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.

lot’s of new images from our new user Acars. Continuing like this, he will take the lead supporting vessels really shortly :) Thanks Acars !

lot’s of new images from our new user Acars.
Continuing like this, he will take the lead supporting vessels really shortly :)
Thanks Acars !

We make live Position Infos available on rendered Maps for all registered Users. You will find maps for every Vessel on the Ships Detail Page

New Feature: Users of Digital-Seas can now decide with their votes, in which order images are shown in overviews or detail pages for vessels.

September 25th – 27th, we are at Seatrade 07 in Hamburg, Booth 201Meet the JAKOTA Cruise Systems heads at the international meeting place for quality cruise line visitors and cruise industry suppliers. We will present our…

September 25th – 27th, we are at Seatrade 07 in Hamburg, Booth 201
Meet the JAKOTA Cruise Systems heads at the international meeting place for quality cruise line visitors and cruise industry suppliers. We will present our Products and demonstrate the ease of integrating Vessel Tracking into Managing Solutions.
If You would like to make an appointment, please use our contact page or call us at +49 (381) 4997033.

We look forward to talk to you!

…the clouds were lovely today on the beach in Rostock. Go and see some of the pictures of the day here