What's out there.

mp22

just passed in a blaze of colour http://new.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/247257900

Ilyushin76

Any body have an info on this ship currently of the west coast ? Cant find any pictures of it and never seen a ship on marinetraffic so far of the coast.

Tabnabs

Good find, very strange specs come up when you google it. No idea...

Poor Uncle Tom

300m long, 41m wide, registered in panema, a rescue vessel, had air traffic on and off...............hmmmm..........

CIA interrogation centre?................:p

vulcan57

Now SAR 973611045 doing 81 knots in front of it!

vulcan57

Think the 611 in that SAR 973611045 is a national indicator for Botswana?

long range shooter

Its a rescue tug i guess,somebody must be in trouble,the SAR is a helicopter,so I guess it could be an rescue operation.Dont know what the forecast is at the moment,but could be somebody who has been drifting around for a while,after the bad weather that was during the week.

bladebrew

Thats very strange, 300 metres long but weighs 120 ton?! its says it was built in 2008 but the ship yard has no mention of it on their website, and fleetmon has the lenght at 37m and beam 6m which would make sense i suppose for a tug or search and rescue vessel!

vulcan57

Must be fairly big as it has at least two helicopters so it seems. Have seen both SAR 973611045 and SAR 839393317 around her in the last day. She is due in Bezons Beach on New Year's Day 2014, is that in Paris?

long range shooter

vulcan57 wrote: »

Must be fairly big as it has at least two helicopters so it seems. Have seen both SAR 973611045 and SAR 839393317 around her in the last day. She is due in Bezons Beach on New Year's Day 2014, is that in Paris?

Yes in Paris,she could be towing a vessel for Paris,that would probably Take 4-6 weeks,weather permitted.

V_Moth

Very interesting. Maybe they finally found this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Lyubov_Orlova) and are bringing it back?

bladebrew

There was a helicopter a few hundred miles away from the ship earlier today over greenland i assume that belonged to the ship although surely only a military vessel would have 2 helicopters on board
It going to ram Greenland at 21.6 knts if it dosent turn soon:)

V_Moth

bladebrew wrote: »

There was a helicopter a few hundred miles away from the ship earlier today over greenland i assume that belonged to the ship although surely only a military vessel would have 2 helicopters on board
It going to ram Greenland at 21.6 knts if it dosent turn soon:)

New Russian super icebreaker???

Poor Uncle Tom

vulcan57

Another thing that is strange about this is that it has been at the constant speed of 21.6 knots for days?

Tabnabs

I see the name is now coming up as Al Wosail Rl. Which seems to be a "converted" tug http://maritime-connector.com/ship/al-wosail-7529407/

The IMO number is the interesting point. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/9440459/vessel:GBO_AIS_KING

I don't see how this little fella could have a helideck. I wonder who else is out there with him (or who he really is)?

ex_infantry

maybe he's tugging a naval vessel????

bladebrew

It (mystery tug) is still powering its way through Greenland i see:) I have never seen marine traffic showing something like this, i could only assume now it is a glitch of some sort
It is showing as GBO AIS KING but when you click it for detail it then says AL WOSAIL RL,

Jambo

Is somebody transmitting a false AIS signal ?

In theory all someone with some decent programming skills needs to do is compile and submit a false feed to marine traffic, add a bit more trickery and skill they could modulate the feed to change the co ordinates continually to make it look like a vessel continuing on a defined course at a set speed. The person need not even be broadcasting a VHF signal.

If you click on the target , the receiving station 116 does not match the station which is recording all the other vessels in the area. Incidentally station 116 does not have a statistics page as do other stations.

EDIT : Found this on-line

zagmund

This came up earlier in the year when another anti-virus company (Sophos I think) "discovered" that you could anonymously create AIS broadcasts spoofing information. They made a big hoohaa about it at the time and then stood down when it was pointed out that this was the way the protocol was designed. It's like saying "I can come on the radio and say I'm the king of America" and that this is a huge security breach.

It's a weakness for sure, where someone relies on AIS, but the scope for abuse is relatively limited. If you want to hide you can turn off your AIS. There ends the risk - you can pretend to be somewhere else by posting spoofed AIS info, but if someone is searching for you then you will probably find that turning it off works even better. Or leaving it on quay.

z

vulcan57

zagmund wrote: »

This came up earlier in the year when another anti-virus company (Sophos I think) "discovered" that you could anonymously create AIS broadcasts spoofing information. They made a big hoohaa about it at the time and then stood down when it was pointed out that this was the way the protocol was designed. It's like saying "I can come on the radio and say I'm the king of America" and that this is a huge security breach.

It's a weakness for sure, where someone relies on AIS, but the scope for abuse is relatively limited. If you want to hide you can turn off your AIS. There ends the risk - you can pretend to be somewhere else by posting spoofed AIS info, but if someone is searching for you then you will probably find that turning it off works even better. Or leaving it on quay.

z

So, presumably, the two helicopters that were around it the other day would also be spoofs? There were no pictures with either of them either. I suppose they could of been out looking for it if no communications could be made though.

Jambo

Drilling Rig "Blackford Dolphin" 50nm S of Hook Head on her way to Belfast

Tabnabs

Stena Europe entering Dublin Port. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/7901760/vessel:STENA_EUROPE

Tabnabs

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/8611221/vessel:THAMESTEEL_1 I understand another deck cargo delivery to Dun Laoghaire (maybe more for Guinness?)

Jambo

I See another fake transmission /vessel "Fake Walrus Fake" has popped up west of the Channel Islands it was there again on Sunday night.

mp22

Anchored in Bantry Bay http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/9258624/vessel:APATURA

mp22

Coming up onto the SPM in Bantry Bay now(10 45)She is light

Ilyushin76

Looking at the galway fisher tanker on marine traffic it seems to have taking a bit of a detour before returning to its normal track towards whitegate,anybody know why?

Tabnabs

Anchored up due to bad weather or for running repairs most likely.

Tabnabs

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/photos/of/ships/photo_keywords:9437919/ship_name:GRANDE%20GUINEA#first currently leaving Dublin port, a very multi cargo ship.