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I would very much appreciate seing some images of the Kieler Woche, taking place this weekend.  Who is out there and photographing ? Another couple weeks and we will host the "HanseSail 08" here in Rostock. That will be our...

I would very much appreciate seing some images of the Kieler Woche, taking place this weekend.  Who is out there and photographing ?
Another couple weeks and we will host the "HanseSail 08" here in Rostock. That will be our easy chance to spot lots of Tall-Ships and with some luck there is enough wind to catch them sailing. We will prepare another special dedicated to this event in our Fleettracking sektion.

Also, wer hat in Kiel die tollen Segler fotogorafiert, würde mich freuen ein paar Bilder der Kieler Woche zu sehen :)  Harry?

Image taken of all Tall-Ships on Fleetmon on Sunday-afternoon 08/06/29

We had quiet some trouble with all the Fleet Tracking pages this morning. The reason was my early morning work this night, where I missconfigured the url-routing. I'm sorry about shutting off the region-views that way for almost...

We had quiet some trouble with all the Fleet Tracking pages this morning. The reason was my early morning work this night, where I missconfigured the url-routing.
I'm sorry about shutting off the region-views that way for almost 6 hours.

Everything is i.O. again.

We are now support OpenID for sign up and log in on Digital-Seas.com. OpenID lets you safely sign in to different websites with a single password.

If you already have a OpenID, you should take a look at the little OpenID Logos in the Login boxes. There you can use your OpenID for sign up and log in.

Learn more on the explainations about OpenID page.

Really new steps towards a better coverage are on the way. Over the last half year we made good advances in extending the views on vessels by cooperating with community-members. We setup a page today explaning the settings for...

Really new steps towards a better coverage are on the way.
Over the last half year we made good advances in extending the views on vessels by cooperating with community-members. We setup a page today explaning the settings for ShipPlotter with a video. We will extend this section over the next days heavily. Give us a ring, if you are also willing to share with the community.

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We developed an extended ImageManager , which makes it possible to manage all of Your images and upload multiple images quickly for later adjustments on the server. Searching for vessels inside the tool is very fast,...

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We developed an extended ImageManager , which makes it possible to manage all of Your images  and upload multiple images quickly for later adjustments on the server. Searching for vessels inside the tool is very fast, so give it a try and some comments to us!
We hope this will make your work much easier.

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OK everybody, You asked for it, you'll get it. we just released the first version of our new image management tool, here on Digital-Seas.

Get a qick view on all of your images, search for vessels "mega-fast" and during the mass upload of new images. - select all your new images, then assign vessel from the database to them and finally send everything with one click to the server :)

We will extend many features in the next release, like Help, more descriptions etc. please let us know about your experiences. 
Log in and  --> TRY IT HERE

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Listening to user-comments over the last months, we decided to extend the ways to upload images to DS.

In our works right now is an uploader, which gives you more convinience when editing your images. Starting features are:

- stored profiles for users, so the can
- prepare tag, name, research IMOs without a website
- when ready upload multiple images with one click to multiple spotting sites

Since there is soon a long free weekend in Germany, we are optimistic to present results the week after Pentecost :)

You may have already noticed our new coverage of AIS Signals in the ports of Sai Gon, Vung Tau and Hai Phong, very busy ports in Vietnam. Thanks to Mr. Le Cong Hung, Director of Maritech we managed to exchange informations and...

You may have already noticed our new coverage of AIS Signals in the ports of Sai Gon, Vung Tau and Hai Phong, very busy ports in Vietnam. Thanks to Mr. Le Cong Hung, Director of Maritech we managed to exchange informations and will create more services together.

We are very glad about having now an eye far over,
to the South China Sea, the Gulf of Tonkin and the seatraffic of the famous Ho Chi Minh City. --> ENJOY IT HERE

We are very excited about our new piece of software for mobile Phones called MobTrack.

It could well support us shipspotters by tracking locations and store positions right into our images.

Putting it on your mobile will give you the opportunity to show your live movements on a web-Page. And when I say live, I mean real-live (ok 3 sec delay between sending and showing). We set up a page to demonstrate the functionality and to download the software for JAVA phones.
Free for all, the DS principle.
For the time of Beta-Testing I will also show my tracks to everyone, after that phase, we will introduce buddylists.
See and try it:   www.digital-seas.com/mob

...and look how much coverage through the perfect weather we get today.Almost 80miles distance with one antenna spot, thats astonishing and results in complete AIS coverage of the South Baltic Sea :)

...and look how much coverage through the perfect weather we get today.
Almost 80miles distance with one antenna spot, thats astonishing and results in complete AIS coverage of the South Baltic Sea :)

The Norwegian Jewel is in town, enough reason to think about a special dedicated to those big and beautiful looking ships. (thanks Käptn Brass for the Shots)We are tracking here all the Cruise Ships coming to the port of Rostock...

The Norwegian Jewel is in town, enough reason to think about a special dedicated to those big and beautiful looking ships. (thanks Käptn Brass for the Shots)
We are tracking here all the Cruise Ships coming to the port of Rostock this season. Get the timetables, live positions and a collection of webcams made available in our hometown.
Have fun with Cruise Shipping: Calls in Rostock

I was very pleased to see the nice shots Russel uploaded over the last days . Very nice and clean images, mainly shot in Hamburg, thanks Klaus for sharing with us!My last weekend in the Port of Rotterdam has not produced any...

I was very pleased to see the nice shots Russel uploaded over the last days . Very nice and clean images, mainly shot in Hamburg, thanks Klaus for sharing with us!
My last weekend in the Port of Rotterdam has not produced any image of that kind, grey sky made up quiet some trouble for the Fuji S3pro, almost not usable, so I will only upload images needed for reference.

