2011, 03:39:36 AM »

'Near miss' at wharf as 28-tonne container falls

A container that fell from a crane at Darwin Port

Two workers at the Darwin Port had to run to avoid a shipping container crashing onto East Arm Wharf at the weekend, the Australian Maritime Union says.

The Port Corporation has confirmed the container fell 12 metres onto the wharf on Saturday night when the ship's crane failed.

The container was listed as four tonnes but the Maritime Union says it weighed 28 tonnes and exceeded the crane's load limit.

The union's Thomas Mayor says two workers were lucky to get out of the way.

"It was a near miss," he said.

"One of the guys fell backwards as he tried to get out of the way and the container landed only 10 foot from where he was."

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is investigating.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/21/3144379.htm

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Shipping News and information / Re: iranian warships

« on: February 20, 2011, 03:12:17 AM »

All Hell is gonna break loose over there...

... and I have freight abroad a ship due to transit Suez on Feb 28.

Great timing, eh? 

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Shipping News and information / Re: MMSI 051847104 aground in mid North Altantic?

« on: February 18, 2011, 04:26:02 PM »

^ Thanks for that link!

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Shipping News and information / Re: MMSI 051847104 aground in mid North Altantic?

« on: February 18, 2011, 03:47:27 PM »

Thanks, Phil.

Do you know if that MMIS is valid?

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Shipping News and information / MMSI 051847104 aground in mid North Altantic?

« on: February 18, 2011, 03:10:32 PM »

I was just playing around with Siitech Lite, when I spotted this vessel in mid North Atlantic and with navigation status showing as "Aground".

Can this be true?

I can't find a ship name for MMSI 051847104.

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Shipping News and information / Re: HMS Cornwall rescues hostages from pirates

« on: February 18, 2011, 03:47:22 AM »

Great news!

Now, make the bastards walk the plank!

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Shipping News and information / Re: Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA

« on: February 18, 2011, 03:43:02 AM »

Earth dodges geomagnetic storm

A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said.

But the Earth appears to have escaped a widespread geomagnetic storm, with the effects confined to the northern latitudes, possibly reaching down into Norway and Canada.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Earth_dodges_geomagnetic_storm_scientist_999.html

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic/Comar Systems

« on: February 18, 2011, 03:01:19 AM »

Still working for me, although I guess I'll soon lose sight of my tracked ship for a week or so as it is now crossing the North Atlantic bound for Italy at some 20 knots.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic/Comar Systems

« on: February 17, 2011, 02:11:45 PM »

It's back up again for me.