Saturday 11 April 2009

Right Turn for Lyngdal

Using http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?map=Minch to see where other ships out on the Minch are going. Weather channels are open and commented on too.

MV Iisle of Lewis

9 comments:

paul martin said...

the somalia one even has pirates labelled by warlord

paul martin said...

BTW got any good recipes for baked hedghog on your new cooker

Big Kev said...

I followed that link and clicked on Moray Firth. Way up in the top right corner was Hirta, a (an?) FP vessel. I'd seen her on the telly not 10 minutes before. Small world, eh? :o)

Fiona-Jane Brown said...

AIS is sooo useful. I also found out why the Research of Whalsay hadn't been around. She was rammed in Denmark and has been stuck there being repaired. Combination of AIS/Google/BBC news. Without the internet, writing my thesis would take a lot longer.

AktoMan said...

There's a couple of crude oil tankers out there today, but I can't hear any swearing.

AktoMan said...

@paul - no recipes beyond. Buy crisps. Open packet. Eat.

AktoMan said...

@FJ - with historical data too, you can see the rescue craft involved in the recent terrible North Sea helo crash.
http://tinyurl.com/clkq9d

Fiona-Jane Brown said...

Oh how sad. It really upset me when that crash happened. Feel even more sorry for the guy that missed it cos he had to work an extra shift. Sounded very like he was in the early stages of survivor's guilt on the news.

On a lighter note - is that database of old internet sites still going? I mind looking at the original college pages there.

AktoMan said...

Aberdeen is a small place, even if not affected directly.

Site is http://www.archive.org/web/web.php