The national authority is controlling the external borders to prevent drug smuggling into Europe. Crewmen on a mission in very fast moving zodiac rips need to be self-protected in case of “MOB – man over board” scenario. The mission can’t […]
Author: Firma Weatherdock
Cost effective AIS vessel management system
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IUU also occurs not only in high seas, but also in the exclusive economic zones of coastal States by national and foreign vessels and in river and inland fisheries. However, in marine fisheries, while it is difficult to estimate precisely […]
Satellite Navigation Mass: GPS, Galileo, Glonass and Badiou and the technical consequences for tracking purposes in maritime market
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Satellite locating is the simple answer to the question: Where am I or my object? Years ago it was unthinkable to get an own position by a “satellite navigation technology”. The first navigation satellite was launched to the orbit on […]
Tracking & Monitoring – Local Area and Offshore
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Today tracking and monitoring of all vessels from a local fishing fleet is limited by the receiving range of the used base stations. What about if a vessel is out of range and no longer trackable for a bunch of […]
Is there a relation between fishermen death at sea to coastline length to equipment level of the fishermen and how can these events been prevented?
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The question is how many poor fishermen do loose their lives at sea in lower developed “fishing nations” like India, Sri Lanka or Vietnam? Is it possible to create a broad rule of thumb for possible death per kilometer coast […]
AIS Class B – SOTDMA vs. CSTDMA – face the difference
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Within this article we want to uncover SOTDMA and want to explain what the background of SOTDMA is. In 2018 a new standard for AIS Class B transceiver was launched by IMO. Since then it is allowed that AIS Class […]
Weatherdock AG is the quality home of AIS safety and VHF based real-time-tracking equipment in the world
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“Franconian Technologies for the oceans of the world” – this slogan suits perfectly to our midsized company based in Nuremberg in the South of Germany. With more than 50 distributors and lots of customers in 30 countries around the world […]
Enlightenment about product definition at AIS PLB – face the difference
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Within the AIS PLB market there are some regulations by law or by International Maritime Organization (IMO) and a specific terminology, you need to know to estimate the products in the right way. AIS SART (Search and Rescue Transmitter) or […]
Offshore racing crews are obliged to use professional AIS rescue devices for Category 2 races
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Weatherdock wants to put sailors’ attention to a rule of the World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations. The Weatherdock AIS MOB beacon easyONE-DSC symbols the choice for participants of RORC races. The AIS MOB unit comes up with the best performance […]
Locating, Marking and Measuring – the easyAIRDROP-multiuse keeps things simple
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Within the last few month, there has been a huge ammount of naval accident news. Large oil spills or dangerous floating objects are a typical scenario. Main target of course is to get rid of it as soon as possible. […]