All Sharers were very busy over the last weeks, so we reached over 5000 unique vessel-images so far. All original formats are available now (Gallery View), which makes using DS as a backup location much easier :)

Today the sister ship of AIDAdiva has been baptized. She is leaving tomorrow for her maiden voyage. See the video recordings of the Warnemünder SeaChannel on our site:

Cruise Shipping Calls in Port of RostockLive images of port...

Today the sister ship of AIDAdiva has been baptized. She is leaving tomorrow for her maiden voyage. See the video recordings of the Warnemünder SeaChannel on our site:

• Cruise Shipping Calls in Port of Rostock
• Live images of port traffic in Rostock

Grey and rainy days here in Germany, good times to go outside, climb on roofs and mount some antennas. With the help of Jan and Thomas the installation was done in only two hours.With our own AIS station right in the middle of...

Grey and rainy days here in Germany, good times to go outside, climb on roofs and mount some antennas. With the help of Jan and Thomas the installation was done in only two hours.
With our own AIS station right in the middle of Hamburg it is now possible for us to release the vessel traffic of this important German Port to the Public. Lot of ship-traffic to watch, use our viewer Fleetmon to get a real live impression.
No delays inside , pure joy, 24/7/365.

We did really liked this day a lot, thanks Akira ! Try here: Port of Hamburg

We guess You always wanted to see the port of rostock from a birds eye ?

On this wonderfull sunny day, Thomas started his plane - modell and recorded the flight. See some images of the port and don't get sick by watching (I know...

We guess You always wanted to see the port of rostock from a birds eye ?

On this wonderfull sunny day, Thomas started his plane - modell and recorded the flight. See some images of the port and don't get sick by watching (I know again, why I like sailing ....)

Youtube url: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wHNfRer7jqE

In February 2008 registered user "hafenfreak" shared over 400 images of 200 vessels with the Digital-Seas community in only 2 weeks. We wanted to say thanks for the intensive work of uploading and supporting this place!

We...

In February 2008 registered user "hafenfreak" shared over 400 images of 200 vessels with the Digital-Seas community in only 2 weeks.
We wanted to say thanks for the intensive work of uploading and supporting this place!

We would also recommend to take a look at the wonderful collection of Tallship images Volker Gries uploaded over the last month. We wondered, how many tallships are allready equipped with AIS devices. Thanks again.

Over the last week we did translate the German part of the WebVTS system from siitech.com. A nice html based viewer of AIS traffic from Canada. Our cooperation makes it also possible to recieve/share AIS data with each other....

Over the last week we did translate the German part of the WebVTS system from siitech.com. A nice html based viewer of AIS traffic from Canada. Our cooperation makes it also possible to recieve/share AIS data with each other.
Take a look at the port of vancouver for instance.

over the last month we opened our server for public sharing and arranged happily to show new areas of AIS coverage. Take a look at the Region-Section of "Fleetmon" to track now also vessels in Houston, Vancouver and Aalborg....

over the last month we opened our server for public sharing and arranged happily to show new areas of AIS coverage. Take a look at the Region-Section of "Fleetmon" to track now also vessels in Houston, Vancouver and Aalborg.

Thanks to Lars Schmidt from Denmark, Oleg Kovalyov from Canada and John Astad from the US.
We're just preparing a section on the site to explain the process (it's easy :)

Something we had on our work-list for a longer time, now it's done. We are looking forward very much to read Your statements, wishes and arguments. We decided not to open another forum or newsgroup here on Digital-Seas. There are...

Something we had on our work-list for a longer time, now it's done.
We are looking forward very much to read Your statements, wishes and arguments.
We decided not to open another forum or newsgroup here on Digital-Seas. There are many good places to talk about ships and traffic, for instance shipspotting.com  or forum-schiff.de here in Germany. Instead we will use our blogging section (TrackBlog) to get in touch and discuss.

Topics could be:

• What do you think about our Fleetmon application and this ship archive?

• Which features do you like best and are there any you are missing in our application?

Your Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Especially detailed comments help us to continuously improve this free website.

You love the big pots? Then you shouldn't miss this! For the first and only time the three majestic Queens of the Cunard Line will meet up at the harbour of New York City! This Rendezvous is scheduled for Sunday, January 13....

You love the big pots? Then you shouldn't miss this!
For the first and only time the three majestic Queens of the Cunard Line will meet up at the harbour of New York City! This Rendezvous is scheduled for Sunday, January 13.

The three Queens will rendezvous and sail past the Statue of Liberty with an FDNY Fireboat escort during a spectacular fireworks celebration by Grucci at between 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. (weather permitting).

Be part of this event on our Live Page for the Queens!

It was quiet an astonishing Year for us with the opening of Digital-Seas in July. We've made lots of contacts, had many good reports and of course also lot's of problems around technic and content. Almost 2000 registered users in...

It was quiet an astonishing Year for us with the opening of Digital-Seas in July. We've made lots of contacts, had many good reports and of course also lot's of problems around technic and content. Almost 2000 registered users in a couple months, changing twice the servers because of the load and setting up a dozen antennas ourselfs made us busy beside the regular job workload.

Making this a free resource feels good and we would like to thank for all comments and help with the portal. Especially the sharers and the image supporters should be named, but also every user, who is spreading the word. 2008 will bring many extensions and hopefully also much more coverage of AIS positions!

With "Reports" we opened up a new section on Digital-Seas for Events, Accidents, Incidents and all sort of Happenings. Starting with a track report on the "Cosco Busan" from December 2007, we will collect more of this over the...

With "Reports" we opened up a new section on Digital-Seas for Events, Accidents, Incidents and all sort of Happenings. Starting with a track report on the "Cosco Busan" from December 2007, we will collect more of this over the next year.