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Offline Barman

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This is cool!
« on: October 16, 2010, 09:35:49 AM »
Especially if you live by the coast like...

Clicky here

It is a ship plotter... I can watch ships sailing past me owse, click on this thing and it tells you all about them...

And you can zoom out and look at any ship anywhere in the world... apart from places where they have piracy like...
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Offline Miss Demeanour

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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 09:44:17 AM »
Can we track Pasty on his travels like  ? whistle:
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2010, 09:46:01 AM »
Oh yes. And watch him from space, like  eveilgrin:
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2010, 09:49:48 AM »
They have similar for The Solent, I believe it crashed last week due to the numbers using it when the Queen Elizabeth came in to be launched by the Queen. See here
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2010, 09:51:56 AM »
Quote from: Nick on October 16, 2010, 09:46:01 AM
Oh yes. And watch him from space, like  eveilgrin:

 rubschin: I wonder

He does seem to vanish at this time of year .......... Do you suppose his "other" job is something we can't tell the children the truth about ... If so we can track him here:
http://www.noradsanta.org/
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2010, 09:53:53 AM »
Quote from: Just One More on October 16, 2010, 09:49:48 AM
They have similar for The Solent, I believe it crashed last week due to the numbers using it when the Queen Elizabeth came in to be launched by the Queen. See here

And to think we only used to have the "Shipping Movements" in the Southern Evening Echo each night and would all go to Weston Shore to watch the bigger liners come and go. Same thing I 'spose, just more technical.



Picture not taken from Weston Shore but from the Fawley side of Southampton Water.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2010, 09:54:45 AM »
Quote from: Just One More on October 16, 2010, 09:49:48 AM
They have similar for The Solent, I believe it crashed last week due to the numbers using it when the Queen Elizabeth came in to be launched by the Queen. See here

This one does anywhere in the whole werld like...  whistle:
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Offline Miss Demeanour

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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2010, 10:12:13 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on October 16, 2010, 09:51:56 AM
Quote from: Nick on October 16, 2010, 09:46:01 AM
Oh yes. And watch him from space, like  eveilgrin:

 rubschin: I wonder

He does seem to vanish at this time of year .......... Do you suppose his "other" job is something we can't tell the children the truth about ... If so we can track him here:
http://www.noradsanta.org/

 lol:

He does ask you to sit on his lap initially  rubschin:
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2010, 10:43:57 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on October 16, 2010, 09:51:56 AM
Quote from: Nick on October 16, 2010, 09:46:01 AM
Oh yes. And watch him from space, like  eveilgrin:

 rubschin: I wonder

He does seem to vanish at this time of year .......... Do you suppose his "other" job is something we can't tell the children the truth about ... If so we can track him here:
http://www.noradsanta.org/
lol: lol: lol:  All is explained
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2010, 11:11:03 AM »
The ex Mrs Tel used to work at Lloyds Register - every ship and it its course in the world listed.
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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2010, 11:54:07 AM »
Quote from: tel on October 16, 2010, 11:11:03 AM
The ex Mrs Tel used to work at Lloyds Register - every ship and it its course in the world listed.


Then she prolly knows my cousin who also worked for Lloyds Register, travelling the world assessing ships in build for insurance and registration purposes.
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Re: This is cool!
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2010, 12:04:17 PM »
71-75? Date that is, not age.
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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2010, 12:06:16 PM »

Oh he was there for years. Spent a lot of time in Korea when they were building most of the world's shipping. Lives in Witham, Essex.
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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2010, 12:33:44 PM »
Ex hailed from Bromley.

Most of the people there, especially the females, came from Southend.
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« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2010, 12:43:58 PM »
The company I work for earns it's money on knowing where ships are, where they're going and what cargos they can carry. We pay thousands of pounds p.a. for their data.

One of my first jobs when I started was to send on crew mail to where the ship was due next. We acted as agents for a couple of Japanese shipowners. No computers or e-mail, mainly corresponded by telex.
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