www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:146/centery:-43/zoom:7
What's the go with the vessels on this website? What's the setup? only certain GPS enabled equipment shows up? You register via ?
I could go hunting for info but I'm sure you guys can cut the bumf from any head sup.
Cheers
If I ever decide to become a pirate I will now know which website to search for my prey 
Select to expand quoteBruski068 said..
If I ever decide to become a pirate I will now know which website to search for my prey
I think you will find that there is a considerable delay on that web site and vessels tend to disappear in high pirate areas. 
If you want to see the BIG ships get a AIS receiver, better still get a Class B AIS.
I use that site for keeping track of mates that go racing offshore and when to go down to the club as they're coming home! The yacht data off Sydney seems to be pretty up to date.
As I have tracked ships entering the rip on the web cam and AIS or going down the main shipping channel off Rye, there is about a five minute delay at the most.
BTW, there's no need to register to use Marine Traffic, or similar sites such as Vessel Finder. Any vessel with an AIS transponder (that is turned on) will show up. In my experience (SA waters) there is not much more than a few minutes delay.
I was out for a moonless night sail and it was very difficult to identify exactly what had appeared to be 2 ships were actually doing. They had so many lights on identifying if they were moving or anchored was really difficult.
I pulled them up on ship tracker and saw it was actually 3 boats, a ship had entered, anchored and was now being unloaded by a large freighter which had been waiting blocking our line of sight and a pilot boat had followed the ship in , picked up the pilot and was hanging around until we passed when they then headed back to port. The ship tracker had pictures of the vessels, speed or lack of, direction and past track.it wasn't like we were on a collision course but it was comforting and interesting to find out exactly wtf was going on.
And yes the real-time reflected what was going on.
Also, Semus, you can monitor AIS from an app on your iPhone or other device. I use the app when scooting about on Port Phillip.
From what i understand if you want AIS on your boat, you hook the class B transceiver up to a VHF ariel, of its own preferably or use a slitter from your radio antenna.
Here's a description of the GME devise at Whitworths:
www.whitworths.com.au/gme-aisr120-ais-transceiver-class-b
There is also a marine traffic app "mAIS" to report your position using the GPS receiver in your phone. Only appears on marine traffic web site but good for letting friends know where you are. Uses very little data. don't forget to turn off the app when you leave the yacht, we will find out where you live!!!
I have used MarineTraffic while sailing both ways across Bass Strait three times and found it to be accurate.
All large vessels (cargo, tanker, ferries, cruise ships etc) showed up correctly. The only non-recreational vessels not showing up were fishing boats (to be expected), and one research vessel.
Cheers, Graeme
Select to expand quotewongaga said..
All large vessels (cargo, tanker, ferries, cruise ships etc) showed up correctly. The only non-recreational vessels not showing up were fishing boats (to be expected), and one research vessel.
Cheers, Graeme
Seen that, infact have seen fishing boats showing their AIS signal only to see it disappear when they started fishing WTF !!!!!
Select to expand quotenswsailor said..
Have seen fishing boats showing their AIS signal only to see it disappear when they started fishing WTF !!!!!
Can't have other fishos homing in on their hot spot, so let's pretend we aren't really here.
