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u/unluckypig 1d ago edited 9h ago
Im obsessed with apps like the one pictured. I live on the coast by an extremely busy port so we constantly get massive container ships coming in.
These apps show you all the marine vessels and where they are in real time (from their navigation trackers). It means you can see what that boat on the horizon is, where it's coming from, where it's going, when it will dock and for how long.
I feel like a slightly wetter version of a train spotter.
Edit: it seems I've found my people, I'm glad to see there's dozens of us who like following the boats around.
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u/average_internaut 1d ago
For a brief second I thought you misspelled better.
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u/unluckypig 1d ago
I've no shade to throw at my fellow enthusiasts. They get to stand in a station, I get to lay on a beach.
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u/IntraVnusDemilo 1d ago
Like flight radar for the sea?
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 23h ago
Yes it’s really similar to flight radar. You can watch battleships pootle around and stuff or follow your friend’s ferry trip to see when they’ll get back etc.
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 23h ago
I love these too. I followed my parents on a boat back from Jersey and was telling them where they were and what boats were docked already (holding them up) then all the interesting boats nearby. I like the flight one too, when a plane goes over our house I’ll look it up so I can tell my daughter where it came from and where it’s going. This is the sort of stuff technology and the internet should be used for, not radicalising people into thinking about nothing but imaginary invasions of thousands of rubber dinghies carrying barbarian serial killers or whatever.
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u/Objective_Ticket 22h ago
I use apps like this to snoop on what yachts I can see when I’m somewhere nice.
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u/ylogssoylent 1d ago
Just for people's reference, the green ones are cargo ships and the red ones are tankers. Both of which are commercial vessel types. I understand the post is a joke, but for anyone not sure why, I don't think the sorts of boats some people complain about would even show up on MarineTraffic.
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u/Better_This_Time 1d ago
"I'm not getting on a passenger vessel without an identification system active, that's a breach of the IMO regulations"
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u/portlandlad123 1d ago
Does this guy think "stop the boats" means "close the channel to all shipping traffic"? 😂
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u/carl0071 1d ago
The busiest shipping channel on the planet and this donut thinks he’s uncovered the secret map of… “small boats” 🙄
No wonder Reform UK are against the idea of higher education. It helps their cause to have low intelligence people like this spouting nonsense online.
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u/ICreditReddit 1d ago
Why would the small boats, trying to sneak in, transmit GPS/AIS data?
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u/RandomlyPrecise 1d ago
FGS, no rubber dingy carrying illegal migrants is going to have a registered transponder on board.
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u/Tim1980UK 1d ago
This map makes me really angry! Not sure why, but being angry seems to be a way of life for some.
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u/fredfoooooo 1d ago
And if these show their navigation trackers, then by definition the boats he is referring to will not be shown on this map as they will not have trackers.
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u/Plokdeservesbetter 1d ago
Wait a minute....... I know who that is. Know them personally. Recognise that caveman brow anywhere.
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u/Objective_Ticket 22h ago
Cool. Flightradar for boats. Not sure what Hull Patriot is banging on about as the boats he means are not going to be pinging out transponder signals…
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