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20101009: LISCO GLORIA, vessel on fire after explosion in the Baltic Sea

Ferry LSICO GLORIA of DFDS, image copyright: Frank Zerzau, 2010

The ferry has been between the isles of Fehmarn, DE and Langeland, DK in the night from Friday to Saturday, when a fire broke out after an explosion at the upper deck.

236 passengers and crew members got rescued by the ferry DEUTSCHLAND and are back in Kiel’s Marine base.
Ten Tugs, firefighting vessels and helicopters took part in the action, three injured people have been broght to the hospital. The vessel is on anchor in the open sea now. The Danish government sent the MARIE MILJOE to secure a possible oil spill of the 200 tons diesel-oil on bord of the ferry.
The LISCO GlORIA is a ferry of DFDS serving the line from Kiel to Klaipeda.

Links:
news:
http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/ndr_aktuell/ndraktuellextra187.html
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-60335.html

vessels:
http://www.digital-seas.com/vessel_search/vessel_details/on/lisco%20gloria_q52251.html
http://www.digital-seas.com/vessel_search/vessel_details/on/deutschland_q56952.html
http://www.digital-seas.com/vessel_search/vessel_details/on/baltic_q2075300.html
http://www.digital-seas.com/vessel_search/vessel_details/on/marie%20miljoe_q34828.html

info:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFDS_LISCO

screenshots of scenario from “FleetMon”, our software for live vessel tracking:

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Overview Baltic Sea

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South of Langelung

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New Rescue Tug BALTIC from Rostock

more vessel coming for help

more vessel coming for help

Update: Friday 2010-10-08

[+] new AIS antenna: Zeebrugge, BE
[+] new AIS antenna: Stavanger, NO
[+] new AIS antenna: Vigo, SP

[+] Fleetmon V2: released first alpha version to limited user group, defined timeline to bring the new client online for all users

[+] lots of work in creating new API
[+] new admin functions for image-moderators for flagging and making users aware of quality and copyright issues

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fleetmon_v2_preview_europe

fleetmon_v2_preview_baltic

Update: Friday 2010-09-24

[+] new AIS antenna: Newcastle, GB – thanks Ian!
[+] new AIS antenna: Rijeka, Croatia – thanks Ivan!

[+] new AIS antenna: Utrecht, NL

[+] new AIS antenna: Riga, Latvia

[+] new AIS antenna: Dover, GB!

[*] Fleetmon mobile was checked in to the AppStore – expected to be released this weekend!

Fleetmon :mobile v.1.3 checked in

fleetmon-mobile_v1-3_list-viewwe spend quiet some time on the complete rewrite of Fleetmon :mobile for the iPhone and iPad over the last month. During development of the client we also changed the database schemata to decrease the delay of position info down to 2secs and opened an API for most of the services.
We believe there is no other software available for mobile devices, which shows more current information of vessel positions and better images :-) (thanks to the help of all of you!)
Yes, the improvements will be visible on the DS platform also and especcially in the new Version 2 of Fleetmon, coming soon.

General:
- Complete rewrite of Fleetmon :mobile for multi device support
- iPad-Support (incl. rotation, one version of app for iPhone and iPad: do not pay twice when using your iPad)
- Retina-Support, new icons and images for the high resolution screens
- New default: first start geopos is Germany, W’muende :-)
- Storage of all App-Settings for multitasking use
- reducing delay of vessel position view to 2secs !!
- New Fleetmon API on digital-seas.com server
- cleaning minor bugs, glitches in App
- New “start” and “about” screens

Spotter:
- New  automatic MapReloadSwitch in config settings (default = off)
- New reload control visualizing the Pinchdelay (automatic reload after map move)
- New colored type icons for list views
- New  verbal location info in Spotter Mode (useful when browsing pure SAT maps)

VesselSearch:
- Faster Search, reducing position delay to < 3sec
- New thumbnail images of vessels

PortList:
- New reload/update button in port lists
- New map view in port section

GERMAN translation______________
Allgemein:
- vollständig neue Umsetzung der App auf Multi-Geräteunterstützung
- iPad-Support (mit Rotation), kaufen Sie eine App und nutzen Sie Fleetmon auf iPhone und iPad
- Anpassungen für iOS 4, FastAppSwitch
- natürlich wurden neue Grafiken speziell für iPhone 4 erstellt :-)
- alle Nutzerinfos werden gespeichert, “da weitermachen, wo aufgehört”
- Echtzeit Schiffspositionen (geben Sie sich nicht mit Stundenintervallen zufrieden)
- Neue Fleetmon API des digital-seas.com Servers
- Neue Start und Info Screens
- Performance verbessert, Glitches beseitigt

Spotter:
- Neue automatische Reload-Funktion wählbar
- Neue Status-Anzeigen für Hafeninfo und Update-Intervalle
- Neue farbige Typ-Icons in Schiffslisten (konsistent mit Digital-Seas und Marinetraffic)
- Design-Anpassung im Detail-View zur besseren Lesbarkeit/Scanbarkeit

VesselSearch:
- Schnellere Suche, Positionsanzeige unverzögert ab 3sec
- Neue Listen Darstellung der Schiffsbilder

PortList:
- Neue Updatemöglichkeit für die Portlisten
- Neue Mapanzeige in der Portlistung

Hanse Sail opening today, sailers arriving at Rostock!

From today on, Rostock, the proud Digital Seas home town, has the pleasure to host the 20th Hanse Sail festival and with it more than 200 sailing ships of all types and sizes from a variety of countries. Many tall ships already arrived and where captured by our automatic AIS Live Cam at the Rostock Port entrance. Follow the event and the tracks of the sailing ships from anywhere in the world when they leave for day trips, for parades or squadron journeys on Fleetmon Hanse Sail, our superior vessel tracker!

Our Latest feature: Live Reports

Do you know where a vessel is, or do you want to tell us where you saw one? Then use our new feature Live Reports – it’s easy!
Just go to the detail page of the vessel you are interested, scroll down to the Live Reports section (Vessel Status – What’s going on?) and click into the entry box. A drop down list will appear. Now just select Port Report, Position Report or Position Request and type in your information.
This is the best place to put your reports or requests as they are archived on the vessels detail page and you can view your favourite vessel any time you like.
So, please use

  • Live Reports for vessel position reports or requests
  • the Wiki for enduring information such as vessel build details, ownership, etc
  • the Forum for discussion topics

Update: Friday, 2010-07-30

[+] new AIS antenna: Maledives, Malé
[+] new AIS antenna: Portugal, Lisbon
[+] new AIS antenna: USA, Jacksonville, Florida
[*] stronger, more reliable AIS stations in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg

… and many more to come in the next weeks, watch out!

[+] new Live Reports feature: Quickly report on ship accidents, irregularities and events of common interest! Let the world now what’s going on in just a second. Report positions outside AIS coverage. It’s twittering for Digital Seas!
[+] new “DS Vessel Search” plugin for Firefox: search for vessels like you do on Google!
[*] improved overall image quality, sorting out wrongly assigned images with the help of our tirelessly working Image Admin team
[*] improved member profile page: all contributions in a single compact view