Marine Traffic AIS Website

[steve567]

Definitely worth a look, you can find out the details of any AIS equipped vessel in the world in real time. Lost a couple of hours playing with this site.

www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

[Leapy]

Originally Posted by steve567

you can find out the details of any AIS equipped vessel in the world in real time. Lost a couple of hours playing with this site.

Yep...very interesting...but, why are some ships going the wrong way through the Channel sepereation system?

[codprawn]

I can never see any ships listed around Swansea - Port Talbot or even Pembroke - are oil tankers and ore carriers invisible or something???

[wavelength]

ooh I've been snapped ( a few times on both boats it would seem!), good job we shut the windows on this one!

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/sho...6365#top_photo

[nik]

Originally Posted by steve567

Definitely worth a look, you can find out the details of any AIS equipped vessel in the world in real time. Lost a couple of hours playing with this site.

www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

I think that is the best site, but out of interest, there is this one, and this one

Nick.

[severncoxswain]

Originally Posted by nik

I think that is the best site, but out of interest, there is this one, and this one

ShipAIS is the best one as far as am aware folks!

[steve567]

Can't seem to move or drag the map or even zoom in on ShipAIS.com. Am I missing something?

[nik]

Originally Posted by steve567

Can't seem to move or drag the map or even zoom in on ShipAIS.com. Am I missing something?

No, you have to select an area from the menu on the left.
I think marinetraffic is better because you can go to different parts of the world, you can see a vessels track and you can pull up a picture of a lot of ships.

[codprawn]

Any idea why there is never any info on ships to the West of the Bristol Channel/Pembroke area?

[hobbit555]

no shore based recievers feeding into the system. These are usually ship agents or port authorities in the area.