Ship traffic

[Navyvet]

This is a very interesting website I ran across it today wanted to let you guys take a look to could be very helpful to try to figure out if your area is busy that day.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

[Bubba the Pirate]

Very Cool!  Thanks. 

[Steve H]

thanks , unfortunately  i know there are ships moving in galveston but none are showing up.

seems it might be hit or miss

[newt]

The Houston ship canal is the LA freeway of the water. Never not seen a ton of big barges/tankers/whatever out there. Its the best place to learn navigation and avoiding those boats- its do or die. Took my wife a few years to calm down after our ASA courses down there. (See honey, there is only one Tanker in Tampa Bay right now ;D)

[AdriftAtSea]

Unfortunately, the AIS websites are going to give complete info, since some areas still aren't fully equipped to deal with AIS transponders AFAIK.

[Steve H]

Unfortunately, the AIS websites are going to give complete info, since some areas still aren't fully equipped to deal with AIS transponders AFAIK.

yeah but you would think a major area like the houston ship channel would be equipped, i can see ships moving in corpus and matagorda ,go figure

[Shipscarver]

Hey Steve -
Now may be the chance to get some free equipment - see the site:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

[mrb]

I was wondering how the pirats knew where to look

[Navyvet]

Lol that is how I found the website. Old friend told me to take a look at it because it was how(they finally blacked out near the Somalian coast) a lot of the pirates where getting ideas of what and when boats where going to be coming there way. I thought it would be nice via the fact we aren't the biggest thing on the water and we need to get out of there way. Will give us alittle heads up if there is a stack of 6-7 incoming ships torwards a channel might help us out.