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• Anyone know what this is doing off Palm Beach?

  First port of call (as it were) when you see strange shipping behaviour is marinetraffic.com. There you can learn the name of the ship, and start a deep dive (as it were) into what it's up to. Source: over 2 years ago

• Help me find a fishing boat

  I have searched for the vessel on marinetraffic.com and found some info for it from the USCG Maritime info exchange, but have not been able to locate it. Size: 50.7 feet, origin: USA, Gulf of Mexico, built in 1948, originally named Brigadiere Jr, renamed to Capt Hunter. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How to know which docks your ship will dock in?

  Assuming the cruise is following the same pattern the prior week, use marinetraffic.com to track and you'll see the precise location. Know that it might change. Source: almost 3 years ago

• AIS ship tracker?

  a large portion of the data marinetraffic.com has is people with a AIS setup like pi+daisyHat standing at home and sending in updates. (If you are in a area they dont have good coverage in I belive you can still fill out a form on their site to ask for a free kit). Source: about 3 years ago

• Proposal idea | Hoping for the most reliable location/business for orca sightings..

  If you're in to trying to catch them from land, arm yourself with information. If you have a Facebook account, join "Whale Sightings in the San Juan Islands". Look at an AIS site (example: marinetraffic.com) and search for whale watching boats. Familiarize yourself with the public areas for whale watching (Lime Kiln, County Park, Cattle Point, etc). That should get you 90% there. Source: about 3 years ago

• Looking for things to do around the city with a kiddo for little to no money

  Check marinetraffic.com, look for a big laker heading in or out, head down to the Flats to chase the boat and watch the bridges go up and down. Source: over 3 years ago

• Harbour lights

  So im the original AIS feeder to marinetraffic.com for Halifax. Source: over 3 years ago

• How to find out exactly when a ship will be pulling into port?

  You can see ships in real-time on https://marinetraffic.com if that helps. It shows all traffic, not just cruise ships. Source: over 3 years ago

• 47 years ago tomorrow The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk.

  Go to marinetraffic.com and you can see all the ships. Source: over 3 years ago

• Did you know that Seattle is the U.S. city with the highest per-capita premature deaths due to ship emissions? A 2019 study found 1.8 emissions-related premature deaths per 100k residents in the Seattle area, more than double the global average!

  Go take a look on marinetraffic.com. Go to any area in China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Middle East, and heck, even the majority of Europe. The concentration of ships in those places is vastly more dense than anything seen in the PNW and it's not even close. Literal billions of people live and work in these areas and inhale the air (even been to Shanghai?) and I'm supposed to believe that little old Seattle... Source: over 3 years ago

• He anyone ever sailed the Great Lakes Waterway? What was your experience like? Thinking about doing Lake Champlain to Duluth.

  A few months ago I was making my way up the narrows just West of the Duck islands (Eastern Lake Ontario). I send and receive AIS, and normally pick up targets 15+NM out, and I do monitor marinetraffic.com for a more long-term assessment. However, marinetraffic is spotty on the East side, and Prince Edward point may have been blocking my LOS. Source: over 3 years ago

• Noticed this cell of coverage in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean. I can't find any island there on Google maps. What is this?

  There is nothing there also no rig on marinetraffic.com .... Its a mystery! Source: over 3 years ago

• Greece coastguard fires on ‘suspicious’ Turkish cargo ship

  According to marinetraffic.com it was within Greek territorial waters. Source: over 3 years ago

• Where to see container ships?

  You can also check marinetraffic.com to see what is docked at the terminal, that way you can time your trip to coincide with a ship at end of the terminal closest to pier. Source: over 3 years ago

• Boat traffic today

  It is basically screen grabs from marinetraffic.com. Source: over 3 years ago

• What is your favorite area of the city to go for a walk?

  That's right. Actually, that's still an active port; you see bulk carriers (most often the Robert Pierson) at the one pier, and the other one, for the refinery, gets the petroleum carriers. There's a neat website I use to ID the ships (when I was more into drone photography, I got some neat shots of them), marinetraffic.com. And the red brick is still there, but I didn't know it was brick! I guess erosion has... Source: over 3 years ago

• First Timer - Island Hopping?

  Marinetraffic.com to check in real time ferries sailing and have an idea of timing and schedules. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Anyone taken the Hellenic Seaways Highspeed 4? Is it good in rough seas?

  You could check marinetraffic.com for real time traffic. Source: over 3 years ago

• What is this? In East River, NYC

  If you ever want to ID any ships marinetraffic.com and the marine traffic app are great. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Oil refinery in Moscow now

  Although, at every second of every day...well just see flightradar24.com or marinetraffic.com for your daily dose of CO2 porn. Just to name two industries. And those aren't ever going away. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Flight tracking exposure irks billionaires and baddies

  Sorry, it should have been http://marinetraffic.com. I’ll edit my post. Source: almost 4 years ago