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An AIS-equipped system on board a ship presents the bearing and distance of nearby vessels in a radar-like display format. A graphical display of AIS data on board a ship. The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS).
Ship watching using a telescope. Watching ships that pass through the Uraga Channel, at Kannonzaki Park, Yokosuka, Japan. Ship watching or ship spotting is a form of outdoor activity and tourism that is carried out worldwide by observing and photograph various ships in the waterways where there is a lot of ship traffic. [1]
Lookout boy aloft, by Harrison Weir A U.S. Navy sailor standing the lookout watch aboard a warship. A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. [1] The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
The presence and status of the blue sign is transmitted by the ship's Inland-Automatic Identification System (Inland-AIS) transponder to other vessels. The status of the sign is transmitted using two bits of the "regional application flags"/"special manoeuvre field" in the AIS position reports. [8] This must be transmitted every ten seconds. [9]
This relies on a GPS receiver built into the VHF equipment or an externally connected one by which the transceiver obtains its position and transmits this information along with some other details about the ship (MMSI, cargo, draught, destination and some others) to nearby ships. AIS operates as a mesh network and full featured units relay AIS ...
A coastal surveillance radar station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh; November 2012.. The Integrated Coastal Surveillance System (ICSS) is a coastal surveillance system operated by India with the goal to protect its coastline, ensure regional security, and assist friendly navies by quickly detecting, locating and monitoring maritime activity in the Indian Ocean.
3. Farther from the hull of a ship; e.g. "the larger boat was tied up alongside the ship outboard of the smaller boat". 4. Farther from the pier or shore; e.g. "the tanker and cargo ship were tied up at the pier alongside one another with the tanker outboard of the cargo ship". 5. An outboard motor. 6. A vessel fitted with an outboard motor.
The vessel was built in 1975 and formerly served as a Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency conservation enforcement patrol boat, the FPV Westra, for 28 years. Sea Shepherd had originally christened the vessel the MV Robert Hunter after Canadian Robert Hunter , [ 3 ] co-founder of Greenpeace , but it was renamed in honor of The Crocodile Hunter ...