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Post by lest69 on Feb 7, 2005 22:18:39 GMT -8
I stumbled across this site a while ago. www.aislive.comYou can sign up for a free account and they have a section for Vancouver. It shows live ship locations from Swartz Bay to Langdale and also Nanaimo, Deas, and Tsawwassen. Not all BC ferries are on there, but there are quite a few. |
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Post by Curtis on Feb 7, 2005 22:24:13 GMT -8
Intresting  . I'll consider signing up. |
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Post by NMcKay on Feb 7, 2005 22:51:38 GMT -8
thats cool. the only problem is that it lists the SOBC as Underway.
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Post by lest69 on Feb 8, 2005 7:22:02 GMT -8
Yeah, but it also says the speed is 0.1 knots. I think this is just from the natural movement of the ship when tied up due to waves, etc.
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Post by NMcKay on Feb 8, 2005 16:09:50 GMT -8
yeah. but the Rivtow Captain bob was listed as moored. hmm...maybe the engine control on the bridge were left @ 1 Knot ahead. and the GPS thingy keeps thinking its still moving!?!??
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Post by Ferryman on Mar 20, 2005 23:16:11 GMT -8
Whoever is a member of that shiptracking should try and find the Queen of Victoria, or should I say Queen of Ocoa. It's really bugging me where she is. Because if you search her name (both names she has been called under) on like every search engine and nothing pops up. It's all pictures of Queen Victoria. The more I think about it, it seems like they've sunk her. So if it would be at all possible to search around the Panama area on there to see if anything indicates she is still alive!
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Post by nolonger on Mar 21, 2005 11:03:03 GMT -8
I doubt she would even have the AIS on board. In fact B.C. Ferries only installed it last year on the majority of the vessels in the fleet.
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Post by nolonger on Mar 21, 2005 11:15:54 GMT -8
The SOBC is shown as moored. And the lat/long co-ordinates are at Deas.
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 21, 2005 16:51:10 GMT -8
yeah. but when i was talking. she was in north van, and some how listed as ahead.
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Post by Ian on Mar 22, 2005 22:27:04 GMT -8
Who knows exactly what this is, do you have to pay for it can anybody sign up.
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Post by nolonger on Mar 22, 2005 23:34:42 GMT -8
it's free and anyone can register. AIS Live Ltd. is a joint venture company which brings together the strength and resources of Lloyd's Register-Fairplay in the UK and the cutting edge technology of the HITT Group in the Netherlands. Using the public domain AIS signal received from vessels, we plot their positions in real time around the world.
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 23, 2005 1:12:23 GMT -8
well its sorta real time
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. I'll consider signing up.
