Articles written by Lars Brandstäter

In February 2008 registered user “hafenfreak” shared over 400 images of 200 vessels with the Digital-Seas community in only 2 weeks. We wanted to say thanks for the intensive work of uploading and supporting this place!

We…

In February 2008 registered user “hafenfreak” shared over 400 images of 200 vessels with the Digital-Seas community in only 2 weeks.
We wanted to say thanks for the intensive work of uploading and supporting this place!

We would also recommend to take a look at the wonderful collection of Tallship images Volker Gries uploaded over the last month. We wondered, how many tallships are allready equipped with AIS devices. Thanks again.

Over the last week we did translate the German part of the WebVTS system from siitech.com. A nice html based viewer of AIS traffic from Canada. Our cooperation makes it also possible to recieve/share AIS data with each other….

Over the last week we did translate the German part of the WebVTS system from siitech.com. A nice html based viewer of AIS traffic from Canada. Our cooperation makes it also possible to recieve/share AIS data with each other.
Take a look at the port of vancouver for instance.

over the last month we opened our server for public sharing and arranged happily to show new areas of AIS coverage. Take a look at the Region-Section of “Fleetmon” to track now also vessels in Houston, Vancouver and Aalborg….

over the last month we opened our server for public sharing and arranged happily to show new areas of AIS coverage. Take a look at the Region-Section of “Fleetmon” to track now also vessels in Houston, Vancouver and Aalborg.

Thanks to Lars Schmidt from Denmark, Oleg Kovalyov from Canada and John Astad from the US.
We’re just preparing a section on the site to explain the process (it’s easy :)

Something we had on our work-list for a longer time, now it’s done. We are looking forward very much to read Your statements, wishes and arguments. We decided not to open another forum or newsgroup here on Digital-Seas. There are…

Something we had on our work-list for a longer time, now it’s done.
We are looking forward very much to read Your statements, wishes and arguments.
Please use our blogging section (TrackBlog) to get in touch and discuss.

Topics could be:

• What do you think about our Fleetmon application and this ship archive?
• Which features do you like best and are there any you are missing in our application?

Your Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Especially detailed comments help us to continuously improve this free website.

You love the big pots? Then you shouldn’t miss this! For the first and only time the three majestic Queens of the Cunard Line will meet up at the harbour of New York City! This Rendezvous is scheduled for Sunday, January 13….

You love the big pots? Then you shouldn’t miss this!
For the first and only time the three majestic Queens of the Cunard Line will meet up at the harbour of New York City! This Rendezvous is scheduled for Sunday, January 13.

The three Queens will rendezvous and sail past the Statue of Liberty with an FDNY Fireboat escort during a spectacular fireworks celebration by Grucci at between 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. (weather permitting).
Be part of this event on our Live Page for the Queens!

It was quiet an astonishing Year for us with the opening of Digital-Seas in July. We’ve made lots of contacts, had many good reports and of course also lot’s of problems around technic and content. Almost 2000 registered users in…

It was quiet an astonishing Year for us with the opening of Digital-Seas in July. We’ve made lots of contacts, had many good reports and of course also lot’s of problems around technic and content.
Almost 2000 registered users in a couple months, changing twice the servers because of the load and setting up a dozen antennas ourselfs made us busy beside the regular job workload.

Making this a free resource feels good and we would like to thank for all comments and help with the portal. Especially the sharers and the image supporters should be named, but also every user, who is spreading the word.
2008 will bring many extensions and hopefully also much more coverage of AIS positions!

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With “Reports” we opened up a new section on Digital-Seas for Events, Accidents, Incidents and all sort of Happenings. Starting with a track report on the “Cosco Busan” from December 2007, we will collect more of this over the…

With “Reports” we opened up a new section on Digital-Seas for Events, Accidents, Incidents and all sort of Happenings. Starting with a track report on the “Cosco Busan” from December 2007, we will collect more of this over the next year.

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Since we are an open and free resource for ship positions, we will provide our AIS data undelayed for logged in users. Go ahead and use the vessel archive to get position maps of single vessels with there last position inside our…

Since we are an open and free resource for ship positions, we will provide our AIS data undelayed for logged in users. Go ahead and use the vessel archive to get position maps of single vessels with there last position inside our coverage.

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We had a downtime of our servers this morning, after getting hacked. This happend twice over the last week, so we did some real log-research and found reasons. A bug in the open source software “cacti“,…

We had again a downtime of our servers this morning, after getting hacked. This happend twice over the last week, so we did some real log-research and found reasons. A bug in the open source software “cacti”, used for statistical monitoring, made it possible to compromise the server and kept our admin busy for a couple hours. Read the story about “zombies” here (sorry, only in german)
We’ve been online again since 11:00.

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The cargo ship “Omer N” capsized in the Baltic Sea on 2007-10-28 15:02. Only 4 of 11 crew members could be rescued by danish and german helicopters and vessels.

The cargo ship “Omer N” capsized in the Baltic Sea on 2007-10-28 15:02. Only 4 of 11 crew members could be rescued by danish and german helicopters and vessels.